it’s been a year (approximately) of patch notes! a weird milestone but a valid one. thanks for being here with us.
this is also the first week where we get to reap the benefits of our re-situated sprint cycle (they end on Wednesday now) and use our trello “done” column instead of going through git commits, making this waaaaaaay easier to write.
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE: information on the Firefox “upload failed” CORS bug
Psst, hey you. I heard you might be in the business of taking care of…problems. Is that right? Well, I’ve got a job for you, if you can bring ‘em in alive, that is. A longstanding bug has been preventing many a Firefox user from uploading images to Cohost and we need some assistance tracking down the issue. Here’s the lowdown:
Every now and then, users will write in saying that their images get stuck in the “uploading” state, trapped in purgatory. The vast majority of these cases come from Firefox. Further inspection reveals that the majority of these cases are caused by a CORS request failure when attempting to upload to our image host.
That’s…all we got! We have yet to reproduce this issue (except for a single freak incident on jae’s computer) and can’t seem to nail down where it’s coming from. Our first guess was Firefox tracking prevention, but fiddling with that doesn’t seem to reliably fix the issue. My next best guess is a common plugin or extension.
The first person to figure out what’s going on and provide clear, reliable steps to reproduce the issue will be awarded with 2 codes each good for one year of Cohost Plus. Use them as you wish!
Email support@cohost.org with subject “CORS Hell” with your findings. Good luck and stay safe!