FreeTubeApp / FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
[Feature Request]: Show a specific message when a playlist is unviewable
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Description
### Guidelines
- [x] I have [searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues](https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues?q=is%3Aissue+sort%3Arelevance-desc) that are similar to the feature request I want to file, without success.
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### Problem Description
Currently, the playlist view shows the same message `This playlist currently has no videos` no matter if the playlist has no videos, is private, or does not exist.
### Proposed Solution
Innertube is throwing an error when the playlist is inaccessible/invalid: `InnertubeError: This playlist type is unviewable.`, which allows to differentiate them from empty playlsts.
Instead of `This playlist currently has no videos`, the message could be `This playlist is unviewable`
### Alternatives Considered
Keep `This playlist currently has no videos`,
### Issue Labels
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### FreeTube Version
v0.25.1-beta
### Operating System Version
Fedora
### Installation Method
Flathub
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the playlist view and trace how the Innertube error `This playlist type is unviewable.` is handled. Confirm that inaccessible or invalid playlists receive a distinct message while genuinely empty playlists retain the existing message, then verify the behavior in the app.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 65/100