diff --git a/src/views/projects/Cob/ErrorModal.svelte b/src/views/projects/Cob/ErrorModal.svelte
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c49bc7545
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/views/projects/Cob/ErrorModal.svelte
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<script lang="ts">
+  import ErrorMessage from "@app/components/ErrorMessage.svelte";
+  import Modal from "@app/components/Modal.svelte";
+
+  export let title: string;
+  export let subtitle: string[];
+  export let error: Error;
+</script>
+
+<Modal {title} emoji="🚨">
+  <div slot="subtitle">
+    {@html subtitle.join("<br />")}
+  </div>
+  <div slot="body">
+    <ErrorMessage message={error.message} stackTrace={error.stack} />
+  </div>
+</Modal>
diff --git a/src/views/projects/Issue.svelte b/src/views/projects/Issue.svelte
index b13ab2eb8..ecce01633 100644
--- a/src/views/projects/Issue.svelte
+++ b/src/views/projects/Issue.svelte
@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@
 <script lang="ts">
   import type { BaseUrl, Issue, IssueState } from "@httpd-client";
+  import type { IssueUpdateAction } from "@httpd-client/lib/project/issue";
+  import type { Session } from "@app/lib/httpd";
 
   import { isEqual } from "lodash";
 
   import * as router from "@app/lib/router";
+  import * as modal from "@app/lib/modal";
   import * as utils from "@app/lib/utils";
   import { HttpdClient } from "@httpd-client";
   import { httpdStore } from "@app/lib/httpd";
 
-  import AssigneeInput from "./Cob/AssigneeInput.svelte";
+  import AssigneeInput from "@app/views/projects/Cob/AssigneeInput.svelte";
   import Authorship from "@app/components/Authorship.svelte";
   import Badge from "@app/components/Badge.svelte";
   import Button from "@app/components/Button.svelte";
   import CobHeader from "@app/views/projects/Cob/CobHeader.svelte";
   import CobStateButton from "@app/views/projects/Cob/CobStateButton.svelte";
+  import ErrorModal from "@app/views/projects/Cob/ErrorModal.svelte";
   import Icon from "@app/components/Icon.svelte";
   import Markdown from "@app/components/Markdown.svelte";
   import TagInput from "./Cob/TagInput.svelte";
@@ -42,28 +46,34 @@
     detail: reply,
   }: CustomEvent<{ id: string; body: string }>) {
     if ($httpdStore.state === "authenticated" && reply.body.trim().length > 0) {
-      await api.project.updateIssue(
+      const status = await updateIssue(
         projectId,
         issue.id,
         {
           type: "thread",
           action: { type: "comment", body: reply.body, replyTo: reply.id },
         },
-        $httpdStore.session.id,
+        $httpdStore.session,
+        api,
       );
-      issue = await api.project.getIssueById(projectId, issue.id);
+      if (status === "success") {
+        issue = await refreshIssue(projectId, issue, api);
+      }
     }
   }
 
   async function createComment(body: string) {
     if ($httpdStore.state === "authenticated" && body.trim().length > 0) {
-      await api.project.updateIssue(
+      const status = await updateIssue(
         projectId,
         issue.id,
         { type: "thread", action: { type: "comment", body } },
-        $httpdStore.session.id,
+        $httpdStore.session,
+        api,
       );
-      issue = await api.project.getIssueById(projectId, issue.id);
+      if (status === "success") {
+        issue = await refreshIssue(projectId, issue, api);
+      }
     }
   }
 
@@ -73,13 +83,17 @@
       title.trim().length > 0 &&
       title !== issue.title
     ) {
-      await api.project.updateIssue(
+      const status = await updateIssue(
         projectId,
         issue.id,
         { type: "edit", title },
-        $httpdStore.session.id,
+        $httpdStore.session,
+        api,
       );
-      issue = await api.project.getIssueById(projectId, issue.id);
+      if (status === "success") {
+        issue = await refreshIssue(projectId, issue, api);
+      }
+      issue.title = issue.title;
     } else {
       // Reassigning issue.title overwrites the invalid title in IssueHeader
       issue.title = issue.title;
@@ -92,7 +106,7 @@
       if (add.length === 0 && remove.length === 0) {
         return;
       }
-      await api.project.updateIssue(
+      const status = await updateIssue(
         projectId,
         issue.id,
         {
@@ -100,9 +114,12 @@
           add,
           remove,
         },
-        $httpdStore.session.id,
+        $httpdStore.session,
+        api,
       );
-      issue = await api.project.getIssueById(projectId, issue.id);
+      if (status === "success") {
+        issue = await refreshIssue(projectId, issue, api);
+      }
     }
   }
 
@@ -115,7 +132,7 @@
       if (add.length === 0 && remove.length === 0) {
         return;
       }
-      await api.project.updateIssue(
+      const status = await updateIssue(
         projectId,
         issue.id,
         {
@@ -123,31 +140,92 @@
           add: utils.stripDidPrefix(add),
           remove: utils.stripDidPrefix(remove),
         },
-        $httpdStore.session.id,
+        $httpdStore.session,
+        api,
       );
-      issue = await api.project.getIssueById(projectId, issue.id);
+      if (status === "success") {
+        issue = await refreshIssue(projectId, issue, api);
+      }
     }
   }
 
   async function saveStatus({ detail: state }: CustomEvent<IssueState>) {
     if ($httpdStore.state === "authenticated") {
-      await api.project.updateIssue(
+      const status = await updateIssue(
         projectId,
         issue.id,
         { type: "lifecycle", state },
-        $httpdStore.session.id,
+        $httpdStore.session,
+        api,
       );
-      void router.push({
-        resource: "projects",
-        params: {
-          id: projectId,
-          baseUrl,
-          view: {
-            resource: "issue",
-            params: { issue: issue.id },
+      if (status === "success") {
+        void router.push({
+          resource: "projects",
+          params: {
+            id: projectId,
+            baseUrl,
+            view: {
+              resource: "issue",
+              params: { issue: issue.id },
+            },
           },
-        },
-      });
+        });
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Refreshes the given issue by fetching it from the server.
+  // If the fetch fails, the given issue is returned.
+  export async function refreshIssue(
+    projectId: string,
+    issue: Issue,
+    api: HttpdClient,
+  ) {
+    try {
+      return await api.project.getIssueById(projectId, issue.id);
+    } catch (error) {
+      if (error instanceof Error) {
+        modal.show({
+          component: ErrorModal,
+          props: {
+            title: "Unable to fetch issue",
+            subtitle: [
+              "There was an error while refreshing this issue.",
+              "Check your radicle-httpd logs for details.",
+            ],
+            error,
+          },
+        });
+      }
+      return issue;
+    }
+  }
+
+  export async function updateIssue(
+    projectId: string,
+    issueId: string,
+    action: IssueUpdateAction,
+    session: Session,
+    api: HttpdClient,
+  ): Promise<"success" | "error"> {
+    try {
+      await api.project.updateIssue(projectId, issueId, action, session.id);
+      return "success";
+    } catch (error) {
+      if (error instanceof Error) {
+        modal.show({
+          component: ErrorModal,
+          props: {
+            title: "Issue editing failed",
+            subtitle: [
+              "There was an error while updating the issue.",
+              "Check your radicle-httpd logs for details.",
+            ],
+            error,
+          },
+        });
+      }
+      return "error";
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/tests/e2e/project/issues.spec.ts b/tests/e2e/project/issues.spec.ts
index 001cee618..e19e2b0ce 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/project/issues.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/e2e/project/issues.spec.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { test, cobUrl, expect } from "@tests/support/fixtures.js";
+import { createProject } from "@tests/support/project";
 
 test("navigate issue listing", async ({ page }) => {
   await page.goto(cobUrl);
@@ -17,3 +18,40 @@ test("navigate single issue", async ({ page }) => {
     `${cobUrl}/issues/4fc727e722d3979fd2073d9b56b2751658a4ae79`,
   );
 });
+
+test("test issue editing failing", async ({ page, authenticatedPeer }) => {
+  const { rid, projectFolder } = await createProject(
+    authenticatedPeer,
+    "issue-editing",
+  );
+  await authenticatedPeer.rad(
+    [
+      "issue",
+      "open",
+      "--title",
+      "This issue is going to fail",
+      "--description",
+      "Let's see",
+    ],
+    { cwd: projectFolder },
+  );
+
+  await page.route(
+    `**/v1/projects/${rid}/issues/d316f7a90a40dacbfb8728044bad50c9f71d44ba`,
+    route => {
+      if (route.request().method() !== "PATCH") {
+        void route.fallback();
+        return;
+      }
+      void route.fulfill({ status: 500 });
+    },
+  );
+
+  await page.goto(
+    `/seeds/127.0.0.1:8070/${rid}/issues/d316f7a90a40dacbfb8728044bad50c9f71d44ba`,
+  );
+
+  await page.getByPlaceholder("Leave your comment").fill("This is a comment");
+  await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Comment" }).click();
+  await expect(page.getByText("Issue editing failed")).toBeVisible();
+});
diff --git a/tests/support/fixtures.ts b/tests/support/fixtures.ts
index dfe2e5f3e..e75741662 100644
--- a/tests/support/fixtures.ts
+++ b/tests/support/fixtures.ts
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ export const test = base.extend<{
   customAppConfig: boolean;
   stateDir: string;
   peerManager: PeerManager;
+  authenticatedPeer: RadiclePeer;
   outputLog: Stream.Writable;
 }>({
   customAppConfig: [false, { option: true }],
@@ -145,6 +146,35 @@ export const test = base.extend<{
     await use(peerManager);
   },
 
+  authenticatedPeer: async ({ page, peerManager }, use) => {
+    const peer = await peerManager.startPeer({
+      name: "httpd",
+      gitOptions: gitOptions["bob"],
+    });
+
+    await peer.startHttpd(8070);
+    await peer.startNode();
+    await page.goto("/");
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: "radicle.local" }).click();
+    await page.locator('input[name="port"]').fill("8070");
+    await page.locator('input[name="port"]').press("Enter");
+    const { stdout } = await peer.rad([
+      "web",
+      "--frontend",
+      "http://localhost:3000",
+      "--backend",
+      "http://127.0.0.1:8070",
+    ]);
+    const match = stdout.trim().match(/(http:\/\/localhost:3000\/.*)$/);
+    if (!match) {
+      throw Error("Not able to parse auth url");
+    }
+    await page.goto(match[0]);
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Close" }).click();
+
+    await use(peer);
+  },
+
   // eslint-disable-next-line no-empty-pattern
   stateDir: async ({}, use, testInfo) => {
     const stateDir = testInfo.outputDir;