how to detect if player:IsInGroup() is taking too long

[regal coral]

hi, my loading screen has a check for whether players are in a group or not because it affects what teams and spawns they have access to.

i currently have a timeout check that theoretically should work, but i feel like it's hanging on waiting for a response and so never increments its timeout.

expected behaviour: print 'uh' initially, then print 1, nil - 2, nil - etc. until roblox returns a value or timeout hits 10

actual behaviour: prints 'uh' initially, then either immediately prints 1, true (successful api call) or there is a long delay with no printing until the api returns a value and it prints 1, true

local timeout = 0
print('uh')
local success, failure = pcall(function() repeat timeout += 1 print(timeout, player:IsInGroup(12326302)) task.wait(1) until player:IsInGroup(12326302) ~= nil or timeout == 10 end) --check whether in group before we get to menu so theyre not waiting there

[tardy basin]

-- [[ Player ]]
local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer;

-- [[ VARS ]]
local MaxAttempts = 10;
local Attempts = 0;
local Success, Result;

-- [[ WHILE NOT SUCCESSFULLY ]]
while (not Success and Attempts < MaxAttempts) do
    
    -- Try
    Success, Result = pcall(function() return Player:IsInGroup(12326302); end);
    
    if (not Success) then Attempts += 1; task.wait(1); end; -- Wait 1s if it failed
    
end;

if (Success) then
    
    print(`Success, Player is in group?: {Result}.`);
    
else
    
    warn(`Something failed. Error: {Result}`);
    
end;

This should work good?

Idk it shouldn't take that much, also please is really hard to read that code

at least for me if for you its better keep it like that

[regal coral]

yeah your formatting is better, mine was just supposed to be a quick little thing. im running tests trying to see network delay cause attempts to raise above 1, but the best i could get was a 3 second delay between 'uh' and the first print, which printed 1 true before the code continues

so it seems like it achieves the same thing, which makes sense because yours is just better formatted but same thing basically

[tardy basin]

seems really weird may be the internet tho or some type of problem in the method

[regal coral]

i think the problem is that its yielding until roblox returns the isingroup result

[tardy basin]

the internet may cause it to yield waiting for a response Ig

[regal coral]

damn

[tardy basin]

basically

[regal coral]

i dont see anything about yielding there

[regal coral]

im trying to use getgroupsasync as a sort of ugly workaround that wont yield, havent been able to get it to require more than 1 attempt though so who knows if it works better.

local MaxAttempts = 10;
local Attempts = 0;
local Success, Result;

while (not Success and Attempts < MaxAttempts) do
    --Success, Result = pcall(function() return player:IsInGroup(12326302); end);
    Success, Result = pcall(function()
        local groups = game:GetService("GroupService"):GetGroupsAsync(player.UserId)
        for a,grp in groups do
            if grp.Id == 12326302 then
                return true;
            end
        end
        return false
    end);
    if (not Success) then print(`failed attempt number: {Attempts}.`) Attempts += 1; task.wait(1); end; -- Wait 1s if it failed
end;

print(`Required {Attempts+1} attempt(s) to check group status.`)
if not (Success) then
    gui.LoadText.Text = "Couldn't check group status"
    task.wait(1)
end;

[regal coral]

yeah i dont think its behaving any better, its like its not that the call fails it just takes really long for the call