I know there were some oddities about this but I can’t find the previous discussion I had seen on the matter. I am subscribed to a handful of communities from when I joined here on sh.itjust.works, but it’s not consistent. Several communities appear fine in my feed despite my “subscription pending”.

But for new communities, the “subscribe” button is not actually a button, regardless if they’re here on sh.itjust.works or elsewhere. I could theoretically subscribe from the list of communities, but I’m interested in looking for communities on specific topics and I expect I could be scrolling for days before I find them. As soon as I use the search feature, I’m given a list without a column of “subscribe” links and I’m back to square one with needing to navigate directly to that community.

Am I the only one experiencing this? Is the source of this problem known? I’ve been advocating patience with the growing pains the threadiverse is likely to experience, but this is a really critical part of the experience that’s not working. I know I might be in the minority but I’m not here to scroll through the all-page.

  • Bilb!@lem.monsterEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been seeing this lately too. The workaround I’ve found is changing the sort to something like New or Hot, then it becomes a button. Of course, then I only have about a 10% chance of it not being stuck at “subscription pending.”

    • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’ll give that a try. Communities with “Subscription Pending” still seem to show up in my subscribed feed, which is good enough for me, for the time being.

      Edit: This works! A curious bug, but one I can work around easily enough. I’m sure this will cause some confusion, so hopefully it’s ironed out soon.

      • Bilb!@lem.monsterEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s well worth checking to see if there’s an issue for this on github already. I’ll check when I can if nobody else has.

      • redditblackoutkekw@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah sub pending is because the servers are overloaded on that instance and processing slowly. It does seem to federate anyway though which is what matters!

  • Iteria@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    This is a bug that’s gonna be fixed in v0.18.1. I wish I could link out to the bug on github, but I lost where I read this at. A way to get around this bug is just to click the community name in the sidebar and for some reason that makes the subscription button real

  • tallwookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    yeah, I’ve run into that a time or two - or the subscribe button is a button but it doesnt “act” like a button. it’s just bizarre behavior I’ve never really seen on any other platform. I can still interact with those pages/communities, just not add them into my feed by “subscribing”.

    • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been getting the best results by toggling the page between posts and comments. This forces the UI elements to reload and subscribe becomes a real button. It won’t update, though: I’ll have to click it and then reload the page, and generally it appears either as joined or subscribe pending. I intend to go through and fiddle with the latter at a later time, as you can force the matter by repeatedly leaving and re-subscribing, but I’ve been made to understand this is a server load issue.