When I try to subscribe to a community and it says “Pending”, what does that mean from a technical perspective?

  • Bernie Ecclestoned
    6·
    2 years ago

    I’m getting the same.

    Also, I sometimes have to press join twice to join. Not sure if that’s just me?

    • ContentSpy
      4·
      2 years ago

      I am also having the same issue it seems to be primarily lemmy.ml communities that have this so I think its a server load issue

      • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        It’s definitely a server load issue. If I remember correctly, lemmy.ml has upgraded their server today, so 🤞🤞🤞 maybe we won’t see so many load issues

    • KiranWells@pawb.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      As far as I can tell, you only need to press once. Pressing again just updates the UI, and pending means that the API call is still waiting (probably because of server overload)

  • 🇦🇺Baku
    4·
    2 years ago

    Interestingly, I got this when I tried to join this community. Is it an inter-instance thing?

    • CoolioDood
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve only gotten “pending” for this community. I’ve had no issue subbing to communities on different instances.

  • Seigest@lemmy.ca
    3·
    2 years ago

    I belive that means a mod of that sub needs to approve you. I’ve had this happen woth a few I’ve joined i got in eventually.

    I am guessing it’s a default setting for new communities and many if them have yet to turn it off or somthing.

    • PCChipsM922U
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’s not always a mod that has to approve, this feature in Jerboa is buggy. In almost all cases where it said Pending in Jerboa, I’ve tried adding that same community through the web UI and it worked instantly.

  • ThatGuy@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    Its just waiting to get feedback. Clicking subscribe doesnt happen instantly, it needs to send a request and then wait for the instance to respond.

    • PCChipsM922U
      1·
      2 years ago

      Accessing the content is not a problem, commenting as well. You can access it even if you’re not subscribed (in most cases, i.e. if the community is not private). The problem is the feed. You don’t get anything from that community in your feed unless you’re subscribed to it. Exceptions are communities that are local to your instance, you get feeds from them even if you’re not subscribed to them (since the default in Jerboa regarding feeds is Local feeds).

  • PCChipsM922U
    1·
    2 years ago

    The subscribe feature in Jerboa is somehwat broken. It should happen almost instantly… unless there is an approval process of some sort to join a community (I’m not aware of that, but maybe some communities can be set to private with an approval process). On the web UI on the other hand, everything happens instantly.

    So, yeah, a PITA, I know, but it’s best to add communities through the web UI… at least for now.