Video Uploads Fails Quietly Without Giving Notice

Can we upload videos here? I tried doing so, it seemed to gladly take my file at first, showing its usual spinning animation, but then it just stayed there.

Looking thru the network devtool, I noticed it silently had the 400 error for the very HTTP POST request responsible for the upload. In the response, I found:

{
  "error": "unknown",
  "message": "Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image): operation timed out"
}

It would be great if I could upload some videos, but otherwise I would totally be cool if it at least tells me that my upload have failed instead of just quietly failing in the background while the I wait in uncertainty.

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2 Comments

MrKaplan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

when there are errors returned they should be getting displayed to users, if that isn't happening that's a lemmy bug.

the timeout indicates that the upload was too much to be processed in a timely manner. shorter or smaller videos might work better.

Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Any way I can follow up on this? I honestly wouldn't mind altering the file, but having vague output can be detrimental, especially with a lot of non tech savy users.