Crash when downloading/sharing images on Boost (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 :)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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! :)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

No problem! :)

this post was submitted on 11 May 2025

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