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I've restarted doing reviews (on the main Super User site, not the meta one), and although most review features are working fine, there seems to be something wrong with the suggested-edits review queue.

Every time I try to open this, this is what I see:

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I'm working on a Windows 11 computer, using Google Chrome as a web browser, browsing incognito.

I have no idea if this problem occurs on other systems/web browsers.

Edit: new test
In the meantime, I've done something else: I clicked on the "Review" button but instead of choosing "Suggested Edits" I went to the top right, choosing "all queues". I chose a suggested edit task and as a result a review item appeared. When I tried to approve it, I got the mentioned error message again.

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    For what it's worth, the suggested edit queue on the main site is currently empty. The last item in the queue was reviewed 5 hours ago. I can open the queue without issues. Commented Oct 31, 2025 at 13:40
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    @DavidPostill: thanks for the quick reply, but I do believe there is a problem: this issue is appearing already for several weeks, I'm flagging it as seems not to disappear. Is there anything I can do? (As I'm browsing incognito, I don't see the sense of deleting my history) Commented Oct 31, 2025 at 13:42
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    I could reproduce the issue. The main /review page says there's 1 pending review item. Now that I visit the page again, it's indeed empty. The API says there are no pending items. Commented Oct 31, 2025 at 14:02
  • You get this error when the queue is empty, but the cache of the number of items in the review has not been updated, when I looked the queue is indeed empty. Commented Nov 28, 2025 at 23:53
  • @Ramhound: I assume that cache is not present on my computer, because I'm always surfing incognito style. Is there a way the website developers can empty that cache? Commented Nov 29, 2025 at 11:35
  • @Dominique - There is also a cache on the server to save resources, the cache, isn’t necessarily client side Commented Nov 29, 2025 at 13:11
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    @Ramhound: hence my proposal: as you can see, this question is almost a month old. Wouldn't it be a good idea to create a scheduled task, flushing the server caches on a monthly basis? Commented Nov 30, 2025 at 12:21
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    @Dominique - That’s a good question for Meta Stack Exchange Commented Nov 30, 2025 at 13:10
  • @Ramhound: ok, done: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/415095 Commented Dec 1, 2025 at 11:56
  • I've been getting errors in the Edit queue for months. Sometimes it's the "someone already processed the one edit pending", but another I see frequently is when I take an action on an edit and submit it I'll get another error. If I reload the page it shows my action and I can proceed, or if I re-click through the Edit action options it'll either succeed or go to the same error again. The EDIT queue has some sort of error for a while now. Commented Dec 10, 2025 at 21:27

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(This is not an answer. Just a bit of additional information, but too much for a comment.)

I've noticed this as well. And it's an issue I exclusively witness with SU's Suggested Edits review queue.
Other SE sites' Suggested Edit review queues? No problem.
Other SU review queues? Also, not an issue.

I've experimented a little bit, and it seems to me that it's often the first entry in the queue that gets bugged.

When the queue has more than one entry..

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.. I get the usual error message when I want to review the first item...

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.. but when I hit F5, it takes me to the next item.

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If the queue only has a single entry and I hit F5, I usually get the message that the queue has been cleared.

This is not the only issue I have with the Suggested Edits review queue, but I haven't noticed a pattern so far. And F5 usually also resolves those error states.

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    In my case, as there generally is only one entry in the queue, pressing <kbd>F5</kbd> tells me there's nothing to do 😊 Commented Nov 3, 2025 at 10:08

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