Images failing to load

[iiTzRichie]

On nitter.net, profile pictures, profile banners, in-line images and videos, on any account that I look up does not properly display itself. In place where an image or video should be is just a "?" symbol. Do I not have a certain setting enabled? Is there a specific instance that handles media better?

[zedeus]

This sometimes happens for unknown reasons, but it should work just fine right now. Are you unable to load media now?

[iiTzRichie]

This sometimes happens for unknown reasons, but it should work just fine right now. Are you unable to load media now?

Well it happens any time I'm using Nitter.net. I just searched up a profile 2 mins ago (from when I'm writing this) and wasn't able to load any media. I would prefer to use Nitter over Twitter, but with media not loading on Nitter I'm gonna have to go back to using Twitter.

[zedeus]

Weird, are you testing with various profiles? Try ctrl-shift-r to force reload.

[iiTzRichie]

Weird, are you testing with various profiles? Try ctrl-shift-r to force reload.

Yes, I am testing with various profiles.

Btw, I should have mentioned that I mostly use nitter.net on mobile (iPhone 15, iOS 17, Safari/Chrome). But even on my PC I still have issues loading media (with various profiles, and with force reloading).

[iiTzRichie]

Still ongoing, btw. I'm not sure if I'm just doing something wrong orrr? Tested with various profiles. Tested with different browsers. Media just doesn't want to load on nitter.net and I have to use Twitter again.

[zedeus]

Try another instance: https://status.d420.de/

[iiTzRichie]

Try another instance: https://status.d420.de/

Ok, yeah, a different instance definitely works much better. Is there something up with the main nitter.net site though?

[zedeus]

Sometimes, but it shouldn't be so bad as to prevent any images at all from loading 100% of the time. Is that actually the case? Remember to force reload.

[iiTzRichie]

Sometimes, but it shouldn't be so bad as to prevent any images at all from loading 100% of the time. Is that actually the case? Remember to force reload.

It's a good majority of the time. I'll have to force reload several times before images and videos finally start loading.

[zedeus]

Weird, please use another instance for the time being. This is quite difficult to figure out.

[zedeus]

Reopening as this is clearly an important issue that affects several instance operators.

@PrivacyDevel @unixfox @drpepper66 @untitaker feel free to chime in. I haven't had time recently but I saw you were talking about it on Matrix.

It affects nitter.net quite badly and I'm not sure why. Sometimes I get an error page when opening an image directly, other times no pictures load sometimes only some load. I added media logging recently to monitor this problem, and I very often see several seconds of [media] Proxying exception, error: Network is unreachable. This is quite strange since API requests aren't failing in the same span of time, and the rest of the service continues working. I have no idea whether if it's a Twitter/X rate limit, an Nginx issue, or something else entirely. Nitter doesn't use an http pool for proxying images, meaning every connection is completely separate, so that wouldn't explain it.

[untitaker]

i feel like this is something related to the networking config of the underlying machine, and not nitter itself.