I’ve been frequently having posts and replies that I’m trying to make just sit with a spinning wheel and never actually going through. I suspect this post may do the same but hopefully I’ll eventually get it posted. This happens when I’m posting to a local community or to a federated community and from both desktop and mobile (both web, there isn’t a client for my phone). Is this a known bug?

  • Bob K MertzOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So I had been trying to create a post this morning from mobile that wasn’t working… I tried another post from mobile that didn’t work. I then tried it again from desktop and it sat spinning… that was right before I created this post but this post went directly through. I had checked the community and the post hadn’t shown up but after this one went through I created the post from scratch but this time it said it was a duplicate – at that point, sure enough, the post was in the community.

    I’ll keep a note of times if it happens in the future but if you go back about 30mins to an hour ago that’s when I was having issues most recently (this post that eventually went through https://lemm.ee/post/48373?scrollToComments=true). It does seem like it goes in waves… like there’s a period where posting doesn’t work and then it starts working again.

      • sunaurusMAEnglish
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        1 year ago

        So lemmy.world is exactly one of the instances where I have heard about this happening. They have a thread tracking this issue here: https://lemm.ee/post/29232

        Update: Unfortunately I don’t see anything in the logs for the past 5 minutes, but I’m quite confident that the issue is not on our side. I would keep an eye on that lemmy.world post for updates.

        • Bob K MertzOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Interesting. I have had it happen locally though as well (just not at this moment).

          EDIT: I think it’s possible that when it’s happening locally it might be related to the server grabbing information from a URL. When creating the post that I referenced above that did eventually go through it never gave me the “suggested title” like it usually does. I can’t think of the other times that I’ve had it locally, however, so besides that one this morning I’ll have to just keep my eyes out for it happening in the future again.

          • sunaurusMAEnglish
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            1 year ago

            If you can reproduce it locally then I would like to take a look at the logs again, possibly there will be more for me to see in that case

            • Bob K MertzOPEnglish
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              1 year ago

              I will certainly pay attention in the future.

              Related to the URL thing, is Lemmy supposed to pull a thumbnail from links and add that to the post? I linked an image directly on one of my posts and it shows up in the thread view but all of the other posts are just the grey box where I would think a thumbnail from the article would be (based on Reddit behavior, admittedly).

              • sunaurusMAEnglish
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                1 year ago

                Yes, it’s supposed to pull a thumbnail, but it can be a bit rough around the edges. Working on improving this is one of my goals for lemm.ee right now!

                  • Bob K MertzOPEnglish
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                    1 year ago

                    Just to add to this… it’s pretty weird… I posted the above reply and everything responded very quickly… I went back to the other window to repost, refreshed the page, copied my text in the new field… and now it’s also just continually spinning.

                    UPDATE: Did the same thing and created a new post in the community and that went through just fine… but trying to make the same reply a third time still is ending in continual spinning. Giving up on that reply… but if you’re going to look at logs it’ll be between 4:27PM and 4:36PM EDT (Eastern).