Several times now, I’ve tried to reply to a comment – usually, I’m doing this on a mobile app – and when I hit “post” I get an error. Then, when I refresh, I get a “post not found” error. Until now, I just move on, because, it’s only Lemmy.
But this morning, I got the same error, and in frustration I opened the post in Firefox, and went to reply to the comment, and in the web page all of the post editing stuff was disabled. I mean, I could click “Reply” and open the reply widget, but the text editor area and all of the buttons are disabled. The post in question is this one.
Before, I speculated that the mobile app would only load so many posts back in time, and maybe they were aging out or something. Or, perhaps, some were removed by mods or the author. Although irritating, I didn’t much care.
This, though, is weird, and I wonder how many of the posts I’ve had this issue with is because of it. It’s as if the post is locked, except that there’s no indication I can find that it’s locked. On the web site, it at least prevents you from trying to reply – on Voyager, it’ll merrily let you spend ten minutes composing a reply only to fail to submit, but that’s just a Voyager bug. However, the fact that the post is for all intents and purposes locked, but the official Lemmy UI provides no indication of this … is this also a bug?
And is is “locked”, or is this some behavior relating to cross-site blocking, where blaha.zone won’t let midwest.social users post, and the server knows it and so prevents the user from trying to post? Or is it because I’ve blocked the poster, and Lemmy will show me, but won’t let me comment on, posts by blocked users? Or is this some weird situation where the poster deleted the post but it’s still showing up?
In any case, this feels like a bug. The site should clearly indicate that posts are locked, or blocked, or whatever the reason commenting is disabled. The web interface clearly knows that the post is un-comment-able; it should show this, and preferably, display why.
Or, am I missing something obvious?
Locking for rule 5.
I’m seeing the post you linked as locked on the Voyager app.
Same on the desktop web interface. Just a regular locked post, with the lock icon.
I can believe I’m just not seeing it, but I just revisited it in the browser… where’s the lock icon?
“Mobile” mode:
“Desktop” mode:
The little icon directly on the right next to the “leftist infighting” title.
There’s a lock icon at the right of the title in both pictures.
Weird - I’m not. Do you see a lock icon when you follow the link to the midwest.social Lemmy website? I couldn’t find it, if it was there.
If not, is it a per-instance setting the admins can change?
Edit Ok, now I see it in the app. It wasn’t there before.
Same on Mlem and the mobile web interface.
Maybe try a different client/app. The post you linked shows as “Locked” when I view it.
Yeah, it’s showing a locked in Voyager now, too. Maybe on this case it was just a race condition and the app not refreshing the post metadata promptly.
When this happened to me I thought OP had deleted the post and I was looking at old data.
I didn’t know there was a lock icon you could look out for.
Well, now I see a lock icon in the app, but I still don’t see one on the web interface.
I’ve seen similar weird stuff previously which turned out to be a database compatibility issue of some sort. I haven’t investigated, but is that instance running the current version of Lemmy?
Also, at the time it was not clear if the issue was related to the instance where the post was, or the instance where my account was, so check the version on your own instance too.
is that instance running the current version of Lemmy?
I don’t know. I don’t run my own instance, and don’t pay much attention to the server versions. Uuhhh… “BE: 0.19.11”. That looks like the currently tagged version on github. It was posted to lemmy.world, which is 0.19.10. So the versions look good.
But: this is a general, common issue. It happens to me about once every week or two, that I try to post and it fails. Usually if I force a refresh on the app, I get a “post not found” error; in this case, it looks like the post was locked while I was replying and the app didn’t update the lock icon.
