Direct messages no longer work

onlybro

I tried to send a message to a new user of my pixelfed instance but then I got this following page

Page is broken

onlybro

This exactly happens when after mentioning the users user name

nebulon

This sounds much like an app bug itself, not so much related to the Cloudron package.

It may be similar to https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/2500 could be helpful if you add a comment with your information how to reproduce it.

onlybro

@nebulon

I remember I didn’t have this issue about 7-8 months back when I installed it using cloudron

nebulon

Then it is maybe an upstream regression of that feature, since there were probably new releases between.

onlybro

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onlybro

Update direct works for admin accounts,

Which means admin itself is unable to send messages but users are able to send message only to admins

This error occurs only when other users try to interact each other + when admin tries to direct with others

onlybro

@nebulon

Users can only send direct messages to the first admin of the instance

onlybro

Does the author of pixelfed or who ever responsible is caring of these bugs can we hope for a working or in other words a stable release of bug fixed version of pixelfed?

Including direct messages not working for all users

And

Post filters (css) not applying to the image ?

also make dark mode the default mode and make the dark but smart cause some icons or link text don’t appear on dark mode it’s 2021

When can we expect these fixed I’m sorry I’m not here to demand but only to be aware when would a stable version arrive ??

Besides these are main and basic features one would expect to work just after installing the app like direct messages and filters and default dark mode

As @nebulon pointed out this is very likely a regression in the upstream release of Pixelfed. I would suggest creating an issue here: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues

EDIT: Also if you use mastodon, the Pixelfed maintainer is pretty active on there: https://mastodon.social/@dansup

onlybro

@atrilahiji @nebulon

It would be highly supportive if you could upvote this on GitHub following is the link I just managed to attach some images on GitHub for which direct message and post color filters not working since these are basic features required on an instance to run please do comment or upvote the topic on Github

Here is the link

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/2729

onlybro

Hello

@nebulon @atrilahiji

Would you mind providing me a short explanation I went through this site >> pixelfed.social signed up checked direct messages it works fine including editing post works fine too this site pixelfed.social has less error than what i installed through cloudron it has the same version as mine which I’m running the updated version I wonder why isn’t direct messages working on my install??im not sure whether it was a cloudron install or a direct install but why does features lack?

onlybro

@girish

On to your consideration https://pixelfed.social works fine with its desired features but pixelfed instance installed through cloudron lacks features like direct messaging and gif post preview , post color filters any idea why ?

nebulon

Since you mentioned that the versions are the same, then I can only think of this being a difference in configuration of the app then. I don't know how pixelfed.social is configured. Usually we try to stick with defaults from a packaging perspective.

girish

@onlybro I setup an instance for our company at https://pixelfed.cloudron.io/ to test things out. gif animation does work for me but after applying any effect it loses the animation.

I can also see the filters:

I can see the DM screen but there is some app error when I try to see the messages:

Overall, most of the bugs are just app bugs, please do report them upstream: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed . I think you reported some already. Note that we don't develop the app itself, we only packaged it.

onlybro

@girish

Following is the screenshot originally from pixelfed developer

alt text

The developer claims pixelfed.social is the very same package from the original distribution itself.

Why isn’t direct message working is a question

girish

@onlybro I see, that is good information (that he is using the same code as what is public). I have to investigate what the issue is then.

onlybro

@girish

Perhaps you can try looking at the previous version of pixelfed package and the latest cause I remember a year before direct message was working fine on cloudron

girish

@onlybro Yes, I will try to debug this a bit later this week.

onlybro

@girish

That’s nice since it’s an essential feature - Direct Messaging

onlybro

@girish

Like counts of image post are also not visible you can try my site like counts don’t work on iPhone behavior that can be produced is

Here’s my site https://spacemag.xyz

I have to like the post to see the count if someone else had liked it I cannot view it and even then if I like it and view most of the time I can only see my name on it it’s very rare I see the total profiles of those who had liked.

This moreover seems to be a conflict with ui or java from cloudron I guess ? It all works fine at pixelfed.social though, which is a raw installation of pixelfed.

I’m not certain but all i can say is there is something that’s not right

girish

@onlybro It seems there is also a staging branch - https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/commits/staging . Let me check if it helps if I update to that branch

girish

Latest dev seems to throw an exception with direct messages.

