I tried to comment in this thread:

https://fedia.io/m/news@lemmy.world/t/339242/Ex-Americans-are-suing-America-to-get-back-some-of-the

Wrote out a msg, clicked “Add comment”. The button faded and changed to “Sending…“ then simply reverted back to “Add comment”. My comment does not get posted.

#Lemmy is plagued with this behavior where you take the time to fill out a form & submit, and it simply does nothing and gives no reason for the refusal. It’s extremely frustrating because my effort is thrown away and I don’t even get to know why. If a form won’t be accepted, then don’t present it to me in the first place.

Now #Kbin is doing it.

Lemmy devs say the lemmy server is solid and that it’s the Lemmy web client that’s buggy and flimsy – which seems likely (the client is javascript after all). But in this case at hand I’m using a kbin client to post to a lemmy community.

Is the kbin client talking directly to the lemmy server, or does the fedia kbin server proxy the msg? I suspect the former because I’m on tor and #LemmyWorld is #Cloudflare configured in a tor-hostile way.

So #fuckCloudflare. If this is a CF problem then the Kbin client should be smartened to make CF threads read-only so people don’t waste their time trying to generate content.

OTOH I have some doubt about the Cloudflare-blockade theory because I am able to vote in that thread. Why would my votes stick but my comments be refused?

  • kubica@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    If you retry it doesn’t let you? From kbin I saw an error trying to reply to a post, but then I retried and it worked.

    • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.ioOP
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      9 months ago

      I’ve retried several times, even with a long delay. I also tried re-entering the thread (which is often the fix for kbin-specific failures) and that did not work either.

      (edit)
      Note that to send this reply to you here in this pure kbin mag I had to submit twice. But in that #LemmyWorld even many retries makes no difference. I would love to have a text-based client about now.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    9 months ago

    Is this a Cloudflare problem? Without any error messages this may as well just be a Fedia bug. Every other Kbin user seems to be posting comments just fine.

    the client is javascript after all

    How edgy! It’s written in Typescript, though.

    Best advice I can give you is to open up the dev tools and look for the exact error message that Kbin is hiding from you for some reason. Also do the usual checks (disable adblockers/all addons, try another browser, etc) for browser related issues.

    • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.ioOP
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      9 months ago

      Is this a Cloudflare problem?

      I guess not. Today I was able to post there.

      Though there’s another odd behavior: my profile shows all my own posts except the posts in that #lemmyWorld thread. But I do get notifcations if someone replies to me in that thread.

      Every other Kbin user seems to be posting comments just fine.

      I don’t see how you could know that. If someone is blocked, there’s no metric AFAIK.