code-charity / code-charity/youtube
🐞 Comments on Sidebar Breaking when using Playlist
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Description
Concise Description
Whenever I have a playlist expanded or have a live chat active while having my comments on the Sidebar, the right side and videos on the under part of my Youtube is blank when not in Theater mode, and I can only access the comments, playlist and videos again when I use Theater Mode on.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/90d5a4d1-a4f2-4a81-a15c-46afc8b83862
Browser/s
Firefox
Other Browser:
No response
'Steps to reproduce' - Which of our features is required for the bug to happen?
Have Sidebar comments enabled
Since when?
Around a week ago
Does the bug still happen when you log out of YouTube?
None
..No? Then please paste your yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS. Twice (With the error & Without)
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Are any errors or related log-messages shown in the Browser-Console? (F12)
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Tested as the only active extension? (incognito mode or another browser users):
None
Expected preferred behavior:
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ImprovedTube Version
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Your Settings (From the Extension's ⋮-Hamburger menu > Settings > Backup & reset > Export settings)
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Your YouTube-Document
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OS / Device:
Windows
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue in Firefox with Sidebar comments enabled and a playlist expanded or live chat active, comparing normal and Theater modes. Inspect the extension's sidebar and page-layout handling; done means the right side and lower videos remain accessible in normal mode.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100