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Post is displaying URL image in Thunder but not in Voyager (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi,

I'm comparing Lemmy Android app clients and I'm between Thunder and Voyager.

I noticed something weird with Voyager. There is this post it displays an image in the timeline using Thunder but it doesn't in Voyager.

Is it some configuration that I need to tweak in Voyager?

Also, is there some config to display short text about the post if has image? Like some description below if available

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The post you linked to doesn't have a thumbnail returned from the lemmy.world API. Were you viewing that post through another instance of Lemmy that happened to pick up a thumbnail?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'm using lemmy.world on both apps. Some screenshots comparing the apps:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure then, that would be a question for those app developers. The thumbnail URL doesn't exist in Lemmy's API. You can see the same behavior in lemmy-ui.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

One of Thunder’s settings is to “Scrape Missing Link Previews.” I’m not a developer, and not too savvy when it comes to this stuff, but just throwing that info out there in case it has anything to do with OP’s question.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Hmmm. So the app is making a request to the website by passively scrolling through the feed? That seems pretty bad for security/privacy reasons. I'd much rather see the missing thumbnail scraping fixed in Lemmy. And then it will work in all apps, and not have privacy issues.

Edit: I made an issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4468

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It seems that what first was a Voyager question became a Thunder investigation. I'll ask in the Thunder community what is happening here.