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When subscribing to communities it occasionally says "Subscribe Pending" - any ideas why? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by Maelstromeous to c/[email protected]

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Is this based on instance performance accepting the subscription, or is it a generalize Lenny bug where it doesn't send it properly?

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[–] 3migo 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Many instances are simply overloaded, so the requests get hung up.

[–] Maelstromeous 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you know if they have retry logic?

[–] 3migo 2 points 1 year ago

That I'm not sure on. Hopefully someone smarter than me can answer that question.

[–] PriorProject 1 points 1 year ago

It appears that maybe there is no retry logic: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3203

You should generally click the pending button to cancel the subscription request and then try again, possibly after waiting "a while" for the instance to have a moment where it feels less existential dread.