Forum is noticeably slower on certain computers
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Hi guys as the title says, the forum is noticeably slow on certain computers.
On my main PC it's fine, but on my work laptop, and some users' machines, it seems to be laggy a lot of the times.It seems like other users do not experience this and I'm not quite sure what could be the cause, I havent changed anything within the codebase itself.
if anyone would be kind enough to test it on their browsers, it's https://forum.bladerunners.net
I'm really lost on how to make it perform better and if anyone can help i'd be very grateful
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Hi guys as the title says, the forum is noticeably slow on certain computers.
On my main PC it's fine, but on my work laptop, and some users' machines, it seems to be laggy a lot of the times.It seems like other users do not experience this and I'm not quite sure what could be the cause, I havent changed anything within the codebase itself.
if anyone would be kind enough to test it on their browsers, it's https://forum.bladerunners.net
I'm really lost on how to make it perform better and if anyone can help i'd be very grateful
Did you try disabling the text-shadow animation? That could be affecting performance :think:
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Hi guys as the title says, the forum is noticeably slow on certain computers.
On my main PC it's fine, but on my work laptop, and some users' machines, it seems to be laggy a lot of the times.It seems like other users do not experience this and I'm not quite sure what could be the cause, I havent changed anything within the codebase itself.
if anyone would be kind enough to test it on their browsers, it's https://forum.bladerunners.net
I'm really lost on how to make it perform better and if anyone can help i'd be very grateful
Indra-Ansari I'd say the primary issue is with
toast.jsas it takes 1.29 seconds to load. See below
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Hi guys as the title says, the forum is noticeably slow on certain computers.
On my main PC it's fine, but on my work laptop, and some users' machines, it seems to be laggy a lot of the times.It seems like other users do not experience this and I'm not quite sure what could be the cause, I havent changed anything within the codebase itself.
if anyone would be kind enough to test it on their browsers, it's https://forum.bladerunners.net
I'm really lost on how to make it perform better and if anyone can help i'd be very grateful
Seems like a general slowness in API calls as well, for example.
https://forum.bladerunners.net/api/config => ~276ms
https://community.nodebb.org/api/config => ~31msCould be server is overloaded or location. Gotto check cpu/ram usage of the server.
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Hi guys as the title says, the forum is noticeably slow on certain computers.
On my main PC it's fine, but on my work laptop, and some users' machines, it seems to be laggy a lot of the times.It seems like other users do not experience this and I'm not quite sure what could be the cause, I havent changed anything within the codebase itself.
if anyone would be kind enough to test it on their browsers, it's https://forum.bladerunners.net
I'm really lost on how to make it perform better and if anyone can help i'd be very grateful
considering that different machines i was testing on were experiencing different levels of lag i assumed it was the client-side and turning of the text shadow animation seems to have stopped it. thanks much baris
felt really silly for this one
I'll look into the others, but i assume it's likely a thing with where the server is located since the server itself isn't showing any signs of stress at all.
the initial issue of lag came up when typing into the text boxes for chat and creating posts shows a huge input delay. seems to be gone now
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Did you try disabling the text-shadow animation? That could be affecting performance :think:
baris how did you even figure that one out 😅
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julian :laughing: those animations can be hard on the CPU if gpu rendering is turned off in browser settings or you are on a really low end machine.
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julian :laughing: those animations can be hard on the CPU if gpu rendering is turned off in browser settings or you are on a really low end machine.
I don't know whether this is related but NodeBB slows to a crawl during web calls. Only on Firefox.
It's very weird. I wonder if it's related.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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ska for that last one, it is because there is no sentence to parse out.
For some posts they are not structured in a way that makes it easy to generate a title.
I will try to improve things over time.
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julian anyway, I still believe it's not entirely resolved because, for example, some posts, like this one:
https://poliversity.it/@memento/115384126299404042
Display very poorly on NodeBB, mixing links, title, and tags all together:
On other posts, however, the 'n' problem seems to have been resolved.
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julian hello, yes I just tried the latest update and it seems to work, thanks. I'm mainly referring to the 'n' code within the titles, it seems to no longer appear.
