I’m not sure how long it took, but for a while the instance had crashed. For some reason the Lemmy photo upload service took up 150GB of free space and hence the server crashed because of it. I’m not sure about the possibility of recurrence as I don’t know the exact reason.

For this reason, you can follow our Mastodon account, which I have just opened, to follow or report possible crashes.

https://mastodon.world/@lemmynsfw

    • yay@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      I believe having a photo upload feature on the platform itself is a big plus, but I’m not sure how long I can go on. For now, around 15GB of files have accumulated. It’s not big enough to be alarming.

      The error we are experiencing right now is not because of the photos, but because of the service itself.

        • yay@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
          10·
          1 year ago

          Cost is always a thing. Like if you are going to have big files, than your backup is going to be big backup too. Copyright is also important. There may be a need for an offshore server as there is a risk that the entire site will be shut down due to a random Onlyfans user’s lawsuit. Things get complicated when Lemmy gets involved. I don’t really know if Lemmy can handle that much media.

          Anyways, I’m really not sure. All will become clear this month hopefully.

        • yay@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          I don’t think it makes any sense. If disk space starts to fill up and I can’t find a solution; I would turn off the upload service and suggest other platforms. But still any content uploaded should stay.

  • sexualanimal@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Should we upload media elsewhere? I am concerned about whats happening to imgur making outside uploads unsafe.

    Thanks for the update and working to give us a porn space.

  • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    This happened to my instance too, it’s the pictrs log file. Need to set the environment to have a rotating log to stop it ballooning

  • Wander@yiffit.netEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I had this happen the other day over at Yiffit. Suddenly the hard drive was full.

    • yay@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Pictrs service is the problem. It’s storing something on /tmp folder. I think it could be temporary cache of external instance images but not sure.

      • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This is a temporary (backup?) file created by imagemagick when converting an image into another format. Create a Cron job to delete /tmp daily?

        • yay@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          But these files should automatically deleted after the process finished. There is a buggy situation and cron job is not an ideal solution i think.

          • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m actually not sure they are. When I was doing testing to see what makes some pictures not properly rotate, I also ended up with these files. Cron job isn’t the solution to the problem, but ti will fix the symptoms.

            • yay@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Interesting. I increased memory for now and disk is not increasing right now. I will check later.

    • yay@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I tested it and working. It may be temporary problem. Can you try again?

      • Madness@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        It loads like that never end. I tried in the other community, still the same. So, I thought it was a bug maybe. I clean my browser cache multiple times, same result. My internet connection is normal for everything else. This happened since today.

        • yay@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          It could be about the image itself. Right now if Lemmy finds a validation error, it just stucks at loading. Can you send me the image from another platform so I can test it?

            • yay@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I was able to upload both. I even tried it with a user with only mod permission, it worked again. You’re not the only one with this problem, so there’s still a problem. What browser do you use? Maybe it can be about browser.

              • Madness@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
                5·
                1 year ago

                Update :

                I can change it now. It seems that I should choose either “Undetermined” or “English” in the Languages option. So, I choose only “Undetermined”

                At default state, Undetermined and English already checked :

                At least I noticed that when the community has no icon or wants to upload an icon for the first time. Before that, I never did anything in the Languages option and was always successful 'til now

              • Madness@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
                3·
                1 year ago

                Well, maybe I just have to wait then. The same browser I used for uploading the communities icon before. I use Brave Browser

        • rvdn@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Are you using Firefox? I had the same issue some days ago. Actually, the real issue was a mistake I made on the name, but on Firefox the error message could not be displayed.

  • HuggaBubba@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    At some point a couple days ago, I stopped being able to update icons or banners on communities. I’ve tried everything I can think of on my side, including appointing a friend as a mod, who was also unable to edit the images.

    [EDIT] I had both English and Undetermined selected somehow, and as per user suggestion I fixed that, and it worked! I can now update images, I just had to select ONLY undetermined.