March 24Mar 24 On 3/23/2026 at 6:16 PM, maddog107 said:Doesnt solve my bandwidth issue (or storage issue). Why do you need jpgs? I am setting the quality high enough where its virtually indistinguishable for most images. And most modern sites these days have moved to webp a long time ago and even more are moving to AVIF. Your phones have moved to heic/heif for years now 2017. We are still using jpeg from 1992!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.
March 24Mar 24 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?
March 24Mar 24 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.
March 25Mar 25 27 minutes ago, Matt! said:Search is also broken.+1Came 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.
March 25Mar 25 4 minutes ago, goldenfinger said:+1Came 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.
March 25Mar 25 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
March 25Mar 25 44 minutes ago, laeteita said:Hello, there is a “has no activity to show “ problem.yess
March 25Mar 25 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 toshow" when I do have activityalso when I edit a post I get like "warning"...
March 25Mar 25 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
March 26Mar 26 Are uploads operating slower than usual for everyone? If so, is it because of the jpg to webp conversion done during the upload?
March 26Mar 26 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
March 26Mar 26 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 forumThere 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.
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