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11.5 hours into it and the process is at 76%.

Edited by - Drew Black on 1/28/2020 8:14:49 AM

Edited by - Drew Black on 1/28/2020 9:52:51 AM

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I will get to work on fixing this on Sunday. I'll split up the folders into something more manageable for the synchronizing software. There will be some period where images are broken as I move data around.

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The old system had everything in 1 "bin" for syncing to the other servers. I've set it up so there are 99 bins each with a subset of user's uploaded files. The syncing should complete within 10 seconds now.

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This post is just one example: Help with ID of this Spanish Star

edit: I came across a couple of people complaining that they couldn't upload pics as well, and I thought they meant that they didn't know how, but probably they meant it wasn't working. Like this post.

Edited by - killbillvol69 on 3/14/2020 12:26:34 PM

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Can anyone ID this cover girl. Just18 May 2008

Need help identifying a model

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As a starting point, email me the original Bon Jovi cover image you uploaded that resulted in a broken image. drew@adultdvdtalk.com

You are uploading from your phone? Do you see the image in the upload window after it completes?

I'm not able to replicate the problem on my end and I did look into it recently.

Edited by - Drew Black on 6/7/2020 8:40:36 AM

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A link to the post is here.
What's The Latest Album You've Listened To? I've emailed you the original image.

Yes, I am uploading from my phone.

As per the first screenshot, the image does not appear in the upload page; just a small coloured box appears.

Then in the preview screen, as per the second screenshot, just the filename appears. When I go back and forth multiple times, the image often then appears in the preview screen.

When I then post the comment, the image usually appears, but sometimes it is just the box/filename. But it always later appears as the image.

Just so I use the correct terminology, what do you call it when the image appears as just a small box or filename, as per the screen shots?

If you need any further details, just let me know.

Thanks in advance.

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At a quick glance I think the issue is related to the image size. It's a little over 2.5MB and >2500px wide. There's a memory limit on the upload page script to prevent a denial-of-service situation where people could upload huge images and overwhelm the server's resources. This image might be bumping up against that limit.

The image that appears post-upload in the uploader screen and the post preview window comes from the https://upimg.adultdvdtalk.com site. This is a sandbox site that doesn't share any resources with other parts of ADT. After the image is processed on our end it gets moved to it's final location and then replicated to the mini web farm of 3 servers that process requests for ADT.

You're getting broken images from the sandboxed site it tells me something failed in the upload process. Slow upload/processing timeouts, too much memory, image too big, etc. You might be sending a large file half-way around the world and something is getting tripped up in the process.

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Yesterday I went in and out of the preview screen, and on about the third or fourth time it changed from a 'broken image' to the actual image. Also, I do sometimes get the 'broken image' when I post the comment; and then I later go back to the post and the image appears.

In the screen shots I posted, can I ask if you've seen those boxes before?

Look, it's not a huge issue - it just means I generally can't see images in the preview screen. But just noting, I do sometimes have this issue in the live posts.

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After an image is processed into alternate sizes for mobile browsers it is synced to 3 other physical servers. The processing and syncing usually takes 3 - 5 seconds but if you have uploaded a lot of images over the years the sync process could take up to 30 seconds. The sync delay should not not have any impact on the upload window or preview window. That's what's confusing me. Those two pages use the image that was just uploaded in its pre-processed form. (except for height x width processing/shrinking. HxW reductions happen in the uploader process.)

The HTML that generates a forum page comes from a server in Maine, USA. The images that appear in live topics are served from our content delivery network provider. Their servers are located all over the world in an effort to provide more localized delivery. If they don't have a copy of the image on their servers they need to fetch it from our source server in Maine. This source-fetch-deliver process slows things down for the first request. Since you just uploaded the image you're likely the first person to request the image too.

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Drew's fixed it now. Your image should be visible. Mine are.

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