I considered replacing my profile picture, so I went to my settings and tried to upload a new one. At first it looked like it was working, but when I refreshed the page after clicking ‘Save’, nothing happened.

So I turned off my content blocking extensions, allowed Opera to permit trackers, advertisements, and protected content, and I retried to upload my profile picture.

{“data”:{“error”:“rate_limit_error”},“state”:“success”}

I decided to modify my browser to accept all cookies, and this time I tried browsing outside of private mode.

{“data”:{“error”:“rate_limit_error”},“state”:“success”}

At this point I thought ‘fuck it’, switched to Microsoft’s awful Edge browser, and tried to upload my picture from there.

{“data”:{“error”:“rate_limit_error”},“state”:“success”}

Piss, piss, PISS!

ETA: I figured out what the problem is. The page didn’t want to save because the description had too many characters in it.

    • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Assuming you’re still getting the rate limit error, I’m not sure how to proceed. Normally you would only get that issue if you’re making a lot of requests, but the fact that you’re able to post fine suggests that’s not the issue.

          • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            I figured out what the problem is. The page didn’t want to save because my description/biography had a link in it. Everything works fine as long as the link is gone.

            ETA: The number of characters was the problem.

            • Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩 [she]@lemmygrad.ml
              1·
              1 year ago

              I don’t think having a link in your description had anything to do with it. I think it’s moreso that the page didn’t want to save because you were passing over a word limit set by Lemmy. At least that was the reason for when I faced the same issue.