So I have subscribed to various NSFW subs, but all the posted redgifs in those subs never load, showing a black image with an eye with a line though it and NSFW below it.
When I click them, I immediately get an error that says " failed to load redgif video" though my phone does show network activity in mb/s range right after I clicked it.
Anyone else have this issue?
There are some changes you can make to the URL to get to it. I’ll find one and demonstrate, just a min
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My browser also fails to open them, unless I make the following change:
NSFW WARNING!
Original link example: https://api.redgifs.com/v2/gifs/mediumaquamarinecharmingtahr/files/MediumaquamarineCharmingTahr-silent.mp4
Becomes: https://redgifs.com/ifr/mediumaquamarinecharmingtahr/
(Please forgive including NSFW link to demonstrate link modification)
There are 3 changes to the link: remove api, replace first two subdirectories with ifr, and remove last two items
Wanted to share in case anyone else has the same difficulty
Honestly I love the look and feel of this app but it sucks shit when it comes to loading images
This has never worked. Weird that nobody mentioned it before
Hi, thank you for the feedback! Can you confirm this is on v182? I just checked a couple links and they all seem to load correctly but I’ll continue to investigate. Cheers!
Hasnt worked for me for months, get infinite loads or straight up error. Just updated to latest on play store and tried a few links, getting the infinite load.
Still my favorite Lemmy app
Edit: oh actually new version introduced an issue with all images, they load in stretched vertical and squished at first and take a set to go to the right size
Which version are you seeing stretched images on? Is that in card view?
I’ll do some more investigation into the infinite load. Please bear with me!
From what I’ve read from another Lemmy app dev (Sync for Reddit), RedGifs often breaks their oAuth and requires an app update to repair, and the dev uses a server to provide the oauth updates on-the-fly to remediate that without having to push an app update.
It’s my server I use for Redgif oauth stuff
That way when it breaks I don’t have to redeploy syncI’ve noticed it’ll load the redgif webpage if you go back and click the link again, multiple times sometimes.
