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After seven months of limping along with an ever-so-slightly-broken authentication system, I ripped the whole thing out and replaced it with the official solution sponsored the Phoenix developers.
 
Whenever it is merged and deployed (which I expect is probably in the next few days), everyone will be logged out, because the old session database is being removed. If you would like, you can also clear your cookies for the site when logged out, but this isn’t required.
 
You will then be able to proceed to sign in again as normal. The only change is that now, if you click the box to have your session be remembered, you shouldn’t end up being frequently and infuriatingly logged out anymore.

@byte[]  
Dem gore luncheon meats…

@ЅℰℒᎯℙℋℐℰℒ  
Yes, due to spam.

Just out of curiosity. Did the site recently implement a 30 second post limit system?

@JP
 
Ah. Didn’t notice. Just seen his reply and responded to it. I wasn’t going any farther with it anyway though.

@reversalmushroom  
@runner2  
Please take this discussion anywhere else than this thread. This thread is about site development (essentially, programming), not about why an image was deleted.
 
Make a new thread in Site and Policy or Uploader Discussion, if no other thread can be found. Not here.

Been waiting for a long time for this, would be cool when it’s implemented.

From upstream Philomena: Animated uploads (including GIF, APNG, and WebM video) now display the duration of the animation in the metabar.
 
To do: add search UX to be able to filter and sort by duration.

@reversalmushroom  
There are still “argument in the comments” and “discussion in the comments”

@TexasUberAlles  
My point was that throttling the thumbnail size for slower connections isn’t needed for videos because browsers won’t download that much at once to begin with.

@byte[]  
With my connection, I am very much aware! Apparently Hughesnet is bouncing this signal off the Andromeda Galaxy or something, WEBM loads like GIFs on AOL dialup.
 
Android Firefox tends to just start crying and give up partway through a large video file unless the data signal is at maximum bars.

@TexasUberAlles  
Browsers download video files progressively, using byte-range requests instead of downloading the whole thing at once.

@TexasUberAlles  
all >25MB thumbnails are throttled to the variants they would’ve had if they were <25MB (e.g. medium)

@Luna  
100MB  
That sounds kinda dangerous for mobile users, are WEBM and GIF thumbnails still throttled to a maximum size?

@Luna  
@JP  
@Officer Hotpants  
1024 > 1000 when it comes to describing computer storage and speeds.
 
Even if I think that the term “mebibytes” is fucking stupid and the “mega” prefix (and others used in computer terms) should just change based on context.

@JP  
Computers are weird.

@Luna  
Such a weird random number.
 
Why not use a nice round number, like 104857600?

@evan555alpha  
100MB (100,000,000 bytes exactly)

@Luna  
How many gigs?

@Luna  
Increased to how much now?

site’s upload file size limit has been increased

@reversalmushroom  
It was banned four years ago (Oct 2016 to be specific) for the reason BP described.

@reversalmushroom  
I’m assuming that the mods don’t want to formally recognize comment drama as something notable, and don’t want to enable the sort of person who would actively search for “drama in the comments”.

How come we can’t put the tag “drama in the comments” anymore? I saw an image I wanted to put that on.

@ЅℰℒᎯℙℋℐℰℒ  
I remember that it broke comment pagination (the comment fetching would always return the first page)