Topic: General bug report thread - bugs here, bugs there, bugs everywhere, come here and report your bugs

Posted under Site Bug Reports & Feature Requests

wat8548 said:
Are you prefixing your blacklist line with a "-" character, as if you were trying to exclude e254e from a search? Because that's the opposite of how the blacklist works. It sounds like you've effectively whitelisted e254e instead.

That was it! Thx!

Suddenly, I can't access any thumbnails or images from the site, short of linking directly to a raw image's static link. Thumbnails in the search don't exist although the length of the page suggests they should as well as the page counter at the bottom, and all profile thumbnails just say "Image Placeholder".

soarin_ftw said:
Suddenly, I can't access any thumbnails or images from the site, short of linking directly to a raw image's static link. Thumbnails in the search don't exist although the length of the page suggests they should as well as the page counter at the bottom, and all profile thumbnails just say "Image Placeholder".

Same problem

If you are showing up about the image placeholder issue, please list your operating system version and browser version. The version of the browser is the most important for this. Please do not exclude the versions.

If you don't include the versions, then we probably can't help you. Please, for the love of EVERYTHING include the versions!

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Okay, last post until I get a reply, disabling lets images be seen and selected again. But I can no longer play videos, confusing, and I would appreciate any help that can be given.

It's a matter of browser standards(and this one is kind of old even if not always enabled). :( I think I had this because of local storage being disabled. I'll have to search my comment history to find the relevant page on this topic. The blacklisting functionality uses DOM modification as does thumbnails on user avatars. There was a related "Blacklist not working" bug, at beginning of this topic.

OK, I think I found them - try:
https://e621.net/forum_topics/25852 "Can't see any posts" (likely best result)
https://e621.net/forum_topics/25887
https://e621.net/forum_topics/25775 <--- Linked from: https://e621.net/forum_topics/25734?page=2#forum_post_285278

Further down, I made this post. Yeah, just read through this thread and the others and try the things people tried here and if not working, the others.

aaaaaaaaab said:
Ok, I tried to turn off Javascript, and that seems to fix the issue with images not loading. It's still annoying that I have to disable it everytime I visit the site, and that downloads won't open in the same tab, and that I need to sign in to remove the default blacklist, but at least it functions for now.

alphamule said:
This is precisely because this is running code in https://e621.net/packs/js/application-bddd3c8a2a8cd238a071.js that makes the changes to the page. This will likely get fixed at the same time that blacklist issues get fixed. The old code (see archive.org) worked very differently.

Does your extension have allow/deny filtering of specific .JS files? Could try messing with that.

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I'm on Puffin Pro v5.2.5 on an iPad running iOS 10.3.3. WAY outdated, I know. But Puffin is the only browser I found that lets me play webms, and has always had flash support too. Firefox works for E6, but is suboptimal since it can't play webms or flash files. I haven't changed any settings for Puffin in a long time. It doesn't have many setting to even change.

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I am using Puffin Browser Pro 5.2.5. For the same reason as the last person. On IPhone 13 iOS 15.4.1. I can still load everything with google chrome but it’s definitely not my preference to be using it since I can’t play flash games.

I'm using safari on an iOS 9.3.5
I use it for webM capabilities and because I'm flat broke, I have a strange thing where disabling JavaScript loads images and images of videos, but if I tap the video it doesn't play unless I load the videos page and go back and turn JavaScript back on, it was working perfectly until about a few weeks ago when the image bugs started happening, I would appreciate any help that can be given as Safari is the only browser that runs on this iPad and I don't have the cash for another electronic, since my phone doesn't play webMs, please fix this if you can, P.S. I apologize for my quirky comments earlier, I was dead tired in the middle of the night.

My blacklist doesn't seem to work in some cases. Not all, just some.
I have "gore" (no quotations) on my blacklist, no punctuation, and on a separate line.
But I'm still able to see posts >>3379912 and >>3379913, which are tagged as "gore".

I have Windows 11 and am using Chrome. I don't have any Chrome extensions that affect e621.

dachimotsu said:
My blacklist doesn't seem to work in some cases. Not all, just some.
I have "gore" (no quotations) on my blacklist, no punctuation, and on a separate line.
But I'm still able to see posts >>3379912 and >>3379913, which are tagged as "gore".

