i cannot add more blocked users so i went one by one through that list … starting from the first one i blocked. Not surprisingly, looking at each account, they are either Banned or have No Activity Since ~1 year.
Eventually there could be some site maintenance for [ Banned + Empty ] accounts so to clean our block lists accordingly …
Some other optimization of this type could be made … i believe it would free the server from useless work since the server have to compute removing according to Long Block Lists … this task could be heavy in server work …
What do you think ?
while it would likely be a good idea to limit this, i don’t see a limit in the code that would prevent from blocking more users. what’s the actual error message you’re seeing?
Update :
it happens again (blocking user fail without message) but this time i see that the user account doesn’t exist when i try to open the user account :
https://lemmy.world/u/bartlebeesbad taste post :
Maybe this is what happened last time ?
P.S. : strangely the page for this account doesn’t show the user is banned, but instead shows error message :
The server returned this error: unknown.
could be that it’s the same thing, in this case it’s the result of a user deleting their account.
i didn’t have any error message but even if i clicked repeatedly on “block user”, i did not get the pop up message saying :
“user_X is blocked”
… and when checking it, in my block list, (user x) was not added to the block listthere is a possibility that this was caused by a cloudflare rule that was not scoped narrowly enough to achieve what it’s intended for. does this issue still persist for you?
No. As soon as i started removing entries from that list i could again put more entries (maybe it is a coincidence) in the list.
might still have been related, i guess we’ll never know.
the rule i changed did look like it had some false positives at least, so even if it wasn’t that it should fix issues that could have been experienced by others randomly.
