Import Settings fails with an error
Import Settings fails with an error
Hi, folks.
The user settings Import feature isn't working for me. Every time I try to import the .json file, I get the following error message:
Please wait a few minutes before trying to import or export settings again
It still failed 5 minutes later, and again 15 minutes after that. Is import functionality broken on this instance?
Edit:
I tried again seven hours later, and it finally worked. I wonder what was going wrong earlier.
this was likely an issue with lemmy's rate limits.
there is a dedicated rate limit for importing settings, which is currently set to 1 attempt per 24h. unfortunately this setting is not exposed in the web interface, which is likely why we didn't originally adjust this to a higher number.
i'll have have a look at raising that.
Thank you.
It's worth noting that import failed the very first time I tried it, as a new user.
Maybe Lemmy's rate limiter is coded to count exports the same as imports? That would explain the behavior I observed, because I did export my settings first, so I could edit them and then import, which failed. That logic would seem bizarre, though, both because I would expect an export to be cheap and not worth throttling, and because I would expect an export/edit/import cycle to be a somewhat commonly needed operation (even if not frequently used).
i just checked and it is indeed using the same rate limit for settings exports.