There’s a specific comment I’m trying to reply to in the lemmy.world/c/games community, agreeing with how much I love a game they mentioned. But after drafting the message, on mobile it just acts like I haven’t pressed the button. On desktop, there’s and endless loading circle.

I tried posting the comment before bed, and again this morning, same issue.

I was able to make a top-level comment in another post.

I did post something controversial so maybe they blocked me (although it doesn’t look like they commented on my controversial post). But I don’t even know if that limits replies.

The only other thing I can think of is they’re a kbin.social user.

Does any of this explain why I can’t reply? If they did block me, would I expect to see some sort of error message? Or should I expect the endless loading circle?

  • partial_accumenEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    EDIT: SOLVED - Another poster listed the solution. There is a dialogue box below the text area listing “Select Language”. Once I selected “English” my post is posted.

    I’m experiencing something similar. Here’s my data:

    • Replying to a post in this thread
    • When I put in my text and hit “Reply” the “Reply” button displays a rotating partially open circle graphic, but never posts.
    • The edit/preview buttons still work, but “reply” keeps spinning.
    • Refreshing the page show the reply didn’t post.
    • I came back about 12 hours later and attempted to put the same text as a reply. No success. Still spinning circle on “reply” button.
    • Prior attempts were on Firefox. Instead I opened Chrome and signed in (using incognito) and attempted to post the reply to the same comment. Exact same failure mode in from firefox. Spinning circle on “reply button”
    • I attempted a new text post on the same topic. That was successful.
    • I attempted a reply to my new post. That was successful.
    • I attempted my prior text reply on as a new reply on my new post. That was successful.

    So something about the actual user I was replying to will not let me post a reply to that user.