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FYI I made a patch for lemmy that turns off pictrs caching (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I was getting close to hitting the end of my free object storage so there was time pressure involved haha.

Seems to work but I haven't tested it too much. Currently running on my instance.

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[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's the use case for this? Reducing storage usage?

[–] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep! There's a pretty rapid growth of pictrs data that's never going to go away from all the images being cached for thumbnails on my instance.

It's starting to get to ~1GB per week at this point.

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit, alright, I think I might be interested in this. I also have a growing storage problem that would need to solve. How does a patched instance look? Do you still see thumbnails? Can you share a screenshot?

[–] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

go to https://campfyre.nickwebster.dev, sort by "new"

Thumbnails still seem to work.

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing! I see it takes a few ms to load the thumbnail but it's a worthy tradeoff if it saves that much in storage. I'll save this post and come back to your PR once it gets merged in, too lazy to apply it myself. :)

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Currently Lemmy copies thumbnail and images from remote instances locally.