Why do all communities from lemmy.world show up as "Subscribe Pending"
Why do all communities from lemmy.world show up as "Subscribe Pending"
It seems to be in error because I've seen posts show up and I just made this post obviously.
I've been told it's a timeout issue when subscribing, but it doesn't affect anything
Is there any way to fix it? Leaving in functional glitches and clear lack of polish doesn't seem like a great idea.
Nobody said we were polished. We're literally the upstart underdog.
It is known about, and it's being worked on, but since it's ultimately an open source project, there's no deadline provided for when it will be fixed.
Luckily it's not a big deal, it doesn't prevent the pending subscriptions from showing up in your feeds. If it bothers you just wait for your server to be not busy, unsubscribe and resubscribe, should take care of it.
There was a different vulnerability found that let the attacker take full ownership of a compromised account - some moderator and admin accounts were compromised. I would prefer the developers fix that first.
Functionally, it doesn't cause any problems. It'll show up in your subscriptions with the pending showing. It's just horribly confusing until you find out that it's a visual glitch rather than something functional.
And, it is mostly .world that does it. It isn't exclusive to there, but it does it more than any other instance, and it does it almost all the time.
Do you need to hit it again? crap
For new communities click on subscribe then refresh the page.
For already subscribed communities, unsubscribe then re-subscribe then refresh the page.
LemmyWorld is under a lot heavier of a load than most other instances, so they're a bit more prone to delayed sync issues, I've noticed. That'll come and go as the LW admins mitigate their load.
I really wish that the more specialized communities on LW would find different instances to migrate themselves to. LW should just be more of a "generalist" instance, since they're seen as the de facto "hub" for the Threadiverse right now, so anything to help move some of those communities onto instances that can handle them better would be great.
I think this feature is broken from its conception lol.
Good question, OP. I’ve often wondered this myself.