Update 1: This is an issue with cloudflare, we are having issues with the account that hosts the site, we are contacting cloudflare support about the issue.
Update 2: we have switched s3 providers and images should be working again, older images may be missing, we will have to do a merge with the old s3 storage backup into the new provider, we plan to do this soon, but all new images will work as expected, sorry for the issues and thanks for your patience and kindness while we were working on the fix
That is not the issue, we are having issues with our cloudflare account and our S3 bucket, we are in contact with support and working on a fix. You are making wild assumptions.
It must be hard to deal with these kind of paranoid nutcases, thanks for your hard work.
What fucking hard work?
They’re just waiting for a response from cloudflare that almost certainly will never come, when they could fix the issue by simply removing the proxy.
You can check it for yourself, look at the URL of any random external image they’re serving, https://lemmynsfw.com/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F301480eb-7622-41f3-a66a-a868c3544b90.jpeg, for instance.
Opening that will give you an error instead of an image, because cloudflare is being cloudflare and causing the proxy to fail.
Remove the unnecessary proxy part and fix the mangling, however, and it’ll work perfectly: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/301480eb-7622-41f3-a66a-a868c3544b90.jpeg.
(The link is just some random image from the front page, irrelevant but harmless.)
This could and should have been fixed days ago, and would never have happened if they hadn’t tried to hijack the urls in the first place!
(Well, it might still have happened with local images, but at least external ones would still work, instead of the whole instance being unusable.)
I think the part that makes your posts seem hostile is that you either know and haven’t stated, or are assuming, that this is an intentional behavior on the part of lemmynsfw.
Was this behavior added to Lemmy’s master codebase, or is there evidence lemmynsfw’s admins customized the code to add a Cloudflare proxy for images? Either way, it doesn’t seem like lemmynsfw is acting in bad faith.
I get that there’s a larger Reddit / enshittification narrative you’re viewing this through, but if you want them to not do that thing - use the URL-cloud-ifier - you’d be much more persuasive and probably get a more constructive reply if you just explained why it’s a bad thing and asked them not to do it.
Oh, the original malicious intent is evidently on the devs part. They perpetrated this shit and tried to hide it under a stupid “think of the children” blanket.
The lemmynsfw admins did keep this malicious setting on, though, without telling their users, and are persisting on keeping it on despite evidence that it’s been causing their instance to be unusable for days (to the point that I very much doubt it’ll ever recover).
Hanlon’s razor might have applied when this started happening. Maybe they just didn’t know they had turned this shit on.
Them persisting on keeping it on when it’s clearly harming the instance, though, is making it look more and more likely to be a combination of incompetence and maliciousness instead of just ignorance (and, let’s be fair, also incompetence).
And, obviously, their insistence on keeping it on has irrevocably destroyed any trust the users could place on them, which for an instance based on trust (people are supposed to post their own extremely personal pictures here, after all) doesn’t bode well at all for the future of the instance.
Call me a rat if you will, but my first instinct is to flee the sinking ship (already made a backup account elsewhere a few weeks ago when it kept randomly crashing) and warn everyone to do the same.
Some people demand a lot. I think most of us are happy just knowing whats going on.
Any way thanks!
Dude, I’m just asking them to apply the obvious fix and stop messing with people’s posts.
If you think that’s a lot you have a serious case of Stockholm syndrome.
Though, to be fair, given the current massively enshittified state of the internet and the world in general, who doesn’t, I guess.
If it’s so obvious, feel free to make your own instance and run it how you want
I don’t care enough about the fediverse to waste my time on that, and if I did I’d probably go with piefed anyway.
In any case, as I said in another post you can trivially check for yourself how removing the proxy fixes the issue (in short, grab the url from any image posted in the frontpage or wherever, remove the proxy bits and fix the encoding, and it’ll work without any issues).
Yet you care enough to type multiple college length comments just about your paranoia. Either do something about your bitching or shut up already.
Can we not attack people offering constructive criticism? I get they didn’t offer a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, but I value dissent even if you don’t.
Paragraphs are easier than hosting an entire instance and it’s weird you don’t realize that or are hand-waving it to serve your personal attack.
I work in software and manage hosted services myself, for personal and professional purposes. Once set up, it’s pretty easy. It’s once an issue like this arises that it can become a bit of a nightmare. What I’m going on about is the dude putting in well over an hour, at least, of typing about his little conspiracy theory. Could something sketchy be happening? Yes. Is it likely? No.
Do you realize the first half of your comment equates to, “It’s easy for an expert like myself, so it’s easy for everyone?”
I would be shocked if it took them “well over an hour” to write that comment. I’d bet fifteen minutes or so.
It’s the underlying cause of the issue. (Well, that and dealing with cloudflare.)
Yes (that’s what cloudflare appears to be for). Which is causing your stupid proxy to produce this shit instead of an image:
You’ll notice how the first link, which is what your site produces, craps out (because your cloudflare account isn’t working properly, as tends to happen with cloudflare, no surprise there), while the second link, which is the original URL reconstructed from your mangling, works perfectly. (I grabbed it from some random post in the front page, the content is irrelevant but harmless).
So keep the fucking original URL instead of hijacking it with some stupid unnecessary proxy and it’ll fucking work!
Q.E. fucking D., for fuck’s sake! 🤷♂️