Forum Update: Images Deleted

Hey there everybody!

The forum went down this past week due to running out of storage space. The majority of storage space was taken up due to to uploaded images.

To help fix this, we’ve had to remove all uploaded images from the forum so that all topics could remain.

Apologies for any inconvenience this causes!

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wait the forums dont have cloud storage #FIRST EDIT

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Ok thanks for letting us know about this

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Yeah, we self host the forum. There are options with the forum software we use to offload the images onto another service but it just isn’t a priority for me to work to make that happen right now.

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I guess that explains it

side note

I thought my computer was acting up lol

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Okay, thanks for telling us this!

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Oh, alright, I think I’ll be fine from this.

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Let me check out some of the effects…
(also do you think that the post should be closed soon because things are probably going to go downhill from here)

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Oh god
So um IDK if I should reupload any of mine because if everyone does a lot of the storage will be filled up again.
On the other hand most of the images from like 2023 or early 2024 on help topics arent going to be reuploaded so who knows :person_shrugging:

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rip literally every ongoing thumbnail request ever :skull:

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Thank you for the reasoning behind the shut-down Josh!
I’m still glad that the forums can be up-and running as a helpful “tool” for gimkit creative.

creativity is awesome :sparkles:

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Does this mean the number of Thumbnail requests have to go down josh?
and for me personally there was no inconvenience…

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Hey, there’s a forum bug happening here:

Just wanted to make you aware, thanks.
When an update rolls out, maybe this could be fixed.

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No, not necessarily!

I just decreased the max image upload size from 4mb to 2mb so we take longer to run into the space limit, but next time it happens I’ll just have to delete the images once again.

Hopefully that is many days away though!

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Rip the guides and that spinefile guide

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And all of the thumbnail requests

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If we do want to re-upload our images, is there any easy way, or do we have to re-take them again? Also, were storage reasons also why some large guides got completely deleted last year?

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Lets hope as well, I appreciate the explanation about why the forums were down though, It kinda scared me, I thought I was the only one…

I suppose so :sweat_smile:
but I will still try to put maximum effort to keep updating it for everyone!

(It was nice to see that people found it useful.)

but if I find all the images gone, I will cry for the 5+ house spent collecting, and inserting them…

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Josh, do you know a way we could delete all the 1000+ spam topics the bots made? It would save a ton of storage.

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