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.

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Another update.

I tried installing vanilla Firefox (alongside LibreWolf, which I didn’t touch), and for some weird reason, the error magically disappeared.

I am guessing now that something in my old LibreWolf config, which got overwritten when I installed Firefox, was the one causing the problems.

This might be my final update regarding this since due to what I did, there might not be any more chance for digging in deeper.

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It disappeared because other browser had fresh cache. I had to clear the cache for L.W to work again and there are still some problems like an endless spinner after hitting the Reply button.

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Thanks! That seems very plausible.

In hindsight, I shouldn’t have panicked and tried refreshing/clearing the cache first.

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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?

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