Comments showing "Avatar" as user avatar and "null" as text on some videos

[shrugal]

Official Instance

• The bug is reproducible on the official hosted instance, or is API-related.

Describe the bug

On some videos the comments all show the text "Avatar" in place of the user avatar, and "null" where the comment text should be. The weird thing is that some video comments work find on my local instance but not on the official one, and some are the other way around. I could also swear that I've seen the same video sometimes showing correct comments and sometimes not, but I'm not sure.

The comments API request on the video page returns a list of empty comment entries, but when I open the API URL separately it returns the comments correctly (see below).

To Reproduce

1. Open video URL, e.g. https://piped.video/watch?v=0RZVPiCLRd4
2. Scroll down to comments
3. They show up, but all look like described above

Expected behavior

Comments should show the correct user avatar and text.

Logs/Errors

Here's the output from the comments API request (https://pipedapi.kavin.rocks/comments/0RZVPiCLRd4) on the video page and in a separate tab:

https://gist.github.com/shrugal/5b1b48440dc45e329caa14db2ff0a0bc

Browser, and OS with Version.

Firefox 123.0 on Windows 11

Additional context

No response

[shrugal]

I could also swear that I've seen the same video sometimes showing correct comments and sometimes not, but I'm not sure.

Just checked the video from this issue again, and it does show the correct comments both locally and on the official instance now.

[Dheatly23]

I also experience this too. Here's some things that i found:

1. It happens sometimes, very inconsistently. Makes it very hard to debug.
2. It also happens to NewPipe too. So i guess the problem is in NewPipeExtractor.

[Bnyro]

Yes, the issue is tracked at TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#10808.

[ktlknss]

I have this too. but for most, if not all, videos I want to look at the comment of