Regarding the posts that don't appear: I had enabled the Askimet plugin and maybe that could have something to do with it. Now I've disabled it and I'll see if other posts don't appear in the future,
thanks!
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ska can you update to the latest development commit and try again?
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I'm adding another thought regarding title parsing.
It seems to only play this "trick" with the modified version of Mastodon called Glitch (which is in use on Poliversity) and Friendica, and not on classic Mastodon.
However, it didn't do this in previous versions and titles were displayed correctly.
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I'm adding more logs that I found and that I think might somehow help understand something, at least regarding the fact that some posts are not visible.
However, I haven't found anything on the incorrect parsing.
grep -i "unable to acquire lock" logs/output.log 2025-10-04T15:54:54.726Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.social/users/box464/statuses/115316705107843700 2025-10-04T18:23:51.471Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.social/users/fedizen/statuses/115317291110991552 2025-10-05T07:53:54.654Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://forum.linux.it/ap/object/17eeb3c3ed48b3f41b080a308936a84d 2025-10-05T19:57:39.806Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://discuti.gatti.ninja/ap/object/7cb32204c92d957adc823bc8a964730d 2025-10-06T07:46:18.050Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://discuti.gatti.ninja/ap/object/2a2090ece9e000f3cf0855736b0bfbf4 2025-10-06T09:44:32.005Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://poliversity.it/users/trapiantodipelo/statuses/115326574246730725 2025-10-06T09:44:32.072Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://poliversity.it/users/trapiantodipelo/statuses/115326574246730725 2025-10-06T11:48:58.814Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://forum.linux.it/ap/object/4b0aea93be6a37f2db073ed415c04965 2025-10-06T12:30:23.040Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.social/users/grishka/statuses/115327226016372765 2025-10-07T02:00:49.238Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.social/users/box464/statuses/115330412507936865 2025-10-07T11:31:59.242Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://discuti.gatti.ninja/ap/object/5ec982142e3a056d8bb127cfcf36281d 2025-10-07T11:38:53.251Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://discuti.gatti.ninja/ap/object/bb1a62d713fe492dc10f73ac733d55ca 2025-10-07T13:36:14.299Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://metalhead.club/users/mariusor/statuses/115333146819416742 2025-10-07T15:46:37.984Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.social/users/pfefferle/statuses/115333659892854776 2025-10-07T17:27:52.869Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.uno/users/informapirata/statuses/115334058027689854 2025-10-07T17:27:53.022Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.uno/users/informapirata/statuses/115334058027689854 2025-10-07T20:14:02.870Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://hachyderm.io/users/thisismissem/statuses/115334711305165245 2025-10-08T02:08:56.227Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.social/users/dansup/statuses/115336107029797426 2025-10-08T05:40:56.699Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.social/users/box464/statuses/115336940507096871 2025-10-08T06:37:26.225Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://forum.linux.it/ap/object/17c7bb1ae58a08c8cfe935379303b169 2025-10-08T06:57:21.911Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://discuti.gatti.ninja/ap/object/73092bfb1d51be7b740952b1e00aa3d3 2025-10-08T09:05:07.203Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://discuti.gatti.ninja/ap/object/4f86c5d50ff2fc78808e38238b3404fa 2025-10-08T11:08:47.106Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.social/users/dansup/statuses/115338228698820855 2025-10-08T15:42:48.823Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://gultsch.social/users/daniel/statuses/115339306932607421 