#28

Would add this one for the archive as well

Basically, any thread where users here are creating unique #content, rather than copying it from elsewhere.

Fwiw, I’d say delete the selfie threads after a week or two, for both personal data security and space - I’d imagine photos are generally bigger than memes or whatever, so that’d get the biggest savings. Might get more people posting in the selfie threads if they knew they’d be taken down as well, sort of like a delayed Snapchat.

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#29

Yeah, biggest files tend to be uploads straight from the phone camera innit. I’ve started uploading screenshots of photos rather than the original

#30

If you take them in messenger or WhatsApp they tend to be a lot smaller as well

(discovered this cos it works if you need to take a photo of a train ticket for a delay repay but are above the file size limit)

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#31

Seems to be an option to change the size on upload, maybe the default could be set to small

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#33

Firstly, don’t worry, it would be hard to find threads like the Mclusky one, which one need to be deleted manually and I love that thread and never would.

I’m going to get rid of some really old selfie threads and see if it makes any difference.

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#34

has something happened to gifs? been some (very funny) tiny giffing the last couple of days

(obviously gifs are not very space efficient anyway)

#35

I reduced upload limits to 1meg and not to download images from elsewhere to our server, so it’s maybe compressing them?

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#36

I’ve worked with @discourse and managed to reduce some of our storeage but we’re still right at limit

#37

Want me to delete old selfie threads etc, as has been discussed before?

#38

Yeah, I think deleting those will be a big help. As long as you don’t think people will kick off?

#39

Nope I think it’ll be fine. I’ll look into it in the next few days :slightly_smiling_face:

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#40

@wewerewerewolvesonce Just FYI

#41

Thanks let me know if you need a hand with this.

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#42

kicks off

:wink:

#43

Be nice to Sean, tilty.

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#44

Sigh if I must

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#45

You should delete the music you’ve been listening to thread, that thing has hundreds of pictures in it.
It might help.

#46

TBH you could really do with a breakdown for this. Is there a way to get the details of the threads that are taking the most size?

Us just guessing random threads based on images is probably not the best idea.

I assume there isn’t a lower tier storage option you can really aim for so we’re looking at just bringing it down 10-20GB to give us some overhead so if we find there’s like one monster thread causing it all (it’s gonna be the Simpsons one isn’t it?) then we might just kill that and we’ll be fine.

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#47

It is a bit confusing isn’t it. I’m also surprised I can’t just compress images in the archive or something.

#48

Two questions:

  • Can you zap anything in social that’s not been replied to in over X months?
  • Does discourse ALWAYS upload images to itself rather than just hotlinking?