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It’s basically child porn and I’m pretty sure we and the admins don’t want to propogate that.

The server have been updated to the latest Lemmy Version 0.18.1. As usual if you notice any odd behaviour leave it for a hour. If problems or issues persist please report them in the comments. Ill be taking notes for future fixes and updates.

I would like to support the server costs of Vlemmy with a small recurring donation, but I prefer the convenience of Patreon for managing all my donations in one place. Somewhere I read that some other instances take donations through Patreon. Are there any plans to add it here?

Hey there. My current home instance's performance is awful, so I tried last night to create an account on VLemmy. I saw the toast saying I would get an address verification email, but that email never came through. Is this a bug, or does that email maybe not actually send until my application has been approved?

I'm trying to find subscribe "Russia" community but can't 😕 Are they blocked?

I'm getting the same error for every upload whether it's for a sub icon or a post. the error reads "SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data." I have tried using a 1024x1024 like another post suggested but that doesn't work either.

I reported an issue on GitHub, and the devs are asking if our instance owner can reboot and provide some logs to help troubleshoot. Reaching out here in hopes the instance owners see this? Not sure the best way to contact them for stuff like this.

GitHub issue here https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3428#issuecomment-1617850434

If I try to add an avatar to my profile I get this error on Firefox:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

And I get this error on chromium based browsers:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'R', "Request er"... is not valid JSON

Hi, I’m using the vlemmy search to add communities and seem to have issues with adding anything from HexBear. An example would be [email protected]. When I search, a “couldn’t find object” error appears.

Any help would be very appreciated!

Is it possible to get a spell checker on lemmy? It's a little frustrating having to edit posts and comments to correct my horrndous typos.

Hello folks, I noticed today that a community banner was rendered differently on two instances (vlemmy.net vs lemm.ee).

Inspecting the source, the image is 600x200px.

On vlemmy.net, the banner was rendered as 736x240px. On the community page on lemm.ee, it was rendered as 831x240px.

Neither was the correct aspect ratio, and part of the banner was cut off on the lemm.ee instance.

Do lemmy instances have complete freedom to format the banner in whatever way they want!?

What's the recieved wisdom for dealing with this unpredicatable behaviour? Is there a "safe" way to design a banner to deal with these differences?

When going to the vlemmy.net home screen, I get the following error:

Error! There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn't work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the Lemmy support community or Lemmy Matrix room.

The server returned this error: couldnt_get_posts. This may be useful for admins and developers to diagnose and fix the error

I am logged in, using the Brave browser, v1.52.126, Chromium v114.0.5735.133.

It seems that on any community I go to (whether local or on another federated instance) the "Subscribe" and "Block" buttons appear as plain text, not as buttons/links. So that I can't subscribe to any more communities. Occasionally, "Block" will appear as a button, but "Subscribe" pretty much never does.

Example:

This only seems to have arisen in the last couple of days.

Anyone else getting this or know how to fix it?

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

This is the error I'm getting in a red banner when trying to upload an avatar (512x512px, 39kb jpeg file). Was able to upload the same image to lemmy.world (which currently uses BE 0.17.4) without any errors.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1465740

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Major Changes

HTTP API instead of Websocket

Until now Lemmy-UI used websocket for all API requests. This has many disadvantages, like making the code harder to maintain, and causing live updates to the site which many users dislike. Most importantly, it requires keeping a connection open between server and client at all times, which causes increased load and makes scaling difficult. That's why we decided to rip out websocket entirely, and switch to HTTP instead. This change was made much more urgent by the sudden influx of new users. @CannotSleep420 and @dessalines have been working hard for the past weeks to implement this change in lemmy-ui.

HTTP on its own is already more lightweight than websocket. Additionally it also allows for caching of server responses which can decrease load on the database. Here is an experimental nginx config which enables response caching. Note that Lemmy doesn't send any cache-control headers yet, so there is a chance that private data gets cached and served to other users. Test carefully and use at your own risk.

Two-Factor Authentication

New support for two-factor authentication. Use an app like andOTP or Authenticator Pro to store a secret for your account. This secret needs to be entered every time you login. It ensures that an attacker can't access your account with the password alone.

Custom Emojis

Instance admins can add different images as emojis which can be referenced by users when posting.

Other changes

Progressive Web App

Lemmy's web client can now be installed on browsers that support PWAs, both on desktop and mobile. It will use an instance's icon and name for the app if they are set, making it look like a given instance is an app.

