So whenever I try to join a friend’s lobby (because of the lack of a party system) and it’s full, I tend to steer away from using the auto join option and would much rather spam refresh until a spot is open and join since whenever my friend tells me a spot is open, the auto join won’t join in.
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Yeah auto join is broken. Has been since the beginning of the game I think. It just leaves you in a queue even if a spot opens up. You have to keep refreshing and join when a spot opens.
It works some of the time, but it does bug out a lot too…
I tend to use it, and occasionally try a manual join, then go back to auto join if it was still full.
Autojoin failed me so many times, that I use old good “send me a message when there will be a free slot”. Although a working autojoin would be much better. Not to meantion party join in pubs 
It’s not a new issue though. I reported it like 7 months ago. Pretty sure others did too. I guess bumping it can’t hurt. I just assumed they didn’t know how to fix it.
I believe it had been fixed previously. Sometimes bugs reappear from time to time.
Ah wow, in that case then it’s been broken for a while haha. I have been playing since July last year and auto join has never worked for me. I often use it though (almost daily), as it’s easier to keep a tab on the server you’re trying to join by clicking refresh non-stop.