Not sure if this has been mentioned. But as I just joined I was looking through communities to join and noticed there were several with the same name but just lower case instead or with a space between words.

Should community names be case sensitive and no spaces to make sure there are fewer duplicates/lookalike communities?

I posted a comment here and seemed to accept it but it didn't seem to appear yet, will edit this post with the content if it shows up, after it posted, I couldn't click any buttons on the page, was getting JS errors in the console.

Ok it appeared this time.

When I try to Subscribe to https://lemmy.world/c/gaming@lemmy.ml the button does nothing, the browser console has an error: Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token (at gaming@lemmy.ml:5:125811)

Seems to be some JSON escaping issue: https://imgur.com/a/HXlg2IN

Also when I tried to click the code block button in the comment box, it just refreshed the page and I lost my comment. (edit: I think this is due to the issue below about loading the post from a new tab and all JS on the page being broken after that)

Is there an easy way to open communities from other instances in this instance? e.g. when looking for communities to subscribe to here: https://browse.feddit.de/ the links all go to the instance the community is hosted on which is not convenient to subscribe to on this instance where my profile is. Any tips for that?

When I originally posted my comment there was no preview button but now suddenly there's a preview button, strange. (edit: I think this is due to the issue below about loading the post from a new tab and all JS on the page being broken after that)

Took about 15 secs for my comment to post.

Edit: I found the cause for the issue. If I load this post using the URL directly (like in a new tab: https://lemmy.world/post/15786 ) I get a JS error on the page load and all interactivity on the page is broken: https://imgur.com/a/OkoCYn1

If I browse to the post from another page such as a the community page, everything works.

Edit again: Seems like this issue only seems to affect this post specifically, weird

Edit again again: seems to be an issue with this specific comment in this post: https://lemmy.world/comment/31885 the JS object seems to be completely missing the 'path' property, can see my post object vs that post object causing the error: https://imgur.com/a/48fORC1

On Android Client Jerboa v0.0.37 & 36 "Server version (0.1.4 is underthe minimum supported version (0.18). Please inform your administrator and login to another instance, or sign out and use the default instance."

On other android clients: Liftoff & Lemur: lemmy.world cannot be found as an instance.

Thanks for the update!

On the main page, it seems like there's a stream of stuff always loading. How do I pause it?

Can we have more sort options? Like, "Top - Hour" ?

I used to browse reddits all/rising. I find engaging a post early on is the best way to participate in an active discussion. New/Top Today just aren't returning the right posts.

(Couldn't find this suggestion anywhere else in this thread)

• ~~Not sure if you are aware, but I never received any emails about my signup being accepted. I just tried to log in on a whim and saw it worked. You might want to check your smtp settings to verify emails are going out.~~ the approval email was in my spam folder.
• Saving (new or edit) a comment is taking 20-30 seconds (just timed saving this edit).

Suggestion for improvement: Change default sorting to Hot instead of Active. At least currently, Active keeps a handful of the same posts permanently on top, giving the impression of inactivity for newcomers used to Reddit. Hot will provide a more varied front page.

One thing that would be nice to have would be body-text expandoes. That is, instead of the text-bubble icon just linking to comments, have it expand the post text inline.

Hi Ruud, thanks for the awesome instance :)

1. Some feedback on my registration process: I have trying to register for a few days now getting more and more frustrated each time. Every time I would click submit to register the button would show a spinning circle like something is happening but it would just spin forever. So I would try registering again, and again, and again ......

It turns out my original attempt to register resulted in an email that went into my spam folder, which I have now located and validated my email with.

In short, I think what is missing in the registration process is messages that let the user know what is going on. For example, if I try to register the same username and email, or try to login using the same info, the system could have told me that I had already registered and that my email address was pending validation.

**2. Browsing Communities: ** It would be nice to be able to sort the table of communities by clicking the various headers of the different columns.

Thanks! :)

@ruud I posted an image to c/weed, and after a few minutes, I changed the URL of the post to an edited version of the image. Now the post can't be seen anymore on my or the communities page, even though the community's stats show that there theoretically should be a post. I messaged the mod, they said they think it's an error or bug, so it shouldn't have been them deleting the post.

Do you have any idea what happened here? Is there some kind of content filtering going on to keep it family friendly? Or is something broken?

here is just a random list of features/improvements i would like to see

• save sorting preferences in comment sections. right now it defaults to hot.
• improve the hot/active algorithms. at the moment they don't seems to actually show popular posts like their reddit hot/popular counterparts. could be a symptom of being much smaller, but i never see any of the lemmy communities i follow that aren't the biggest ones, and on reddit i can see the small communities i follow.
• better syncing between instances. i also use kbin, and that seems to have issues with cross content at times. i can't see comments sometimes, and votes are completely different on both platforms.
• more granular "Top X" filters
• search by date range, and various other improvements to search. (anything is better than reddit search, but the ability to search this platform is probably more important than people realize)
• more embed integrations for things like gifs and youtube videos. generally, try and keep people on the site.
• open links in a new tab by default. on mobile
• a back button on mobile, not a menu button.
• account/community migration/merging
• community themes, and the ability to turn them off.

this last one isn't really a request, it's more of an ultimatum.

• whatever the fuck new.reddit.com is/does/looks like, DON'T DO THAT. make this site look as much like old.reddit.com as possible and never change that.

I don't know if it a bug or not, but my Posts are nowhere to be found in my profile.

A couple of things:

None of my posts are showing up in my profile

I just created two new posts. They haven't show up in the community I posted to.

Lemmy.world: In settings, you can define the default Sort Type for posts. Next to that, there is a question mark that leads to a 404 iso to the explanation.

By the way. It is both impressive and amazing how much the number of active topics has grown here over the last month. Congrats!

v18 released today, when can we expect the update to be rolled out here?

EDIT: Not a demand, just a genuine question, sorry if that came off abrasive

I've very curious if Lemmy could scale to sizes similar to Reddit. Would that require creating multiple instances? Is there a max active users that an instance could handle? Is there a way to load balance between servers?

I suspect this hasn't been done since Lemmy just recently exploded in popularity.

I have only signed up today, so this may be something I'm doing on my end. But on the home screen, if I sort by "All", as opposed to "subscribed" or "local", after about a minute posts start streaming down the page at a very quick pace. It looks like when people comment on discord. I have tested this on both my phone and pc, and they both do it in my browser (firefox each time). Unfortunatley I cannot screenshot it, since that would just be a static image, and I don't know how to record my screen.

Desktop UI optimization would be nice. As it stands currently the site is using maybe 1/3 of my screen real estate and makes everything look super cramped/condensed.

Perhaps a personal preference, but I find it a lot more intuitive when clicking the post title opens the link to the content (webpage, image, etc) rather than going to the comments. To follow a post's link, I need to click on the "image", and that feels odd.

#1 - Ctrl+Enter or Cmd+Enter to post comments or threads. #2 - Create the equivalent of Reddit's Front Page.