Update. I asked a friend of mine to take a look at the Lemmy.world front page via his browser (vanilla Firefox) and it works as expected.
I also did an earlier test on a chromium browser and it also works as expected.
It might just be that my browser is breaking stuff, which I need to investigate deeper.
When trying to access Lemmy.world from the desktop, I see this blank-ish page (see attached screenshot). And whenever I try to click Subscribed, Local, or All, the same error message pops up on the lower-left-hand side of my screen:
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
I wonder if it’s connected to the work our admins have been doing recently.
For disclosure, I am using LibreWolf and a userscript to make Lemmy pages look like old.reddit. I’ve turned off the userscript to check if the error disappears, but to no avail.
I may have missed more details that might be helpful, but I’m willing to give such details.
Thanks! That seems very plausible.
In hindsight, I shouldn’t have panicked and tried refreshing/clearing the cache first.
Refreshing alone didn’t work for me. Shift-Reload had only temporarily fixed it. Question: Does the spinner on the Reply button go away for you?
No, it doesn’t go away. What I do instead is check my profile to see if my reply has been reflected on my comments list there. If it’s reflected, I deem it safe to close the tab where I made the reply.