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I noticed all images automatically scale down to thumbnail size now? Just wanted to say this change is fucking great, because fuck all of these people who upload huge images and then have the audacity to post them full scale, which ruins the loading time and length of the whole page. I hope this is for everyone and not just me.
As someone that isn't an idiot and posts reasonable size images, I find it annoying. It was really only an issue with people that post mobile screenshots.
If it's going to auto do this, it should be based on the dimensions of the image and not an all or nothing. Auto thumbnail mobile screenshots? Go for it. Auto thumbnail an image that is only 963x549? Retarded.
 
The smaller ones don't need to be resized. I don't know if Null can change that.

However the amount of people posting giant screenshots including giant photos and giant mobile screencaps? Too god fucking damn high.
 
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As someone that isn't an idiot and posts reasonable size images, I find it annoying. It was really only an issue with people that post mobile screenshots.
If it's going to auto do this, it should be based on the dimensions of the image and not an all or nothing. Auto thumbnail mobile screenshots? Go for it. Auto thumbnail an image that is only 963x549? Retarded.
If it's going to do this, it should allow us to manually resize the image via dragging. But you can't do that anymore, everything is forced to be a fixed thumbnail, you can't adjust the size all you can do is click on it to open the full-size thing. Well that sucks..
 
I haven't seen this addressed yet.

Old posts can't be rated. Take this thread https://kiwifarms.net/threads/oy-vey-antisemitism.18827/

Trying to apply a rating to any one of those old posts results in a 'server error occurred' error message.

Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, Latest Brave.

I don't know how old a post has to be before it doesn't let you rate it, new posts rate just fine. Ones from 2017 (or older) can't be rated, either. I haven't tried anything from 2018-2019.

Update: I can't rate any posts older than August 29th 2020. I'm not sure if this is a new, intended limitation but if it is, it should be made clear instead of throwing an error. Has anyone else experienced this, or is it just me?

This applies to forum posts only and not profile posts.

Update: fixed. Problem was with my browser.
 
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Hrm. Works fine on mobile. Seems there's some kind of issue on my end.

edit: fixed.
 
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Mp4s won't upload for me on firefox or chrome, and neither PC or mobile. Tried a few mp4 files on both. Gifs and images works.
Works for other people when I asked in chat.
 
It would be nice if kiwifarms.net links could be rewritten to uquu...onion for those users on the onion site. It's annoying in chat otherwise.

You can do this with JavaScript; just iterate over all <a> elements, and replace ^(https://kiwifarms.net|http://uquu.onion)/ with nothing.
 
Not so much a technical grievance but a query and I didn't want to shit up a thread - apologies if this is the wrong place but I couldn't find somewhere more suitable, please direct me elsewhere if a FAQ exists. How does one insert additional quoted posts when editing an already-posted post? So, I have made a post that includes a quote. However then I see another post from another user and want to insert it into my edited post in order to avoid double-posting. When editing, I can insert a quote box from the toolbar, but I can't see how to insert a proper quote box that links to the quoted post.
 
Not so much a technical grievance but a query and I didn't want to shit up a thread - apologies if this is the wrong place but I couldn't find somewhere more suitable, please direct me elsewhere if a FAQ exists. How does one insert additional quoted posts when editing an already-posted post? So, I have made a post that includes a quote. However then I see another post from another user and want to insert it into my edited post in order to avoid double-posting. When editing, I can insert a quote box from the toolbar, but I can't see how to insert a proper quote box that links to the quoted post.
What I do for that is select "Reply" to the post I want to add to my post (or "Quote" if more than one). In the text box I toggle BB code, then copy the quote(s). Then when I go to my original post to edit it, I paste the quote(s) in there.
 
Does anyone else get a phantom notification? I always see one more notification than I actually have. If I go to my tab list in my browser, it shows the correct number of notifications in the name of the page. This is on Safari on iOS 12.
 
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When I try to access the site on Brave, I get a "checking your browser before accessing kiwifarms.net" cloudflare loop that never ends.

edit: nvm, looks like it's fixed after all.
 
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When I try to access the site on Brave, I get a "checking your browser before accessing kiwifarms.net" cloudflare loop that never ends.

edit: nvm, looks like it's fixed after all.
I'm getting the same problem on Vivaldi. I'm not using a VPN or a proxy. Chrome works fine, which is weird since Vivaldi is based on Chromium. I cleared all my cookies and cache and it still happens.
 
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I'm getting the same problem on Vivaldi. I'm not using a VPN or a proxy. Chrome works fine, which is weird since Vivaldi is based on Chromium. I cleared all my cookies and cache and it still happens.
Have had that problem on Chrome all day. Went to MSFT Edge and finally got on. Any ideas what else I can do? Thanks!
 
Mp4s won't upload for me on firefox or chrome, and neither PC or mobile. Tried a few mp4 files on both. Gifs and images works.
Works for other people when I asked in chat.
mp4s or any videos still won't work for me, done everything I can, tried tons of different files, tried Edge, Firefox, Chrome, reset my computer, cleaned my cache, tried with and without a VPN. It won't work on mobile or pc and even visiting the link to the uploaded file leads me to a 404. It's as if I cannot upload MP4s or videos at all. Almost feels like I had the ability to upload videos has been taken away or something.

There is something wrong because i've done every single measure I've can to try to iron this out and there's no solution. Webm, mp4, none of it is working still.
 
Have had that problem on Chrome all day. Went to MSFT Edge and finally got on. Any ideas what else I can do? Thanks!
I fixed it by going into the Inspector Tools (Ctrl+Shift+I), going to the Application tab, clicking the Service Workers item in the left-hand menu (highlighted in red below), then clicking Unregister (highlighted in blue below). Then the Cloudflare check worked after a reload.

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