I considered replacing my profile picture, so I went to my settings and tried to upload a new one. At first it looked like it was working, but when I refreshed the page after clicking ‘Save’, nothing happened.
So I turned off my content blocking extensions, allowed Opera to permit trackers, advertisements, and protected content, and I retried to upload my profile picture.
{"data":{"error":"rate_limit_error"},"state":"success"}
I decided to modify my browser to accept all cookies, and this time I tried browsing outside of private mode.
{"data":{"error":"rate_limit_error"},"state":"success"}
At this point I thought ‘fuck it’, switched to Microsoft’s awful Edge browser, and tried to upload my picture from there.
{"data":{"error":"rate_limit_error"},"state":"success"}
Piss, piss, PISS!
ETA: I figured out what the problem is. The page didn’t want to save because the description had too many characters in it.
I was uploading too much. I thought that the error message was due to a browser setting that I turned off, but maybe not.
mystery solved 🧐
The Save function still doesn’t work, though.
Are you also changing something other than your profile picture? This can happen if you try to save when the display name is too long, or if the bio is too long, etc. The problem is that if the saving fails for reasons like this, the UI doesn't tell you why which is a UI bug. If you know how to use dev tools in the browser, you can look in the Network tab why the PUT request for updating your account info is failing.
I have no idea why that wouldn't work unless you're using a JavaScript blocker