You didn't mention checking the other very common cause of this complaint: is your blacklist temporarily disabled?

wat8548 said:
You didn't mention checking the other very common cause of this complaint: is your blacklist temporarily disabled?

I did try disabling and re-enabling the blacklist to see if that fixed it, and nothing changed.
And I did say that not all of the blacklisted tags were being ignored. Some are, some aren't.

dachimotsu said:
My blacklist doesn't seem to work in some cases. Not all, just some.
I have "gore" (no quotations) on my blacklist, no punctuation, and on a separate line.
But I'm still able to see posts >>3379912 and >>3379913, which are tagged as "gore".

I have Windows 11 and am using Chrome. I don't have any Chrome extensions that affect e621.

Well, I copied over your blacklist, went to id:3379912,3379913... and those posts got filtered out.
Chrome / Windows 10.

I'm still having problems seeing images, just a blank screen where they should be displayed or a "place holder" image for thumbnails.
I'm using safari on an iPad 9.3.5

It should probably be made impossible to add the same image to a pool twice, because that causes the navigation bar to send you into a infinite loop.

Ive been noticing that when i post comments that it will post it twice sometimes without me trying to on android. My phone model is a samsung galaxy a42 if that helps. Not sure if the post button is bit sensitive and registering my touches twice or what. I try to hide the duplicate comment since i cant delete it but im not sure if that works as well since when i refresh or leave the page the hidden comment is no longer highlighted in red when i return to it and tapping hide comment makes it red again but refreshing or leaving the page seems to give the same results. I hope this helps with debugging and i dont look foolish because of user error. Lol

If you previously had problems loading images on your device, please try again and tell us if it works again. We made some changes which should hopefully solve this problem.

earlopain said:
If you previously had problems loading images on your device, please try again and tell us if it works again. We made some changes which should hopefully solve this problem.

Works on Puffin 5.2.5 on Ipad. Thanks a lot!

earlopain said:
If you previously had problems loading images on your device, please try again and tell us if it works again. We made some changes which should hopefully solve this problem.

easterndream replied:
Works on Puffin 5.2.5 on Ipad. Thanks a lot!

Ditto, I'm back up and running too. Thank you!

I found a possible bug: My account isn't old enough to post comments (on posts) or edit tags, but I can freely edit notes. Is this just a strange but intended designe choice or is something wrong?
Edit: looked it up: tags, flags and notes are all supposed to not work on a less than a week old account. Downvotes too, according to the account page in the help section, yet I'm able to. (I will not test flags for obvious reasons)

philthedragon said:
I found a possible bug: My account isn't old enough to post comments (on posts) or edit tags, but I can freely edit notes. Is this just a strange but intended designe choice or is something wrong?
Edit: looked it up: tags, flags and notes are all supposed to not work on a less than a week old account. Downvotes too, according to the account page in the help section, yet I'm able to. (I will not test flags for obvious reasons)

You are able to create and edit notes after just 3 days, this is working as intended. Where did you read up on this? It might still contain some outdated information I can fix up.

earlopain said:
You are able to create and edit notes after just 3 days, this is working as intended. Where did you read up on this? It might still contain some outdated information I can fix up.

Help index, under "account", in the "Member" section.

"Must wait seven days after registration to:

Edit tags and notes, flag posts, and downvote posts
Comment, write blips, and create forum posts
Remove posts from pools, create public sets
Upload posts
Edit the wiki"

philthedragon said:
Help index, under "account", in the "Member" section.

Should be good now, I updated a bunch of outdated information on that page.

onemoreanonymous said:
It seems that the artist tag fruitycrow is properly classed as "tag-type-1" in some parts of the site, but "tag-type-0" in others, such as on https://e621.net/artists/show_or_new?name=fruitycrow

faucet said:
I fixed this by editing the tag, but can confirm it was previously exactly like described.

I didn't have chance to look at it myself, please tell me if you stumble upon another tag where this is the case. Don't fix it though, having something to look at makes figuring it out much easier.

earlopain said:
I didn't have chance to look at it myself, please tell me if you stumble upon another tag where this is the case. Don't fix it though, having something to look at makes figuring it out much easier.

