[Bug]: (Flathub version) removing a video from a playlist then immediately navigating away: video not removed

[mastazi]

Guidelines

• I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
• I have encountered this bug in the official downloads of FreeTube.
• I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the bug report I want to file, without success.
• I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the bug I want to file, without success.
• This issue contains only one bug.

Describe the bug

1. Go to a playlist
2. Remove a video from a playlist by clicking on the rubbish bin icon
3. Immediately navigate away from the playlist, e.g. by clicking on the Freetube logo at the top of the app
4. Come back to the playlist by clicking on the "playlists" button on the sidebar, then on the playlist in question
5. The video is still there

I can reproduce this reliably on Linux Flathub version
I could not reproduce on Mac
I could reproduce only very rarely on Windows

Expected Behavior

At point 5 we should observe that the removed video is no longer part of the playlist

Issue Labels

inconsistent behavior

FreeTube Version

v0.23.2

Operating System Version

Ubuntu 20.04

Installation Method

Flathub

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

No response

Additional Information

No response

Nightly Build

• I have encountered this bug in the latest nightly build.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Please share a video of this behavior.

[mastazi]

Here is the video. I am repeatedly removing the same video from a playlist, and each time I come back to the playlist the video is still there. The only workaround is to wait about 10 seconds before leaving the playlist page. If I leave it sooner than that, the video will be there and I can go on doing what I was doing in the video indefinitely. I was able to do this more than 10 times in a row, didn't capture it on video because it would be boring :-)

screencast-Freetube-bug.mp4

[mastazi]

The screencast did not record the mouse pointer so it's a bit hard to follow. Here is what I'm doing:

1. click on "playlists" on the left sidebar
2. click on "watch later"
3. go to the video titled "The Insane Story Behind Kickstart My Heart", click on the rubbish bin icon
4. click on "Freetube" logo at the top which brings me back to the subscriptions page
5. rinse and repeat

[absidue]

The problem is that you are leaving the page before the click to undo popup has disappeared. As actually undoing the operation is a lot more complicated, we instead visually hide the video when you click the remove button and then only actually remove it from the playlist when the toast has disappeared/it is no longer possible for you to click undo. That logic happens on the playlist page, so by leaving the page before the toast has disappeared it never had a chance to actually remove the video.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Reproduced on FTA.

Also something to note:

If the user comes back to the playlist fast enough the video will still get removed

screen-20250227-084452.mp4

[mastazi]

@absidue Ooooooh I see! Thank you for explaining. Does the toast last the same time on all platforms? For some reason on Mac I couldn’t reproduce. Or maybe I’m just slower on some computers depending on the input device I’m using…

Edit actually I think I’m faster on Mac and as @efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc said I was getting back to the playlist before the toast disappeared. I remember still seeing the video for a fraction of a second then it was gone

[doublecrow]

I am working on a fix for this.