I tried to join a community, but when i press subscribe nothing happens. If i leave the page the community is in my subscriptions list, but when i expand the sidebar instead of “joined” i see an orange box that says “subscribe pending”. What would cause this?
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It’s not a UI bug. When you subscribe to a non-local community, your instance sends the subscription request to the other instance, the other instance should instantly respond that the subscription has been accepted (or potentially denied?). However, if the other instance doesn’t respond, then it’ll get stuck in this “Subscribe Pending” state.
Does this normally resolve itself or will it be stuck in that state forever?
As far as I can tell, it doesn’t resolve itself, you’ll have to “unsubscribe” by clicking the “Subscribe Pending” button, then try again. Although you have no guarantee that that’ll solve it.
Thats about what i figured.
Having same issue :/, I am trying this from another instance tho
I have this same issue, but only for lemmy.ml and beehaw.org.
feddit.nl, feddit.de and lemmy.world all work as expected for me
edit: I did an oopsie with formatting
Update: I’m now able to correctly subscribe to beehaw communities, after modifying my nginx config a bit (I’m using the docker config from the docs). I added the following after line 44:
if ($http_accept = "application/json") { set $proxpass "http://lemmy"; }It might just be luck that this worked, I’m not entirely sure
I’m having the same issue with communities on other instances
I have the same issue on my instance. Content from subscribed communities seems to flow in, though.
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I’ve had subscriptions pending forever with some communities. My understanding is the community was set up to require an admim/mod to approve subscriptions. Seeing how long some have been pending, I’m unsure exactly why but it is weird. Also, when subbing to communities, sometimes it takes clicking subscribe a few times too. Hopefully this helps clear things up for ya.