I realised that as soon as I did it... However I did find another example: gooey_eevee_(plushloo)

The wiki shows it as a general tag but on other pages it appears as a character.

justignoremynameplz said:
Blacklist dosen't work properly I tried re-putting the tags back in the blacklist but it dosen't work i keep getting posts even though i blacklisted the tags
The tags that are apearing even though i blacklisted are gore,vore,foot_fetish,Inflation_Fetish and fart_fetish

Just scroll up and read the last few pages of this thread to make sure you aren't making exactly the same mistakes as everyone else.

Hi!
Sometimes I don't want to translate all the comments (in my head especially when there are a lot of them) I use the website translation.
However, when I want to add a post to my favorites with this translation, I can't becouse this

Error: undefined

Turning off translation helps. It's no big deal, but it's annoying especially when I use it when I'm tired :/

earlopain said:
If you previously had problems loading images on your device, please try again and tell us if it works again. We made some changes which should hopefully solve this problem.

Unfortunately, the problem is persisting. Nothing loads on mobile, the image frames don't load don't even load at all, not just the images. The three bar button is also not working. Might be a browser issue, because when I check the "request pc view" view option and disable mobile mode support, it still doesn't load.

faucet said:
I realised that as soon as I did it... However I did find another example: gooey_eevee_(plushloo)

The wiki shows it as a general tag but on other pages it appears as a character.

Some kind of caching issue, the tags page always fetches the the information from the database, while artist/wiki pages have it saved in memcached. I looked around a bit but didn't find an obvious cause for this.

onlyme said:
Hi!
Sometimes I don't want to translate all the comments (in my head especially when there are a lot of them) I use the website translation.
However, when I want to add a post to my favorites with this translation, I can't becouse this Turning off translation helps. It's no big deal, but it's annoying especially when I use it when I'm tired :/

You're using a third-party translating service, this is an issue with them. I can't really help you with that, especially if I don't even know what exactly you are using.

discardothediscarded said:
Unfortunately, the problem is persisting. Nothing loads on mobile, the image frames don't load don't even load at all, not just the images. The three bar button is also not working. Might be a browser issue, because when I check the "request pc view" view option and disable mobile mode support, it still doesn't load.

I won't invest time into this, the previous issue impacted about 3-4% of users. Usage from chrome version 42-47 is only at 0.04%. I'm not going to bend over for old browsers which have almost no usage anymore. If you can't udate to a more modern browser for whatever reason, try chrome 48 which I checked works.

earlopain said:
Some kind of caching issue, the tags page always fetches the the information from the database, while artist/wiki pages have it saved in memcached. I looked around a bit but didn't find an obvious cause for this.

You're using a third-party translating service, this is an issue with them. I can't really help you with that, especially if I don't even know what exactly you are using.

I won't invest time into this, the previous issue impacted about 3-4% of users. Usage from chrome version 42-47 is only at 0.04%. I'm not going to bend over for old browsers which have almost no usage anymore. If you can't udate to a more modern browser for whatever reason, try chrome 48 which I checked works.

No worries, thanks.

earlopain said:
You're using a third-party translating service, this is an issue with them. I can't really help you with that, especially if I don't even know what exactly you are using.

It's ok. Like I said it's not big deal :)

Currently have an issue where post 3405017 says I've added it to favorites whenever I try to favorite it.

It's not infact on my favorites. Button is still green and it doesn't appear in my favorites.

twiibietwuu said:
Currently have an issue where post 3405017 says I've added it to favorites whenever I try to favorite it.

It's not infact on my favorites. Button is still green and it doesn't appear in my favorites.

It's a mysterious bug that comes out of the woodwork every once in a while. No idea why it happens.
Follow the steps here to fix it: https://e621.net/forum_posts/316652 (only the first step should be id:3405017, obviously).

Getting missing thumbnails on firefox, especially with older posts. Looking closely at what happens, it appears to be a cloudflare related error.
Error code 525. SSL handshake failed. "Cloudflare is unable to establish an SSL connection to the origin server."
Then it says please try again in a few minutes if you are a user, but under the site owner info, it says "It appears that the SSL configuration used is not compatible with Cloudflare."
As that may be relevant, I thought it would be wise to include that.

