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Is there an issue with picture upload? I couldn't make a picture post last week, and tonight it's not working again. I only get a generic "failed to upload" error. Texts posts are working fine.

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[–] cole@lemdro.id 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hey, thanks for bringing this up. It has been breaking intermittently but comes back when I restart the service. I'm planning to upgrade our picture service this weekend which should hopefully resolve this (we're on a pretty old version!).

I went ahead and restarted it, so feel free to try again with making your post. My apologies!

[–] RoadTrain@lemdro.id 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for looking into it!

If you're doing upgrades this weekend, do you think you could do Alexandrite as well? I've noticed that that's also a few releases behind.

[–] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Frontend updates are easy, I went ahead and updated alexandrite. I might automate this at some point, but kind of like to be intentional about frontend versioning.

For backend stuff I'm much more careful and intentional since it's actually a little bit hard to run infrastructure that handles millions of requests globally on essentially a shoestring budget (but with strict requirements on backups etc).

Well, the budget is just kind of a challenge for me on how cheaply I can run a globally scaled instance. Some interesting engineering involved

[–] RoadTrain@lemdro.id 1 points 6 days ago
[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah @coles mentioned over on Matrix they're aware of an issue with it and are looking into it.

Personally, I still just use catbox.moe for sharing images on here partially out of the worry of the hosting of memes going south :p

[–] Noodles4dinner@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago