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The VPN ban is now in effect on /ot/, see this update post for more information

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No. 63266

This thread will be used by staff to post general site updates and will remain locked to keep those updates easily visible. If you'd like to discuss any of these announcements, please use the General Meta Discussion and Complaints and Suggestions threads.

No. 63267

There have been a handful updates to embedding and file uploads:

  • mp4 files can now be uploaded
  • YouTube shorts links can now be embedded
  • TikTok links can now be embedded, but only using the long form of the URL (e.g. https://www.tiktok.com/@user/video/123456789012345)

In some cases, browsers with strict privacy settings will not allow TikToks to embed. This is not specific to this site, but a limitation of TikTok embedding in general. If you see a message indicating that an embed is not available, that is the most likely cause. As a fallback, in those cases the thumbnail will link to the video on the TikTok website instead of embedding it


No. 63524

Apologies for the site being unavailable for a few hours, our host had networking issues that they have now been able to resolve.

No. 65399

There have been a few small updates:

File uploads/embedding

  • .wepb files can now be uploaded. This also fixes some lingering "failed to resize image" errors, which were from files that were encoded as webp but had the .png extension
  • YouTube live videos can now be embedded
  • Fixed issue where TikToks that do not embed due to browser privacy settings were not correctly linking to the video on TikTok
  • Query strings are now stripped from embed URLs, which should mean that anons who are too retarded to remove them will now be able to embed videos
  • File upload window is filtered to show accepted file formats only by default

The site

  • Lazy loading added to images to improve page load performance
  • Issue with new banners not displaying has been fixed, and new banners have been added

Behind the scenes

  • A new way to automatically detect and ban known CSAM has been implemented. Between this and other measures that have previously been added, less than 1 in 5 attempts to post CSAM succeed

No. 66235

Falling snowflakes return for the month of December! Click the silver snowflake icon to enable/disable the effect.

No. 69790

Small update that should curb the CSAM link spamming in /pt/. Since their image posts are no longer getting through, they've resorted to this instead.

No. 73454

An issue with post numbers on /ot/ required posting to be temporarily disabled, it has now been fixed and posting is back up! The bug that caused it has been patched.

No. 73714

The site will be going down for scheduled maintenance on the 29th March at 11:00 AM GMT.
We estimate the maintenance will take around 3 hours and the site will not be accessible during that time. If that changes, updates will be posted on our server status page which can be found here (this link is also available at the top of the page):
https://status.lolcow.farm/

The purpose of the maintenance is to upgrade the server's OS and package versions in preparation for updates to the site software itself at a later date! The server OS version is currently 9 years old and considered legacy, and maintaining it has been a pain in the ass. When the upgrade is finished it should not affect the site in any way (except perhaps some small performance gains) but it will make further updates much less difficult for us.

No. 73963

The site maintenance is complete!
It took significantly longer than expected due to more issues and incompatibilities with the board software than anticipated. However, the upgrades were ultimately a success and this clears the way for migrating the site to new software in the future!

A new thread has been created for users to report any bugs that have been created as a result of the recent maintenance:
>>>/meta/73959

No. 74935

In response to the recent influx of CSAM posts, a new method of blocking CSAM posters has been added. There is a very small chance this may block and ban a legitimate post, if this happens to you please appeal your ban and email admin@lolcow.farm if the ban is not lifted within 24 hours.

No. 76428

The site was down for around an hour due to a widespread issue with our hosting provider, which has now been resolved.

No. 80575

Our host had networking issues which resulted in approximately 2 hours of downtime. Unfortunately, this was an issue with the host and not something we could have prevented. If they continue to have issues, we will consider moving hosts.

No. 84024

The catalog page has been updated. If the page doesn't look right for you, please do a hard refresh (Shift + F5 or Ctrl + Shift + R, depending on your browser). The following changes have been made:
  • An XSS vulnerability has been patched
  • The catalog page layout has been improved
  • Your chosen site theme now applies to catalog pages
  • Threads can now be filtered based on their subject/description using the filter box at the top of the page
  • Visual indicator when threads are locked or stickied
Some themes may not look great when applied to the catalog page, so we will adjust them over the next few days. Keekweek and the darker themes have already been updated to display better.

No. 84855

A few updates have been pushed out today:
  • Arrows to scroll to top/bottom of page now have a larger clickable area for mobile users
  • Arrows to scroll to top/bottom of page now always appear on top of the catalog thread cards
  • Catalog search on mobile improved (better performance and no more empty space)
  • Fix for bug that was preventing the "file deleted" replacement image from displaying
  • Cache busting has been added, which will mean this and future updates will not require clearing cache or hard refreshing to display new or changed content properly
  • Some minor upgrades to the mod tools

No. 84860

Posting was down for around 3 hours due to an issue with the server which has now been resolved, we apologise for the unexpected outage.

No. 86838

The site was down for around 4 hours due to our host having technical issues. These are now resolved and they do not anticipate any further outages.

No. 86960

Falling snowflakes have returned for December! Clicking the silver snowflake below the post form will toggle the effect.

No. 88649

The site will be in read-only mode for approximately 12 hours between 8:00 and 20:00 GMT on the 14th of January. This is for necessary maintenance, as we are moving the site to a new server.

We have made the decision to transition from a virtual private server (VPS) to a dedicated server. There are several reasons for this, the main one being improved stability. In recent months there have been several extended periods of downtime and performance degradation caused by issues with the shared hosting our current VPS uses, and moving to a dedicated server will prevent this. It should also slightly improve the site's performance, and allow us to use a RAID configuration for the site’s drives which comes with its own benefits.

We have spent the last while working on this, which has delayed other updates to the site. Shortly after the site is back up, we will be moving forward with other necessary updates (e.g. the VPN ban and the Lolcow Awards). With regards to the VPN ban, we are implementing a way to host polls on-site to prevent anyone from being able to interfere with the results.

No. 88777

The site maintenance has been completed a little ahead of schedule, we have successfully moved to the new server! There may be some teething issues over the next few days, please report any bugs or other issues here:
>>>/meta/73959

No. 92331

We are glad that many of you enjoyed yesterday's April Fool's prank! It was a collaboration between the admins and farmhands and we had a lot of fun creating it.

As requested, we have made it available as a theme. At some point we'd like to update the scripts to make it less laggy, but for now we recommend only using it on desktop. Because it relies heavily on JS, you will need to refresh after selecting or deselecting the theme for now - we will automate this in the future.

No. 92455

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The VPN ban has now gone live on /ot/. Any thread where VPN posting is blocked will have a small shield icon in the same area where the sticky/locked icons appear, picrel is how this icon looks. There is a description of what the icon means if you hover it. We have made exceptions for the Ex-Muslim and Gender Ideology Hate Threads in /ot/. The exception will apply automatically to newly created threads on those topics. If you believe there are other threads in /ot/ which need this exception, please post about it in the General Meta Discussion thread:
>>>/meta/65391

We have also made the decision to remove the autosage from the Dumbass Shit Thread, as we should now have more control over ban evasion on /ot/ and it attracting unintegrated/rulebreaking users will be less of a problem.

If you need a way around the VPN ban for any reason, e.g due to government censorship, or you are in a situation where posting without a VPN may put you in danger, please email us at admin@lolcow.farm and we will set up an exception for you.

No. 92487

Small VPN quality of life update: the maximum length for a ban on a VPN IP is now 1 week, and all previously permabanned VPN IPs are now unbanned.


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