The Ray ID for one instance is 721ba08ec831b8c4 • 2022-06-27 05:01:52 UTC.

matirion said:
Getting missing thumbnails on firefox, especially with older posts. Looking closely at what happens, it appears to be a cloudflare related error.
Error code 525. SSL handshake failed. "Cloudflare is unable to establish an SSL connection to the origin server."
Then it says please try again in a few minutes if you are a user, but under the site owner info, it says "It appears that the SSL configuration used is not compatible with Cloudflare."
As that may be relevant, I thought it would be wise to include that.

The Ray ID for one instance is 721ba08ec831b8c4 • 2022-06-27 05:01:52 UTC.

We're aware of some strange connection related issues, but it appears to be upstream of us. We've contacted people, but it is still ongoing at this time. It primarily impacts people overseas from the US, but some US based connections are also experiencing the problem. For now, the most we can do it wait and hopefully get the right people to resolve it.

kiranoot said:
We're aware of some strange connection related issues, but it appears to be upstream of us. We've contacted people, but it is still ongoing at this time. It primarily impacts people overseas from the US, but some US based connections are also experiencing the problem. For now, the most we can do it wait and hopefully get the right people to resolve it.

Thanks for the reply! I just thought I'd post the most relevant information about it that I could get. It's been on and off for a bit over a week now, I think. Hopefully it gets resolved sooner rather than later.

gattonero2001 said:
I checked and that did seem to be the case, thank you

There's a different issue now though

animal_crossing -*_(animal_crossing) is definitely returning posts that it shouldn't, and it can't be due to a lack of tag updates, since post #3417115 (for example) was uploaded 2 days ago

This is a limitation of how wildcard matching works. Instead of finding all tags that match, only the first 40 matching tags with the highest post count are actually used in the search. In other words: Only the results of the first page here are exlcuded. This is pretty easy to see when you search for -*e*, which includes many posts you wouldn't expect to match.
This is just how it is, presumably because of performance reasons.

earlopain said:
This is a limitation of how wildcard matching works. Instead of finding all tags that match, only the first 40 matching tags with the highest post count are actually used in the search. In other words: Only the results of the first page here are exlcuded. This is pretty easy to see when you search for -*e*, which includes many posts you wouldn't expect to match.
This is just how it is, presumably because of performance reasons.

It sounds as if wildcards are expanded in the search expression before the actual search is run, and so the limit encountered here is presumably the standard "can't search more than 40 tags at a time"?

Although that raises the question of whether the site does sneakily support parenthesised logical-or expressions after all, as long as they can be expressed using a wildcard. If you search two wildcarded terms at once, does it behave as expected or does it return results which contain tags matching one of the terms but not the other? I can't think of a good example to test that.

wat8548 said:
It sounds as if wildcards are expanded in the search expression before the actual search is run, and so the limit encountered here is presumably the standard "can't search more than 40 tags at a time"?

Although that raises the question of whether the site does sneakily support parenthesised logical-or expressions after all, as long as they can be expressed using a wildcard. If you search two wildcarded terms at once, does it behave as expected or does it return results which contain tags matching one of the terms but not the other? I can't think of a good example to test that.

It looks like both wildcarded tags will be thrown in the same bucket, i.e. searching for *a* *b* will give you posts containing tags with either a or b, instead of tags containing a and b.

You can easily confirm this with the search *anthro* *non_exisiting_tag*, which I would expect to give no results, but it does. Searching a single wildcard and negated wildcard tag works as expected though.

onemoreanonymous said:
Can I have some details? Can I upload their stuff or what?

I don't have any more information beyond what's on that alias note I linked. I'd assume since there's no DNP status than posting the art is fine.

slyroon said:
Using the word "myself" breaks forum, blip, set and comment searches. Using that word returns no result unless wildcards is used.

...

Edit: The same bug happens with the word "yourself", "your" and "own"

I'm not certain but this might relate to stopwords in MySQL, other words include "from", "that", "where", "this", "about", "with" etc., all of which are on the MySQL stopwords list.

If that's the case, the reason it works in some places and not others is presumably the type of indexing the search uses.

Some models use a dedicated index column, like the ones you wrote do not work with that. For one reason or another the word myself is simply not present in the index.
I googled around a bit and found https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/textsearch-dictionaries.html#TEXTSEARCH-STOPWORDS, which explains that extremly common and useless (for searching) words like a and the are intentionally omitted. But myself doesn't strike me as being comparable to that. So it is probably the thing faucet mentioned. No idea that that was even a thing.

