I sometimes get this weird error when trying to comment on posts: “language_not_allowed”. I’ve tried leaving the language as undetermined or setting it to English and neither seems to work.
How do I go about fixing this?
I haven’t seen this, what’s one of the posts?
I tried commenting on this post: https://lemmy.ca/post/1078827
That’s a misconfig on !toronto where they’ve set the language to “Undetermined”. If you set your reply to that as well, it’ll work.
I’ve messaged their mod about fixing it.
What can we set the language to so that this doesn’t happen? Can we just select all languages?
Just don’t select any language at all.
Click a single language, then control click it to unset it.
Ok. Thanks.
Ah, perfect. Thanks!
Should I have my community configured to a specific language or 0 language selected? When I have 0 language selected on my profile instead of undetermined, it breaks my feed, so I’ve also set my community to undetermined. I was having an error where every time I logged into lemmy on chrome it was resetting my profile language to 0, in general this setting has been haunting me
From what I’ve seen so far, it’s best to just select nothing at all in that box. On both your profile and community.
What do you mean by breaks your feed? I haven’t run into any issues myself.
Suddenly I won’t see many/any posts newer than pre-break, any comments or posts classified as English (and presumably other languages) I can’t see at all. Even ones in the community I mod. Confirmed the issue existed in Memmy as well as lemmy.world and lemmy.ca
Hmm, oddly it seems like picking my language in my personal settings does pretty much nothing. I did notice it tries to add “Undetermined” to whatever I choose, and sometimes unselecting everything is buggy.
Did you try clicking the X box to the right of the language, and saving that?
Unfortunately there’s quite a few bugs in the current version of lemmy + lemmy-ui we’re on. Lemmy.world is on the latest beta release, so if you’re seeing the same problem there then it’s probably unresolved.
I did a quick look through open bug reports (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues) but couldn’t see anything obviously matching this. You may want to report exactly what you’re seeing / doing.
Thanks for looking into it, tbh I didn’t report it because I attributed it to a combination of my own blundering around in settings, and the upgrades messing with servers. The issue only occurred on Chrome iOS as far as I can tell - but it seemed like I created some quantum settings situation whereby looking at my profile settings, language would always revert to ‘0 languages’ - that is what I also got when clicking the x. And then I would not be able to see the posts and comments I knew should be visible (sometimes there was a bit of time before things disappeared/stop appearing while it caught up). I tried switching apps and finally browsers and got it (using Safari/desktop Firefox) to stay at undetermined + English as long as I didn’t look at it via Chrome. I did clear cache and history and all that.
But at that point I was a bit tired of troubleshooting it and left it alone. I will try to recreate the problem for myself on both instances and submit a bug report if it is still occurring, though!!
FYI I poked at the DB and selecting nothing will set your accepted languages to all of them.
You currently have English+Undetermined set. Try removing everything via the X, so it adds every lang to the db.
