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!

  • @INeedManaEnglish
    3•1 year ago

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

    • @CrulOPEnglish
      4•1 year ago

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

      • @INeedManaEnglish
        1•1 year ago

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

        • @CrulOPEnglish
          3•1 year ago

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

          • @INeedManaEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            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
            • @CrulOPEnglish
              3•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.