Going to be a update around the image upload situation soon. I expect it tomorrow.
Can't post images, says "SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<', "
Submitted 10 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to support@lemmy.world
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quinten@lemmy.world 10 months ago
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m still not having any luck. Any update?
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Some instances are disabling image uploads temporarily until they can deal with the trash that’s uploading CSAM.
Not certain if lemmy.world is one of them.
Upload to imgur, copy the image link and post that (the link ending in .jpg/.webp, not the plain imgur link) for the time being.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I tried to do this earlier and I think I messed up, because it was directing off site instead of viewable in Lemmy. Does that mean I likely pasted the link instead of the image?
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
When you finish uploading you’re brought to a full webpage with the image embedded in it like this:
You want to right-click on the image and select ‘open image in new tab’ which gives you this:
(if you’re on mobile first select ‘desktop site’ from the browsers options or you’ll get a low quality .webp version from the open image button. It’ll work, but many ppl hate it)
Finally format it like this to embed it in a post/comment:
(I added backslashes to the front of that to prevent it embedding the link as an image and show you the formatting instead)
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve been unable to post images since last night as well. Just hopped on my PC to see what the error message was, and it’s the same as @tsuica shared:
JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
Switched to alt accounts on different instances and had zero issues.
Moc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have the issue, and it seems to be a HTTP 403 (Forbidden) from CloudFlare.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can confirm. Same error on two different apps and the lemmy world website.
tsuica@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I can confirm this is the case. Can’t upload images to Lemmy.world, getting the same error.
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
Squander@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bump
Mystech@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Any update on this bug? The imgur hack is fine for image-only posts, but kind of dead in the water for image + url posting.
Mystech@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Same here. Started sporadically for me starting yesterday. At some point today it became 100% regardless of cache, platform or browser.
Squander@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Came here to ask the same question. +1
LeftRedditOnJul1@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, me as well
ekZepp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is good to have multiple accounts, you can also do a backup of your posts an migrate on a different istances.
Here is some useful information for people wanting to move instances. For a list of instances, along with with stats for those instances:
fedidb.org/software/lemmy or lemmyverse.net
Also, tools for migrating instances:
github.com/CMahaff/lasim (easy) - Latest Version Download (just select your OS type and run the program)
github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate
github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync
All credits to @Fish@midwest.social x the info
ChamelAjvalel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Noticed that about a couple of hours ago…
Also, within Connect for Lemmy, I get
FormatException: Unexpected Character (at character 1)
On Jerboa, I got a whole page of html code, but it vanished too fast for me to be able to remember anything. Also, it has a continual loading icon over the “upload image” icon.
TheYear2525@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s almost always from an endpoint expecting a JSON response but getting back the HTML of a 404 page. Fun!
PugJesus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t suppose there’s anything to be done on my end to get around it?
TheYear2525@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nope