This is a pretty niche problem, I imagine, but it's hopefully worth reporting. I use a pretty old tablet (a 10-year-old third-gen iPad) to read on, most of the time, and yesterday morning, it worked fine. Yesterday evening, not so much. I can see the cover/preview image for a series, and the thumbnails for associated images, but if I open a chapter or click on a thumbnail, I just get a blank box with a page number like "1" or an image id like "namename1207-img." I know losing compatibility comes with using ancient tech, but I'm hoping this won't be a permanent sadness.

Images and chapter pages have been converted to webp, which means breaking compatibility with iOS users using OS versions pre-2020/version 14
As of right now, we have no solution for you, sorry.

If you really want to keep the old tablet, set up "WebOne" proxy on your PC or on a VPS – it can transparently convert Webp to PNG for older browsers, and it'll even handle outdated SSL for the really old browsers.

(Currently it has some issues on Linux and you have to auto-restart it like on a hourly schedule, but it still should run fine on Windows.)

I've been using it with my ancient iPhone6 (which I mostly keep around just for Dynasty and Spotify really), and it works nicely, at least as long as dynasty sticks to simple Javascript and doesn't go full on React or something.

last edited at Jul 22, 2024 2:10AM