Forgive me if this has been covered elsewhere, but I couldn’t find info on new user restrictions or time limits, so I thought I’d ask here.

I noticed my comments always show 1-upvote, even after some time passes. Is this a new-user restriction, or are votes being cast but not displayed? Personally, I don’t care about points, but I use votes as feedback to gauge whether my contributions are relevant. I also noticed fewer replies to my comments than I’d expect, given my experience on the previous instance. Is this a visibility thing for new accounts, or just coincidence? I’m here to chat, so I’d love to hear from others!

Thanks for running this instance. I know it’s not easy to run or mod. I hope this can help other newcomers, as well!

  • Admin Jerry@feddit.onlineMEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    Hi.

    So I checked the logs, and it turns out that your username, Ænima, which, by the way, I love, is causing your votes to be rejected.

    https://feddit.online/activities/like/<id> Like failure could not send:‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character ‘\xc6’ in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)

    @rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz @rimu@piefed.social Rimu, is this just a Piefed limitation, or would these special characters be impacting for other Fediverse applications? What is the best approach for resolving this?

    Rimu is the main developer. If he doesn’t see this, I’ll ping him.

    I’m sorry about this. I know it’s frustrating.

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Lemmy.world has none of the comments.

        And I believe other people set just their display name to unicode characters, and keep the account name ascii characters… I believe that’s how other people have emojis or arabic in the name. maybe Ænima could do the same…

        • Admin Jerry@feddit.onlineMEnglish
          5·
          1 month ago

          I don’t see a workaround. Both the display name and the account name have the same special character. The only option may be to start over with a new account, and give up the great look :(

          • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
            4·
            1 month ago

            I believe the user interface mostly shows the display name next to posts, comments, etc. Doesn’t it? So the look would be alright in most places. And some people have characters like emojis in it. But it obviously needs to be a new/different username if it’s like this.

            • Admin Jerry@feddit.onlineMEnglish
              4·
              1 month ago

              Yeah. I believe you are right. The account username is “ænima” but I only see “Ænima” on posts and stuff.

      • Ænima@feddit.onlineEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        I was surprised the registration form allowed me to use the character and had believed that it was using some sort of serialization in the background that other instances had not. Sorry to create more work for you and/or others.

  • Ænima@feddit.onlineEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    I’m sorry about this. I know it’s frustrating.

    Nah my dude, don’t fret! I actually started to suspect the same thing last night. It was one of those things where your brain keeps thinking about a thing subconsciously, even if you don’t consciously ruminate on it. If nothing else I should be the one apologizing to you all for creating this problem in the first place. If there’s one thing I do well in life, it’s being the guinea pig for system by finding ways to break things!

    I went ahead and recreated the account. I appreciate yours and all the others who provided insight into problem. The account was only a week old and I still have my lemm.ee export JSON file so I shouldn’t be at much of a disadvantage!

    P.S. It’s rare to find anyone who knows where my name comes from. Most, I find, think I’m just making a enema/butt joke!