To upload random file from current working directory on Linux use a command similar to shown below, also do not forget to quote html as not doing so might cause bugs and this is just an example:

mkdir -p uploaded
FILE=$(find *.* -type f | shuf -n 1); curl -F 'key=<your api key>' -F "media=@$FILE" -F 'content="<p>some html here</p>"' https://loforo.com/api/post/create; mv -v $FILE uploaded

You can copy files you want to upload to a temporary directory by using a command below as example and run above command from there:

for arg in {1..10}; do FILE="$(find -type f|shuf -n 1|cut -d\/ -f2-)"; cp -v --backup=numbered "$FILE" /path/to/tmp/dir/; done Read More »

The image upload example shown below (w/o space added before MyTestPicture so it would not be auto-linked),

curl -d 'key=<your key>' -F 'media=@ MyTestPicture.jpg' -d 'content=<p>A picture is attached to this post</p>' https://loforo.com/api/post/create

also included in api description page does not work, curl fails with messages shown below and no request is sent.

Warning: You can only select one HTTP request method! You asked for both POST 
Warning: (-d, --data) and multipart formpost (-F, --form).

Use this instead (change -d to -F where needed, remove space before MyTestPicture, don't forget to quote html): Read More »

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.

It does not fit the width of the mobile browser viewport (Mozilla Firefox Beta 118). To view everything the browser must be zoomed out.

Reposted from juozaspo

Loforo did a thing...

Reposted from juozaspo

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

Trying to view Loforo on mobile frequently results in broken images, usually loading of them slowed to crawl. While using a 4G connection other sites loads fine, but the primary image host (thumbsnap) is painfully slow. Can't even view images properly some times as they fail to load.

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.

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 »

There's no such ability. I can't find an easy way to export your blog, it could make things harder as saving images/text/videos/etc. manually would take time, esp. for blogs with a lot of content. A zip archive should be a good option with a size limit where it could be split into pieces for easier storage.

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 :)

When using loforo on mobile phone I usually encounter slow connection issues where images do not load, while other sites load fine. On the desktop site works fine. Screenshot: