FlagonOfMe

I've tried force closing the app and clearing cache. No help. The problem happens on every instance.

Liftoff shows a "bad" request. Connect shows a broken image icon. Once in a while a thumbnail actually shows.

Two questions.

1. How do I switch users? (Answered by me below)
2. How do I search for or directly open a specific community on a specific instance?

How do I switch users?

Well, I did a bunch of trial and error to figure out how it works.

1. Each instance you add to the app can have one or more users. If you have multiple users on an instance, you can select one user to be your default user there. You do this by long pressing the account name in Settings and selecting "Set as default". Then when you switch instances using the drop-down list on the main screen, you are logging into the default account for that instance.
2. Before hitting reply to either a post or comment, you can open the respective three-dot menu and tap "View on another instance" to go to that post or comment on that instance which also logs you into your default account on that instance. Even though that instance chooser lets you choose a specific user from that instance, it will still log you in as your default user. This seems like a bug to me.

I still wish there were a way to see which user/instance was active before you make a post or reply. The compose message screen should show that somewhere.

#How do I search for or directly open a specific community on a specific instance?

When I use the search feature, I can choose an instance, and put in a community name, but then when I hit Search and tap the "Communities" tab, it shows me communities all over the fediverse. I just want to open a specific community of which I know the name.

I've read that to find a community on a Lemmy website to search !community@instance.name, but trying that in Liftoff yields no results at all.

Is there some simple way to open a specific community?

EDIT: In Connect for Lemmy, starting a search with ! changes the UI to "Go to community". That's really nice and clear. I addition, I tried entering just !liftoff, and even though I was on sh.itjust.works, it still brought me directly here. Maybe because it knew it was the only community with that name (if that's even the case). I don't yet know what happens if I enter a name that exists on multiple instances.

How does it work that I send 11 high quality photos to one person and it takes 5 minutes to send because I have a weak cell signal, but when I forward that message to another user it's nearly instantaneous?

I thought no messages were saved on the server, so how can it be so fast to forward them? Doesn't it have to upload the photos all over again?

I understand that very few (or no) websites actually delete anything. They just mark them as "deleted". But this usually means that once something is deleted, users have no ability to see the deleted data. This doesn't seem to be the case with Lemmy.

I've been trying out the Android app called Connect for Lemmy, and it shows the contents of all deleted comments with a "DELETED" word on them. See the uploaded screenshot.

This seems bad to me. Users expect that deleted comments are no longer viewable, and won't be returned by Lemmy's API. Lemmy still shows the username of the deleted comments, which was bad enough, but now I'm seeing that it doesn't prevent apps from seeing the deleted comments.

What are your thoughts on this?

I understand that very few (or no) websites actually delete anything. They just mark them as "deleted". But this usually means that once something is deleted, users have no ability to see the deleted data. This doesn't seem to be the case with Lemmy.

I've been trying out the Android app called Connect for Lemmy, and it shows the contents of all deleted comments with a "DELETED" word on them. See the uploaded screenshot.

This seems bad to me. Users expect that deleted comments are no longer viewable, and won't be returned by Lemmy's API. Lemmy still shows the username of the deleted comments, which was bad enough, but now I'm seeing that it doesn't prevent apps from seeing the deleted comments.

What are your thoughts on this?

I understand that very few (or no) websites actually delete anything. They just mark them as "deleted". But this usually means that once something is deleted, users have no ability to see the deleted data. This doesn't seem to be the case with Lemmy.

I've been trying out the Android app called Connect for Lemmy, and it shows the contents of all deleted comments with a "DELETED" word on them. See the uploaded screenshot.

This seems bad to me. Users expect that deleted comments are no longer viewable, and won't be returned by Lemmy's API. Lemmy still shows the username of the deleted comments, which was bad enough, but now I'm seeing that it doesn't prevent apps from seeing the deleted comments.

What are your thoughts on this?

~~If I enter it manually on the website in my browser as /c/!zelda@lemmy.ml, then it comes up with the error page in the screenshot in my comment. I could be doing it wrong, though.~~

I was doing it wrong. I didn't need the !. When I got it to work, I was able to re-subscribe. I don't know how I got usubscribed over night without me doing anything, though.

The "Connect for Lemmy" app apparently caches my subscription list, and if I click it there, I get shown posts from "Humanities". See the attached screenshot. (Not sure which instance that community is on.)

Lemmy.ml still federates with sh.itjust.works. I checked their list.

What's going on?

I was trying to reply to a Taco Tuesday post and no matter what I replied, I got a popup which said, "language_not_allowed".

Looks like placeholder text that was never filled in. What is that error trying to say?

I initially posted this:

Fish tacos are my favorite. Crunchy coleslaw, beer battered cod, a big ol' scoop of sambal oelek, and I'm in heaven.

I removed the "sambal olek" because it's a foreign language, but I got the same error. It persisted even when trying to post "just testing".

Any ideas?

UPDATE: someone on Discord reminded me of a loose end in Kakariko. I think that will solve my issue.

Here's what I did:

I found Mineru on my own after having found the construct factory, even though I was nearly blind in the storm on Thunderhead Isles.

I'm still missing one of the Hylian stone tablets, so I tried exploring more of Thunderhead Isles but got super frustrated with the lack of visibility. "Surely they don't mean for me to be here!"

I searched the net for "Is it possible to clear the storm...", and determined it is, but I have to finish "Crisis at Hyrule Castle", which I was putting off because I thought it would end the game.

I try to finish Crisis at Hyrule Castle, but I didn't realize the quest marker jumped up and down the levels of the castle so I just went down, down, down thinking it was a generic quest marker in the center of the castle, and not the next spot to find Fake Zelda.

I find the Demon King and beat the game.

When I searched for answers on the net, it said I would receive a quest called "The Fifth Sage" and the storm would be cleared for me, or I would have some means of clearing it myself. (I didn't read too closely since I was trying to avoid spoilers.)

After beating the game, I went back and tried to finish Crisis at Hyrule Castle again, and I did. Fake Zelda kept jumping around, and I went to each spot. And, damn! I had missed an entire chunk of the plot where I face the Demon King for the first time with the 4 sages, and he reveals that Fake Zelda was indeed Fake Zelda, and there's a big fight and I get a heart container.

When I went back to Purah to turn in the quest, everyone's like, "Wait, you already found the fifth sage, and the Master Sword? Why didn't you tell us!?" No talk at all about the storm on the Thunderhead Isles. I received and then immediately finished the quest named The Fifth Sage, and my only quest now is "Defeat the Demon King".

Can I clear the storm so I can properly explore the Thunderhead Isles, or is my game just borked?

I can understand Nintendo not locking Mineru behind some arbitrary plot lock, but it kinda sucks that I did things out of order and was able to skip entire sections of plot and beat the game by accident. The entire time I literally thought some plot device would boot me out and I wasn't about to beat the game. (It became obvious when I could no longer fast travel out, and I just went with it.)

What was supposed to happen? Was I supposed to be blocked from fighting the Demon King until I found Mineru? Was she needed to advance? I feel like once you're in the castle, you're going to discover the chasm and go exploring. Is this game similar to BotW where there's nothing stopping you from killing Ganon as soon as you leave the Great Plateau? Or do you need to have all 4 (or 5) sages in TotK to beat this game? Just curious.