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When subscribing to communities it occasionally says "Subscribe Pending" - any ideas why? (self.asklemmy)
submitted 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Lemmy federation, server to server, is having a number of problems. Comments and postings aren't always getting copied over to all the servers who have subscribers. For over a week, Lemmy.ml has had regular nginx 500 error codes on the front page, sometimes you have to refresh 3 or 4 times to get a page to load.

Growing pains.

When subscribing to communities it occasionally says “Subscribe Pending”

Your specific issue is documented and I opened a fresh issue on it today: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3203

[–] 3migo 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Maelstromeous 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do you know if they have retry logic?

[–] 3migo 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] PriorProject 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] michikade 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a couple pending subscription but they still show up in my subscribed list and I can interact with them fine so at least for me it’s just a visual bug.

[–] bunjix 1 points 2 years ago

Jup, at least some of them show up in the "subscribed" feed as well. But it is a but strange.