Sync for Lemmy Beta 91 release notes

Ljdawson (Sync dev)@lemmy.world · edit-2 10 months ago

Sync for Lemmy Beta 91 release notes

Ljdawson (Sync dev)@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

Can you share a screenshot of what you mean?

Thanks

jballs@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 10 months ago

Hope this helps.

I’m browsing like this (Compact mode?):

I click the thumbnail of the top image post. A blank screen loads but no image:

I click on the screen, which takes me back to browsing. The post shows as read:

I click the same thumbnail again and the image loads successfully:

This happens with almost every image, but not all. Maybe 90%?

gothicdecadence@lemm.ee · 10 months ago

Getting the same issue

Aabbcc@lemm.ee · 10 months ago

I have the same issue, hard to take a picture of a blank screen so I’ll try and be specific with steps to reproduce

I’m using small cards. Click on an image on the right side of a small card

Expected result the image opens up, I can swipe to close it.

Actual result screen is black sometimes with a loading icon. It stays this way indefinitely. Closing the image and clicking it again let’s it display as expected

Ljdawson (Sync dev)@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

Thanks.

Just small cards?

Odo@lemm.ee · 10 months ago

I am using Compact mode and experiencing the same thing in the latest update.

Mom Nom Mom@nom.mom · edit-2 10 months ago

Seems to be resolved. I was definitely being patient for each pic, tested on several images/posts/instances with the same result each time, but now it works. Sorry for the false positive

Device information

Sync version: v23.09.13-09:43    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: false    
View type: Compact    
Push enabled: false    

Device: bluejay    
Model: Google Pixel 6a    
Android: 13

When tapping to view an image, I get this:

Mom Nom Mom@nom.mom · 10 months ago

Well, I can’t even tell if there’s an image in my reply, but I tried to add a screenshot

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

jballs@sh.itjust.works · 10 months ago

I see it

Mom Nom Mom@nom.mom · 10 months ago

I see it now too. I don’t know what was happening, but the only thing I think has changed is that Sync has crashed on me a few times since, and maybe… Magic happened? I really don’t know.

CrayonRosary@lemmy.world · edit-2 10 months ago

This scenario has happened to me, too, so many times and not just in this update.

I get the black screen so I wait between 1 and 10 seconds for it to load.
Give up and press back.
Immediately tap the thumbnail again, and then the image instantly appears.

I wait a random number of seconds each time, so it’d be a really funny coincidence if the image finished loading exactly when I give up every time.

I do have slow cell service in certain locations, so sometimes the image is just slow to load, I’m sure. But the timing of the image finally appearing in step 3 above is too precise to be a coincidence the number of times it’s happened.

Update 1

Edit: since writing this comment, every image I’ve tapped gives the black loading screen and I haven’t waited even 1 second before tapping back and tapping the thumbnail again, and then the image immediately loads.

Update 2

I turned off image preloading, cleared cache, and did some testing. It’s a good time to test since I currently have poor cell service:

I repeated the same basic steps: tapping a thumbnail, tapping Back as fast as I can, then tapping the thumbnail again. A couple times this immediately displayed the images, but other times I got the black screen again. I think it’s based on file size.

I performed the above “Back and re-tap the thumbnail” loop up to 6 times, and when the image still didn’t load, I waited 20 seconds on the black screen to see if it would eventually load. It never did. But then I would perform one more quick Back and re-tap and it would load.

This is what I think it happening: the image finishes loading eventually, but the loading screen never gets the “image downloaded” event and never updates to show the image. Then trying again loads it from cache.

If pre-loading is on, and you have fast internet you might never see this behavior. Images will be cached as fast as you can scroll. Maybe you could test this by uploading a truly enormous image, clearing cache, and using only cell service in your basement or something.

jballs@sh.itjust.works · 10 months ago

That’s the exact behavior I get as well. As soon as I hit back the image flashes for a split second.

CrayonRosary@lemmy.world · edit-2 10 months ago

Funny that I said I don’t see that, and then it immediately happens to me.

CrayonRosary@lemmy.world · edit-2 10 months ago

Oh, I’ve seen that behavior only one time the other day. Maybe the black overlay is taken away a split second before the image itself is. On my phone that usually doesn’t happen. Tapping the Android back button simply goes back to the list.

~~I think you said you tap the screen itself to cancel. I’ll try that.~~ Nope, wasn’t you. You said you use the back button as well.

CrayonRosary@lemmy.world · edit-2 10 months ago

Turns out it happens every time on the current version, but I was having the black screen problem on the last version, too.

Sync for Lemmy Beta 91 release notes

Sync for Lemmy Beta 91 release notes

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