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PSA: Pictures are back! (self.support)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Lionir to c/support
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We have to move to object storage to have efficient image storage. We are currently at 70% of our disk storage.

We are sorry for the short notice and we don't know how long it will take though we believe it will take multiple hours.

Small post mortem :

  1. The migration required us to be down - we thought we could run without images
  2. It took much longer than initially anticipated
  3. It broke at close to 2:30AM - 3 hours into the migration and I couldn't fix it so the server has been down doing nothing for hours now
  4. We're booting back up from the backup made before the migration was attempted, we'll try another strategy.

There might've been some data loss in images, we're looking into it. In the meanwhile, if your profile picture or banner is broken, feel free to re-upload them.

Update :

Hi Beeple!

We're trying this again.

This time, Beehaw should remain available though no pictures will be able to be uploaded. The error will likely be weird because Lemmy will think it is possible but we will block the upload from happening.

We'll take a snapshot of the pictures before the migration in 60 minutes at 21:00 UTC - it should take around one hour, do the migration and testing on our own before shipping on Beehaw.

Once we've resolved all these kinks, Beehaw will momentarily go down and then back up with the migration complete without losing any old pictures.

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[–] vertelleus 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thanks for the update!
So to save them space we should use externally linked images from other sources.
What are some of your favorite image hosts?
I just started using https://imgbox.com/

[–] silentdon 3 points 1 year ago

External image hosting is probably preferable but can we trust imgbox (or any other host really) to not pull an imgur and purge for e.g. anomymous uploads?

[–] Zoop 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really quite like catbox.moe for image hosting so far! I've just started using it recently myself for the same reasons. (Before that, I used imgur, which is still an option, but I'm not a fan of a lot of their more recent decisions and changes, so I'm trying out other places.)

I'm glad other people are thinking about how to try and help lessen the load on these instances. Thank you for that consideration for others. It's nice to see (and I needed to see it!) I appreciate you.

[–] Lionir 2 points 1 year ago

Note that we still have to proxy them so I'm not sure how much is saved but using this while we do the migration will be necessary.