u/PurloinedSentience

For a long time now, redgifs thumbnails have failed to display and only showed a black square. But other users weren't experiencing that.

I finally figured out what's triggering this bug, and it has to do with Reddit preferences. Here is what causes this bug to happen:

Default to Old Reddit (i.e. in the reddit preferences).
Under Media preferences, set "don't show thumbnails next to links".

If you do that, then in Relay, redgifs thumbnails will fail to display.

This didn't used to happen, as thumbnails in Relay are configured through Relay and should not have anything to do with this Reddit setting (which affects the desktop browsing UI).

I would ask /u/DBrady to please fix this bug, please.

I figured out the bug that causes RedGifs thumbnails to fail to display (i.e. black square).