bug: (YouTube) Shorts and Post showing infinity loading in subscription page

[dushmanta05]

Bug description

I've hidden the shorts and post component in Revanced setting but in subscription page the shorts and post option is visible and clicking on them shows infinity loading screen.

I've attached a video reference below

Revanced.YT.Bug.mp4

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[LisoUseInAIKyrios]

The Shorts selector button shows infinite loading because you have Hide Shorts in feed turned on, and every item is hidden, so it keeps trying to load the next page of items (which then hides everything, and it loads then next page, etc).

The post selector is showing an infinite loop because you have Hide community posts turned on in the Feed setting.

If you want those items hidden, then do not use those subscription buttons.

But if it is not difficult, those buttons should be hidden by the patches just to prevent this situation.

[oSumAtrIX]

This is not a bug currently as the patches hide the content. A feature to selectively hide them in the home or search feed could be added

[LisoUseInAIKyrios]

For anyone who wants to try patching out the selector buttons, they are regular Android layout items (not Litho).

So it should be do-able to hide them, just gotta spend the time to figure out an appropriate patch.

[dushmanta05]

Thank you for your responses. I thought the bug section would be appropriate for this issue, so I opened it under this. I would love to do this patch, but I've got no experience in Android development. But I'll give it a try.

[LisoUseInAIKyrios]

On YT 19.09.37 the UI class for the selector buttons is hng.

Hiding the buttons is not difficult, and the work is figuring out how to distinguish what each button is (without relying on simply checking for the language specific strings it shows).

[dushmanta05]

Cool! Thanks for the detailed explanation, I guess figuring out distinguish button is the tricky part here