Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 971, in json
    return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/simplejson/__init__.py", line 514, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 386, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 416, in raw_decode
    return self.scan_once(s, idx=_w(s, idx).end())
simplejson.errors.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
 
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/threading.py", line 932, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/threading.py", line 870, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/gradio/strings.py", line 38, in get_updated_messaging
    updated_messaging = requests.get(MESSAGING_API_ENDPOINT, timeout=3).json()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 975, in json
    raise RequestsJSONDecodeError(e.msg, e.doc, e.pos)

gradio 3.29.0, Python 3.8.10, Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS