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% :)

  • OtterAEnglish
    2·
    1 day 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 :)

    • Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      20 hours 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! :)