Lemmy

Lemmy is written in rust, that's a java error so the issue lies with the app you're using not Lemmy itself (maybe)
- The cause is a 502 from lemmy.
  Jerboa's handling of that error is also terrible but that's another issue.
  
  Memmy doesn’t do well with it either.
  Of course it doesn’t bode well for the instance itself that it’s throwing so many…but it’s unclear if that’s an operator problem or a code base problem.
- Is there a good Lenny app because so far wefwef hasn’t been great for me.
  
  Jerboa or just in the browser. Honestly though most people's issues are likely to be because they joined a huge instance which is falling over due to load. Consider making a new account on a smaller instance.
  
  Liftoff is the best I've found so far. Waiting for Sync to come though
  
  Wefwef has been the best for me so far. I'm a previous Boost for Reddit user, so I'm still waiting for their official Lemmy release and then I'll switch.
  
  I am using Memmy at the moment and it’s well decent
  https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy
  
  Can you explain why? Are you using wefwef on Android?
  
  Thunder but features aren't all there
  
  I am quite liking liftoff. It has a slightly different layout to wefwef and you can customize it a bit if you don't like the default colours.
  
  What’s so bad with wefwef? I’m using it righty now and enjoying it.
  (Also, Memmy is another great Apollo-based app.)
  
  @Binderfullofpizza In my opinion, Memmy is the best native app at the moment (for iOS).

I've seen this more times than my own family
- Dad, please come back. Mom is hoarding all the meth and Beth new boyfriend isn't even a cartel boss. He's a an accountant for god sake ! AN ACCOUNTANT !

Afaik this is not an error from Lemmy but from nginx, which is not able to relay the request to Lemmy and therefore returns a 502 bad gateway response. Imo this just means the servers are over capacity, so most likely a scaling/infrastructure issue.
I had a quick read of the code and it looks pretty solid to me. Not the most "enterprise" code imaginable, but definitely no code smell or quick hacking job.
- I read a couple PRs and it seems like the are rejecting the more hacky stuff.

You know at least it printed an error. I hate when things silently swallow errors.
I'm looking at you, Python programmers:

try: <100 lines of nonsense> except: pass
- We are not savages now we use
  python
  
  with suppress(Exception): > 100 lines nonsense
  
  https://imgflip.com/i/7rgdzv
- I am in the process of fixing a bug at work where pretty much every method has a try(Exception e){...}catch{LOGGER.error(...)}. The method calling my team's method needs to know when an interrupted exception is thrown. So far I have fixed this in 10 different methods, and we keep finding more. It's like playing whack-a-mole.

that's Jerboa issue but probably because It received something from the server that it shouldn't
- No, the server gave a 502 instead of a JSON and Jerboa doesn't handle that gracefully.
  
  Actually i was trying to say similar issue
  
  Seems like the 4 apps I use all have the same issue though which makes me wonder if it's something in Lemmy causing the issue (not the apps).

Value
<html>
of type java.lang.String cannot be converted to JSONObject

Is it a lemmy issue or a jerboa issue?
- Serious Answer: This is a Jerboa issue. Lemmy is written in Rust. The error message is a Java error which is what native Android apps use.
  
  I think it's both, actually. Lemmy is often giving html where json is expected, and Jerboa isn't handling the error well.
  
  No, it's probably when the app is expecting a json but the server returns an html, which usually happens in case of 502 errors.
  
  If it's Jerboa/Android app issue, why do I get JSON errors using Lemmy on my desktop PC with Firefox? Forgive me if this is a dumb question, I have very little programming knowledge.
  
  No, this is a lemmy issue. The API specification specifies a JSON response, and the server randomly provides HTML, this is a bug in the server. I agree that Jebora should retry in the case of a network failure (timeout, 4xx staus codes...) but it should not have to retry in a case of a server that is not folowing the standard.
- Definitely jerboa
- I would say Lemmy issue. This is probably a default 502 internal sever error response (which I've been getting repeatedly from lemmy.world). Jerboa (I don't use it btw) is only trying to parse the expected json response. Yes the app could handle the error more gracefully but if Lemmy didn't respond with an error jerboa wouldn't need to.
  
  personally I'd say it's a Jerboa thing. the app should retry loading because sometimes I refresh after this happening and it immediately loads the proper content.
  with all the different instances this sort of thing has to be kept in mind
  
  Lemmy realy should not randomly emit errors for no reason, there should be no need for retries in this case. If the specification specifies a JSON response, and the server randomly provides HTML, that is a bug in the server.
  
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- I'm having similar errors using liftoff
- I'm having similar errors using liftoff