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Settings broken? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is the settings page broken for anyone else? I've tried to change my language and enable 2FA on both Firefox and Ungoogled Chromium. The button just spins for a split second, and then nothing. The language settings worked before the upgrade, so I'm wondering if anything broke?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's definitely a Lemmy issue. I had the developer console open when trying to save settings. I got a 400 bad request on the JSON that gets generated by the save button.

Cookie redacted.

Response Header

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2023 10:28:30 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Server: nginx
vary: accept-encoding, Origin, Access-Control-Request-Method, Access-Control-Request-Headers
access-control-allow-origin: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone
content-encoding: gzip

Request Header

PUT /api/v3/user/save_user_settings HTTP/1.1
Host: lemmy.blahaj.zone
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 914
Referer: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/settings
Origin: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone
Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
DNT: 1
Sec-GPC: 1
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: [REDACTED]

The response tab had something interesting to me.

{"error":"bio_length_overflow"}

I've had the same bio since I started my account here, and nothing had changed except for my languages a few days before the upgrade.

Editing the bio to be blank and then pasting the contents back solved my issues. That brings me to a new question. @[email protected] is there a character limit on bio lengths that the frontend isn't showing?

My issue is fixed, and I am leaving this up for anyone who has the same.

Edit: After more testing (see: removing one character at a time), I found the limit is 286 characters, including new lines and formatting.