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What did you actually do to get this kind of situation?

I wondered this too, but I guess it's just LoyceV stuff. Just simulating what any average user would do.

[LoyceV]

Is your server rate limiting Bitcointalk's image proxy? I just opened 10 new tabs with images of last year's Bitcointalk pizza contest, and most of the images didn't show up. And since there are no height/width-tags, I didn't even notice the missing images until I reloaded each post one by one.

I don't have any limitations. Are you talking about this topic?
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What did you actually do to get this kind of situation?

I started at this post, and then quickly clicked my middle mouse (opening the link in a new tab) on all 10 usernames. Try it in a private window, to make sure the images aren't cached.

[joker_josue]

Is your server rate limiting Bitcointalk's image proxy? I just opened 10 new tabs with images of last year's Bitcointalk pizza contest, and most of the images didn't show up. And since there are no height/width-tags, I didn't even notice the missing images until I reloaded each post one by one.

I don't have any limitations. Are you talking about this topic?
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What did you actually do to get this kind of situation?

I started at this post, and then quickly clicked my middle mouse (opening the link in a new tab) on all 10 usernames. Try it in a private window, to make sure the images aren't cached.

Okay, I understand what happens.

When you click on these ten names, you are not just opening the photos of that user, but all the photos on that page. Which means that you could be requesting the opening of dozens of images at the same time. By adding the 10 windows together, we are probably talking about more than 100 images, in a single request.

Although the server is fast, there is always some delay sending all the data. In turn, the forum proxy, for security reasons, when it takes more than x seconds (now I don't remember what the value is) to receive all the data, it shuts down, ending up no longer displaying images. If you refresh the page, it will reload the page again in a new request and everything will appear again.

Ultimately, they are the servers' security mechanisms, to avoid or reduce potential DDOS attacks.

[LoyceV]

Ultimately, they are the servers' security mechanisms, to avoid or reduce potential DDOS attacks.

I haven't seen this on other image hosts. It's especially annoying since there's not even a sign there should be a picture. Usually, when there's a lot of images to load, I'd expect not all of them to show up at the same time, but they'd load anyway after a small delay.

[joker_josue]

Ultimately, they are the servers' security mechanisms, to avoid or reduce potential DDOS attacks.

I haven't seen this on other image hosts. It's especially annoying since there's not even a sign there should be a picture. Usually, when there's a lot of images to load, I'd expect not all of them to show up at the same time, but they'd load anyway after a small delay.

The point is that the forum proxy disconnects from the server if it does not receive a response after x seconds. I believe the problem occurs if you are loading 100 images from the same host at the same time.

I will try to see what I can do on my server, to try to minimize this situation.

[STT]

Ddos will often tie up a server with requests on purpose for pointless reasons, letting it drop automatically seems a good idea to limit deliberate misuse.   I dont know the fine detail but I got no doubts on the character endlessly chasing the destruction of what others have built.

  To me its not a maybe just a question of time till someone tests something to destruction, if there's leeway and a vulnerability people will want to use to win the game of knocking over a server for however long they can.

I get that everyday, if hosting a game a never ending supply of random people who want to crash the server as fast as possible because that is the game ?   Got to err on the side of caution surely.


It is easy to test the limits though, I pressed ctrl and click 3 links and it loaded ok after a delay with a few images it was half done.   I think my humble pc wouldnt like all 10 at once tbh.   Its got to be a common problem, Im guilty of wanting to load all at once also and often it has to be limited even by big websites.
   The FT blocked my free account for endlessly using their graphs section, I was surprised Imgur had a problem with this site tbh as its mostly text so why did they even notice; it must have spiked in demand at some time.

The thread all button brings up captcha on this forum I think and if I went to try and load up the entire WO thread for some bizarre reason some stats collate maybe I dont know; I would expect to be in trouble for trying, theres always a limit with reasons.

[LoyceV]

The point is that the forum proxy disconnects from the server if it does not receive a response after x seconds. I believe the problem occurs if you are loading 100 images from the same host at the same time.

Maybe. I don't know how long the forum tries. But I would have expected the see the "image proxy failed" image instead of <nothing>.

I will try to see what I can do on my server, to try to minimize this situation.

That's all I can ask for, thanks

[joker_josue]

INFO
In the last few hours, there has been some instability in the service. The situation is already being analysed.

We hope that everything will be back to normal as soon as possible.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

[dkbit98]

Do you mean the error where the browser says "This site isn't working" or something similar and then when you refresh the page (or if it refreshes automatically) it loads the actual site?

Yeah I think error like this was happening to me several times, but I can't reproduce it now so it's probably fixed by joker_josue.

PS
I had to post reply in proper topic that is related with TalkImg, to avoid going off-topic in Ninjatsic topic.

[joker_josue]

Do you mean the error where the browser says "This site isn't working" or something similar and then when you refresh the page (or if it refreshes automatically) it loads the actual site?

Yeah I think error like this was happening to me several times, but I can't reproduce it now so it's probably fixed by joker_josue.

PS
I had to post reply in proper topic that is related with TalkImg, to avoid going off-topic in Ninjatsic topic.

I believe the situation is now back to normal.

According to some information I managed to gather, it was related to SSL certificates. The issuing company may have had some type of problem.

I will continue to monitor the situation more closely.
Thank you for understanding.

[joker_josue]

 
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I would like to remind all users that NSFW images are not authorized.
Therefore, be careful whenever you upload images, especially from smartphones, to choose the correct images.

Thank you for continuing to use and support TalkImg!

[LoyceV]

be careful whenever you upload images, especially from smartphones, to choose the correct images.

Lol Did someone accidentally upload his "private pictures"?

[joker_josue]

be careful whenever you upload images, especially from smartphones, to choose the correct images.

Lol Did someone accidentally upload his "private pictures"?

At least some in screenshots. What situation? I don't know... I don't even want to know... 

[BossJumong]

I see you posted here the most viewed image uploaded in your platform last month, hopefully you will post the most viewed entry in Bitcoin Pizza Day aside from the one that most viewed this month..

[joker_josue]

I see you posted here the most viewed image uploaded in your platform last month, hopefully you will post the most viewed entry in Bitcoin Pizza Day aside from the one that most viewed this month..

The idea is interesting, but unfortunately it is information that I have difficulty obtaining. The record is highly valued, and I can only know the images that generated the most hits from the forum proxy, which turns out to be very imprecise data. You can get an estimate, but it's never very precise to the point of being able to filter down to a topic level, for example.