Video Uploads Fails Quietly Without Giving Notice

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Video Uploads Fails Quietly Without Giving Notice - Lemmy.World

Can we upload videos here? I tried doing so, it seemed to gladly take my file at first, showing its usual spinning animation, but then it just stayed there. Looking thru the network devtool, I noticed it silently had the 400 error for the very HTTP POST request responsible for the upload. In the response, I found: { "error": "unknown", "message": "Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image): operation timed out" } It would be great if I could upload some videos, but I would totally be cool with it if it at least tells me that my upload fails instead of just quietly fails in the background while the I waits in uncertainty.

when there are errors returned they should be getting displayed to users, if that isn’t happening that’s a lemmy bug.

the timeout indicates that the upload was too much to be processed in a timely manner. shorter or smaller videos might work better.

Any way I can follow up on this? I honestly wouldn’t mind altering the file, but having vague output can be detrimental, especially with a lot of non tech savy users.