Can no longer post. What happened?

3 years ago by rainfern to c/lemmyworld

I'm using Jerboa and while I was able to comment initially, it first started saying "deleted" immediately after posting and now it says "language_not_allowed" and the comment is gone, irrespective of content. What's up with that?

V4uban 14 points 3 years ago

It happens if you are replying to someone from an instance with strong language requirements (e.g. Kbin). You have to switch to the web interface to be able to select a language.

Annoying, but I'm sure the devs are aware of this

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postmeridiem 5 points 3 years ago

I just checked this with a comment from a kbin user I previously couldn't reply to and it worked immediately. Just had to select English language rather than leaving it blank.

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V4uban 4 points 3 years ago

Yes exactly!

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UnicornKitty 1 point 3 years ago

Huh. When this happened to me I assumed they had some odd filter that assumed I said a bad word when I didn't.

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V4uban 1 point 3 years ago

AFAIK, there is no word filter on this instance

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mnemonicmonkeys 1 point 3 years ago

My bet is that they're trying to post on sh.itjust.works. The instance is explicitly English/French due to being based in Canada

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V4uban 1 point 3 years ago

Might be!

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klangcola 9 points 3 years ago

I had the same problem initially when joining Lemmy, but it works now.

To comment I had to use the web interface, and where it says "select language" choose English. Otherwise you're posting with "no language" , which is not on the Community list of language, so the webUI would spin endlessly, and Jerboa would fail with language_not_allowed.

I think if you choose English once when commenting from the web interface, Lemmy should remember it and Jerboa should use English and should work. Assuming you don't need to often swap between languages.

I think the language mechanism is probably a good thing in the long run, but right now it feels a bit janky and confusing. For sure Jerboa needs an update to be able to choose Language in the app itself. It also needs to not eat your comment when it fails, cause having to type out a long comment again is infuriating.

For some more info, see: https://reddthat.com/post/1976

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rainfern 1 point 3 years ago

Ahh! Thank you very much!

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ckempo 9 points 3 years ago

We had this on our instance. Hopefully this solves it on yours.

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polaroid 8 points 3 years ago