Note for desktop Firefox users: the desktop version of Firefox does not have built in support for PWAs. If you would like to use a Lemmy instance as a PWA, use use this extension.

Error Pages

Lemmy's web client now has error pages that include resources to use if the problem persists. This should be much less jarring for users than displaying a white screen with the text "404 error message here".

Route Changes

Pages that took arguments in the route now take query parameters instead. For example, a link to lemmy.ml's home page with a few options used to look like this:

https://lemmy.ml/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Active/page/1

The new route would look like this:

https://lemmy.ml?listingType=All

Note that you now only have to specify parameters you want instead of all of them.

Searchable select redesign

The searchable selects, such as those used on the search page, have a new look and feel. No more inexplicable green selects when using the lightly themes!

Share button

Posts on the web client now have a share button on supported browsers. This can be used to share posts to other applications quickly and easily.

Lemmy-UI Overall look and feel

lemmy-ui is now upgraded to bootstrap 5, and every component is now much cleaner.

Special thanks to sleepless, alectrocute, jsit, and many others for their great work on improving and re-organizing lemmy-ui.

Database optimizations

Special thanks to johanndt, for suggesting improvements to Lemmy's database queries. Some of these suggestions have already been implemented, and more are on the way.

Query speed is Lemmy's main performance bottleneck, so we really appreciate any help database experts can provide.

Captchas

Captchas are not available in this version, as they need to be reimplemented in a different way. They will be back in 0.18.1, so wait with upgrading if you rely on them.

Upgrade instructions

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

Support development

We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for almost three years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. No one likes recurring donations, but they've proven to be the only way that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive.

When I create a post in Vlemmy the drop down to select language only has Undetermined and some symbols which likely describe some other language, but I can' tell which.

Shouldn't there be more languages in there?

When I look at technews on the original host I see more articles than if I see it on vlemmy

In particular there are articles older than 3 days in vlemmy, but several posts from 3 days ago seem to be missing in vlemmy.

For example:

• European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries
• Pentagon program hunts those who ‘embarrass’ its generals
• Asus zenfone 10 revealed ahead of the launch

I've noticed that on some other instances, the number of downvotes is displayed along side the upvotes counter, but on this one, unless I specifically downvote a comment, the count doesn't show up. Other instances, sometimes have this, along with kbin.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/191969

Sorry if this isn't the correct place to post this but:

According to this comment (https://lemm.ee/comment/285328) restarting the servers more frequently would fix some of the problems with the fediverse. Currently, the front page with Hot/All settings does not update, and it hasn't updated for the past 3 days. The admin of dbzer0 instance already restarted the servers and our front page is now fixed... for now.

Recent posts on /c/[email protected] lacks the images even though they are present in the articles.

I also get an error trying to upload an image to the post or comment. Error screenshot

Error from the console:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'R', "Request er"... is not valid JSON
(anonymous) @ client.js:2

Hi transitioning from Reddit after being there since before Digg migration. Liking Lemmy but having 2 issues hoping to get advice on. Using firefox on mac.

• Content movement: from the home screen when I select all, there is a loading period and the posts are populated. However as new instances collect everything just piles into the top making pics/posts I'm looking at move and self close. Is this expected behavior?
• Ranking: imo the breakthrough reddit provided was in aggregating and ranking via votes. Whether it is through hot, controversial, top, etc there is an underlying algorithm that orders the posts. Due to the way content seems to come in from instances, I seem to get two different behaviors. The main page is either blocks of rank lists from each instance instead of a single rank order or the setting (hot, activity, top, etc) just doesn't seem to apply. The linked image is a screenshot of an attempt to filter all by top of week. The top posts have 1-2 votes on them.

These are probably just bugs on my end and I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!

I am aware that lemmy.ml has been fairly stressed, but have a few subscriptions such as [email protected] which have been stuck on Subscribe pending for days.

They have switched to a new server at lemmy.ml in last few days and it seems fairly more responsive so wondering if the process is stuck somehow on vlemmy.

Hey everyone, just a friendly reminder from a member of one of your mod teams. Don't forget to report bad actors, malicious bots, or rulebreakers whenever you see them. vlemmy.net is a rapidly growing instance and as more people join, post, and comment, it will get harder for the admins/moderators to keep up. Reporting helps the admins/moderators immediately address bad behavior, making the community better for everyone and easing everyone's workload, so remember to report.