The last few days, every once in a while I suddenly can’t vote on posts. Seems random for the timing on it all, as well as random for when it starts working again. Anyone else been having any issues? I’ve already tried from several different computers and IP addresses. Thanks!
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Are you blocking scripts by means of a browser extension?
Nope. It’s also effecting my Boost for Lemmy app as well when it happens. That’s actually usually how I notice it first, then I try it on other devices and browsers and it seems to still not work.
I just opened the console log in my browser, and it seems like I’m getting rate limited. Example of one below:
XHRPOST https://feddit.online/post/1814638/upvote/default [HTTP/2 429 96ms]
Response Status Error Code 429 from /post/1814638/upvote/default
VPS comms error. I have noticed some rate limiting, too. I think it’s related.
Also I’m seeing posts from other instances with an image or video attached but instead of the media is a placeholder label saying 'Quote is waiting to be approved ’ and, when I look on the OP’s instance, it is viewable. It doesn’t ever show up at feddit.online. I think this also is a related VPS error.
Rate limiting is possible. Currently, 1/3 of all the traffic coming in (about 200K requests/day) are bots. Rate limits were necessary. How often do you vote within a minute?
In the past 24 hours, only 13 requests got rate-limited by the firewall. No rate limits in the last 24 hours from the server itself. The 13 was part of a burst of requests coming from lemmy.world. But just 13 the whole day. Unsure where else the 429 error could have come from. Seems unlikely it was from feddit.online.
Same thing occurs to me using the Piefed api after 1.7.1
Do you do a lot of voting? Version 7 puts a limit on how much voting can be done in a day. I don’t know the limit or the details. If your quota bar is solid red, it’s the reason. Let me know.
Yup… That would be it. My quota is full. I had no idea that was a thing. I usually scroll the /top/all feed and upvote things as I go through, and then hide hidden posts. I guess I gotta start just clicking on them and only upvoting some posts.
