I’m really confused here. I was kind of freaking out for 10 minutes because all the posts on my Lemmy account on the lemm.ee instance from the last 7 months completely vanished out of thin air on my profile.

Than I loaded my profile page (this account) on my new account which I just created on lemmy.ml, and the posts all appear to still be there. So I’m confused, why is it that others can see my posts, but I cannot? If you’re reading this, can you check my profile and see if the posts appear for me please? The last post should be 5 days ago.

There’s only two things I can think of that might have bugged Lemmy out:

  1. I was playing around in the settings earlier, and clicked the “Bot Account” checkbox; but I can’t see how this would glitch anything, because I didn’t click “Save”.
  2. The profile I’m posting this on is on lemm.ee. My newly created profile is on lemmy.ml and has the exact same username (DreitonLullaby) as this one; but I’m not sure how this would cause issues, because they are on two completely separate instances.

That’s all I can think of. Is this a known bug? How can I fix this?

  • freamon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    6 months ago

    Most likely reason is that you unticked ‘English’ as a language you understand when you were playing around.

    • DreitonLullabyOPEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Thankyou, that fixed it! Didn’t realise I had done that. On the web client, there’s a little note above the languages list that says “Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content.” This confused me because I thought it was saying that “undetermined” needed to be selected in order to see most content. So after clicking another language, I re-selected “Undetermined” to make sure the language would remain as it was. So I think the wording of the little note mislead me and caused me to do the wrong thing. I clicked “Save” after that, not knowing that I’d disabled English posts.

      I still don’t fully understand that little note, because if I select English, then “Undetermined” is automatically deselected; but I still see most content (including what’s on my profile). But if I specifically select “Undetermined” and save the changes, than the posts become invisible, even though that’s what the note seemed to be trying to make sure I did.

      The note seems to be saying “Keep Undetermined selected” in order to keep seeing most content, while in reality, selecting “Undetermined” makes most content disappear. Do you see what I’m trying to say?

      Edit: Re-worded some of the second paragraph and split it into two, because I had an incomplete sentence that didn’t make sense. Oops; ironic.

      • walden@sub.wetshaving.socialEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        It’s a bad design for sure. You have to hold down Ctrl to select multiple languages (English and undetermined in your case).

      • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Many weird behaviors has been caused by this. A friend of mine couldnt see any new posts in a community anymore until he figured out this was the reason.

        Took a long time to figure out too… It’s not exactly intuitive.

      • freamon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, I know what you mean. That note is misleading, and kinda redundant too - you can physically de-select Undetermined in the UI, but the change won’t actually take if you press ‘Save’.

        • DreitonLullabyOPEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          I’ve just noticed something extra: As I said before, if I select English as a language, then “Undetermined” becomes deselected, yet the content still remains viewable. Well, I’ve just figured out why the content remains viewable: It’s because “Undetermined” for some reason gets automatically re-selected; it’s just that you can’t see that it’s happened unless you refresh the whole settings page (after saving).

          I think the whole language section of the settings needs a redesign, because this is very confusing.

    • DreitonLullabyOPEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Thanks, but no. I’ve realised now that I accidentally deselected English as a language option and saved changes (I saved changes because I was testing the “Auto expand media” option). But I was a bit mislead by the little note above the languages which says “Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content.”. It made me think that I needed to make sure that “Undetermined” is selected in order to keep seeing most content, because that’s what it sounds like in its wording. So I re-selected “Undetermined” and saved changes, and it caused my posts to disappear; I just didn’t notice immediately because I was busy transferring my subscriptions from this account over to my new one. I’m still not sure what that note was trying to say, but I’ve fixed it now by selecting English.

      What makes it a bit more confusing is that when I select English, “Undetermined” becomes deselected, which is what the note is telling you not to do; this must be what compelled me to select “undetermined”, because selecting anything else deselected “Undetermined”. It’s only after you save and completely refresh the page, that “Undetermined” suddenly becomes re-selected again, but English also remains selected at the same time.

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Oh I should have thought of that. Language settings could definitely still use some work.

  • catloafEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Is there a “hide read posts” option on the web client? Because I can see your posts just fine from Boost.

    • DreitonLullabyOPEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Thanks, the problem was that I had accidentally disabled English as an option for posts that I can see.