2025-10-08T18:26:06.676Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://pan.rent/users/tommi/statuses/115339948843511904 2025-10-08T18:42:39.442Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://discuti.gatti.ninja/ap/object/dc665fa6c73ce9d2b0da5369cb61a3d4 2025-10-09T18:58:44.679Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.uno/users/informapirata/statuses/115345740139209995 2025-10-09T18:58:44.742Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.uno/users/informapirata/statuses/115345740139209995 2025-10-10T06:55:28.486Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://www.lealternative.net/?p=67467 2025-10-11T08:16:52.182Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://poliversity.it/users/cubilotto/statuses/115354540980960888 2025-10-11T11:36:15.955Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://fe.disroot.org/objects/0abb79c4-62c7-4d4a-9795-a20b993d7a88 2025-10-13T04:55:10.169Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://poliverso.org/objects/0477a01e-6268-ec86-1b29-4b2333302696 2025-10-13T04:55:10.222Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://poliverso.org/objects/0477a01e-6268-ec86-1b29-4b2333302696 2025-10-13T16:23:32.432Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://poliverso.org/objects/0477a01e-1668-ed27-737e-279659830410 2025-10-13T16:23:32.493Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://poliverso.org/objects/0477a01e-1668-ed27-737e-279659830410 2025-10-14T05:36:53.830Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.social/users/dansup/statuses/115370898659404174 2025-10-14T15:16:26.987Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://discuti.gatti.ninja/ap/object/e86ee553692823714f4d2f5f52f40def 2025-10-14T22:23:30.810Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://discuti.gatti.ninja/ap/object/1f1e21e0895df2c49c0c43aa9e8a49a7 2025-10-15T12:22:44.573Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.uno/users/informapirata/statuses/115378157032223224 2025-10-15T12:22:44.638Z [4567/10208] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://mastodon.uno/users/informapirata/statuses/115378157032223224 2025-10-15T18:19:09.355Z [4567/102584] - warn: [activitypub/notes.assert] Unable to acquire lock, skipping processing of https://poliversity.it/users/skariko/statuses/115378218263064333
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Hello,
I believe since updating NodeBB to v4.6.0 (before, everything seemed to work) I've been having some issues with my NodeBB instance and some Mastodon posts.The first problem is that some posts simply don't appear, not even when searching for them. For example:
https://poliversity.it/@skariko/115378312894874276 if I search for it on citiverse.it it doesn't appear, whereas if I search for it here on community.nodebb.org it appears regularly.
From my server I receive it like this:
curl -s -H "Accept: application/activity+json" https://poliversity.it/@skariko/115378312894874276 | python3 -m json.tool { "@context": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", { "ostatus": "http://ostatus.org#", "atomUri": "ostatus:atomUri", "inReplyToAtomUri": "ostatus:inReplyToAtomUri", "conversation": "ostatus:conversation", "sensitive": "as:sensitive", "toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns#", "votersCount": "toot:votersCount", "litepub": "http://litepub.social/ns#", "directMessage": "litepub:directMessage", "blurhash": "toot:blurhash", "focalPoint": { "@container": "@list", "@id": "toot:focalPoint" } } ], "id": "https://poliversity.it/users/skariko/statuses/115378312894874276", "type": "Note", "summary": null, "inReplyTo": null, "published": "2025-10-15T13:02:18Z", "url": "https://poliversity.it/@skariko/115378312894874276", "attributedTo": "https://poliversity.it/users/skariko", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://poliversity.it/users/skariko/followers", "https://feddit.it/c/informatica", "https://feddit.it/c/informatica/followers" ], "sensitive": false, "atomUri": "https://poliversity.it/users/skariko/statuses/115378312894874276", "inReplyToAtomUri": null, "conversation": "tag:poliversity.it,2025-10-15:objectId=9243092:objectType=Conversation", "content": "<p>Il vostro amore per Tor sar\u00e0 raddoppiato!