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?

  • morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com
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    4 months ago

    There are some changes you can make to the URL to get to it. I’ll find one and demonstrate, just a min

    (Copied from another comment)

    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

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    4 months ago

    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!

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      3 months ago

      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

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        3 months ago

        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!

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    3 months ago

    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 sync

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    4 months ago

    I’ve noticed it’ll load the redgif webpage if you go back and click the link again, multiple times sometimes.