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You should know that the issue with many communities on other Lemmy instances that you subscribed to showing a "subscribe pending" status has mostly been resolved.

I looked in my subscribed communities list, found all the pending ones, opened them, unsubscribed (clicked the yellow "subscribe pending" button) and resubscribed. After that, I refreshed the page and I was now fully subscribed to them, regardless of which Lemmy instance hosts the community.

The only exception, unfortunately, was with kbin communities. All the kbin.social ones still showed subscribe pending for me even after following the same procedure. Still, this is a big improvement over having a bunch of half-subscribed communities.

I know that the pending status didn't have much of a negative effect on my end because I would still get those in my subscribed feed, but I hoped for the communities' subscriber numbers to fully reflect the actual number of subscribers.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Great to hear!

That should fix a point of confusion for new users

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I hope so too. I should add that this was just my experience. I don't have any technical facts to back up this assertion. I had this problem for a long time after I first signed up for Lemmy in June 23. The unsubscribe and resubscribe trick hadn't worked for me at that time. I just randomly decided to try again today and it worked fine this time. I don't know if it's something that was improved in the code, or perhaps just that the Lemmyverse stabilized after a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The unsubscribe and resubscribe trick hadn't worked for me at that time

Interesting. It didn't always work the first time (which could mean unsub/sub/refresh like 10 times in a row), but coming back every few hours to try again I don't think it ever took more than a day to get it resolved for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I had tried multiple times over days, perhaps weeks. However, now I can't recall if maybe I only tried with kbin communities?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The only exception, unfortunately, was with kbin communities. All the kbin.social ones still showed subscribe pending for me even after following the same procedure. Still, this is a big improvement over having a bunch of half-subscribed communities.

This may be due to Kbin development slowing down recently. Ernest has had some life issues pop up recently, which has taken up a lot of his attention away from development. Hopefully we see some progress on the Kbin side soon, too!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was not aware of this. Sorry to hear, and I hope everything gets better for him.

[–] can 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's been forked by the community. It's called mbin and fedia already switched over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, thanks. I had seen mbin mentioned a couple of times, but didn't know the story.

[–] can 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If you want more context, Ernest, the kbin dev, went into some detail of the troubles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

found all the pending ones, opened them, unsubscribed (clicked the yellow “subscribe pending” button) and resubscribed. After that, I refreshed the page

Thanks, this worked for me. Note, the refresh is needed because it will still say pending until you refresh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

No problem, I'm glad it helped. The refresh is only needed to update the status on that page, but it actually subscribes fully in the background, if you check back on your list of subscribed communities.