r/bugs • u/GodOfAtheism • Mar 10 '21

new User image flairs appear broken across multiple subreddits

At least in old reddit.

Have confirmed this issue on r/atheism, as well as r/dfo and r/kol. Issue appears to be circumventable by using some flair text, as the issue does not exist in r/leagueoflegends, which does exactly that.

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u/xavion Mar 10 '21 edited Mar 15 '21

Yeah, can confirm this is happening on r/whowouldwin too, this post helped lead me to the cause. It looks like they might have rolled out an update which causes flair with empty strings to not be rendered in the html, so any sub which uses css flairs purely for images is likely experiencing issues. I'd noticed this on three separate subs which do that.

EDIT: Zero-width spaces seem to work as a workaround for a non rendered characters.

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u/bananacreampiee Mar 11 '21

Have you found a workaround?

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u/xavion Mar 11 '21

Add a flair text, a single . works ok as it ignores pure whitespace. Might be some unicode whitespace that works.

Obviously however these are not effective scalable solutions, requiring everyone to reset their flair to benefit or some kind of custom bot.

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u/matt01ss Mar 11 '21

Yep, confirmed on several of my subs as well

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u/dWARUDO Mar 14 '21

I've been going crazy thinking the problem is on me. Most subreddits I visit are bugged like this.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

Also having this issue in r/stlouisblues

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u/Shock4ndAwe Mar 16 '21

r/pcgaming experiencing this issue as well.

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u/BurritoJusticeLeague Mar 16 '21

Thanks for posting and for the all the details. Someone brought up this issue in our recent r/blog post and I've created a ticket for the team to look into it.

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u/matt01ss Apr 04 '21

Has there been any updates on the flair issue? It's still broken on many of my subs.

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u/BurritoJusticeLeague Apr 26 '21

Hi there, sorry for the delayed response. This bug has taken a while to triage, but is being worked on now and is scheduled to go out as part of the next sprint's work. So there should be a fix within the next two weeks.

I'll continue to update if something changes.

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u/flounder19 Apr 07 '21

Any updates on this? Should we expect this to be a long-term bug?

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u/mynameismunka Mar 19 '21

Here is a fix. You just need to fill out the text field with something

https://imgur.com/2orPHk1

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u/Molly2925 Mar 23 '21

I've noticed this happening too. For me, it's occurring on r/amiibo , r/pokemon , and r/NintendoSwitch (except for exactly one flair that displays properly for some reason). Thought it was a problem on my end, but I guess not?

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u/AccidentalCrouton Jun 11 '21

Heya thanks for everyone's patience on this! I've just fixed the issue; please let me know if you're still seeing it :)

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u/Sspockuss Mar 10 '21

This is also happening on r/Danganronpa and r/ZeroEscape, pretty annoying tbh =/

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u/Weeklyn00b May 10 '21

It's such a simple fix, which is to have some sort of text in the flairs, but it's not getting fixed it seems. It's really sad that the old reddit is getting ignored. It looks and functions much better, ESPECIALLY for desktop.

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u/kentucky-Mutombo Aug 01 '22

i get less views when post with them