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Is anyone else having an issue with highlight navigation? I was checking out the Pirate Software thread and hitting the next/previous arrows on posts either wouldn't work, or would send me to a specific highlight regardless of what was clicked.
 
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obsdj said:
Null addressed this a couple of months ago:
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I know it never was immediate-immediate, just close enough so that you could reasonably reach last few pages by clicking HLs. If you look at the attached thread, if I'm counting correctly, last highlight was manually applied over 24 hours ago, and last automatic highlight over 72 hours ago (with 13 reactions). Null's response two pages later has 100+ reactions, for example.

In any case, he knows about the issue now.

Edit: Issue is fixed
 
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Null said:
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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Did you take any metrics? Whenever I upgrade anything I always take some before and after metrics because I love seeing the little +xx% I end up with in my spreadsheets. Page load times? Average DB query response? Backup times? Anything like that? I love seeing before and after numbers.

Site seems snappier to me, though. Nice!
 
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I changed the CRON for the highlights from 15 minutes to 1 minute. I'm not sure if there will be negative consequences for this.

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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Null said:
I changed the CRON for the highlights from 15 minutes to 1 minute. I'm not sure if there will be negative consequences for this.
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I see you are of the "Let's make a 1400% increase in something and see if it works" school of thought. My last sysadmins were the same.

Godspeed!

Null said:
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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Tor browser is Firefox based and caching at least some images - reaction icons, image attachments in threads, avatar images... Can't see anything that isn't. Not getting a flicker / delay on background in it. Can try non-Tor for you if you like.
 
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Null said:
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.
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Dunno if this was addressed somewhere else, so sorry if double-post. What was $3k that increased your access to the servers? An IPMI switch and an OOB network or something? Or just some cold/warm redundancy?
 
Uploading images is fucked up for me again, the upload never completes, but when I refresh the page the image is available to be added to the post as if the upload had succeeded.

Can anyone confirm this issue? I am browsing on Brave with uBlock origins.
 
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Sloppy Party Bottom said:
What was $3k that increased your access to the servers? An IPMI switch and an OOB network or something? Or just some cold/warm redundancy?
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yes, but that was only a few hundred for old spare hardware, the greatest expenses were in new networking and hdds. i don't know why you immediately assumed $3k = oob kvm.
 
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Uploading images is fucked up for me again, the upload never completes, but when I refresh the page the image is available to be added to the post as if the upload had succeeded.

Can anyone confirm this issue? I am browsing on Brave with uBlock origins.
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Seem to be having issues with attachments/performance as well. Had issues uploading as the site seems slow. When opening the picture after I hit post I get this:
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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.
 
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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Likely an issue with one specific front end. Are you able to identify which remote IP you cannot connect to
 
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