From bce79ca2eea3c0aa6993708b32ac1eaab41fb7e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ChunkyProgrammer <78101139+ChunkyProgrammer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:20:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] don't error when a channel doesn't have any community
 posts

---
 src/invidious/channels/community.cr | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/invidious/channels/community.cr b/src/invidious/channels/community.cr
index 49ffd990..2cb8bc9a 100644
--- a/src/invidious/channels/community.cr
+++ b/src/invidious/channels/community.cr
@@ -57,6 +57,17 @@ def extract_channel_community(items, *, ucid, locale, format, thin_mode, is_sing
       .try &.as_s || ""
     if error_message == "This channel does not exist."
       raise NotFoundException.new(error_message)
+    elsif error_message == "This channel hasn't posted yet"
+      response = JSON.build do |json|
+        json.object do
+          json.field "authorId", ucid
+          json.field "comments" do
+            json.array do
+            end
+          end
+        end
+      end
+      return response
     else
       raise InfoException.new(error_message)
     end

From eafaf4a82a8b75c40fcf54c55d950995364d8e56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ChunkyProgrammer <78101139+ChunkyProgrammer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:50:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Add message for when channel has no posts

---
 locales/en-US.json                | 3 ++-
 src/invidious/views/community.ecr | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/locales/en-US.json b/locales/en-US.json
index 10887612..7347409b 100644
--- a/locales/en-US.json
+++ b/locales/en-US.json
@@ -496,5 +496,6 @@
     "toggle_theme": "Toggle Theme",
     "carousel_slide": "Slide {{current}} of {{total}}",
     "carousel_skip": "Skip the Carousel",
-    "carousel_go_to": "Go to slide `x`"
+    "carousel_go_to": "Go to slide `x`",
+    "channel_has_no_posts": "This channel hasn't posted yet"
 }
diff --git a/src/invidious/views/community.ecr b/src/invidious/views/community.ecr
index d2a305d3..b813533c 100644
--- a/src/invidious/views/community.ecr
+++ b/src/invidious/views/community.ecr
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
     <div class="h-box">
         <p><%= error_message %></p>
     </div>
+<% elsif items.not_nil!["comments"].as_a.empty? %>
+    <div class="h-box">
+        <%= translate(locale, "channel_has_no_posts") %>
+    </div>
 <% else %>
     <div class="h-box pure-g comments" id="comments">
         <%= IV::Frontend::Comments.template_youtube(items.not_nil!, locale, thin_mode) %>

From ee9f4e21abea80e09693341580376b6ade6e0666 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ChunkyProgrammer <78101139+ChunkyProgrammer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:51:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Simplify creation of empty json array

Co-Authored-By: Samantaz Fox <coding@samantaz.fr>
---
 src/invidious/channels/community.cr | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/invidious/channels/community.cr b/src/invidious/channels/community.cr
index 2cb8bc9a..cd658f34 100644
--- a/src/invidious/channels/community.cr
+++ b/src/invidious/channels/community.cr
@@ -61,10 +61,7 @@ def extract_channel_community(items, *, ucid, locale, format, thin_mode, is_sing
       response = JSON.build do |json|
         json.object do
           json.field "authorId", ucid
-          json.field "comments" do
-            json.array do
-            end
-          end
+          json.field "comments", json.array { }
         end
       end
       return response