Nigel
Hi @[email protected] I saw Mastodon API: fix whatever the fuck is making the official app and Megalodon to crash. in TODO and wondered if the issue I am having with elk.zone web frontend, and Moshidon (Megalodon fork I believe) are related. I do get an error from the Moshidon Android app, in case it is useful.

also: editing a post with an image removes the image 😆

For additional context I did initially build snac without mastodon api support (because I am a cabbage that can not read... I did not intend that) and have just rebuilt and reinstalled. I now get the Oauth page, but it gives that error when I enter credentials.

phanpy.social will let me log in just fine however.

Thank you for your time, I hope this is useful.
Jan 5, 2024 at 7:53amWeb
Show threadThe Real GrunfinkJan 5, 2024
Hi. Don't know if the elk.zone error is related (will take a look at it), but both the official app and Megalodon (which is, AFAIK, a fork of it) fail exactly in the same place. Moshidon (which I also didn't knew about), being another fork, will presumably fail the same.

I have in snac's code a «brake» for these applications to fail on the credentials page; sadly, if I take it out (if you're curious: line 334 of mastoapi.c), both apps go a little further but crash immediately, and something is left corrupted because they can't be opened again until their Android data storage is deleted. As I consider this behaviour much worse, I've left it as is until further fixing.

Many other Mastodon API clients, being mobile, text mode and web, work perfectly.

I'll take a look at elk.zone and see what happens there. This may bring more clues about the others 🙂

Thank you very much for your information.
Show threadNigelJan 5, 2024
ahh that makes perfect sense, and I appreciate you doing that for this crash then 🙂
Thank you kind sir.