17:25:36 - [2021-05-11 00:25:36] production.ERROR: Trying to get property 'private_key' of non-object {"userId":1,"exception":"[object] (ErrorException(code: 0): Trying to get property 'private_key' of non-object at /app/code/app/Util/ActivityPub/HttpSignature.php:40)
17:25:36 - [stacktrace]
17:25:36 - #0 /app/code/app/Util/ActivityPub/HttpSignature.php(40): Illuminate\\Foundation\\Bootstrap\\HandleExceptions->handleError()
17:25:36 - #1 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/Repository.php(420): App\\Util\\ActivityPub\\HttpSignature::App\\Util\\ActivityPub\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #2 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/CacheManager.php(418): Illuminate\\Cache\\Repository->rememberForever()
17:25:36 - #3 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/Facades/Facade.php(261): Illuminate\\Cache\\CacheManager->__call()
17:25:36 - #4 /app/code/app/Util/ActivityPub/HttpSignature.php(41): Illuminate\\Support\\Facades\\Facade::__callStatic()
17:25:36 - #5 /app/code/app/Services/ActivityPubFetchService.php(20): App\\Util\\ActivityPub\\HttpSignature::instanceActorSign()
17:25:36 - #6 /app/code/app/Util/ActivityPub/Helpers.php(230): App\\Services\\ActivityPubFetchService::get()
17:25:36 - #7 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/Repository.php(385): App\\Util\\ActivityPub\\Helpers::App\\Util\\ActivityPub\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #8 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/CacheManager.php(418): Illuminate\\Cache\\Repository->remember()
17:25:36 - #9 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/Facades/Facade.php(261): Illuminate\\Cache\\CacheManager->__call()
17:25:36 - #10 /app/code/app/Util/ActivityPub/Helpers.php(237): Illuminate\\Support\\Facades\\Facade::__callStatic()
17:25:36 - #11 /app/code/app/Util/ActivityPub/Helpers.php(242): App\\Util\\ActivityPub\\Helpers::fetchFromUrl()
17:25:36 - #12 /app/code/app/Util/ActivityPub/Helpers.php(474): App\\Util\\ActivityPub\\Helpers::fetchProfileFromUrl()
17:25:36 - #13 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/Repository.php(385): App\\Util\\ActivityPub\\Helpers::App\\Util\\ActivityPub\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #14 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/CacheManager.php(418): Illuminate\\Cache\\Repository->remember()
17:25:36 - #15 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/Facades/Facade.php(261): Illuminate\\Cache\\CacheManager->__call()
17:25:36 - #16 /app/code/app/Util/ActivityPub/Helpers.php(536): Illuminate\\Support\\Facades\\Facade::__callStatic()
17:25:36 - #17 /app/code/app/Util/ActivityPub/Helpers.php(542): App\\Util\\ActivityPub\\Helpers::profileFirstOrNew()
17:25:36 - #18 /app/code/app/Services/WebfingerService.php(40): App\\Util\\ActivityPub\\Helpers::profileFetch()
17:25:36 - #19 /app/code/app/Services/WebfingerService.php(20): App\\Services\\WebfingerService->run()
17:25:36 - #20 /app/code/app/Http/Controllers/DirectMessageController.php(608): App\\Services\\WebfingerService::lookup()
17:25:36 - #21 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php(54): App\\Http\\Controllers\\DirectMessageController->composeLookup()
17:25:36 - #22 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php(45): Illuminate\\Routing\\Controller->callAction()
17:25:36 - #23 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php(254): Illuminate\\Routing\\ControllerDispatcher->dispatch()
17:25:36 - #24 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php(197): Illuminate\\Routing\\Route->runController()
17:25:36 - #25 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php(695): Illuminate\\Routing\\Route->run()
17:25:36 - #26 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(128): Illuminate\\Routing\\Router->Illuminate\\Routing\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #27 /app/code/app/Http/Middleware/AccountInterstitial.php(42): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #28 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): App\\Http\\Middleware\\AccountInterstitial->handle()
17:25:36 - #29 /app/code/app/Http/Middleware/Localization.php(21): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #30 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): App\\Http\\Middleware\\Localization->handle()
17:25:36 - #31 /app/code/app/Http/Middleware/TwoFactorAuth.php(33): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #32 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): App\\Http\\Middleware\\TwoFactorAuth->handle()
17:25:36 - #33 /app/code/app/Http/Middleware/EmailVerificationCheck.php(34): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #34 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): App\\Http\\Middleware\\EmailVerificationCheck->handle()
17:25:36 - #35 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Middleware/SubstituteBindings.php(50): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #36 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): Illuminate\\Routing\\Middleware\\SubstituteBindings->handle()
17:25:36 - #37 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Auth/Middleware/Authenticate.php(44): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #38 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): Illuminate\\Auth\\Middleware\\Authenticate->handle()
17:25:36 - #39 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php(78): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #40 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): Illuminate\\Foundation\\Http\\Middleware\\VerifyCsrfToken->handle()
17:25:36 - #41 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Middleware/ShareErrorsFromSession.php(49): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #42 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): Illuminate\\View\\Middleware\\ShareErrorsFromSession->handle()
17:25:36 - #43 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Session/Middleware/StartSession.php(121): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #44 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Session/Middleware/StartSession.php(64): Illuminate\\Session\\Middleware\\StartSession->handleStatefulRequest()
17:25:36 - #45 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): Illuminate\\Session\\Middleware\\StartSession->handle()
17:25:36 - #46 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cookie/Middleware/AddQueuedCookiesToResponse.php(37): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #47 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): Illuminate\\Cookie\\Middleware\\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse->handle()
17:25:36 - #48 /app/code/app/Http/Middleware/FrameGuard.php(18): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #49 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): App\\Http\\Middleware\\FrameGuard->handle()
17:25:36 - #50 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cookie/Middleware/EncryptCookies.php(67): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #51 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): Illuminate\\Cookie\\Middleware\\EncryptCookies->handle()
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17:25:36 - #53 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php(697): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->then()
17:25:36 - #54 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php(672): Illuminate\\Routing\\Router->runRouteWithinStack()
17:25:36 - #55 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php(636): Illuminate\\Routing\\Router->runRoute()
17:25:36 - #56 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php(625): Illuminate\\Routing\\Router->dispatchToRoute()
17:25:36 - #57 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Kernel.php(166): Illuminate\\Routing\\Router->dispatch()
17:25:36 - #58 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(128): Illuminate\\Foundation\\Http\\Kernel->Illuminate\\Foundation\\Http\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #59 /app/code/vendor/fideloper/proxy/src/TrustProxies.php(57): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #60 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): Fideloper\\Proxy\\TrustProxies->handle()
17:25:36 - #61 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Middleware/TransformsRequest.php(21): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #62 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Middleware/ConvertEmptyStringsToNull.php(31): Illuminate\\Foundation\\Http\\Middleware\\TransformsRequest->handle()
17:25:36 - #63 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): Illuminate\\Foundation\\Http\\Middleware\\ConvertEmptyStringsToNull->handle()
17:25:36 - #64 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Middleware/TransformsRequest.php(21): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
17:25:36 - #65 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Middleware/TrimStrings.php(40): Illuminate\\Foundation\\Http\\Middleware\\TransformsRequest->handle()
17:25:36 - #66 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php(167): Illuminate\\Foundation\\Http\\Middleware\\TrimStrings->handle()
17:25:36 - #67 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Middleware/ValidatePostSize.php(27): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->Illuminate\\Pipeline\\{closure}()
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17:25:36 - #72 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Kernel.php(141): Illuminate\\Pipeline\\Pipeline->then()
17:25:36 - #73 /app/code/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Kernel.php(110): Illuminate\\Foundation\\Http\\Kernel->sendRequestThroughRouter()
17:25:36 - #74 /app/code/public/index.php(57): Illuminate\\Foundation\\Http\\Kernel->handle()
17:25:36 - #75 {main}
17:25:36 - "}

