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Hey, everyone!

After six years, (and almost a year of trying to get a deal with a local colo that fell out), Philomena is off of the dev hardware! Some of the high points…

Much faster!
We were routinely at 80% CPU utilization over the last 6 months; ordinary user behavior was taking the site down. We’re now steady state at under 2% CPU utilization, only spiking up to 30% when intentionally stressed, so we should be sustainable for a good while. We may need more storage but that’ll be a one-hour downtime tops.

HTTPS!
It was long overdue.

Some nice middleware!
Things like hCaptcha should help protect us from spammers. As a consequence, you’ll need to log in again.

Additionally, if your password was ever used in a breach, we’ll be able to detect it from the hash and warn you. You’ll need to reset your password by email if this happens. Our password reset mails come from noreply@mg.mobius.social.

As a side effect, anonymous IDs changed. We’re no longer on the old RNG. This isn’t something we can revert, so some old comment chains may be broken, sorry.

New formatting!
Now, instead of the old ass mix of BBCode and Textile, we’re using Markdown. Old posts were converted automatically.

Something break?
As always, issues with the site itself should go to the Site and Policy forum. If the bug happens here and on another site using Philomena, such as Furbooru, open a bug on the Philomena project instead!

Hello. When doing the normal maintenance window, I discovered that for a batch of about 250 users, there were issues with how their usernames were stored.
 
For about 250 users, their names were stored with a space after the username, probably from mobile keyboards where those spaces are added without user knowledge. This would have allowed initial login, but would have prevented subsequent login. Those spaces have been removed.
 
For an additional 10 groups of users, from very early in AMS’s history, their usernames were not unique. If your username was one of:
 
Adamthehedgehog  
Dasher_Tails  
Deiongreenaway  
hyper  
mr_den1999  
retuned2  
Rider_09  
samichedgehog  
santiago  
Tails
 
… or identical with different cases, you were affected. This prevented various tools from working. You should now be able to log in using your email and change your username. If not, get in touch with Sonata via our mas.to account.

“white outline” -> “outline”

“smiling at viewer” –> “looking at viewer” + “smiling”

“piko piko hammer” -> “hammer”
 
Thank you.

Uh…any update on that?

@JetSetRadioFan200
 
That alias is correct and will not be changed. You’re thinking about svg images. pngs are not vectors.
 
If you are looking for the correct tag to use for vector art, use vector art

I don’t know if this is the right thread to talk about this but when I searched for “vector” it instead just searched for the character “Vector The Crocodile” but the “vector” tag should stay as its own tag since a Vector is a png image usually made in Illustrator. Now I don’t know too much about vectors but it’s still important that we keep that tag separated from the “Vector The Crocodile” tag.

@Sonata Dusk
 
Sorry to hear that, hope you get better soon!
 
I would love to help somehow if I can!

@shantih19
 
Belatedly:
 
The installation instructions given in the philomena repo are incomplete, but in such a way that you can get awfully far before it becomes apparent that the installation instructions are incomplete. Among the issues are several things that make it impossible as published to run in “production” mode. Unfortunately, that is required to be able to tie in a cert from Let’s Encrypt.
 
Four years ago, it was said that complete installation instructions would be done in six months. As of right now, there still aren’t any instructions.
 
My health has taken a few hits since opening AMS, so I no longer have entire weekends to devote to attempting to update Philomena. But I haven’t given up yet, and if I can manage to create a procedure to get Philomena properly up and running, I’ll publish it.

@Sonata Dusk
 
So you don’t use a separate nginx or any other reverse proxy/loadbalancer? I saw that philomena uses openresty and I guess the problems stem from that (and/or from the Endpoints config)
 
I’m trying to setup my personal instance for fun but the lack of documentation doesn’t help, still pretty amazing software

@shantih19
 
It is a known issue caused by an upstream problem. There is no workaround at this time.

Hi,
 
For some reason if I try to access the site via https it says connection refused, it works fine without SSL.  
Is the 443 port blocked?
 
shan

10/7/2023:
 
Added Barry the Quokka and Sage to the frequent tags list.

10/3/2023:  
The site was taken down for a few hours to migrate things to a new disk. Reads and writes seem to be working. Please report missing images.

@Surge The Scourge  

 
Well, one can see why some act rudely here, downviting everything to hell.

First: Please don’t spam other threads, other images, etc., asking about thumbnails.
 
Second: I’m not able to duplicate this behavior. What are you doing to cause this to happen?

I can no longer see http://art.mobius.social/11042 or its thumbnail, no matter what I try. It says “Thumbnails not yet generated” and “Just a moment - Please wait and then refresh the page to view the image”. The View button works. Is it just me?

i keep being signed off every hour for some reason. is it normal for this to happen?
 
nevermind. forgot to click remember me.

On my end at least.

7/23/2022:
 
“WIP Screenshots” - images with the UI of the drawing program in them - explicitly added to the list of unreleased art.

5/19/2022:
 
Sneaky ponies in the reporting system have been herded off

@Mobian #A5BD  
One of the options says: “Rule #3: Image MLP-related/obligatory pony”

So the image in question would be have to be removed unless the artist themselves post it?