The new Post-editor is here and you can use it directly from the Explore page (it's right above the list of posts)!

When you're logged in, you'll see a compose bar at the top of the explore page — click it to open the full editor without leaving your feed.

The new composer supports drag-and-drop for images and videos. Just drag files from your computer directly into the editor. You can upload multiple media files at once and they'll display as previews instantly, so you can keep writing while uploads finish in the background.

When writing text, highlight any text to see formatting options: bold, italic, links, headings, and code blocks. Read More »

Is ist just me or does Loforo not work properly....? I'm missing the posts... no pictures, no nothing else...

It looks like the recent loforo update or another bug broke the post feed. No posts are shown unless you enable nsfw where all posts not just nsfw are shown. The feed was fine not so far ago now it's totally broken.

Many international characters in old posts (Polish, etc.) are corrupt. They appear as a question mark instead of an actual symbol, probably due to encoding errors, etc.

Most of images on loforo not loading as primary image host is very unstable. Cloudflare is reporting timeouts everywhere. Happening since this morning (or even before, I'm not sure). Admin please fix this issue it's very annoying.

Most of images on loforo are broken. It looks like the image host is down as cloudflare reports time outs there. Was working earlier this morning but now it's broken both on desktop and mobile. Such downtimes must be fixed as now there're alot of broken images everywhere.

They're back on the feed. Many of them are long posts needing more than a few seconds to scroll past. Think of public places, minors and everyone else that might see it, they'd think you're browsing adult content or something similar, they might also look at you weirdly and/or make a weird imagination of you after witnessing that. At least mark such posts as soon as possible, maybe give users ability to mark them as nsfw when posting, don't just mark only by automatic means, e.g. someone reporting, using specific tags, or by manual editing by admin, etc. With such improvements our life would be better, no one'd want to see the dreaded "you've already reported this post" message all the time. Read More »

They are giving out cloudflare bad gateway page when viewed both on mobile and desktop. This is getting annoying, the random post page is full of them.

Edit: it looks like images load again, I guess it was a temporary outage.

I mentioned the new cluster-based/autoscaling setup we were moving to previously and the initial work deployed correctly but there were a few bottlenecks found which caused serious performance issues.

The issues are now resolved on both Loforo and our image/video host (Thumbsnap) so responses should be much faster.

For the technical folks who want specifics:

• NFS file-shares over the private network didn't perform as expected leading to slow transfers that was using a tiny portion of our full bandwidth. This was fixed with NFS caching (via cachefilesd)

• The database was getting hammered by background-jobs when containers were scaled up and down (media encoding, feed generation, caching). Jobs were rewritten to wait longer before starting instead of at-startup. Read More »

Some images on loforo are broken. Either returning a 403 page or redirecting to direct link page or otherwise fail to load. None are extenal images unrelated to loforo/thumbsnap infrastructure, all hosted by thumbsnap and are shown in loforo posts' pages. This is annoying, it must be fixed.

Edit: this is no longer an issue, marking as solved.

Loforo's too buggy. Now it decided to show me a cloudflare bad gateway page once instead of an actual content. Errors like this happens too frequently so they must be fixed.

Edit: this is fixed, no longer issue.

Some images not loading on Loforo. They appear as blank spot that later gets replaced with broken image icon. Also image load is very slugish for some images.

Reposted from juozaspo

We recently started moving both Loforo and the media host to a setup that should allow us to scale up dynamically (instead of manually provisioning new servers as needed).

This cluster based setup, when complete, should be faster and more resilient that it was before (but right now, there are still slowdowns/latency issues that we're investigating).

We expect this to take another few days to find/fix the various issues.