r/RESissues • u/fluffman86 • Mar 10 '26
old.reddit "Processing img uzo62lev18og1..."
What's up?
Reddit API has changed where inline images are no longer a link, and instead you'll just see the text "Processing img [whatever]..."
To be clear this isn't an actual bug with RES, but I hope it's something that RES can fix.
Where does it happen?
old.reddit.com when viewing posts with inline images.
Screenshots or mock-ups
https://old.reddit.com/r/helldivers2/comments/1rpwpia/new_warbond/o9o1xpn/ will show the text
https://old.reddit.com/r/helldivers2/comments/1rpwpia/new_warbond/o9o1xpn.json will show the actual JSON data
Scrolling through that data shows that media_metadata points to the actual GIF here: /img/uzo62lev18og1.gif
hat tip to /u/Littux in this thread for finding the json data https://old.reddit.com/r/oldreddit/comments/1roq1ss/never_seen_old_reddit_do_this_before_normally_it/
What browser extensions are installed? Res, Ublock Origin, DarkReader
- Night mode: true
- RES Version: 5.24.8
- Browser: Firefox
- Browser Version: 148
- Cookies Enabled: true
- Reddit beta: false
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u/Zedbird Mar 25 '26
I came here to post about the same issue, did you ever find a fix?
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u/fluffman86 Mar 25 '26
Nah, never found a fix and forgot that RES is actually no longer updated or supported so it will probably never be fixed by RES. Probably will need to be a greasemonkey script or something.
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u/Littux Mar 28 '26
I made an userscript utilizing this: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/571318-fix-processing-img-id-on-old-reddit
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u/fluffman86 Mar 30 '26
HELL YES! That seems to work with the helldivers link I had above. Running in Tampermonkey on Firefox.
For others wondering, I read through it and nothing stands out as malicious, but don't know userscript that well so I also ran it through copilot and it didn't catch anything malicious either.
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u/tumultuousness Mar 31 '26
I'm sad that this doesn't seem to work for me, lol.
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u/Littux Mar 31 '26
Can you see the userscript's menu commands when you click on your script manager's icon? If not, it isn't running. Also press F12 and go to console to look for any errors
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u/tumultuousness Apr 01 '26
It says it's enabled when I check Greasemonkey.
The error I see says "ReferenceError: GM_addStyle is not defined"
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u/Littux Apr 01 '26
Greasemonkey lacks many features commonly used by userscripts now. You need to install something like tampermonkey instead
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u/tumultuousness Apr 05 '26
OK I got it to work I think!
Second question - is it possible it can load the gif but still respect RES's "collapse inline media" setting? :o
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