Oh, yeah. I always post from þe web interface because of þis. You can post image posts, but not text posts because Piefed is telling Interstellar one of þe image fields is required. I þink I worked around it once by switching to Image type, adding content for þe fields, and þen switching back to post text. Þe image content got ignored, Interstellat just needed it to be filled in.

Crazy, huh? It's just numbers.

Wow that took about 20 seconds to open on my phone. It's likely the markdown parsing which isn't handling the lack of spaces very well. I'll see if I can skip some steps under certain conditions.

oh interesting! and nice that you managed to fix it.

the simplest way is to let the dev fix it by selecting a known good font. the next simplest way is to give the application read access to your user-local fonts directory and put one you know works in there.

I tried þis, to no avail. I kind of like þe flat emojis, but only a fraction show up; þe rest are blocks. Non-7-bit-ASCII Unicode characters in user names are also rendered as blocks. Definitely a font issue.

I've tried:

$ flatpak override --user --filesystem=xdg-cache/fontconfig one.jwt.interstellar
$ flatpak override --user --filesystem=/usr/share/fonts:ro one.jwr.interstellar
$ flatpak override --user --filesystem=$HOME/.fonts:ro one.jwr.interstellar
$ flatpak override --user --filesystem=$HOME/.local/share/fonts:ro one.jwr.interstellar
$ flatpak override --user --filesystem=/usr/share/fonts:ro one.jwr.interstellar
$ fc-cache -fv

and restarted Interstellar. Fonts remain stubbornly broken.

So, I'm running Interstellar on an FLX1s phone; it's Flatpak, too. I don't mind the flat emojis at all, but most of the emojis for me are missing and show only boxes. Many user names are also blocks. It's absolutely a font issue... so how do I fix it?

Flatpak is a constant source of breakage on this phone, and I figured out the last thing that was causing apps to not launch, but it was a painful, annoying journey. What's the magic incantation to make Flatpak give apps access to the fonts they need?

I agree, this is likely the issue. I'll check if there's a way to declare the flatpak to allow fonts to pass through the sandbox, but I'm honestly not sure if it's possible.

it can't find whatever font you're using for emojis elsewhere so it's falling back to something that's included. this is most likely an issue with flatpaks not being allowed to see your fonts.

Thanks! I appreciate you.

I see what you mean about the image link being shared along with the image. I'll look into it.

Is this the update that made it so both the image and direct url to the image gets shared, when you use the share image feature in the app? I've been trying to find a way to disable it, so it goes back to the way it was before, where hitting the share button on the image only shares the image and not also the link. Because right now I either have to delete the link every time, before I hit send or double share the image, if I don't want to delete the link every time. I'm currently on version 0.11.4 of Interstellar and Android 16, build CP1A.260505.005

Am I just overlooking the setting, where I can turn this behavior off? Or is it maybe not an Interstellar thing, but an Android or Mbin thing? Screenshots here.

Mbin doesn't have a way to upload videos directly, and I don't believe Lemmy or PieFed does either. If you want to share a video, you'd have to upload it to an external service (such as PeerTube or YouTube), and then you could share the public link.

when can we send videos

Thank you for the report. This is obviously a serious issue, so I will try to get a patch release out for it tomorrow.

It happens automatically; the F-Droid repo we're in (IzzyOnDroid) checks for app updates every 24 hours, so this release should be picked up within that time frame.

Any known time to release on F-Droid?

How far down the feed do you go to trigger this? And are you using the scroll to top button or manually scrolling?

As a workaround for refreshing without having to return to the top. If you tap the floating button in the bottom right of the screen a couple other buttons should show up. One of these is a refresh that should reload the feed directly. Hopefully that works for you.

Did some further testing. was unable to post to !piefed_help@piefed.social using the summit app. lemmy.world account, language set to english.

Was able to post to !testing@piefed.social using interstellar, blorp, and summit.

Blorp dev here. I think I’m missing a language code that I should probably be including. So if Blorp is still working, it might just be accidental. Should definitely notify the PieFed devs in case something broke with language codes.

Tested using the Blorp app and it worked: https://lemmy.world/post/43942219

Hmm looks like lemmy.world updated recently but doesn't look like there's any related changes so its weird that this just started randomly.

I just tested from my lemmy.world alt. @olorin99@lemmy.world posting into !testing@piefed.social and it worked fine.

https://lemmy.world/post/43941111 https://lemmy.world/post/43941201

The web client works but could you test from another third party app. Would like to check if its something specific to Interstellar or if something's up with lemmy.world.

Posting in English to English communities, one of which I have posted to before. Just started getting getting this error today, only when using interstellar. Can post on piefed from the web logged into my Lemmy account fine. Posting to Lemmy from interstellar works fine. Posting here using interstellar worked fine.

The error says language not allowed. What language are you using? And is it only piefed communities? Posting to lemmy and mbin communities works fine?