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Crash when downloading/sharing images on Boost (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml to c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world
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Hi Boost folks,

I was just wondering if anyone else is experiencing crashes when saving images?

I keep going to share funny pictures, and when I share, Boost/Lemmy tries to send an "image proxy", so I hit download (my usual workaround), but as of today Boost crashes. This seems to be the case for any image post.

Is this a thing for anyone else? :)

Edit: no more crashes after clearing Boost's cache, but still curious about sharing images not working 100% :)

Edit 2: clearing cache is needed very regularly to make downloading images work

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[-] QueenMidna@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I'm still getting the image proxy issue but no crashes on this end

[-] Switorik@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Have you found any work arounds for the image proxy issue?

[-] QueenMidna@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Nope. It looks instance-specific though

[-] GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you! :) that's really good to know - the crashes stopped with clearing the cache, but I didn't know if the image proxy was normal/widespread.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Can you link to a post where this happens? I'm on boost and I can give it a try

[-] GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

That's really kind, thank you. :)

https://lemmy.world/post/4637372 - for me this works (Thanks to Max_p for noting about instances)

https://lemmy.world/post/27772240 - huh... for me share doesn't work as it tries to share an image proxy instead... didn't expect that :)

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks!

I can confirm that the problem is instance specific. I was able to share both images on this account, but I had issues sharing the second image with a lemmy.ml account.

The first image has the URL https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b934b4ac-8e4b-4bde-a619-a70b819233ad.webp, while the second (error) had the URL https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fcc5ef910-356c-4250-9be8-ec50b5a910a4.webp

I think this would be a bug for the Boost developer to solve, and hopefully your two examples will be helpful for that :)

[-] GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's really interesting, I didn't realise the viewer's instance had an impact on how Lemmy handles things! :) I can imagine it could cause a few headaches trying to patch an app for one without breaking another.

Thinking about it - I joined Lemmy.ml for the programming, but did mean to try using more instances, this could be a fun experiment. :)

Hopefully it's not too bad for the nice developer who makes Boost :)

Thank you again for taking the time to look into all this and explain it! :)

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

No problem! :)

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 2 points 1 month ago

Seems to work fine for me, although I don't use the image proxy on my instance so that could have something to do with it.

[-] GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you for this! I did some browsing, and on the back of your note, found the image proxy seems to be instance specific! :)

I didn't know this was a thing that affected it, so that's definitely useful to know. :)

[-] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 month ago

It crashes for me if I try to download or share anything outside of my instance.

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