What's the proper method for posting Lemmy bugs?

3 years ago by halo5 to c/lemmyworld

So, I know that everyone has been posting reports of the bug where one can be in edit mode for a reply when the screen refreshes and the content (and the edit) vanishes, which is a MAJOR bug IMO. I don't think that people will continue to use a site where their edits/posts just disappear at random. This hasn't happened to me yet, but I could understand the frustration that's associated with this type of bug.

Another bug that I've noticed is that, when submit a new post or, less often, when I post a reply, I get a spinning wheel. This wheel keeps spinning for minutes sometimes and, because I actually get REPLIES to the post, I can see that the post has gone through. However, I'm still seeing the spinning wheel on the browser tab where I'm making the post. From what I'm seeing, that post has gone through, even though I still have the spinning wheel during submission. This, is also a MAJOR bug and should be fixed as soon as possible, IMO.

So, the question is, what's the best method/route to report such a thing? I think that one really big advantage of using Lemmy (as opposed to Reddit) is probably the extent to which the developers work with end users in order to fix such bugs. However, we definitely need to be aware of the proper method for submitting these bugs. TIA!

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halo5 1 point 3 years ago

Great resources. Thank you!!

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moog 5 points 3 years ago

Posting the issue to Github is probably the best path if you're able to do so.
That allows other technical users to comment and puts it on the dev's radar instead of relying on a post that they may or may not see.

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halo5 2 points 3 years ago

Got the links. Thanks!

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xtremeownage 0 points 3 years ago

I reported a bug earlier- but, honestly, I don't expect the dev team to get around to it soon.

My understanding, this project has a very small dev team, and this platform literally just EXPLODED in size, jumping from a very tiny niche on the internet, to literally exploding in size in the last few weeks.

And, I am willing to bet, before reddit enacts their final blow- lots more come over.

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jcg 6 points 3 years ago

The main devs are just two, Nutomic and dessalines, who work on it full time, but since this is an open source project anybody can contribute and if it passes their tests and actually fixes whichever bug it was meaning to fix, they just merge it into the codebase. There's currently 11 pull requests for the main repo from community contributors. I believe one of the issues also has a bounty of $100 for whoever implements it.

EDIT: Right now there's a hold as they prepare for the 0.18.0 release which makes a LOT of changes to the internals of lemmy, but after that they'll probably merge and release more frequently.

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halo5 2 points 3 years ago

Actually, it's been my experience that the right (even small) dev teams can be VERY effective, depending of course on the management. I've tried to do my part by contributing to Lemmy.world but, I guess we need to think about contributing to the software dev team for Lemmy as well? Is there a Patreon link or something? Inquiring minds want to know...

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xtremeownage 1 point 3 years ago

There absolutely is-

Its near the middle-bottom of their github.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

(Also, unrelated completely, I am completely ecstatic your comment notifications are successfully flowing to my instance right now and notifying me. That has been broke all day for me)

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halo5 2 points 3 years ago

Awesome! Thanks for the tip!

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halo5 3 points 3 years ago

This is awesome! Thanks! So, I'm going 5-for-5 here. $5 for Lemmy.world and $5 for the Lemmy devs. I know it's not much, but I'm not rich and it's steady monthly income so, hopefully, it helps...

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xtremeownage 1 point 3 years ago

Every bit helps, I am sure.

I'll sit down here eventually, and try to figure out how the codebase works, and see if I can provide meaningful contributions to it.

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