ADVANCED WARNING OF DOWN TIME

[BossHogg]

Hello rabble, Matt has advised that we will be getting a software update today and we may be down for a short time, possibly 20 minutes or so, go and talk to your piggies or even worse - your significant others.

 

[MattW]

All done, we are now on the latest version of XenForo.

 

[Wiebke]

All done, we are now on the latest version of XenForo.

Thank you.

 

[MattW]

As part of this new update, all images are now optimized, and served as webp images:

XF 2.3 - Image optimization, enhanced image resizing, and more!

The only issue here is with some older devices not supporting webp:

WebP is now supported by every single major browser. Anyone using an up to date browser will not experience any issues with viewing images. However, certain Apple devices and browsers prior to September 2020 do not support WebP.

Specifically, if you are using iOS 14 or above, there is no issue at all. Safari 14 and above is great, too but you must be running at least macOS 11 Big Sur for WebP images to display.

In earlier browsers, these users will simply not see WebP images at all. They will appear as broken images.

As time progresses, this is naturally an ever decreasing issue as people update their software and hardware. But it is something you should be aware of and think about before blanket converting all images to WebP.

Looking at the analytics we have, all users appear to be using sufficiently new devices, so there won't be any issues:



I can also go back to optimize all the existing attachments, which will take some time to complete, but I can run a job in the background to work it's way through this.

 

[MattW]

This will also save us a considerable amount of space with the attachment storage, as we have over 25GB of attachments:



For the sites I've done so far, we are seeing around 60% reduction in storage once optimized.

 

[BossHogg]

Thanks for all your hard work @MattW.

 

[fluffysal]

@MattW, I don't understand most of what you just explained.....but thank you

 

[BossHogg]

Me neither, which is why we pay Matt to do it to save worrying our pretty little heads!

 

[MattW]

I'm going to start by optimizing the user avatars.

 

[weepweeps]

Thanks @MattW

 

[piggieminder]

Thank you a @MattW I don't have a clue what you are talking about but I'm sure whatever you are doing is an improvement!

 

[BossHogg]

How do you think I feel? I'm "supposed" to know what he's talking about, you poor deluded people!

 

[Merab]

Thanks @MattW , your hard work is appreciated.

I have no idea whatsoever what your explanatory post meant but that’s because I’m still in the Bronze Age technologically
I’m just happy that you’re doing such a good job for us.

 

[VickiA]

Thank you @MattW I’m so glad someone around here knows what’s going on in the engine room

 

[BossHogg]

Oi! I pretend I know what I'm doing and have got away with it for years!

 

[BossHogg]

 

[Posyrose]

Thanks Matt

 

[MattW]

I'm going to start by optimizing the user avatars.

Avatars are done.

 

[MattW]

Profile Banners next.

 

[MattW]

Banners are done, starting attachments. This will take a few days to run through.

 

[BossHogg]

we have over 25GB of attachments:

That will be piggies, AI images and my contributions to the naughty corner!

 

[MattW]

40,000 optimized so far.

 

[Betsy]

So just a few more to go then ..........

 

[BossHogg]

That's just my posts, still got the rest of the forum to go!

 

[MattW]

130,000 done now. Just under 100,000 left to go.

 

[VickiA]

130,000 done now. Just under 100,000 left to go.

Sounds like my iCloud. Needs a spring clean

 

[BossHogg]

130,000 done now. Just under 100,000 left to go.

My oh my! This lot have been busy little teddy bears.

 

[BossHogg]

I've noticed conversations have been renamed direct messages with the new update.

 

[Betsy]

I've noticed conversations have been renamed direct messages with the new update.

Well that's a bit posh!

 

[BossHogg]

Well what can I say, we needed to drag you ruffians kicking and screaming into the 21st century!