girish

Actually, direct messages don't work for me in https://pixelfed.social/account/direct anymore either. It just keeps spinning.

girish

Reported here - https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/2752 . @onlybro I will stop debugging since I don't think I can do anything to fix this without having a stable release where DM is known to work. You will have to reach out to the upstream author.

onlybro

@girish

Reporting from GitHub

“
I was able to reproduce the direct message issue within a docker container, and I think I know why it is happening.

Line

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/blob/4ad3de3b885b8d21a53ca9cc8a4a83e2a1d4a459/app/Http/Controllers/AccountController.php#L129-L132

in the account controller, the following SQL query is generated:

[2021-05-10 21:41:58] local.DEBUG: array (
0 =>
array (
'query' => 'select * from profiles where id != ? and profiles.id = ? and profiles.deleted_at is null limit 1',
'bindings' =>
array (
0 => 297440899045134336,
1 => '297465207490482176',
),
'time' => 37.91,
),
)

As you can see, the id in the URL gets treated as string and that's why the query does not return any results.
“

onlybro

@girish

Direct messages does work to me when I login to pixelfed.social site without any issues.

onlybro

@girish

Reporting from GitHub

“

I was able to reproduce the direct message issue within a docker container, and I think I know why it is happening.

In these lines in the account controller, the following SQL query is generated:

[2021-05-10 21:41:58] local.DEBUG: array (
0 =>
array (
'query' => 'select * from profiles where id != ? and profiles.id = ? and profiles.deleted_at is null limit 1',
'bindings' =>
array (
0 => 297440899045134336,
1 => '297465207490482176',
),
'time' => 37.91,
),
)
As you can see, the id in the URL gets treated as string and that's why the query does not return any results.
I made a preliminary patch on this branch with int casts wherever necessary and it resolves the issue locally, but there must be some sort of underlying issue that needs to be investigated to tell why this stopped working
“

onlybro

@girish

Following is the GitHub link

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/2729#issuecomment-837986008

girish

@onlybro let's continue there. I have replied on GitHub.

onlybro

@girish

Could you please update the pixelfed app to latest Daniel has updated to version 0.11.0 when I check for updates on dashboard it doesn’t do anything it still shows 0.10.0 as the latest

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed

onlybro

@girish

Please take a look

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/2752#

And the following

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/commit/2d0a253e071280c692b14516a6aac8d6c33c44d5

Daniel informed that he is using MySQL however the issue of sending messsges yet persists it’s still there not able to send messages yet

onlybro

as per the developer this seems to be a issue with configuration

https://pasteboard.co/Kj1NAaR.jpg

@girish @nebulon

Please assist with this it has been months and months now haven’t beeen able to get messaging working on pixelfed yet

girish

@onlybro Is the situation any better with the 1.6.1 package?

owlgeek

Hi, I've the same problem with a docker installation of Pixelfed v0.11.1.
Someone have news?

archos

Hi, I have the same problem, private messages won't open. Attached is a screenshot.

This happens on my instance as well

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Direct messages no longer work