I know there were some oddities about this but I can’t find the previous discussion I had seen on the matter. I am subscribed to a handful of communities from when I joined here on sh.itjust.works, but it’s not consistent. Several communities appear fine in my feed despite my “subscription pending”.
But for new communities, the “subscribe” button is not actually a button, regardless if they’re here on sh.itjust.works or elsewhere. I could theoretically subscribe from the list of communities, but I’m interested in looking for communities on specific topics and I expect I could be scrolling for days before I find them. As soon as I use the search feature, I’m given a list without a column of “subscribe” links and I’m back to square one with needing to navigate directly to that community.
Am I the only one experiencing this? Is the source of this problem known? I’ve been advocating patience with the growing pains the threadiverse is likely to experience, but this is a really critical part of the experience that’s not working. I know I might be in the minority but I’m not here to scroll through the all-page.
I’ve been seeing this lately too. The workaround I’ve found is changing the sort to something like New or Hot, then it becomes a button. Of course, then I only have about a 10% chance of it not being stuck at “subscription pending.”
I’ll give that a try. Communities with “Subscription Pending” still seem to show up in my subscribed feed, which is good enough for me, for the time being.
Edit: This works! A curious bug, but one I can work around easily enough. I’m sure this will cause some confusion, so hopefully it’s ironed out soon.
Yeah sub pending is because the servers are overloaded on that instance and processing slowly. It does seem to federate anyway though which is what matters!
It’s well worth checking to see if there’s an issue for this on github already. I’ll check when I can if nobody else has.
Clicking create post and going back fixes it for me
This is a bug that’s gonna be fixed in v0.18.1. I wish I could link out to the bug on github, but I lost where I read this at. A way to get around this bug is just to click the community name in the sidebar and for some reason that makes the subscription button real
Thanks to both of you, good to know the problem is being worked on.
yeah, I’ve run into that a time or two - or the subscribe button is a button but it doesnt “act” like a button. it’s just bizarre behavior I’ve never really seen on any other platform. I can still interact with those pages/communities, just not add them into my feed by “subscribing”.
I’ve been getting the best results by toggling the page between posts and comments. This forces the UI elements to reload and subscribe becomes a real button. It won’t update, though: I’ll have to click it and then reload the page, and generally it appears either as
joinedorsubscribe pending. I intend to go through and fiddle with the latter at a later time, as you can force the matter by repeatedly leaving and re-subscribing, but I’ve been made to understand this is a server load issue.
