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Working Theory: Pages with Content Warning Twitter embeds crashing mobile
Perrsun
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Some threads are not loading on mobile browser. Currently using Safari, on iPhone. Some threads do load successfully. I don’t see this problem on desktop browsing.
E.g. threads that work:
Brolo’s thread about search results in Tube’s Circus
GW2 thread under the MMO section
Xbox thread in G&T
Xeries X thread in SE
Threads that don’t work
PC Game Thread in SE
Wrestling thread in SE
When a page fails, it first makes a large blue box as I scroll up, not loading posts.
After about 30 seconds I get an error message.
Examples included below.
E.g. threads that work:
Brolo’s thread about search results in Tube’s Circus
GW2 thread under the MMO section
Xbox thread in G&T
Xeries X thread in SE
Threads that don’t work
PC Game Thread in SE
Wrestling thread in SE
When a page fails, it first makes a large blue box as I scroll up, not loading posts.
After about 30 seconds I get an error message.
Examples included below.
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Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
If it helps, I have not had any issues with that page. Chrome on Android
I also noticed this on another forum I’m on a few days ago, same behavior, which is making me think it’s not just the boards but a WebKit issue (which would explain it hitting Inquisitor in iOS Chrome; Chrome on here is using WebKit like Safari does, basically) that something is triggering on both.
Thought at first it was maybe twitter video embeds, but that doesn’t seem to be the case as other pages with them works fine, so not sure what the common factor is
Everything's been fine on desktop throughout
Steam
At least for the roe thread, the odd post out was one embed generated a sensitive content screener.
Break that URL so the embed breaks, page loads just fine again.
For anyone else: are there twitter embeds doing anything similar? Video and photo embeds on their own don’t seem to do it, so we’re looking for things that are gating access to content in the embed I think.
EDIT: tested it elsewhere off board by posting the tweet in question, and it broke it there too, so I’m fairly sure its the twitter embeds doing it
In the SE Wrestling thread, I specifically remember the last working post on page 86 being this one:
https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/44831196/#Comment_44831196
and after that, the thread kept locking up for me. There is a twitter embed with a content warning just a few posts after the one I linked. (The media IN that twitter embed has been removed for copyright stuff, AND that tweet is INSIDE a spoiler, but the embed itself still has the content warning prompt.)
Page 52 of the SE PC game thread has a content warning embed, and that page caused the crash: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/44834355/#Comment_44834355
Page 57 of the SE PC game thread has a content warning embed, and that page also caused the crash: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/244921/️-madison-starflint-and-dragon-forge-out-today/p57