Update. I asked a friend of mine to take a look at the Lemmy.world front page via his browser (vanilla Firefox) and it works as expected.

I also did an earlier test on a chromium browser and it also works as expected.

It might just be that my browser is breaking stuff, which I need to investigate deeper.

When trying to access Lemmy.world from the desktop, I see this blank-ish page (see attached screenshot). And whenever I try to click Subscribed, Local, or All, the same error message pops up on the lower-left-hand side of my screen:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

I wonder if it’s connected to the work our admins have been doing recently.

For disclosure, I am using LibreWolf and a userscript to make Lemmy pages look like old.reddit. I’ve turned off the userscript to check if the error disappears, but to no avail.

I may have missed more details that might be helpful, but I’m willing to give such details.

  • megane-kunOPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Another update.

    I tried installing vanilla Firefox (alongside LibreWolf, which I didn’t touch), and for some weird reason, the error magically disappeared.

    I am guessing now that something in my old LibreWolf config, which got overwritten when I installed Firefox, was the one causing the problems.

    This might be my final update regarding this since due to what I did, there might not be any more chance for digging in deeper.

    • @woelkchenEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      It disappeared because other browser had fresh cache. I had to clear the cache for L.W to work again and there are still some problems like an endless spinner after hitting the Reply button.

      • megane-kunOPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Thanks! That seems very plausible.

        In hindsight, I shouldn’t have panicked and tried refreshing/clearing the cache first.

        • @woelkchenEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Refreshing alone didn’t work for me. Shift-Reload had only temporarily fixed it. Question: Does the spinner on the Reply button go away for you?

          • megane-kunOPEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            No, it doesn’t go away. What I do instead is check my profile to see if my reply has been reflected on my comments list there. If it’s reflected, I deem it safe to close the tab where I made the reply.