Not really. I'm loving lemmy more than reddit. Reddit just feels so toxic with their algo frontpage.
this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2024
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I guess I have had a great experience, Iβve never encountered any glitches with the mobile app. Always worked great.
No. This is incredibly complex software run by people with little or no budget. Iβm grateful that it exists at all.
One that's gotten me a few times is if you're typing a reply to someone, either in the comments or a PM, then mid-typing you upvote (or downvote) them (or anyone else), it deletes your comment-in-progress. I've lost a few comments that way, one of which took about 20 minutes to write which I just gave up on and didn't post afterward.
I also really don't like that the default language option is "Undetermined". It makes not labeling the correct language the default behavior, which makes a lot of foreign language material show up in my feed. Your own post and 2 of the 4 comments at the time of me posting are unlabeled.
I have to save written messages to notepad to prevent something like this from happening. And now I've started taking screenshots of comments that are important to me instead of hitting the "Save" button.
"Undetermined"
I don't like it either. I would like the feed to show posts only in my language. I asked my instance admin and he said there was nothing he could do about it.
(It would also be useful to add tags to posts to filter out unwanted content..)
If you remove "Undetermined" as a language on your profile, then all the unlabeled foreign language content should stop showing up for you. The problem is that all the unlabeled English content would also stop showing up for you, then. That's why having "Undetermined" be the default option is not good - it only makes the problem worse.
Thunder recently got post and comment draft saving. If you exit out of writing a comment or post, and then come back, the text is still there.
You can even have multiple replies to multiple comments in progress, and it keeps em separate.
On the positive note that gives you an opportunity to learn new languages. Maybe you understand one word in a meme post and that's enough to understand it. Maybe you look up what does it say in the post if you find it interesting. Not really an effective way to learn in itself but a way to expose yourself to foreign languages.
So annoyed Iβm going to demand my money back, or possibly demand they take advertising so them can afford some dev-ops staff
Maybe you should ask your admin in !meta@lemy.nl or !chat@lemy.nl what's up with the specific errors on your instance. Maybe they had some problems operating it. You can always switch instances. My posts never disappear without reason. (They can also be removed if they violate the terms of an instance or community.)
The other issues also annoy me. Federation is somewhat broken and posts and comments often don't propagate to other instances since Lemmy version 0.19.0 (and 0.19.1 which should have fixed that.) It's the fault of the Lemmy developers to release a broken update. We'll see if they continue doing that or if they have learned something. I think they want to hire a third full-time developer. Maybe that helps.
The need to re-login and unable to login with an older client happened once. Things like that can happen if bigger changes are made. I don't think this will become a regular thing. And it's not that annoying in my eyes. Most importantly clients have to handle that correctly and give a meaningful error message and guide you to the login page. But some proper error handling is also missing here.
So: Yes. The things you mentioned also annoy me. Lemmy has still lots of room for improvement. And it's nowhere near other federated platforms. I hope the Lemmy devs aren't repeating the most annoying mistakes and fix federation soon so this can be an issue of the past...
Kbin has been having serious problems lately
Pretty sure that's on lemmy. They did something that introduced a lot of errors and added redundant overhead and it also broke kbin that handles all federated thread content.
Poor dude was on holiday too, lemmy kind of screwed up their timing and push here imo.
Iβm struggling to use kbin right now, and even when it works, itβs incredibly slow. Iβm amazed that this has been going on for days. I feel sorry for whoever is trying to fix it. It must be a nightmare. Whereβs the best place to go for status updates and news from the devs?
No. My experience has ben once things become stable and slick is when the enshittining begins.
Liftoff stopped working for me two weeks ago. I had to download a new app to use Lemmy again. Still better than reddit.
I too have noticed that this app has stopped working. The developers haven't released an update for a long time.
At first, absolutely. Very frustrating, kept feeling the pull back you-know-where. But then after a while, it became kind of a zen thing, if i'm using that word properly? It gives me time to breath a bit, rather than just doom scrolling at an increasing rate.
Maybe kind of part of the Lemmy Ritual? Maybe I'm strange.
if i'm using that word properly? It gives me time to breath a bit
Just because of the irony... breathe*
lol. I love it.
On Lemmyworld and using boost for Lemmy, absolutely no bugs honestly. It's more stable than boost for reddit and that was head and shoulders above reddit's own cesspool of a mobile app.
The closest thing to a "bug" is poor optimization on posts with a bunch of hi res photos but that's it.
You are a bit unlucky now too, since federation is broken. Before that happened, everything was working fine. :)
You might want to check with an admin on your instance about those issues. I haven't run into anything like that.
Edit: I guess I spoke too soon. Five days later and apparently this comment never made it out of my instance.