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

  • ThatGuy@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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.

    • KiranWells@pawb.social
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      1 year 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)

  • PCChipsM922U@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year 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.

  • Seigest@lemmy.ca
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    1 year 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.