Bug: error fetching emoji with an empty url/staticUrl

[kejadlen]

Environment:

• OS: iOS 18.0
• IceCubesApp version: 1.10.59

Description

When refreshing the timeline, I get "An error occurred while loading posts, please try again".

It seems this is because my server (GoToSocial) had an emoji with url/staticUrl as empty strings, so decoding the emoji failed. I did get it to load successfully with this change, though I don't know if this is the ideal way of handling this scenario.

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[kejadlen]

Also, although I removed the offending emoji on the server, I'm still unable to pull down the timeline on my phone despite uninstalling and reinstalling the app. Not sure if there's some caching somewhere that needs to be busted?

[mbirth]

The same issue started for me. But I can't find any weird emoji in my GtS database.

Local timeline - works
Federated timeline - works
Trending - error (expected, not supported by GtS)
Home timeline - ERROR
Notifications tab - works
News tab - ERROR
Profile tab - works

I'm on iOS 18.1 Beta and GotoSocial 0.17-rc1. It worked like this just fine yesterday and I didn't touch anything since then.

The Phanpy app works without any obvious issues.