Can I just quickly mention that I for one really appreciate the work done by @ruul to keep this instance working as well as it does , thank you.

Improvement: Support for search operators

For example:

• Currently, when I use the “"” character on Lemmy search, it searches posts/comments with only the “"” on them.

My lemmy search improvement requests:

• “hello world” should strictly show comments/posts matching Hello World, case insensitive by default (with case-sensitive check box)
  • like: "Hello Everyone" shows posts/comments with the phrase “hello everyone” on them but not “hello” and/or “everyone”
• -${KEYWORD} or -${COMMUNITY} excludes a specific keyword or community from the search result. Using -"Hello World" filters results with the phrase "Hello World" on them. If it’s a community like -"community@lemmy.instance", it will exclude the community from the results.
• * asterisks - wildcard
• | pipe - logical OR search.

On the homepage lemmy.world, new posts keep appearing at the top even when not sorting by new. This causes annoying layout shift, especially when browsing all communities, not just local ones. (I use Firefox / Win 10)

Federation not always working; Apparently not everything gets synced all the time. This needs troubleshooting.

I thought I was suffering from this, but then I added English to my profile languages, and suddenly many posts on other instances that I could not see before were now visible.

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

Dear @ruud@lemmy.world ,

From my personal opinion, i would like to add 2 QoL improvements.

• The ability to go back to the community pages, with clicking on the empty area of a thread ( maybe like what Reddit implements ). The reason is that we can quickly navigate to another post
• A Scroll to Top / Back to Top Button

But this is just a suggestion based on my personal experience using Lemmy

Thank you :D

Would love the ability to set a time for a post to publish. I’ve been posting a lot of news articles to /c/texas and I don’t want users to feel like its spamming. If I could set a publish time that would be awesome

On opening a new tab or window with a lemmy instance, I frequently find that I am not intially logged in. I am logged in, and refreshing the page a few times affirms this. It does not necessarily require a cacheless refresh (ctrl+f5). It also occurs regardless of what lemmy instance I’m browsing.

This started immediately after the hackening event of the other day. I’ll play with what’s in site storage in firefox later on and see what happens.

Edit: Ok something very odd just happened. I did the refresh thing and it briefly showed me logged in as @andybug@lemmy.world, for reasons unknown. It didn’t stay logged in as (s)he, but very briefly flashed it as such.

Edit2: I deleted cache, webtoken, and other detritus in firefox, and refreshed the page to login again. I logged in, and the site served me the logged-out homepage until I refreshed again. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Edit3: I was logged out completely this morning. No explanation as to why as yet, I’ll test tomorrow and see what browser storage looks like

Post 0.18 update on desktop, the domain of external links is no longer visible (unless you hover over the link)

I miss this, as it goes to contextualising and trust issues - knowing whether a link goes to apnews, dailywire or theonion is a big deal, let alone the risk of malware/etc.

Could this be re-added at some point?

So I’ve made 3 posts now and chose pictures to upload. Everytime it takes my photo and turns it sideways on the post. I’ve noticed that if I go to my gallery and edit the photo I’ll rotate it and save it as a copy. I’ll then rotate it back so it’s the correct oriention and save it as a copy again. I’ll then make a post using that copy of the new photo that I rotated twice and the photo will upload in the correct orientation. I think this is a Lemmy issue overall because it happened over 2 instances.

I am very new to Lemmy.world. I have noticed though there is no icon displayed on firefox for the bookmark (but there is for Chrome / DuckDuckGo browser).

Edit 2023-07-02 - For me this appears to have been fixed :)

Test comment; doing some federation testing with admins of other servers.

This post is on a beehaw community. Started by a lemmy.world user. As I understand it is on our local copy of the community that got pulled before the de-federation and only our users should be able to post on it.

Already that would be bad in my opinion since the copy is unmoderated and isolated. However it appears that some users replying are actually from other instances (not beehaw of course). This can only create confusion and further ‘issues’ with beehaw.

The hot sort appears to be frozen for the last 24 hrs. The top posts on all or local haven’t changed in nearly a day. There appears to be a bug causing a deadlock in the database (see issue 3076 for more info). The only solution seems to be to restart the instance when that thread crashes.

I think lemmy.world need to up the “Federation worker count” under the server settings. The more data that needs to be federated, the higher this number should be.