</p><p><span class="\"h-card\"" translate="\"no\""><a href="\"https://feddit.it/c/informatica\"" class="\"u-url" rel="\"nofollow" target="\"_blank\"">@<span>informatica</span></a></span> </p><p>Come (quasi) tutti gli anni \u00e8 possibile fare una <a href="\"https://donate.torproject.org/\"" target="\"_blank\"" rel="\">donazione a Tor</a> che verr\u00e0 raddoppiata da <a href="\"https://powerupprivacy.com/\"" target="\"_blank\"" rel="\"nofollow">alcuni supporter speciali</a>.</p><p>In sostanza se voi donate 25\u20ac alcuni supporter raddoppiare la donazione donando a loro volta altri 25\u20ac e lo faranno fino a un totale 250.000\u20ac!</p><p>Se avevate intenzione dunque di fare una donazione \u00e8 probabilmente questo il periodo migliore. E, in base a quanto donerete, potrete ricevere a casa anche alcuni regali come adesivi, magliette, cappellini o felpe. \ud83d\ udc9c</p><p><a href="\"https://blog.torproject.org/2025-fundraiser-donations-matched/\"" target="\"_blank\"" rel="\"nofollow" translate="\"no\""><span class="\"invisible\"">https://</span><span class="\"ellipsis\"">blog.torproject.org/2025-fundr</span><span class="\"invisible\"">aiser-donations-matched/</span></a></p>", "contentMap": { "it": "<p>Il vostro amore per Tor sar\u00e0 raddoppiato!</p><p><span class="\"h-card\"" translate="\"no\""><a href="\"https://feddit.it/c/informatica\"" class="\"u-url" rel="\"nofollow" target="\"_blank\"">@<span>informatica</span></a></span> </p><p>Come (quasi) tutti gli anni \u00e8 possibile fare una <a href="\"https://donate.torproject.org/\"" target="\"_blank\"" rel="\"">donazione a Tor</a> che verr\u00e0 raddoppiata da <a href="\"https://powerupprivacy.com/\"" target="\"_blank\"" rel="\"nofollow">alcuni supporter speciali</a>.</p><p>In sostanza se voi donate 25\u20ac alcuni supporter raddoppiare la donazione donando a loro volta altri 25\u20ac e lo faranno fino a un totale 250.000\u20ac!</p><p>Se avevate intenzione dunque di f are una donazione \u00e8 probabilmente questo il periodo migliore. E, in base a quanto donerete, potrete ricevere a casa anche alcuni regali come adesivi, magliette, cappellini o felpe. \ud83d\u dc9c</p><p><a href="\"https://blog.torproject.org/2025-fundraiser-donations-matched/\"" target="\"_blank\"" rel="\"nofollow" translate="\"no\""><span class="\"invisible\"">https://</span><span class="\"ellipsis\"">blog.torproject.org/2025-fundr</span><span class="\"invisible\"">aiser-donations-matched/</span></a></p>" }, "updated": "2025-10-15T13:05:15Z", "attachment": [ { "type": "Document", "mediaType": "image/png", "url": "https://s3.poliversity.it/media_attachments/files/115/378/301/124/619/993/original/73832f78ae58b0d0.png", "name": "Un'immagine con uno sfondo scuro che presenta il testo \"Free the Internet\" in carattere pixelato. Al centro c'\u00e8 un simbolo di una catena spezzata, circondato da un el emento grafico a stella, con colori vivaci viola e verde.", "blurhash": "U86bDUof01RjWUa#jcocD%ay-;ofxuoeR%Rl", "focalPoint": [ 0.0, 0.0 ], "width": 940, "height": 529 } ], "tag": [ { "type": "Mention", "href": "https://feddit.it/c/informatica", "name": "[informatica@feddit.it](https://community.nodebb.org/category/informatica@feddit.it)" } ], "replies": { "id": "https://poliversity.it/users/skariko/statuses/115378312894874276/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "type": "CollectionPage", "next": "https://poliversity.it/users/skariko/statuses/115378312894874276/replies?only_other_accounts=true&page=true", "partOf": "https://poliversity.it/users/skariko/statuses/115378312894874276/replies", "items": [] } }, "likes": { "id": "https://poliversity.it/users/skariko/statuses/115378312894874276/likes", "type": "Collection", "totalItems": 0 }, "shares": { "id": "https://poliversity.it/users/skariko/statuses/115378312894874276/shares", "type": "Collection", "totalItems": 1 } }The second problem, which I don't know if it's connected to this or not, is that now topics coming from Mastodon have a strange code in the subject, meaning they contain 'n and everything is inserted into the title.
