Roblox Studio freeze while spamming a button

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#1

Hi,

I have this problem when I spam a button, Roblox Studio freeze and after a few seconds it’s all back. I have a debounce on the button. The debouncing is working. When I press the button, I equip and unequip a cloned object. And I also have a timer based on tick() and when the game freeze the time goes -1:59:00. The timer is not dependent of the button. Can you help me with this problem?

The code bellow it’s just an example of my code.

local thingToClone = game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("thingToClone")
local debouncer = false
script.Parent.cloneThing.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	if debouncer == false then
		debouncer = true
		wait(1)
		thingToClone:Clone()
		thingToClone.Parent = game.Workspace.ClonedThings
		debouncer = false
	end
end)
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#2

Would something like this work?

local thingToClone = game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("thingToClone")
local debouncer = false
script.Parent.cloneThing.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	if debouncer == false then
		debouncer = true
		task.delay(1, function()
			thingToClone:Clone()
			thingToClone.Parent = game.Workspace.ClonedThings
			debouncer = false
		end
	end
end)

Just so you know, wait() and delay() are deprecated, so use task.wait() and task.delay() instead.

#3

Wait or task.wait() i guess, they really deprecated Wait() and Delay() and only now i notice?

#4

It’s not working. I also forgot to mention that I clone the thing through a remote event which may crash the game when is called constantly by spamming.

#5

Perchance the issue lies in the fact that you are naming the thing you’re cloning and the clone of it the same name?

Example code 
local thingToClone = game.ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("thingToClone")
local debouncer = false
script.Parent.cloneThing.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	if not debouncer then
		debouncer = true
		task.wait(1) --if the lag does get solved, this wait could be removed
		local thingIsClone = thingToClone:Clone()
		thingIsClone.Parent = game.Workspace.ClonedThings
		task.wait(1)
		debouncer = false
    else
		return print("cooldown active")
	end
end)
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#6

I’m pretty sure they didn’t officially deprecate them, but said task.wait() and task.delay() are better, and they plan to delay wait() and delay() in the future.