{
  "id": 578019,
  "title": "Could not check whether submission is allowed",
  "url": "/competitions/birdclef-2025/discussion/578019",
  "author_name": "Kevin Willemse",
  "post_date": "2025-05-08T09:06:28.127000",
  "votes": 0,
  "comment_count": 0,
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  "content": "<p>Whenever I want to make a submission it gives me the error \"Could not check whether submission is allowed. Please try again. Unexpected token '&lt;', \"&lt;!doctype \"… is not valid JSON\". At first I only had to retry a handful of times, but it keeps taking longer and longer. My account is authenticated, so I don't think that could be it. Is anyone facing similar issues? Any idea on how to not have to wait half an hour to submit something?</p>",
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      "content": "<p>Whenever I want to make a submission it gives me the error \"Could not check whether submission is allowed. Please try again. Unexpected token '&lt;', \"&lt;!doctype \"… is not valid JSON\". At first I only had to retry a handful of times, but it keeps taking longer and longer. My account is authenticated, so I don't think that could be it. Is anyone facing similar issues? Any idea on how to not have to wait half an hour to submit something?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Whenever I want to make a submission it gives me the error \"Could not check whether submission is allowed. Please try again. Unexpected token '<', \"<!doctype \"... is not valid JSON\". At first I only had to retry a handful of times, but it keeps taking longer and longer. My account is authenticated, so I don't think that could be it. Is anyone facing similar issues? Any idea on how to not have to wait half an hour to submit something?"
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    "3197541": "Whenever I want to make a submission it gives me the error \"Could not check whether submission is allowed. Please try again. Unexpected token '<', \"<!doctype \"... is not valid JSON\". At first I only had to retry a handful of times, but it keeps taking longer and longer. My account is authenticated, so I don't think that could be it. Is anyone facing similar issues? Any idea on how to not have to wait half an hour to submit something?"
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