Constant timeout

a year ago by Switorik to c/boostforlemmy

Boost has been giving me a generic "timeout" error after about 10 posts and stops loading posts in /all or /local.

Has anyone else been experiencing this and does does anyone have any tips to fix this?

Edit Oct 17 update This is still an issue.

Oct 26 This is still an issue.

Nov 25 This is still an issue.

December 9 Still an issue.

December 28 Losing faith in lemmy. Still an issue.

January 18 No fixes yet

January 28 No update but it's now working

No update again but it stopped working. I give up.

Vinny_93 4 points a year ago

I've been there but I think it's instance related. If your instance can't connect you to either itself or other instances you'll get a 503 error.

A fix, sadly, it's too wait until the admin of your instance fixes their connection problem. Usually it's unscheduled maintenance.

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Switorik 1 point a year ago

I'm not convinced. This started happening the moment the last update for boost released. It does it both locally and with other instances. It loads any instance/community fine.

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Vinny_93 1 point a year ago

I'm just sharing my experience. If it's an issue with the app itself, I think Ruben will keep an eye on it all and maybe you can contact him with some more details so he can debug properly.

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Switorik 1 point a year ago

I appreciate the info. I'm going to try another app and see if the same issue persists.

Edit: I tried sync and I do not experience this issue.

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rmayayo 2 points a year ago

Sorry I missed this post. I will try to replicate the issue.

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Switorik 1 point a year ago

Let me know if I can help at all. I really appreciate you reaching out!

I experience the same issue as guest. I have tried uninstalling, deleting cache, clearing data, logging out/in. I do not experience the issue with similar apps. S25 ultra.

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rmayayo 1 point a year ago

Could you give some steps to reproduce? Instance, feed and sort, and most important, the timeout error message. Thanks

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Switorik 2 points a year ago

Is there anyway to see a more descriptive error log? This is what pops up on the bottom of the feed.

The timeout message appears as soon as it tries to load any posts passed the initial refresh on both all and local instances. I've tried sorting by hot, new, most comments, and the various top sorting methods. The error does not appear if I sort by old.

Edit I would like to add that this error does not appear for individual communities. They have infinite scroll and the sorting methods work as intended.

This error is tied to the main all and local feed.

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rmayayo 1 point a year ago

Sorry if it was already answered, but does it happen when browsing as guest too?

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MrAnderson 2 points a year ago

Came to this channel looking for other people having this issue, as I'm also experiencing the same symptoms. Individual channels load correctly as described in the post, but I only get the initial load of posts in subscribed when I open the app, and trying to switch to all results in a timeout.

Edit: clearing the cache did not resolve the issue, nor did logging out and logging back in.

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Switorik 1 point a year ago

I'm still experiencing this and apparently you're the only other one willing to post about it. It would be nice if boost was more active in development.

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MrAnderson 1 point a year ago

I think it's just the one person, right? Understandable. But more to the point, maybe it's a rarely occurring issue?

For reference and for anyone potentially finding this in the future, I'm running boost on a galaxy note 20 ultra, android 13. If more useful technical info, or if the app creates logs of some sort, I'd be happy to share those as well.

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BigMikeInAustin 2 points a year ago

This happens to me only on the Subscribed / Home tab. Everything else does infinite scroll.

It's been happening for maybe 3+ months. I've stopped using Lemmy because of it. I keep hoping it gets fixed.

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Switorik 1 point a year ago

One month later and the issue still persists.

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MrAnderson 1 point a year ago

Came back here to share that, for me, as of today, I'm no longer experiencing this issue. I'm able to scroll down my feed and have it load new posts, and I can once again access the 'all' feed. Unsure if the app updated automatically. I've done absolutely nothing to resolve the issue and made no changes to my account. No Android updates between my last post and now. Maybe it was a backend issue with the instance I'm on (feddit.nl)?

At any rate, wanted to share. Hopefully yours clears up similarly.

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Switorik 1 point a year ago

I'm glad it's working for you. I just checked and it's still broke.

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MrAnderson 1 point a year ago

Aw man, I'm sorry to hear that. If I can think of any other variables that may have changed between my last post and now I'll come back to mention it, but I really don't know what it could be. Didn't change any apps or anything (though who knows what updates may have been pushed automatically).

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Chef6652 1 point 10 months ago

This exact issue is happening to me. On every category, even Local. The first page loads instantly, the second and other pages timeout.

I am on lemmy.world with Boost. I have lots of muted communities and some things blocked but not much.

It has been happening for weeks on my side, it never worked since I have this issue (so it is not intermittent) and even as a Guest (lemmy.world) the problem occurs.

Feel free to ask questions. I would be glad to help 😇

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Switorik 1 point 10 months ago

Personally, I'm getting burnt out with lemmy. Every update creates more bugs and because the developers don't experience them, they don't get fixed.

Boost is still broke. I moved to thunder, the last update to thunder completely broke it but the developer isn't experiencing it so whatever.

Before this, I made two accounts and both of the instances stopped updating or closed causing complete loss of account.

Nothing works for more than a few months it seems.

I'm on a samsung s25 ultra, a current phone. It's not on my end.

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LaserTurboShark69 1 point a year ago

I'm having the same issue

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Switorik 1 point a year ago

rmayayo is looking into this, do you have any info to add to this? Feel free to reply to his comment on this thread. Thank you

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