In this post I will list the known issues or possible improvements for Lemmy.world.

Please comment with any issue or area for improvement you see and I will add it here.

Issues can be:

  • Local (lemmy.world) (also performance issues)
  • Lemmy software issues
  • Other software related (apps/Fediverse platforms etc)
  • Remote server related
  • (User error? …)

Known issues

  • Post / Reply takes up to 20 seconds. This mainly happens in larger communities. We’re troubleshooting this. Anyone wanting to help troubleshoot, please DM @ruud@lemmy.world . Big plus if you can read the Lemmy source code so we know what it actually does.
  • Posting big posts of over 2000 characters fails, the Post button will stay spinning

Enhancement requests

  • Can themes be added? > To be checked if this can be done without changing code.
  • griffen62@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Probably an idea for the future, but a status page with upcoming maintenance or ongoing issues would help quell some of these kinds of requests. I assume you probably don’t have much in the way of redundancy at the moment?

    • Ruud@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Well we’re in the baby phase now, so most maintenance is ad-hoc. But after that it’s a good idea. About redundancy: it’s a single VPS. But when the VPS or datacenter breaks, we have a backup, and it runs in Docker so it’s just restoring the backup, starting the containers and redirect the DNS