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Subscription Pending (self.lemmy_ca_support)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by TheUtopianCat to c/lemmy_ca_support

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Hi there - I joined Lemmy a few days ago and subscribed to a bunch of communities. A large number of them are still stuck on "Subscription Pending". Why is this? Is there any way I can get my subscriptions to go from pending to active? Thanks!

Edit: 2023-06-30: I'm still seeing this problem. :/

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[–] Undearius 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've had this a couple times. I think it's caused by some server load on the instance that's hosting the community.

I found you can just click the Pending button which removes the subscription and then just click it again to reapply the subscription. At that point it should instantly change to "Subscribed"

[–] TheUtopianCat 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This doesn't work. "Subscription Pending" is just unclickable text, not a button.

[–] Undearius 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I had to open up the community (just clicked the name in the community list) and then press the Subcribe Pending button. When I clicked the Subscribe button again, it looked like it wasn't doing anything but about 10 seconds later it switched to Joined.

I'd need to double-check but I believe that the subscription still works even though it shows as pending.

[–] TheUtopianCat 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I tried that, too, but every time I did, it went to Subscribe Pending. :/ No luck. Thanks anyway.

[–] thatsnothowyoudoit 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm having the same issues - so it's not you and probably more systemic than it appears.

[–] kat 2 points 2 years ago

Going through that issue as well. It clears up in a while if I re-attempt the pending ones, but not always. :/ Worse on the android app

[–] learning2Draw 0 points 2 years ago

Worked fine for me.