[Bug]: 'your subscribed channels currently does not have any videos'

[jorp]

Guidelines

• I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
• I have encountered this bug in the official downloads of FreeTube.
• I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the bug report I want to file, without success.
• I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the bug I want to file, without success.
• This issue contains only one bug.

Describe the bug

1. go to subscriptions
2. refresh
3. receive error 'your subscribed channels currently does not have any videos'

Expected Behavior

I expect there to be a full list of subscribed videos. At the moment it is just empty.

Issue Labels

content not loading, feature stopped working

FreeTube Version

v0.20.0 Beta

Operating System Version

Linux fedora 6.8.7-300.fc40.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Apr 17 19:21:08 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Installation Method

Flathub

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

No response

Additional Information

This was working just yesterday. Occasionally when I refresh there will just be a grid of all my subscribed channels under' channels with errors'.

There is no problem clicking channels and watching their videos that way. Search also works as well. I have a large number of subscriptions so I am using RSS to retrieve them.

Nightly Build

• I have encountered this bug in the latest nightly build.

[UnconsciousBlaringHuman]

The same is happening to me on Windows 10, same FT version.
Likely the same problem as #4795 : youtube being annoying and therefore likely no solution from freetube's side.
If you disable fetching from RSS it does work (assuming the profile doesn't have so many subscriptions as to force RSS).
I think we'll just have to wait it out...

[Chris-AF]

Dropping in to state that this is happening on Windows 11 Pro. I can manually visit a channel and see its videos, and all of my playlists still work, but the "Subscriptions" tab fails as described in the issue.

[jorp]

The same is happening to me on Windows 10, same FT version.

Likely the same problem as #4795 : youtube being annoying and therefore likely no solution from freetube's side.

If you disable fetching from RSS it does work (assuming the profile doesn't have so many subscriptions as to force RSS).

I think we'll just have to wait it out...

Likely seems to be the case. Unfortunately related to this. I hope the end isn't near...

[EvilGremlin]

Looks like google strated to heavily limit RSS requests. I think small rewrite of fetching is in order, to get data in <100 channels chunks, this is long overdue tbh.
At least remove the limit as stopgap, let fetching be slow.

[ghost]

#4790 Possibly the same thing happening again? Give it time it will probably resolve itself within a few hours

[ghost]

The same is happening to me on Windows 10, same FT version.
Likely the same problem as #4795 : youtube being annoying and therefore likely no solution from freetube's side.
If you disable fetching from RSS it does work (assuming the profile doesn't have so many subscriptions as to force RSS).
I think we'll just have to wait it out...

Likely seems to be the case. Unfortunately related to this. I hope the end isn't near...

That wouldn't affect Freetube as Freetube doesn't use youtubes API.

[hboetes]

Still would make sense to do the RSS pulls in chunks.

Sorting channels on their last released video and then requesting only the top 100 channels, and only occasionally requesting the other channels would be an improvement I'd guess.

There are lots of channels that only occasionally produce content. No need to keep checking them.

[Gorrrg]

There's a similar issue when FreeTube hasn't exited cleanly and is still running without GUI. When you start another instance, since files are still locked they can't be used for storing intermediate results like when fetching Subscriptions, but the new FreeTube instance won't notify you that it's still running in the background, so it seems like fetching Subscriptions isn't doing anything. But there's no error message in that case. Still as a precaution people should check with Task Manager if there's a stale FreeTube instance running in the background and kill it.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

RSS should be up. Anyone facing still facing this issue?

[EvilGremlin]

Works fine today... youtube being youtube. They had live chat completely broken last few days as well.

[hboetes]

I object to closing this issue, since it's reoccurring, and there might be an elegant solution to it: don't try to fetch more than 100 channels from the RSS at the same time.