# 2.1 stable diffusion demo error **URL:** \ **Category:** Beginners\ **Created:** [February 13, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660 "2025-02-13T11:19:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anon9345202](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@anon9345202](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/anon9345202)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/1 "2025-02-13T11:19:48Z")
Hi, just to report an ongoing error on the Stable Diffusion 2.1 online demo, which has worked beautifully for a long time. We now get “error Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)” Hope someone can put it right! Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/2 "2025-02-13T12:57:50Z")
The reason it doesn’t work seems to be because the backend is stopped. (The actual processing is done by the backend, which is somewhere on the internet, not in this space.) > **[stabilityai/stable-diffusion · 🚩 Report: Not working](https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion/discussions/20548)** > > Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0) ---
**Author:** ![anon9345202](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@anon9345202](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/anon9345202)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/3 "2025-02-13T13:42:27Z")
OK, I understand the basics of your answer, cheers. So is there any prospect of it being rectified, do you think? ---
**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/4 "2025-02-13T14:03:23Z")
There are several people who have written in the discussion section, so the author should eventually get the message. I think that will fix it. However, it usually takes quite a while. ---
**Author:** ![RafatK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/67e7ee/32.png) [@RafatK](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/RafatK)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/5 "2025-02-13T14:13:23Z")
The inference files are present [here](https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion/blob/main/app.py). You can try and run it on your local device or cloud. ---
**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/6 "2025-02-13T14:18:34Z")
> word\_list\_dataset = load\_dataset(“stabilityai/word-list”, data\_files=“list.txt”) The app.py file doesn’t actually contain any information, and the dataset it references (stabilityai/word-list) is either private or has disappeared, but in any case it’s inaccessible… Well, it’s easy to run SD2.1 locally as long as you have a GPU. If you don’t insist on SD2.1, there are plenty of them… > **[Spaces - Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/spaces?category=image-generation)** > > Discover amazing ML apps made by the community ---
**Author:** ![anon9345202](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@anon9345202](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/anon9345202)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/8 "2025-02-17T11:44:13Z")
Sorry to reawaken this, but do we think there’s any prospect of this being fixed? I don’t mean to be impatient!! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/9 "2025-02-17T13:10:05Z")
For now, I’ve made a temporary space. > **[Stable Diffusion 2-1 - a Hugging Face Space by John6666](https://huggingface.co/spaces/John6666/sd21)** > > Discover amazing ML apps made by the community ---
**Author:** ![anon9345202](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@anon9345202](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/anon9345202)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/10 "2025-02-17T13:15:36Z")
'Post hidden", what does that mean? ---
**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/11 "2025-02-17T13:16:43Z")
I tried to make a space, but when I put it up, it got caught in the anti-vandalism measures.😅 John6666/sd21 ---
**Author:** ![anon9345202](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@anon9345202](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/anon9345202)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/12 "2025-02-17T13:20:33Z")
Vandalism?! So do you think the 2.1 demo is gone for good? Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/14 "2025-02-17T13:23:11Z")
The Spaces I made are there. Take a look. ---
**Author:** ![anon9345202](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@anon9345202](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/anon9345202)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/15 "2025-02-17T13:28:23Z")
Hidden again. I’m so confused 😅 ---
**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/16 "2025-02-17T13:29:18Z")
There are a lot of false alarms…😅 ![sd21](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/original/3X/f/c/fc0ab56f245c04cf4b227b508f4d1ec9e6d7ca51.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![MabelAmber](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/mabelamber/32/42589_2.png) [@MabelAmber](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/MabelAmber)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/17 "2025-03-05T20:19:47Z")
Hello all! I noticed yesterday that the 2.1 demo works again! I am thankful – who do I have to thank for this fix? It really made my day. Was the fix pushed by John6666? ---
**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/2-1-stable-diffusion-demo-error/140660/18 "2025-03-06T02:45:03Z")
> Was the fix pushed by John6666? No, it wasn’t. The person from stabilityai noticed and fixed it.😀 > **[stabilityai/stable-diffusion · I had a reply from HF re 2.1](https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion/discussions/20555#67bcca77c06f599446388059)** > > I had a nice email back from HF regarding 2.1 being down, but all they suggested was to contact the owner of the space on the discussions.