Yeah. It's starting to look like Sync is being ignored or abandoned

Ive been having issues where a lot of videos just straight up dont work

Anything other than pictures has trouble. Gifs in the past few days have been worse than normal.

For me if I try to open them in browser, it shows this error:

{"error":{"code":"FileAccessDenied","message":"Access to this file was denied for your application.","status":403,"rtfm":"https://github.com/Redgifs/api/wiki/Embedding-gifs#file-access"},"docs":"https://github.com/Redgifs/api/wiki/Embedding-gifs#file-access"}

I had that issue a month or so ago, so I switched to Boost. It's not the same, but there's enough settings to customize it and make it close enough. Kinda a bummer, I've used Sync for many years, but Lemmy is evolving fast enough to require an actively maintained app.

If Sync starts getting regular updates again, I would probably switch back.

I get a lot of messages about glide failing to load when trying to view gifs as well.

Lots of them pop open in Safari with an error. I can’t recall the exact text but it’s something about RTFM with regard to imbedding.

I frequently have that problem with redgifs on the website too. Even when I go directly to redgifs. Just earlier today, I was browsing and more than half the gifs I was trying to view failed to load, or were very slow to load. I've been having this same problem with redgifs for as long as redgifs has been a thing. I don't think the issue is with Sync, but with redgifs.

Yeah, many failed GIFs here too.

Yes I am having the 403 problem too. Very irritating

Yes, many users are facing this. Try clearing your browser cache, disabling extensions, or switching to incognito mode—often fixes it. Server-side issues can also be the cause.

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