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bug: missing cache invalidation when renaming community (reddthat.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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steps to reproduce:

  1. create a community
  2. change its name
  3. load own user profile

expected results:

  • community's new name is displayed both in the "Moderates" and "Subscribed" boxes

actual results:

  • new community name is displayed in the "Moderates" box
  • community's old name is still displayed in the "Subscribed" box

additional notes:

  • the renamed community's new name becomes visible after subscribing to some other community
  • sorry for posting this here, but, i don't want to give microsoft my telephone/ID/firstborn/etc which is required to open an issue on github these days
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[-] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

oh, i assumed this is a function of the software, but you think it is a configuration issue on this instance?

ping @[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

I too think it's possibly a software bug rather than a cache issue. We don't cache anything if you are signed in, and if it was a cache issue it would show both of the old names on the page rather than only one changing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

while i've got you here... i noticed another related issue: i changed my display name and bio a while ago, and the change has not propagated to other instances. compare:

(currently all remote instances show my old name...)

edit: ... and another issue: the link parsing of those URLs is overzealous, hijacking the parts that match (i'm guessing, approximately) the regex u/\w+@\w+\.\w+

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

User profiles are only updated every 24 hours so that is normal. The url parsing is handled in lemmy-ui, you can check the issue tracker or open a pull request.

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