FYI I made a patch for lemmy that turns off pictrs caching
FYI I made a patch for lemmy that turns off pictrs caching
#3799 has a bug, so I fixed it up alongside simplifying the logic slightly and adding a config flag to opt in to this new behaviour. Currently live on https://campfyre.nickwebster.dev
I was getting close to hitting the end of my free object storage so there was time pressure involved haha.
Seems to work but I haven't tested it too much. Currently running on my instance.
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What's the use case for this? Reducing storage usage?
Yep! There's a pretty rapid growth of pictrs data that's never going to go away from all the images being cached for thumbnails on my instance.
It's starting to get to ~1GB per week at this point.
Holy shit, alright, I think I might be interested in this. I also have a growing storage problem that would need to solve. How does a patched instance look? Do you still see thumbnails? Can you share a screenshot?
go to https://campfyre.nickwebster.dev, sort by "new"
Thumbnails still seem to work.
Thanks for sharing! I see it takes a few ms to load the thumbnail but it's a worthy tradeoff if it saves that much in storage. I'll save this post and come back to your PR once it gets merged in, too lazy to apply it myself. :)
Exactly. Currently Lemmy copies thumbnail and images from remote instances locally.