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Slow loading images

Some of images on Loforo load extremely slow. They take more than a few seconds to load and some times next page takes too long to load too. This happens both on mobile and desktop also on two different internet providers, Both based in Lithuania. This is getting more and more annoying as time passes and should be fixed as soon as possible.

Was not able to log in for a while, thought my blog was deleted.

I was not able to log in, I thought my blog was deleted w/o a warning. Checked later, everything came back to a state like before, nothing gone so far. Anyway, such situations should be avoided when possible, no matter what it was. Updates, deleting blogs w/o a warning, site/hosting/etc bugs, other disruptions including site suddenly not connecting after first page load, etc. At least a warning should be given one way or another to the user and some time/a way/etc for the user to correct anything found would be needed, making sure updates are as minimally disruptive as possible, also not forgetting to fix the site infrastructure including network w/o causing annoyance to the users when possible. As sudden connection drops are extremely annoying, not mentioning site bugs, it may cause an impact to users health,  which might not always end good. I was in a shock for a while until I found that everything was restored later which was not pleasant experience. By avoiding such situations everyone's life would be better, and less unexpected things may happen. Also when I was writing on another site my hand was trembling for a while, and was still pissed off a bit because of that. Read More »

Random slow connections on vpn

Some times when using loforo (e.g. scrolling) it suddently stops connecting. Mostly happen when using VPN server hosted in same country (Lithuania) that I'm connecting from. Images and next page loads slower than usual and some times it does not connect at all. Very anoying. Happens multiple times for at least a few days. Not sure what is the cause. Speed test on vpn shows it's ~100 on both up and down Mbps

Edit: It does not appear to be a big slowdown compared to direct connection, as I've tested on a new browser profile, though page load speed decreases on later pages, probably due to browser lag. Read More »

Curl syntax for uploading images in the API page is incorrect

The image upload example shown below (w/o space added before MyTestPicture so it would not be auto-linked),

curl -d 'key=<your key>' -F 'media=@ MyTestPicture.jpg' -d 'content=<p>A picture is attached to this post</p>' https://loforo.com/api/post/create

also included in api description page does not work, curl fails with messages shown below and no request is sent.

Warning: You can only select one HTTP request method! You asked for both POST 
Warning: (-d, --data) and multipart formpost (-F, --form).

Use this instead (change -d to -F where needed, remove space before MyTestPicture, don't forget to quote html): Read More »

So many broken images on loforo

It appears that the default image hosting provider on loforo is randomly deleting images w/o discretion. This generates alot of broken image posts with images leading to a 404 page. Loforo should either stop using thumbsnap and use alternative service or alternately host images on itself like it was before since a service that randomly deletes content is not reliable for job that it was given.

Edit: it appears that the missing images and videos reappear after some time since they'd been gone, this might be some issue on thumbsnap end and/or they're being restored there where I don't know which is an actual cause being there. Read More »