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YSK: Hitting submit more than once will post your comment/thread multiple times, even with the lag

https://lemmy.world/post/1026630

YSK: Hitting submit more than once will post your comment/thread multiple times, even with the lag - Lemmy.world

With the sluggishness of the site these last few days you can sometimes get slowness or infinitely loading icon when hitting submit. If you aren’t sure if your post submitted, refresh the original page in a different tab before hitting submit again to see if it went through. I see double and triple posts in almost every comment section.

Jul 4, 2023 at 2:50pmWeb
Show threadMisterSheepyJul 4, 2023
People are forgetting that a lot of these Lemmy servers are being run by just a couple people, sometimes with a server in their basement lol
Show threadfrozenJul 4, 2023
Or literal closet. >_>
Show threadfrozenJul 4, 2023
You should also know you can join smaller instances to help alleviate this problem. You’ll still see most of the same content, especially if the instance has active users. Don’t be too shy to sign up on some random instance, worse case scenario you just don’t get approved.
Show threadDopamineDaydreamsJul 4, 2023
I've been finding uploading images to be very confusing as the 'upload file' and 'From url' buttons don't seem to do anything
Show threadRoundcatJul 4, 2023
Was that water pump salvageable though?
Show threadsubignitionJul 4, 2023
Also note that if a large amount of time has passed while you're writing a response, you'll sort of time out, and the first attempt to post won't work, but because it's refreshing your session. The second attempt will post
Show threadOpenStarsJul 4, 2023
Even for short ones, it seems to happen always for me if I reply to one person, then try to write a top-level reply after that.
Show threadMrShanklesJul 4, 2023
I copy any of my comments that took a while to type (longer, detailed, or sometimes just adhd) before hitting submit. I’ve been burned too many times from all different areas of technology. If something goes wrong, just try again and paste whatever I typed out
Show threadDanglingFuryJul 4, 2023
This is good to know. Upvoted for visibility.
Show threadDanglingFuryJul 4, 2023
This is good to know. Upvoted for visibility.
Show threadLemmypyJul 4, 2023
This is the way
Show threadLemmypyJul 4, 2023
This is the way
Show threadLandrin201Jul 4, 2023
I can confirm this is true in Jerboa; learned the other day the hard way.
Show threadFlagonOfMeJul 4, 2023
I made a post and got “network error”, but it turns out it went through anyway. Took three tries to not get the error, so I ended up making three posts. Had to delete the two extras.
Show threadtrashcanJul 5, 2023
And then the delete doesn’t federate fast enough :/
Show threadFlagonOfMeJul 7, 2023
Speaking of not fast… I just got 8 comment replies in my inbox that were made up to 3 days ago.
Show threadtrashcanJul 7, 2023
Were they from lemmy.workd? I know they were backed up for a few days but maybe the recent upgrades fixed it? I have posts that I know are missing lemmy.world comments from a week ago that met the same fate…
Show threadFlagonOfMeJul 8, 2023
Nope, they were mostly local users.