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  Johnnynull 8 years ago

  Pjuu turned Snapchat. #lulz

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  Joe 8 years ago

  @stolensoul. I agree. However I will happily lock down the private images once we have the infrastructure in place to do this efficiently. The plan was to have them locked down but no caching is to big a hit for us. We could have done it with X-Accel in Nginx but then the code would then require it. As it's open source it didn't fit. Once Digitalocean block storage comes to the Amsterdam data centres we will be reworking images. I'll address it then.

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  Stolensoul 8 years ago

  Hotlinking or not, if you put an image on the internet you should consider it as public. I guess that if you want to share confidential pictures, a social network isn't the tool you need.

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  Joe 8 years ago

  We can't stop it tbh. There is no legitimate way to disable hotlinking as you can always disable the referrer header so we wouldn't know. The one thing about the protected images is they are hidden and the post which goes along with them is protected. If we protect the images too we can't cache them. We don't have the infrastructure at this time to deal with the cost of serving from the back end every time. There are tricks such as X-Accel we can visit in future.

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  Dirk 8 years ago

  You shouldn't allow hotlinking of protected posts images (or hotlinking in general).

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  Johnnynull 8 years ago

  No, I mean that on my cell, clicking a picture brings up a dedicated page of just the picture, and from there I can pinch zoom.
  Like I said, it's likely due to an add-on. It doesn't really impact me, I was just making noise. Ignore me. ☺

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  Joe 8 years ago

  You mean pinch zoom them? That will only work on mobile.

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  Johnnynull 8 years ago

  Amusingly, I can only embiggen pictures on my cell. Guessing it's one of my add-ons stopping it from working in Pale Moon.

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  Joe 8 years ago

  I do need to make the full screen images an actual page rather than just loading the image. Will open an issue later. We can then add it to that page

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  Mukt 8 years ago

  Anything in the pipeline for poor mobile users?

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