Haha this just happened to me on my very first ever post to Lemmy and I was about to ditch this app. Not really. But I did copy my somewhat long post just in case. And I'm glad I did because I had to refresh and paste again and submit. However, within that issue, I found a weird bug. I had clicked on another post b4 going back to the thread that I wanted to re submit my comment. I checked out my profile to see my first comment and for some reason, my comment got posted on both threads, the related thread and the non-related thread. Devs might want to look into that one.

Is the slowdown that it the instance has to send out updates about the comment to every other instance before returning a successful response? If so, is anyone working on moving this to an async queue?

Sending out updates seems like something that’s fine being eventually consistent

My comments seem to not go through sometimes, whenever I upvote posts on Jerboa I get an error that just says timeout. Doesn't seem to happen on other instances.

Yea I started just using my clipboard alot, and hitting the x or back on jerboa and comments go thru at about 90% success rate. For posts I let it do its thing just incase. But been copying stuff to save as draft.

Nice teething problems. I tried to post to !nba@lemmy.world but it just kept spinning. When I refreshed the post was not there.