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Föderation EN Di 02.07.2024 20:54:37

Weirdest @IceCubesApp bug: sometimes when I click a YouTube link, it takes me to a random YouTube page for “undefined”. I assume something was undefined?! (Second click always works.)

— Nerd Zone —

So it ends up taking me to the page for youtube.com/@彁 — with 彁 being an infamous “ghost character” in Unicode, a nonexistent accidental character. See: dampfkraft.com/ghost-character What would make it land on this particular page? One of you will crack this I bet…

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Föderation EN Di 02.07.2024 20:57:33

@cabel so weird. I’ll look into it.

Föderation EN Di 02.07.2024 21:03:42

@IceCubesApp Let me know if I can help. And thanks for such a fantastic app!!

Föderation EN Di 02.07.2024 21:05:00

@cabel if you have a link to a post from which you can reproduce it, it would be great. Thanks!

Föderation EN Fr 09.08.2024 00:47:45

@IceCubesApp @cabel was this ever figured out?

Personally I have zero issues with any youtube link toot on my instance even from remotes, across all clients I've tried (masto web, ivory, mona). But some other folks I know on other instances are seeing same issue as above here and they're using other clients too. Is it an instance/host issue? Masto/protocol issue? Indeed somehow a client thing? Youtube messing their API up?

Föderation EN Sa 20.07.2024 17:36:53

@IceCubesApp Reproduced at last!!

If I tap the YouTube link in the text/post, I get the right video. If I tap on the attached card, I land on /undefined.

Föderation EN Mo 22.07.2024 06:56:48

@cabel I tapped on this thinking it was just an image and got extremely confused when my phone suddenly started doing things on its own

Föderation EN Mo 22.07.2024 07:00:59

@twipped Hahah sorry!! The dangers of a full-screen recording! 😛

Föderation EN Di 02.07.2024 21:06:41

@cabel @IceCubesApp I know that the Mona app can sometimes get confused with links formatted as “example.com/@username” when the link isn’t a Mastodon profile, but this sounds like something else

Föderation EN Di 02.07.2024 21:09:37

@cabel @IceCubesApp This screams JavaScript to me.

Föderation EN Di 02.07.2024 21:17:24

@schlaeps @cabel yeah but the app don’t do any JavaScript manipulation

Föderation EN Di 02.07.2024 21:44:46

@cabel @IceCubesApp I don’t know how the URL gets constructed, but if I open up youtube.com/undefined in Safari I get a completely blank page. If I then tap the Open button to open it in the YouTube app I get to the “ghost character” page. Seems that “undefined” is the legacy username for that page, but it is only supported still in the app?

Föderation EN Di 02.07.2024 21:56:53

@eelco @cabel @IceCubesApp This feels like a good lead! Corroborated by the fact that the new URL format with `/c/` leads there as well: youtube.com/c/undefined

Föderation EN Mi 03.07.2024 00:15:33

@fishcharlie I mean, I really like the app! It’s super nice. This is the only bug I’ve really encountered! So it’d be a shame to switch entirely just because of one bug.