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When you post or comment in some of the bigger communities like Piracy or ADHD Memes it might appear as if your post is hanging.

This is misleading! The comment or post still goes through after a second or two, but the UI is buggy at the moment. You can leave it "spinning" for a while and hope it returns, or just reload the page.

If you create a community and you invite a mod from another instance, and that mod edits that community description, then that community's local url will break. By local url I mean the one where you go to https:instance.tld/c/community_name. The community will also not appear in "local communities".

However the "remote" url will work. This is the one which is formatted like https://instance.tld/c/[email protected]

You can currently (19/06/2023) see this effect in [email protected] (See working version)

The fix is pretty simple, you just need to set the "local" field in your postgresql DB to true. It's a single command inside your postgresql

sql update community set local='t' where actor_id='https://instance.tld/c/community_name';

If you don't know how to enter your postgresql DB in docker, this is the command

bash docker exec -it <postgres-container-name> psql -U <db user> -d <db name>

So for example, if I wanted to fix https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/flashcarts, I would write:

sql update community set local='t' where actor_id='https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/flashcarts';

Obviously try to avoid remote mods editing community descriptions if you can help it.

This is being worked on. If your account registation gets stuck, assume you need to change your username