anyone else having problems with redgif videos never loading? - eviltoast

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?

  • Kuro@lemmy.caM
    3·
    5 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!

    • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      2·
      5 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

      • Kuro@lemmy.caM
        2·
        5 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!

        • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          I’m using list reverse. Seems to be related to loading. If I scroll fast it sometimes happens in the preview image too. If I wait a bit before going to open an image it doesn’t occur.

          Where do you find the version number?

          Edit: just dm’d you a screenshot of it occurring

          Think I found the version in app settings. 1.0.182

          Edit edit: Kept trying more links, it’s not 100 % reproducible but I haven’t noticed a pattern. For samples, this link doesn’t work, (NSFW), but the other post in here talking about the address changes works

    • morphballganon@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Update: I upgraded to the latest version and I can see redgifs videos in-app now. Now there’s a new problem: hitting download on one of them in-app does nothing. It seems there’s no option in settings to choose a download folder? I didn’t have storage permission activated. They save to internal/pictures/connect. An option to change this would be good.

      Also, it seems to save them as a format that cannot be opened by any of my apps… Gallery, Gif Editor, YouCut, Video Convertor and VLC all can’t open them. So a way to choose format for saving would be good.

      I just noticed every video I’ve saved with Connect is the same size, 259 bytes. So I guess they’re just empty files?