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Civillian 18 said:
On Firefox all images/avatars are timing out/failing to load, as you mentioned it does not happen on Chromium. Unsure why FF is cucking out on anything from uploads.kiwifarms.st.
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It had some tantruming on my end too, like to the point it wouldn't even load. Insecure handshaking due to the changes I think. I fixed it by clearing cookies and restarting; that seemed to do the trick.
 
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Null said:
Likely an issue with one specific front end. Are you able to identify which remote IP you cannot connect to
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I am retarded in regards to this, the errors I could visually see in my network inspector simply showed that all images were blocked, with a NX or NS value in the "Type" column which I think is related to DNS/name server resolution. The domains for all failed images were from uploads.kiwifarms.st/* obviously.
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Resolved issue with one of the 8 frontends not working correctly.
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Issue appears to have resolved itself with a hard refresh and restart, or more likely you fixed it in the interim.
 
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btw my biggest technical grievance myself is that it appears on FireFox-based browsers the images either do not cache or do not cache correctly. The background image flickers on every page load. It does not on Chromiums. I have no idea why.
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If you were tinkering with this in the last 5 minutes, it's fixed now.
fwiw i didn't notice the flickering beforehand but i did notice image heavy pages being slow in general.
 
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skunt said:
fwiw i didn't notice the flickering beforehand but i did notice image heavy pages being slow in general.
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Firefox has always seemed to have issues with pages with a lot of videos. It seems to try to mass download everything on the page and then shits itself.
 
Hey Null, I'm not sure if recent upgrades caused it, but videos buffer far less now, quicker page loads, and images expand quicker when I click on them. Thank you for all your hard work Cheese dog Ooperator!
 
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im trying to local archive a video around 150 mb (cause its 1 hour long) but the servers arent allowing me to upload it. It slowly uploads it arounds a certain percent then it just flatlines
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Null said:
Thus, the attachments and database were competing for I/O, which is why both broke frequently.
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Had to service a server of a client recently and it also uses modern NVME drives in a raid, I noticed that dropping the mq-deadline default IO scheduler and setting it to none (noop) drastically improved performance and throughput, since most drive controllers or RAID cards already handle queueing very efficiently.

YMMV.
 
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Work mostly complete.

I dropped about $3,000 to get new hardware to increase my access to the servers so that we have to rely on remote hands less often which will decrease downtime in catastrophic events. I am upgrading our network to 10G from 1G. I intend to reduce the complexity of our topology so that the site has less latency with every request.

The most important change is that we have added an optimized NVMe SSD in RAID 10 on XFS for the database. The database is very large and when our previous NVMe raid failed I moved it to the SSD raid that is optimized for files. Thus, the attachments and database were competing for I/O, which is why both broke frequently. This new raid is a completely separate set of devices which means that not only is the database on very recent harddrives with a better connector (NVMe vs SATA), it is also no longer competing with the S3 file system that handles attachments. This will make both load faster.

It's 3am and I'm tired but this is only the first step towards optimizing things. I will do more work over the week.

This is brought to you by the GiveSendGo donors btw, thank you for helping me help you help us all.
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Cheers, Null! <3
 
Not a grievance but a question:
Is there a way to pull up saved drafts? I'm guessing not, but I had a huge writeup disappear on me after I saved it and figured I'd ask. I'm 98% sure it's gone for good though lol
 
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I don't like that threads disappear from the "Latest watched" section on the homepage if the latest reply is from an ignored user.
 
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Null said:
depending on your browser and if you're using a schizo browser you may need to edit the about:config area.
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nvm, found it
When I get this issue,this shit appears next to the address and I can enable Extract Canvas data
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Not a schizo browser, just Tor browser
 
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yes, the tor browser disables canvas due to fingerprinting concerns. you can either just upload images directly as webp or turn it off.
 
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