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Site Announcements and Feedback => Announcements/Feedback/Suggestions => Topic started by: terrpn on Sun, 02 November 2014, 16:19:39
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Still having a hard time uploading pictures from my computer, imgur, etc. to forum?
Is there something going on.........?
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yeah the forum's been crapping out the last few days. hope someone applies a fix soon
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yes..........pretty crappy- i even tried from another computer and still error message :(
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I tried this morning, with no luck.
Only a 29KB JPG, too.
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As far as i can tell, it's just attachments that aren't working. Embedded images seem to be working fine for me.
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It seems to be completely random as to what can and can't post.
I just imagine chimps throwing poop in the GH server room, and the manager popping his head in the door to look around and just being like, "Great job boys! Keep up the good work!"
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Just host the images somewhere else (flickr, imgur, whatever).
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Just host the images somewhere else (flickr, imgur, whatever).
This is the solution until the staff remedies the issue. It's being worked on.
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It’s a better solution than attaching the images even if the attachments work though; geekhack’s forum software / hosting / etc. is never going to have the same amount of time and effort put into serving big image files through a CDN that some dedicated image host will have. Having images hosted somewhere else will keep page load times down, and relieve stress on geekhack's server(s).
Ideally all the images that get posted here would get archived to someone’s backup box [in case the image host site ever goes down or changes hotlink policy or whatever], and then actually hosted from someplace with a beefy reliable CDN capable of handling lots of traffic. (Personally I wish the software would also transparently archive images from transient sources like ebay and rehost those at some kind of dedicated image host, too.) Unfortunately setting something like that up would probably be a bunch of work so it’s probably an unrealistic goal. Instead, people uploading images should just put them somewhere else reliable (imgur, flickr, ...) and hotlink from their forum posts.