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I've been ignoring "Subscribe pending" messages when subscribing, is this a problem? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Crul@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: questions:
EDIT: I'm not aking how to fix it for a single community, I'm asking how to handle it for >200 subscriptions (thanks!)

  • If a community says "Subscribe pending", is it possible that their posts do not appear on the feed?
  • If the answer to the previous question is yes: is there any script to fix "Subscribe pending" issues on batch?

Long version:

I started using Lemmy some days ago and when subscribing to some communities (on other instances) I got the "Subscribe pending" message. I'm aware it's a common issue (see search for Subscribe pending in this community) but, because what I read is that the bug was the message itself (but you were indeed subscribed) I ignored them.

Today I took a look again at the issue and I saw that some people recommend un-subbing and re-subbing again. The thing is, now I'm subscribed to more than 200 communities, so it would take a while to do it manually.

Thanks!

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[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this really needed? I had a feeling that even though the community shows "pending", the posts and comments still appear. Am I mistaken?

[–] Crul@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You just reasked my first TL;DR question :).

[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I meant: do you observe such behavior? Because it's contrary to my experience but maybe I just did not notice

[–] Crul@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With >200 subscriptions is impossible for me to detect if the posts from one of them are being excluded from the homepage :/.

[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah. So it's not an observation but precaution :)

I don't think you need to do this but if you want to follow through, my idea would be:

  1. on the main page mark the "subscribed communities", right click and "show source of selection"
  2. the communities listed there are linked as href="/c/something" so you probably need to pass it through some regex
  3. use "open multiple urls" addon (Firefox, Chrome)
  4. go one by one and resubscribe
[–] Crul@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah. So it’s not an observation but precaution :)

Yes, it was a genuine question. I don't know the implications.

if you want to follow through, my idea would be: (...)

Good advice, thanks.

I will probably do a bit more work to automatize it with JS, I just wanted to check I'm not reinventing the wheel, in case anyone had already built something similar.