This will happen with posts, too, not just comments. Thanks for any help. I love the app and know not everything will work flawlessly immediately, but I'm curious to know what's going on as it is quite frequent for me
Can anyone explain why I am sometimes seeing this square saying "OBJ" instead of pictures?
11 Comments
imkmiaw@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 11 pts · 3y
It's a placeholder for a graphic or emoji. If somebody uses a symbol or an emoji and your device doesn't have it or support it, it gets replaced by that symbol, it shouldn't have to do with the app.
VeganSchnitzel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
But in this case someone put their cats' pictures in the comment, so it's definitely not an emoji. Thanks for taking the time to answer, though :)
gvasco@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 3y
OBJ stands for object, which is just a fancy name for a file in programming. What you see displayed is a placeholder for whatever file was meant to show there, probably a picture. Most likely the file failed to get loaded/fetched and could not be displayed. Beyond that I don't think I can provide a more specific reason.
bobslaede@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 3y
My best guess is emojis from a different system than yours. For example some apple only emojis.
Edit: or maybe a picture format not supported
dumpling@pawb.social · 5 pts · 3y
maynarkh@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 3y
Why is that even a thing? Isn't Unicode enough?
sparklingsquirrel@feddit.de · 3 pts · 3y
I think instead of the OBJ box you should see an Emoji. I get that sometimes, too. I don't know if it's a bug or has something to do with Unicode.
VeganSchnitzel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Not an emoji, the person included pictures of their cats here. Thanks for answering, though.
sparklingsquirrel@feddit.de · 2 pts · 3y
Ah Ok, didn't know that this is for pics also, thank you for that info!