I’m building a refugee community for a subreddit (or two) I used to moderate, and I’m trying to add an icon and I keep getting the error message “SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data”. I couldn’t find any documentation about the expected size of icons and banners, so I don’t know where to start.

Thanks!

  • freeskier@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Edit: Before trying this copy the original filename and paste it into a text editor. If this is the issue then this should be reported as a bug. Either no character verification is taking place before trying to encode it in json, or they are missing some characters to check.

    The image name probably contains a weird character that can’t be parsed. Try renaming the image to something simple like “my_image”.