• x4740N@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    And then you’ve got the comment roulette where you don’t know if your comment went through or not because sometimes it actually times out but it also posts your comment while saying it timed out

    That’s what causes the duplicate comments you occasionally see on lemmy

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think that’s more of an app problem than an instance problem.

      • Madbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It tells Lemmy what language you’re post is in. If users have that language disabled in their settings, they won’t see it

        But language seems to get autoassigned in a lot of places, which is what I think the root cause of this bug is. If you need to set a language for a post, just do it after it’s already submitted

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m confused, do you mean I need to select a language or I need to not have a language? 10% of my posts just spin and never post. It’s incredibly frustrating, especially if you just did a big write up with formatting and multiple links.

      • Madbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        On the post submission page, there’s a language selection often. I just leave it as it is now and I’ve never had this issue since

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Copy and paste before you hit post. However, in a properly configured instance, this isn’t a problem. /lemm.ee smugness

    What really annoys me though, is when you type out a long comment, then see another comment below, click to upvote it and lose your entire comment.

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      Yeah that shits annoying. A few early catastrophes gave me PTSD so I literally copy the text of every single post/comment before clicking send.

      And I haven’t lost any of my boys in weeks. Whatever it takes 🫡

    • simple@lemmy.mywire.xyzOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Before 0.18.2, whenever I posted something from my instance, and that post contained an image, I would get the spinning animation on the button and after like 5 minutes I would get some error (likely a timeout). But despite that, the post would actually show up, so it was probably timing out on some confirmation stage.

      But after I updated the instance to 0.18.2, it’s been working fine, so hopefully it stays that way