if only I had known this earlier

if only I had known this earlier

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

This is good to know. Upvoted for visibility.

This is good to know. Upvoted for visibility.

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.

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.

It's just Lemmy admins trying to give us the true Reddit experience

Funny enough, this post is still "submitting" Image of the submit button still spinning on this post

You know, we don't have to copy everything from Reddit. Although it is pretty funny that we have exactly the same bug lol

Just get off .World and onto another instance and it’s smooth sailing with mobile apps working great too.

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!

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 😉

...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.

Also note that if a large amount of time has passed while you're writing a response, you'll sort of time out, and the first attempt to post won't work, but because it's refreshing your session. The second attempt will post

Admin needs to sticky something to this effect.

What I do (web browser) is simply refresh the community to see if the post has posted yet. If it hasn't, I try again. Around a third of the time you get spinny wheel though, it actually did submit, and just forgot to let you know.

Only sometimes. Other times it won't post your comment at all. I still check to make sure my comments don't post more than once but sometimes the lag is so bad it's impossible to do even that.

Does it show up repeatedly on your profile? I used to use that as a way to track double posting on reddit

I've been finding uploading images to be very confusing as the 'upload file' and 'From url' buttons don't seem to do anything

The problem is a UI thing too. In wefwef for example half the time you go to post something and it says ‘error posting’, your comment actually did post. But sometimes it doesn’t.

I typically go until I see success and then delete any duplicates I left on accident.