51 minutes ago, dainb said:

Well, I don't need JPEG, but I'd like to have original images as they were created. Most of the sites still use JPEG in backend with WEBP served by CDN so it's still possible to get original JPEG using CLI tools and avoiding getting WEBP/AVIF from CDNs is already a pain in the butt, and now total inability to get an original image here is the real bummer.

And regarding "We are still using jpeg from 1992!", it's not only us, it's also every single digital camera and mobile phone manufacturer. JPEG is a de-facto standard in photography. Even Instagram still uses JPEG.

If you're putting everything behind CDN anyway, can you keep JPEGs and let CDN decide what to send to client? That way everyone who does not care about format will get WEBP from CDN and those few that do can still get JPEG.

We have 14TB of image on pure SSDs in raid (expensive) just to keep up with the load, if we now have to have another identical copy althoguht smaller (about 50-60% in our tests) in webp that is still a signficant amoutn of storage cost. So 14TB of storage for say a handleful of users, probably in the double digits. The question then becomes is it worth the cost. If the jpeg is indistinguishable from the compressed version, then why have it at all?

23 minutes ago, maddog107 said:

We have 14TB of image on pure SSDs in raid (expensive) just to keep up with the load, if we now have to have another identical copy althoguht smaller (about 50-60% in our tests) in webp that is still a signficant amoutn of storage cost. So 14TB of storage for say a handleful of users, probably in the double digits. The question then becomes is it worth the cost. If the jpeg is indistinguishable from the compressed version, then why have it at all?

You don't need have another copy, CDN will download JPEG and store it as WEBP at their servers and will serve WEBP based on Accept headers provided by browser, in most cases it'll be WEBP. But JPEG is still available if you know how to go around CDN cache or use custom browser headers. Not sure whether using CDN is cheaper or not in terms of bandwidth, you'd have to test it yourself, but if it's cheaper than you also don't need SSDs because you will be feeding images to CDN only and that's usually one time. Of course there's tradeoffs with everything, but ultimately it's up to you to decide, just keep in mind that practically no image hosting sites actually recompress images or change image format, getting back exactly what you uploaded is an expected behavior.

Edit: if that's the thing that sits between keeping this site running and shutting it down please do whatever you think is required to keep it running.

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Search is also broken.

27 minutes ago, Matt! said:

Search is also broken.

+1

Came here to post this as well. I cannot click in the "search" bar atop the forum. And if I navigate to Activity > Search and type in a search term, it always comes back with 0 results.

4 minutes ago, goldenfinger said:

+1

Came here to post this as well. I cannot click in the "search" bar atop the forum. And if I navigate to Activity > Search and type in a search term, it always comes back with 0 results.

I know right? This is preposterous.

58 minutes ago, Matt! said:

Search is also broken.

idk if this is a problem but when I go to my profile and activity it says: "kivenarmstrength has no recent activity to

show" when I do have activity

Hello, there is a “has no activity to show “ problem.

44 minutes ago, laeteita said:

Hello, there is a “has no activity to show “ problem.

yess

1 hour ago, kivenarmstrength said:

idk if this is a problem but when I go to my profile and activity it says: "kivenarmstrength has no recent activity to

show" when I do have activity

also when I edit a post I get like "warning"...

@maddog107 search and recent activity work again. Thank you!

4 hours ago, Matt! said:

I know right? This is preposterous.

okey dokey

should be back. Out of memory (on a 256gb ram server 🤣)

5 minutes ago, maddog107 said:

should be back. Out of memory (on a 256gb ram server 🤣)

https://www.amazon.com/Server-RAM/s?k=Server+RAM

Are uploads operating slower than usual for everyone? If so, is it because of the jpg to webp conversion done during the upload?

1 hour ago, TheDude2k said:

Are uploads operating slower than usual for everyone? If so, is it because of the jpg to webp conversion done during the upload?

probably because i am doing a million things on teh server at the moment. I will crank down the priority of my stuff to allow better perfomance of the forum

3 hours ago, maddog107 said:

probably because i am doing a million things on teh server at the moment. I will crank down the priority of my stuff to allow better perfomance of the forum

There some slight latency after each pic is uploaded, which I'm thinking it might be the real-time jpg-to-webp conversion. It isn't too bad if there are a small set of pics to upload. If uploading a lot of pics, then it could add up to a "not going anywhere?" Snickers bars about of time.

18 hours ago, maddog107 said:

should be back. Out of memory (on a 256gb ram server 🤣)

Still not working for me. Unless I'm doing something wrong?

36 minutes ago, goldenfinger said:

Still not working for me. Unless I'm doing something wrong?

It just went down again.