Was not able to log in for a while, thought my blog was deleted.

I was not able to log in, I thought my blog was deleted w/o a warning. Checked later, everything came back to a state like before, nothing gone so far. Anyway, such situations should be avoided when possible, no matter what it was. Updates, deleting blogs w/o a warning, site/hosting/etc bugs, other disruptions including site suddenly not connecting after first page load, etc. At least a warning should be given one way or another to the user and some time/a way/etc for the user to correct anything found would be needed, making sure updates are as minimally disruptive as possible, also not forgetting to fix the site infrastructure including network w/o causing annoyance to the users when possible. As sudden connection drops are extremely annoying, not mentioning site bugs, it may cause an impact to users health,  which might not always end good. I was in a shock for a while until I found that everything was restored later which was not pleasant experience. By avoiding such situations everyone's life would be better, and less unexpected things may happen. Also when I was writing on another site my hand was trembling for a while, and was still pissed off a bit because of that. Read More »

First snow

It has not been snowing in Lithuania almost since beginning of this winter, as we've been having a snowless weather, which is quite unusual. It has snowed a few times before at the beginning of December or before, but all the snow would melt afterwards. The weather predictions show that the temperatures might get colder later but now the temperature is above freezing and it's only a light snowing event where all of the snow would melt later. So far we've been having snowless Christmas and new year which totally sucks.

Loforo just broke today

The site was misbehaving for a while. Blog header would show no post/following/etc. count and only 0 followers on the header, while follower page would list all followers w/o problem. A moment before the blog icons/links/etc. would be broken too :\

Edit: Follower count with post/follow/etc. count later came back. Probably site was misbehaving for a while.

Bugs, Bugs everywhere

Loforo is too buggy... Connection issues when page has too many videos, broken layout in some places e.g. on posts with an embed, automatic scrolling not working in tag pages, some tag pages have only one or a few posts while next page might have more, can't switch blog using mouse as menu closes when trying to do that, some occasionally broken images in places, can't drag images to reposition them while using editor, can't insert a new paragraph after image, can't use browser context menu in editor, etc.

Broken user icons in mentions list

Any non-existing/banned/etc user appearing in the mentions list of any post has a broken icon as shown in above screenshot. Also some times interaction count might be wrong as such users might still appear in the mentions list on the direct link to the post. And also links to such users blog always redirect to main loforo page instead of any error page or anything such alike.

Broken posts are annoying

But having no style override for them is even worse :\ Since such posts started appearing  I had to create a style override so the site would work again. Below is stylus rule exported to mozilla format, use an import function in the extension if you want to use it.

@-moz-document domain("loforo.com") {
div.media.pic > img {
    object-position: unset !important;
    max-width: 100% !important;
    height: auto !important;
    position: unset !important;
    top: unset !important;
    left: unset !important;
    object-fit: unset !important;
    transition-duration: unset !important;
    transition-timing-function: unset !important; Read More »

Reposted from juozaspo

Broken posts are annoying

But having no style override for them is even worse :\ Since such posts started appearing  I had to create a style override so the site would work again. Below is stylus rule exported to mozilla format, use an import function in the extension if you want to use it.

@-moz-document domain("loforo.com") {
div.media.pic > img {
    object-position: unset !important;
    max-width: 100% !important;
    height: auto !important;
    position: unset !important;
    top: unset !important;
    left: unset !important;
    object-fit: unset !important;
    transition-duration: unset !important;
    transition-timing-function: unset !important; Read More »

Random slow connections on vpn

Some times when using loforo (e.g. scrolling) it suddently stops connecting. Mostly happen when using VPN server hosted in same country (Lithuania) that I'm connecting from. Images and next page loads slower than usual and some times it does not connect at all. Very anoying. Happens multiple times for at least a few days. Not sure what is the cause. Speed test on vpn shows it's ~100 on both up and down Mbps

Edit: It does not appear to be a big slowdown compared to direct connection, as I've tested on a new browser profile, though page load speed decreases on later pages, probably due to browser lag. Read More »

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