With the sluggishness of the site these last few days you can sometimes get slowness or infinitely loading icon when hitting submit. If you aren’t sure if your post submitted, refresh the original page in a different tab before hitting submit again to see if it went through. I see double and triple posts in almost every comment section.
if only I had known this earlier
I mean you have 2 comments total including this one, it isn’t really too late ;)
I hope you have learned the error of your ways
lol
Another great bastion of reddit content has been felled.
Another reason for redditors to leave and join Lemmy
if only I had known this earlier
lol
This is good to know. Upvoted for visibility.
This is the way
This is the way
This is good to know. Upvoted for visibility.
People are forgetting that a lot of these Lemmy servers are being run by just a couple people, sometimes with a server in their basement lol
Or literal closet. >_>
This is good to know. Upvoted for visibility.
You should also know you can join smaller instances to help alleviate this problem. You’ll still see most of the same content, especially if the instance has active users. Don’t be too shy to sign up on some random instance, worse case scenario you just don’t get approved.
I joined my instance after being on Lemmy.ml about a month ago for a day, and there was so much lag because it was the largest instance at the time. I then switched to my current instance when it only had ~50 users on it and it made the world of a difference. I went from seeing the site crash every 5 seconds and posts taking 30 seconds to submit, to having a stable connection to the Fediverse.
Overall, I feel like everyone should try to join smaller instances to distribute the load so that you don’t have a bad experience, and the instances don’t get overwhelmed. It’s a win-win for everyone.
Just to add to this, at least in wefwef, I sometimes get an error when I tap Post, saying that it failed. I am then left on the page, and can hit Post again. But it didn’t fail the first time, the post was made.
So this is not just users being impatient. There is a bug.
Might be due to either the websocket removal, or the sluggishness that does it.
The post processes, but the app doesn’t get a response confirming that the post has been made, so it sits there until the app times out.
I have not written real code for a very long time, and I don’t know the lemmy code base at all… but I described this bug to GPT-4 and it just turned me on to idempotency.
https://stripe.com/blog/idempotency
The call could succeed, but the connection breaks before the server can tell its client about it.
Seems like it’s non-trivial to implement in rust.
I’ve had the same on Liftoff
I’ve had the same on Liftoff
See what I did there…?
It’s just Lemmy admins trying to give us the true Reddit experience
Just get off .World and onto another instance and it’s smooth sailing with mobile apps working great too.
programming.dev is getting to be pretty damn slow too…
Comments post in 5-30 seconds, and up votes can take 30+ seconds to post. Searches are pointless, and loading comments can be a repetitive painful process of reloading till it works (504 gateway timeout)
You know, we don’t have to copy everything from Reddit. Although it is pretty funny that we have exactly the same bug lol
Funny enough, this post is still “submitting” Image of the submit button still spinning on this post
I can confirm this is true in Jerboa; learned the other day the hard way.
I said I was sorry… Gosh
Resubmitting is the reasonable response to an error that said it failed. Lemmy should add some sort of duplicate message prevention when they have the time to improve the ux.
Sounds like a bug to be that needs to be ironed out on the backend 😉
