Seriously, Loforo? WTF IS THAT?!

Couldn't we be free at least  here from any american politics? I'm pretty sure most of us aren't from the US anyway. It's supposed to be a safe space. A form of escapism. Stop shoving such things down our throats FOR FUCK'S SAKE. Or at least stop hijacking the whole site with that. We don't need that here. 

 

If you want to make any personal statement regarding those elections on your official profile, so be it. But don't force it upon us. You can't even see the recent posts, because that covered it all. 


Reposted from mtsen via dii997

Linux group page is set to private

A blog page of a group I'm in is set to private. This group is visible in group list and has not disappeared from there. The group is for content that is popular on the internet everywhere but the owner set it to private. This is annoying and should never be done for such groups. At least the page should disappear from the group list and the members should to be removed from it in such cases.

Spam on loforo

A new trend on loforo. Blogs posting spam that looks like adverts and nothing else, with the blog url some times referring to that. I don't like such blogs, so I'll be blocking anything like that as soon as I spot them. Such accounts are recently registered and don't have many posts, and the captcha should be improved, now bots can easily solve that.


Reposted from juozaspo via thriceuponatime

Some of recently uploaded videos are still broken

Those videos are hosted on thumbsnap and are still not properly loading. When trying to view such videos on new tab using browser feature to view such video the is redirected to actual video page but the browser shows error like the video was corrupt or in unsupported format. Checking browser console shows 404 page on final url. It appears there's still something wrong or messed up on thumbsnap causing videos not showing properly, like not finished processing, not moved to right place or other unknown problem, etc.

So many broken images on loforo

It appears that the default image hosting provider on loforo is randomly deleting images w/o discretion. This generates alot of broken image posts with images leading to a 404 page. Loforo should either stop using thumbsnap and use alternative service or alternately host images on itself like it was before since a service that randomly deletes content is not reliable for job that it was given.

Edit: it appears that the missing images and videos reappear after some time since they'd been gone, this might be some issue on thumbsnap end and/or they're being restored there where I don't know which is an actual cause being there. Read More »

Youtube unusable in full screen while in theater mode

This morning I noticed that screen would turn blank when switching YouTube player to full screen. Almost caused me to reboot my pc. It appears a bad youtube update caused it where the theater mode would be the cause. Solution: don't use YouTube theater mode in full screen untill they fix that. Use the default mode instead.

Update: Looks like Youtube recently fixed this issue, full screen on theater mode now works again :)

Connection issues through the VPN

I was unable to connect to Loforo just recently. Posted on bunch of other platforms, now I'm back. It gets quite annoying when I'm unable to access the site when I'm blocked w/o a proper reason or warning and it's frustrating to wait untill some1 responds to my frustration. Please avoid doing that.