JamesMartin
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Evening Sanctum!!
As Otys mentioned in the emergency server, the update (and thus our downtime) will be completed this Friday. The update is going as planned, but this delay will allow us to use the intervening time to confirm the integrity of the new server before any irretrievable changes are made.
In going through the update, we have come across a couple of issues that will require policy changes to solve.
Firstly, our Spotify integration is using far more server resources than it should be. Additionally, the add-on to enable it has been discontinued. As a result, the decision has been made that the integration will need to be discontinued at some point. This should have minimal impact, but on the off-chance, any members use Spotify to log in, you will need to ensure that you have another means to sign in.
Secondly, the site has accrued a truly enormous backlog (nearly 30 Gigabytes) of attachments.
Now, some of this backlog is the natural growth of a site over time and we intend to leave these parts unaffected. However, the decision has been made that certain images of low importance will need to start being removed after a set amount of time.
Specifically: All images and attachments in Private Conversations will now be subject to a 1 year expiration. After this point, they will be deleted.
These deletions will not begin immediately and will not affect any images posted in the forums. Only Conversations. This is intended as a deliberate grace period. If you have any character or reference images in conversations, you have until July 14th to save them or to transfer them to your roleplay thread or to a thread in Characters and Worlds. Do note this should only apply to attachments uploaded to the site—links to external image sources should remain unaffected.
On a related note: We have meant to inform people that Discord has begun cycling its image links every few weeks. Any images linked from Discord will break within a month after posting. It is suggested to use Imgur instead for any images you need.
After the July 14th date, any conversation attachments from before July 1st, 2023 will be subject to deletion. These images will be irretrievable. If you have any such images in your conversations, save them now.
Please post any questions down below
As Otys mentioned in the emergency server, the update (and thus our downtime) will be completed this Friday. The update is going as planned, but this delay will allow us to use the intervening time to confirm the integrity of the new server before any irretrievable changes are made.
In going through the update, we have come across a couple of issues that will require policy changes to solve.
Firstly, our Spotify integration is using far more server resources than it should be. Additionally, the add-on to enable it has been discontinued. As a result, the decision has been made that the integration will need to be discontinued at some point. This should have minimal impact, but on the off-chance, any members use Spotify to log in, you will need to ensure that you have another means to sign in.
Secondly, the site has accrued a truly enormous backlog (nearly 30 Gigabytes) of attachments.
Now, some of this backlog is the natural growth of a site over time and we intend to leave these parts unaffected. However, the decision has been made that certain images of low importance will need to start being removed after a set amount of time.
Specifically: All images and attachments in Private Conversations will now be subject to a 1 year expiration. After this point, they will be deleted.
These deletions will not begin immediately and will not affect any images posted in the forums. Only Conversations. This is intended as a deliberate grace period. If you have any character or reference images in conversations, you have until July 14th to save them or to transfer them to your roleplay thread or to a thread in Characters and Worlds. Do note this should only apply to attachments uploaded to the site—links to external image sources should remain unaffected.
On a related note: We have meant to inform people that Discord has begun cycling its image links every few weeks. Any images linked from Discord will break within a month after posting. It is suggested to use Imgur instead for any images you need.
After the July 14th date, any conversation attachments from before July 1st, 2023 will be subject to deletion. These images will be irretrievable. If you have any such images in your conversations, save them now.
Please post any questions down below