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Why do some of the avatar/community icons on Midwest seem...Broken? (self.askmidwest)

submitted 1 year ago by ElectroVagrant to c/[email protected]

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I've seen occasional comments from folks here where the avatar appears broken, and when going directly here, I found some community icons are likewise...

Checked another browser to make sure and they're more obviously broken viewed through it, so uh...What's up? Did Lemmy change accepted image formats at some point that broke a bunch of'em here?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My layperson's understanding: something was fucky with the server database. It was frequently lagging out and taking down the whole instance.

@seahorse put a tremendous amount of effort and time into trying different potential fixes. We stan a true king, long may he reign.

When a fix finally worked, it had the side effect of fucking up some of the previously uploaded images. All things considered a price worth paying. The instance was almost unusable for me before.

[–] ElectroVagrant 1 points 1 year ago

Aah, thanks for response! I suspected it may have been something technical going all finicky at some point or another.