#36

Iā€™ve worked with @discourse and managed to reduce some of our storeage but weā€™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 donā€™t think people will kick off?

#39

Nope I think itā€™ll be fine. Iā€™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 youā€™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 isnā€™t a lower tier storage option you can really aim for so weā€™re looking at just bringing it down 10-20GB to give us some overhead so if we find thereā€™s like one monster thread causing it all (itā€™s gonna be the Simpsons one isnā€™t it?) then we might just kill that and weā€™ll be fine.

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#47

It is a bit confusing isnā€™t it. Iā€™m also surprised I canā€™t just compress images in the archive or something.

#48

Two questions:

  • Can you zap anything in social thatā€™s not been replied to in over X months?
  • Does discourse ALWAYS upload images to itself rather than just hotlinking?
#49

Maybe but images from the internet are small files compared to images from your camera roll so some picture threads are gonna take up a lot more space than others

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#50

The answer to the first one is yes - Itā€™s in the other thread I think that @wewerewerewolvesonce pointed out threads left for a certain amount of time can be auto-deleted.

The problem is if we decide some threads are worth keeping (again, big discussion).

And yes, hotlinking isnā€™t good so Discourse doesnā€™t do it as standard. Iā€™m not sure you can stop that. You can possibly force stuff to appear at hyperlinks though (maybe thatā€™s what you mean) rather than previewing.

#51

Hotlinking probably isnā€™t what I meant then. Likeā€¦ if I find an image on, say, bigexpensivebikes dotcom and want to show it in the cycling thread, does Discourse always download the image from the URL I post, and upload it to DiSā€™s servers, in my reply, rather than just inserting it?

(Is that hotlinking?)

#52

Just ā€œinserting itā€ is hotlinking.

Itā€™s considered bad form because it means youā€™re expecting someone else to pay for the bandwidth costs that youā€™re creating.

DiS downloads a copy and uploads to its own server to act as a ā€œgood citizenā€ of the internet.

Thanks @discobot
Thiscobot.

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#53

Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.

#54

Solve Seanā€™s hosting costs please.

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#55

Yeahā€¦ butā€¦ fuck them other sites

:wink: