With the sluggishness of the site these last few days you can sometimes get slowness or infinitely loading icon when hitting submit. If you aren’t sure if your post submitted, refresh the original page in a different tab before hitting submit again to see if it went through. I see double and triple posts in almost every comment section.
if only I had known this earlier
I mean you have 2 comments total (this one and a duplicate of this one) it isn’t really too late ;)
Just to add to this, at least in wefwef, I sometimes get an error when I tap Post, saying that it failed. I am then left on the page, and can hit Post again. But it didn’t fail the first time, the post was made.
So this is not just users being impatient. There is a bug.
Might be due to either the websocket removal, or the sluggishness that does it.
The post processes, but the app doesn’t get a response confirming that the post has been made, so it sits there until the app times out.
I have not written real code for a very long time, and I don’t know the lemmy code base at all… but I described this bug to GPT-4 and it just turned me on to idempotency.
https://stripe.com/blog/idempotency
The call could succeed, but the connection breaks before the server can tell its client about it.
Seems like it’s non-trivial to implement in rust.
I’ve had the same on Liftoff
I’ve had the same on Liftoff
See what I did there…?
if only I had known this earlier
lol
It’s just Lemmy admins trying to give us the true Reddit experience
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This is the way
This is the way
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I can confirm this is true in Jerboa; learned the other day the hard way.
…And I learned that I need to copy the whole comment I type before submit jic my comment didn’t upload, at least I have my comment restored.
People are forgetting that a lot of these Lemmy servers are being run by just a couple people, sometimes with a server in their basement lol
Or literal closet. >_>
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Just get off .World and onto another instance and it’s smooth sailing with mobile apps working great too.
programming.dev is getting to be pretty damn slow too…
Comments post in 5-30 seconds, and up votes can take 30+ seconds to post. Searches are pointless, and loading comments can be a repetitive painful process of reloading till it works (504 gateway timeout)
Only sometimes. Other times it won’t post your comment at all. I still check to make sure my comments don’t post more than once but sometimes the lag is so bad it’s impossible to do even that.
You should also know you can join smaller instances to help alleviate this problem. You’ll still see most of the same content, especially if the instance has active users. Don’t be too shy to sign up on some random instance, worse case scenario you just don’t get approved.
I made a post and got “network error”, but it turns out it went through anyway. Took three tries to not get the error, so I ended up making three posts. Had to delete the two extras.
And then the delete doesn’t federate fast enough :/
Speaking of not fast… I just got 8 comment replies in my inbox that were made up to 3 days ago.
Were they from lemmy.workd? I know they were backed up for a few days but maybe the recent upgrades fixed it? I have posts that I know are missing lemmy.world comments from a week ago that met the same fate…
Nope, they were mostly local users.
Funny enough, this post is still “submitting” Image of the submit button still spinning on this post
