I just got burnt. Wrote up a relatively high-effort post in:

http://mandermybrewn3sll4kptj2ubeyuiujz6felbaanzj3ympcrlykfs2id.onion/c/water

clicked sumbit, and it simply ate my msg. Redrew a blank form… no way to recover the info loss. This is my 1st use of the onion, so I did not think to enable 1st party j/s (which is strangely off be default in noScript on Tor Browser despite clearnet sites having 1st party js enabled by default). It’s unclear if it’s a JS problem or if it’s because the onion version uses a quite old/classic reddit-like theme. In any case, it sucks… it’s a defect for sure.

  • SalamanderMA
    3·
    1 month ago

    Thanks for pointing this out… I am very sorry that this happened. I have not tested the .onion front-end much.

    Sorry for missing this post, I was traveling during holidays last month.

    The server that is serving the .onion front-end is running only that service, and so I doubt it is ever under heavy load. I am not sure if this was a problem with the onion network itself, with the front-end, or the instance. When I looked into options I could not find examples of Lemmy instances using .onion front-ends and I picked the one I did because it does not require JavaScript.

    I will make an effort to use the .onion site myself more often and I will look for other options.

    • plantteacherOP
      3·
      1 month ago

      One problem with all Lemmy instances running later version than 0.19.3 is the front-ends are broken with Ungoogled Chromium. Lemmy instances running 0.19.5 essentially force me to use Tor Browser (firefox). This is unrelated to the onion problem but one of my other workarounds is to use a non-stock front-end with ungoogled chromium. So for example slrpnk.net has alexandrite.slrpnk.net, which is an alternative FE. The landing page of slrpnk.net lists a few other alternative front ends as well.

      I don’t know if there is a way for users to run alexandrite and then specify another backend of choice. But if not, it could be useful to make other front-ends available on the onion.

        • plantteacherOP
          1·
          1 month ago

          The create post form is dysfunctional. After entering a title I tab to the next field and the title is erased upon shifting the focus to another field. The form is unfillable.

          The timeline has 4 possible timeline views: subscribed, local, all, moderator view. That selector is broken in Ungoogled Chromium. In UC, I click “moderator view” and the button highlights as I click it, the page refreshes, but the selector does not stick. It is trapped in the “local” view and only shows the local timeline.

          I did not test Mander specifically on these, but it seems to be the same problem for all stock front ends newer than 0.19.3.

  • plantteacherOP
    1·
    2 months ago

    As a test, I enabled js on the onion site and tried again to post from the onion connection. Again my message was simply blackholed. So noscript’s default disabling of JS is not the issue.

    (edit) then I posted from the clearnet site mader.xyz… no issue. This problem is onion-specific.