Currently, if someone links to another threadiverse post in their post, it is seemingly handled as any other URL is and opened using the in-app browser. Instead, I suggest that such links be opened as posts directly, with the user having the option to tap the back button at the top left to return to the original post.
Hmmm. I’m already doing some sketchy stuff to try and resolve images when there is an issue. I’m not sure if this specific issue is worth adding complexity to the app, unless you’ve seen this more than once?
As image-based posts are generally from communities unlikely to make my no-block shortlist, I’m not entirely sure how extensive the issue is, but a limited comparison didn’t turn up any other examples, so maybe the issue in question is specifically with how i.redd.it images are fetched?
I’d certainly argue that there are more important priorities than fixing a rarely-encountered image rendering glitch, but if it is indeed largely limited in scope to that one source, perhaps it could at least be added for review at a future point?
In terms of fetching media, I also think that employing proxies as Mlem seems to do for Reddit images and Arctic does for YouTube (via individuous) is a good option for privacy, but something I imagine would be more complex and less reliable, and probably shouldn’t hold back the implementation of more important features first.
I’m happy to utilize proxies that exist already. But I don’t want to build anything custom. I’m trying to keep my hosting cost down, as well as making it dead simple to host Blorp yourself (the web version). Currently, Blorp is made up of some static files and that’s it.
As far as current priorities, I’m want to
Understandable about proxies; in regards to i.redd.it, I wonder if the issue in fetching images is the same one supposedly encountered by yt-dlp here?
Per this Reddit thread, it seems that Reddit has intentionally adjusted media hosting links to make it more difficult to load them outside of Reddit itself, but maybe something there would give a clue as to how to fix it in the same manner Mlem does?