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!

  • jcg@halubilo.social
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    1 year 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.