Hi lemmy.world folks,

I’m having an issue creating a new post in !selfhosted@lemmy.world.

  1. Cross-instance posting from my home instance (https://szmer.info) only creates a post in my home instance’s view of @lemmy.world. After 10 hours the post still doesn’t appear on @lemmy.world.
  2. I’ve created a local (@lemmy.world) account and tried again - but then the Submit button spins forever. The post doesn’t appear in the community.
  3. Using the “Photon” UI I get an error pop-up saying simply “couldnt_create_post”.

To the best of my knowledge I’m not banned.

Do you know what coud be going on and how could I regain my ability to post?

  • 𝖒𝖆𝖋@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Ah, I’ve found the issue. The ampersand character in the title was escaped to HTML entity (&), which bumped the title length above the limit. I noticed this after posting the shorter title & trying to change it back.