I got Subscribe Pending message for days.

Thanks for the help.

  • Eddie@l.lucitt.comEnglish
    41·
    2 years ago

    From what I can tell, and don’t quote me on this, this doesn’t really matter.

    Most of my subs I have on my own instance say subscribe pending but I still get the posts federated. Not sure what the reason is, would love if somebody could chime in.

      • king_dead@beehaw.orgEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        This is true. I’ve had a similar error with communities I’m subbed to. Chalk it up to growing pains

    • Quills@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, it’s the same for me, in some communities the posts will show up normally even when in that state, exept for [email protected] Only this one in specific won’t federate for some reason

  • Baron Von J@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    I mod two communities. There’s nothing available that shows me “pending” subscriptions in order to approve/deny them. Just click the button again so it reverts back to a “Subscribe” button, then click it again. Keep doing this until it says “Joined” instead of “Pending.” You may have to do it a dozen times, and may have to leave it for an hour/day and come back and try again.

  • TheBeege@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I’m not 100% sure this is correct because I haven’t looked at the protocol or implementations in detail yet, but I can offer some educated guesses.

    “Pending” implies that you’re waiting for some remote service, likely the other instance, to confirm that the subscription went through.

    I can think of a few reasons why an instance may never send confirmation or why the message may not update:

    • that instance defederated your instance, meaning you can see them, but they refuse to see you. This makes sense for beehaw, given that they’ve defederated several instances, including lemmy.world
    • that instance hit an error
    • the request or response was lost somewhere along the network
    • your client, that is, the website or mobile app you’re using, has a cached state of pending and never updated it even though it received confirmation

    Maybe I’ll dive into things tonight and get more info. Or i might forget. We’ll see 😅

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Have you tried just refreshing the page once it says “pending”? Sometimes I get this and refreshing reveals that I am actually subscribed. When this happens the “pending” probably just indicates that the server’s confirmation message didn’t make it back.

  • ShittyKopper [they/them]@lemmy.w.on-t.workEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    On my own end, I can get Lemmy 0.18 instances such as .ml to un-pend by unsubscribing and re-subscribing, but Lemmy 0.17 instances such as .world or beehaw always show up as pending (despite sending posts over)

    I think it’s just the acknowledgements those instances are supposed to send to your instance being lost in transit. Everything seems to work fine otherwise

  • athelard@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    For those that need an answer. You can fix the message by unsubscribing and subscribing from the individual community page. It won’t work from the Communities listing page

  • itsAsin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    ima newb. joined today. been scrolling for great many hours. cool platform. thanks everyone.

    i also see lots of “PENDING”. can only guess what that means.