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Long pressing a malformed link crashes the app (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world to c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world
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Long-pressing the link in [https://lemmy.ml/comment/7302466](this comment) will cause Boost to crash.

The link markdown is wrong, with the URL in the text tag and the destination tag empty, but this shouldn't crash the app.

Alternate test link in case the commenter fixes it: https://www.example.com

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[–] rmayayo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the link, I'll fix that

[–] bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The first did not crash the app for me but the second one did.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The first is a link to someone else's comment that contains the broken link. Does the link there cause a crash? It still does on my end.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's the link in that other comment, not the link to the comment itself

Both that link and the second sample one crash the app for me

[–] dbx12@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So the [url]() syntax is the problem. I would say that's illegal markdown.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, but Boost should show an error toast when it encounters problems like this instead of crashing. Tapping the broken link already does show a toast.