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Profile pic and banner credits: sharkaeopteryx art by @superkiak! eggbug by eggbug! Mash-up by me!
[Alt-text for pfp: a cute sharkaeopteryx sat on the ground with legs out, wings down, jaw ajar, and hed empty, looking at eggbug and eggbug's enigmatic smile.]
[Alt-text for banner: a Spirit Halloween banner with eggbug and the sharkaeopteryx that Superkiak drew for me looking at it with inscrutable expressions]


I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.

Ask me about language learning/teaching, cooking/eating food, late diagnosis ADHD, and volunteer small business mentoring. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.


I think people deserve to be young, make mistakes, and grow without being held to standards they don't know about yet and are still learning. So, if you are under 22, please don't try to strike up a friendship or get involved in discussions on my posts.


Please don't automatically assume I follow/know/co-sign someone just because I reposted something from them—sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Also, if you think being removed as a follower when we're not mutuals is a cardinal sin, please do not follow me.


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staff
@staff

hey all! we've seen a bunch of reports of image uploads hanging forever over the past day, and we're starting to look into it.

so far we're confident of the following things:

  • the issue is real and we can reproduce it in-house.
  • it began occurring in the late evening UTC on the 20th. (edit: wording changed from "just before midnight UTC on the 21st" because talking about the midnight of a particular day is confusing.)
  • it does appear to occur more often with larger image files -- the comments in this thread about the size threshold being 500kb sound right, but we haven't spent much time reproducing this yet.
  • it isn't related to a code or operational change, because we haven't made any of those to any part of the site related to image upload.
  • we've put in a support ticket with the company we buy the underlying file hosting service from.

we'll let you know more once we track it down and get it fixed. thanks as always for using cohost, and thanks for your patience during a very busy week. :eggbug: