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[Done] Pictrs Migration- Between NOW and 1700 UTC Image Upload Disabled (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Hi all, We will be attempting to migrate Pict-rs tomorrow starting at 1700 UTC. Between now and 1700, image uploads will be disabled to try and avoid any data loss. You will still be able to like, comment and post until then. During the upgrade window, Pict-rs will be offline, so viewing images might not work. In theory CloudFlares CDN cache should cover us during the window, but YMMV. Hopefully everything should go smooth, but we do our best to make sure we have backups!

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Update This change is done. Images are now hosted on S3 storage and uploads are re-enabled.

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guyz, what is Pictr? Is it like Imgur?

Also, [excellent]

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Kind of like Imgur, it's a barebones Image hosting server which is what Lemmy uses to serve images uploaded to the instance. It makes it easier otherwise people would need to use things like catbox or imgur itself to host images.

I do feel like support could be better with it though, like if it gave us an interface where we could access our images from our account, or at the very least one for admins.