Example:
Remains of primordial Earth found'n@scienza (HASHTAG)'n'n They date back 4.5 billion years, recognised by the chemical signature in the rocks'n
This post on Mastodon https://poliversity.it/@trapiantodipelo/115377451751168706 appears on Citiverse in this way, with an unreadable title: https://citiverse.it/topic/ca60c417-ab8e-4b64-84f3-e8c9e158ddaf/trovati-i-resti-della-terra-primordiale-n@scienza-hashtag-n-n-risalgono-a-4-5-miliardi-di-anni-fa-riconosciuti-dalla-firma-chimica-nelle-rocce-nEven in this case, I read it from the server like this:
curl -s -H "Accept: application/activity+json" https://poliversity.it/@trapiantodipelo/115377451751168706 | python3 -m json.tool { "@context": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", { "ostatus": "http://ostatus.org#", "atomUri": "ostatus:atomUri", "inReplyToAtomUri": "ostatus:inReplyToAtomUri", "conversation": "ostatus:conversation", "sensitive": "as:sensitive", "toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns#", "votersCount": "toot:votersCount", "litepub": "http://litepub.social/ns#", "directMessage": "litepub:directMessage" } ], "id": "https://poliversity.it/users/trapiantodipelo/statuses/115377451751168706", "type": "Note", "summary": null, "inReplyTo": null, "published": "2025-10-15T09:23:18Z", "url": "https://poliversity.it/@trapiantodipelo/115377451751168706", "attributedTo": "https://poliversity.it/users/trapiantodipelo", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://poliversity.it/users/trapiantodipelo/followers", "https://feddit.it/c/scienza", "https://feddit.it/c/scienza/followers" ], "sensitive": false, "atomUri": "https://poliversity.it/users/trapiantodipelo/statuses/115377451751168706", "inReplyToAtomUri": null, "conversation": "tag:poliversity.it,2025-10-15:objectId=9239465:objectType=Conversation", "content": "<p><a href="\"https://www.ansa.it/canale_scienza/notizie/terra_poli/2025/10/15/trovati-i-resti-della-terra-primordiale_81669da1-314e-4e50-856b-8aa51bd85138.html\"" target="\"_blank\" rel="\"nofollow">Trovati i resti della Terra primordiale</a></p><p><span class="\"h-card\"" translate="\"no\""><a href="\"https://feddit.it/c/scienza\"" class="\"u-url" rel="\"nofoll" target="\"_blank\"">@<span>scienza</span></a></span> (HASHTAG)</p><blockquote><p>Risalgono a 4,5 miliardi di anni fa, riconosciuti dalla firma chimica nelle rocce</p></blockquote>", "contentMap": { "it": "<p><a href="\"https://www.ansa.it/canale_scienza/notizie/terra_poli/2025/10/15/trovati-i-resti-della-terra-primordiale_81669da1-314e-4e50-856b-8aa51bd85138.html\"" target="\"_blank\"" rel="\"nofollow">Trovati i resti della Terra primordiale</a></p><p><span class="\"h-card\"" translate="\"no\""><a href="\"https://feddit.it/c/scienza\"" class="\"u-url" rel="\"nofollo" target="\"_blank\"">@<span>scienza</span></a></span> (HASHTAG)</p><blockquote><p>Risalgono a 4,5 miliardi di anni fa, riconosciuti dalla firma chimica nelle rocce</p></blockquote>" }, "attachment": [], "tag": [ { "type": "Mention", "href": "https://feddit.it/c/scienza", "name": "[scienza@feddit.it](https://community.nodebb.org/category/scienza@feddit.it)" } ], "replies": { "id": "https://poliversity.it/users/trapiantodipelo/statuses/115377451751168706/replies", "type": "Collection", "first": { "type": "CollectionPage", "next": "https://poliversity.it/users/trapiantodipelo/statuses/115377451751168706/replies?only_other_accounts=true&page=true", "partOf": "https://poliversity.it/users/trapiantodipelo/statuses/115377451751168706/replies", "items": [] } }, "likes": { "id": "https://poliversity.it/users/trapiantodipelo/statuses/115377451751168706/likes", "type": "Collection", "totalItems": 0 }, "shares": { "id": "https://poliversity.it/users/trapiantodipelo/statuses/115377451751168706/shares", "type": "Collection", "totalItems": 1 } }Does this only happen to me or is it a common problem? How could it be solved?
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Kadir-Ay-0 said in Remote Category Add Fails with “Not Found” (both forums AP-enabled):
> Even when a user follows a specific category, it doesn’t appear in the World searchHow was the user follow established if you can't find the category in /world?
