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 (this one and a duplicate of this one) it isn’t really too late ;)
if only I had known this earlier
It’s just Lemmy admins trying to give us the true Reddit experience
This is good to know. Upvoted for visibility.
This is the way
This is the way
…And I learned that I need to copy the whole comment I type before submit jic my comment didn’t upload, at least I have my comment restored.
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I can confirm this is true in Jerboa; learned the other day the hard way.
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.
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 you can check your personal history
Yes, but they’re not going to know to do that. People will post, see error, retry, give up and move on.
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)
Does it show up repeatedly on your profile? I used to use that as a way to track double posting on reddit
Yes! The Lemmy devs should make it so that you can’t hit the submit button 10 times in a row. People hit submit and nothing happens so they hit it again and again and again. Now there’s a bunch of identical posts.
I remember the old days where sites would have a message saying “only hit submit once”. That’s gone now since sites prevent users from hitting submit more than once. I don’t think Lemmy is doing that though!
It’s problematic because often you’ll get an error that says it failed to post the comment. In which case it’s fair to try again, but it actually posted anyways.
I made a post and got “network error”, but it turns out it went through anyway. Took three tries to not get the error, so I ended up making three posts. Had to delete the two extras.
And then the delete doesn’t federate fast enough :/
Speaking of not fast… I just got 8 comment replies in my inbox that were made up to 3 days ago.
Were they from lemmy.workd? I know they were backed up for a few days but maybe the recent upgrades fixed it? I have posts that I know are missing lemmy.world comments from a week ago that met the same fate…
Nope, they were mostly local users.
