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!

You can monitor our site health at https://dash.lemmy.world and https://status.lemmy.world

We will post updates to https://mastodon.world/@LemmyWorld as well.

Cheers, LW Infra Team 💗

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

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months 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.

    • Rooki@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      There will be a announcement soon and even if we dont defederate you can simply block threads yourself in 0.19!

        • Rooki@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          In the next week we will upgrade our test environment and test our automation there, if everything works fine we will then be doing it probably the week after that.