When I try to subscribe to a community and it says "Pending", what does that mean from a technical perspective?
When I try to subscribe to a community and it says "Pending", what does that mean from a technical perspective?
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.
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.
Accessing the content is not a problem, commenting as well. You can access it even if you're not subscribed (in most cases, i.e. if the community is not private). The problem is the feed. You don't get anything from that community in your feed unless you're subscribed to it. Exceptions are communities that are local to your instance, you get feeds from them even if you're not subscribed to them (since the default in Jerboa regarding feeds is Local feeds).
I'm getting the same.
Also, I sometimes have to press join twice to join. Not sure if that's just me?
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)
I am also having the same issue it seems to be primarily lemmy.ml communities that have this so I think its a server load issue
It's definitely a server load issue. If I remember correctly, lemmy.ml has upgraded their server today, so 🤞🤞🤞 maybe we won't see so many load issues
I've only gotten "pending" for this community. I've had no issue subbing to communities on different instances.
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.