I’m able to comment in other communities just fine, but when I tried to post a reply to this comment in a thread in !worldnews@lemmy.world the “Reply” button just shows a spinner icon forever. I tried again, attempting to reply to this comment in a different thread from the same community, and the same thing happened.

I also tried subscribing to the community then posting the comments, but that didn’t change anything.

If the action had just failed because I was banned or something that’d be one thing, but (a) it’s hanging, not failing, and (b) as far as I can tell, I’m not banned from !worldnews@lemmy.world (or anywhere else, for that matter). It really does seem like some sort of bug, and a weird one at that since it’s affecting my interaction with only one specific community instead of all of them.

  • Barns@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Are you setting the language when commenting? Try without it. Also, try the other way if you aren’t setting it.

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      1 year ago

      Huh. Yep, that had something to do with it! I usually make sure to set the language to English, but I guess !worldnews@lemmy.world apparently wants it to be left unset for some reason (not even “Undetermined,” but just left on “Select language”).

      I guess my immediate issue is resolved by this workaround then, although I’m still curious about why it would be behaving like that in the first place.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, it happened to me few times and I noticed a pattern. I think it’s related to how the community was setup…