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Invidious - Can't Subscribe (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just set up a local instance of Invidious. I created an account, exported my YouTube subscriptions, and imported them into Invidious. The first time I tried, it imported 5 subscriptions out of 50 or so. The second time I tried, it imported 9.

Thinking there might be a problem with the import function, I decided to manually add each subscription. Every time I click "Subscribe," the button will switch to "Unsubscribe," then immediately switch back to "Subscribe." If I look at my subscriptions, it was never added.

My first thought was a problem with the PostgreSQL database, but that wouldn't explain why some subscriptions work when I import them.

I tried rebooting the container, and it made no difference. I'm running Invidious in a Ubuntu 22.04 LXC container in Proxmox. I installed it manually (not with Docker). It has 100GB of HDD space, 4 CPU cores, and 8GB of memory.

What the hell is going on?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

have you checked in the invidious logs for error messages? without your configs or logs, all we can do is guess about likely issues

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's invidious?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

open source youtube website

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What about using NewPipe instead?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I have ReVanced on my phone, STN on my TVs, and uBlock+SponsorBlock on my PCs. I was looking for an alternative that I could run on a server and would replace the various different apps I'm using. TubeArchivist ended up working perfectly for me; your mileage may vary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

NewPipe is an android app, invidious is a selfhosted service accessed through a website.
They are quite different to blindly suggested the other.

I use invidous to embed videos in my rss feeder.
Also the requests to YouTube are made from the server instead of the device.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Newpipe is a smartphone app, Invidious is a web frontend. I use the former but comparing the two are like apples and oranges. Clearly OP had their mind set on a web install.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

What are the logs of the container? What are the logs from the browser? What are the responses from the network requests?

The specs of the machine tell us nothing to even start knowing what's wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I used Invidious for about a year and it was a constant string of bugs. Every release was a risk and quite often updates would get lost or the database would explode in size and consume all the drive space. Its not a project I currently use or recommend until it stabilises.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I decided to give up on it. Looking through the docs, they recommend that due to "reasons," it should be restarted at least daily, preferably hourly. I don't know if they have a memory leak or some other issue, but that was reason enough for me not to use it.

I installed TubeArchivist, and it suits my needs much better. Not only do I get an archive of my favorite channels, but when a new video is released, it gets automatically downloaded to my NAS and I can play it locally without worrying about buffering on my painfully slow internet connection.