For now just do a wildcard search, like you mentioned. This skips the index column.

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earlopain said:
Some models use a dedicated index column, like the ones you wrote do not work with that. For one reason or another the word myself is simply not present in the index.
I googled around a bit and found https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/textsearch-dictionaries.html#TEXTSEARCH-STOPWORDS, which explains that extremly common and useless (for searching) words like a and the are intentionally omitted. But myself doesn't strike me as being comparable to that. So it is probably the thing faucet mentioned. No idea that that was even a thing.

For now just do a wildcard search, like you mentioned. This skips the index column.

I suspect that the stemmer and the stopwords systems are interacting here(as designed and intended.) "myself" would be stemmed to "my" and then discarded as a stop word. That's my hypothesis short of pulling apart the lists and debugging it.

The message "Error: User have reached the hourly limit for this action." doesn't seem very grammatical.

Hi! First time posting here! It's been a week that i've been trying to log in on Mobile, but it NEVER works and it displays the "wrong username/password" message
I tried cleaning cookies, changing the password, creating another account. But outside of the desktop, logging on mobile is impossible to me

wat8548 said:
The message "Error: User have reached the hourly limit for this action." doesn't seem very grammatical.

e6 does some rather unorthodox stuff for these error messages (I think, I don't believe you are supposed to use i18n like this). https://github.com/zwagoth/e621ng/blob/master/config/locales/en.yml
Adding user to that list will certainly break it in other places. I would need to rework that entirely I think, so I'm not going to bother at the moment.

kibato81 said:
Hi! First time posting here! It's been a week that i've been trying to log in on Mobile, but it NEVER works and it displays the "wrong username/password" message
I tried cleaning cookies, changing the password, creating another account. But outside of the desktop, logging on mobile is impossible to me

You might be rate limited, try again in a day or so.

Going to Comments > Order: Score and going past page 338 will return the following error (at least for me):

The database timed out running your query.

Doesn't really affect me any, but nonetheless still a bug.

onlymadeforapi said:
Going to Comments > Order: Score and going past page 338 will return the following error (at least for me):

On a similar note, the global post changes history advertises 750 pages, but only the first 100 can be accessed reliably. Currently the highest page number I can view is page 133. Going further produces the error:

An unexpected error occurred.

Log ID: 34532ca3-dc6d-4ed1-95c0-13ea3e55736c

The exact page number seems to vary over time, though - I discovered this while investigating the recent undo troll, and back then I couldn't get much past 100.

I know from seeing it in some users' records that admins have the ability to specify only changes before a certain datestamp. Could ordinary users have access to that function too?

onlymadeforapi said:
Going to Comments > Order: Score and going past page 338 will return the following error (at least for me):
Doesn't really affect me any, but nonetheless still a bug.

Sorting comments by score isn't as efficient as it needs to be, this is just how it is. Anything taking longer than 3 seconds will timeout.

wat8548 said:
On a similar note, the global post changes history advertises 750 pages, but only the first 100 can be accessed reliably. Currently the highest page number I can view is page 133. Going further produces the error:
The exact page number seems to vary over time, though - I discovered this while investigating the recent undo troll, and back then I couldn't get much past 100.

Post changes are limited to only 10_000 results, even though the pagination might suggest otherwise. Kira increased it to 250_000 some time ago, but that was reverted since the performance was terrible.

wat8548 said:
I know from seeing it in some users' records that admins have the ability to specify only changes before a certain datestamp. Could ordinary users have access to that function too?

Do you have an example? The only way I can think of is with a/b pagination, like this: https://e621.net/post_versions?page=b20000000. With this you can go deep into the results, but you need to construct the url yourself.

wat8548 said:
This was the most recent one I saw. How can you construct the URL yourself? I assume "a/b" refers to "after/before", but what is the number? Is it publicly displayed anywhere?

I can tell you, since I seem to be the only one using these.

The number is the ID of the post version. It's not visible anywhere, but it's exposed in the HTML as a data attribute.
I really wish that there was an easier way of getting a link to all tag changes before a specific one. But alas, there isn't.