Thanks to a comment by @[email protected] , I checked and saw that 'Federation debugging' mode was enabled. I had enabled that when the server just started (less than 3 weeks ago) and I had an issue with federation.
I thought I had switched that off again, but apparently not. This mode causes the federation to be done in the foreground, so your 'Post' or 'Comment' action will wait for that to finish...
This solves the most annoying issue, and makes the site way more useable. There are many other issues, but we'll get there.
This is that community. It supposed to be the meta community for announcements and questions about the server.
The memes and random junk here is all off-topic, I hope the mods get it under control because it makes it impossible to help anyone with questions or track server announcements.
You should just report the post/comment they made. The community mods as well as the admins will receive the report. If it's really bad, you could e-mail [email protected]
Could you have a look at https://lemmy.world/u/limbodev? I tried setting it up last night and got the spinner and no confirmation email. I can see the account was created, but get the spinner if I try to log on to it.
Thanks for the fix ! I also thought it was a general lemmy issue and not a lemmy.world one.
Edit : I seem to still have the "wheel keeps spinning, have to reload to see my comment posted" issue, is that the one you're talking about here ? But tbf it was an issue I even already had on Reddit (mobile web) so I can't be mad ๐
I'm not able to post to c/news since I just get a spinner icon forever. No one else has posted there for the past day either, and there has been plenty of news since then. I've been able to post to some other communities. So something seems to be wrong specifically with c/news which surprisingly isn't a highly active community like its reddit (or should I say deaddit) counterpart.
it seems to happen at random , wasnt able to post on 3 different comments in a post ( endless circle ) even swapped VPN servers / cleared cookies and cache and relogged .
30 min later was fixed.
maybe some hiccups still from federating.
Thanks for the update, @Ruud, although while we're on the subject of posting issues I have a problem with one particular post that I am trying to add to a community here that I moderate.
Basically, it's a long list of archived Reddit threads that formed the bulk of our subreddit's wiki. Each item in the list has a hyperlink that leads back to a Reddit post.
I have tried to submit it about a dozen times over the past few days and twice again since you made this post, but all I get is the little spinny wheel of eternity and the post is never successful.
Is that because of an issue with external links or something else, do you think?
Maybe a part time solution for now would be to use "just paste" it's a better paste bin alternative and put there all the links in and link only to just paste