So, I just noticed something tonight…
I’ve been scheduling posts for midnight in my community for about the past month. Tonight, some folks on Lemmy instances voted and responded to one of the posts before they were scheduled to go live.
Is this a known PieFed issue? Is it by design?
Okay - this is definitely an issue. I’ve created a codeberg issue, with screenshots: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1473
Update: I verified that the scheduled posts can be seen on two Lemmy instances before their scheduled time.
First time I’ve heard of that. Definitely not by design.
Here’s an image of the date/time stamps on the post, and on the comment:
Is this worth putting in a bug report for? I can’t even say if it’s occurring regularly, or if this was a one-time glitch. I’ve signed up for an account on a Lemmy instance so I can see if it happens again tonight.
If this happens again, please make an issue on the codeberg. Also, when you schedule it, make sure you have the correct timezone selected. That might have made things publish before you anticipated.
Oh, I know for certain that the time zone is correct – it’s set to CST. And, adjusting to GMT 6:00 was correct. And, I can confirm that on feddit.online it wasn’t posted until the correct time.
So, unless there is a timezone calculation being done incorrectly somewhere (either piefed or lemmy), I don’t think that was the issue.
(And, FWIW, the timezone has been set consistently for all my scheduled posts over the last month, and I haven’t seen this behavior before.)
