Tonight I’ll be changing the way images are stored on our sites around 11PM Pacific Time.
While I’m working on the images you may notice some missing images or image uploading not working for a few minutes.
Currently we store all our images on one disk, but it is close to being full (about 20 days of space remain). I’ll be switching to mogilefs for storing our images which allows us to distribute the disk usage across multiple servers.
UPDATE: It looks like I’ve got all the problems straightened out. There are a few images that aren’t yet in mogilefs but those will be found and imported over the next couple hours.
UPDATE: The image import crashed while trying to import the last of the missing profile images last night so a few of you may have missing profile images. I restarted the importer and its running through all ~800,000 images again.
Also, for those of you that have wrong profile images it will be very helpful if you give me a link to the image that is incorrect. To do this go to your profile images page. Mine is:
http://www.43things.com/profile_images/view/drbrain
Then get the image address. It should be a URL like this:
http://images.43things.com/profile/00/00/f8/63703pw400.jpg
Then I can go track down why the proper image isn’t showing.
UPDATE: I’ve fixed the random-image-fun, but some profile images might still be missing. The profile images import is about 3/8 done.
UPDATE: Consuming images are all fixed, random images seem to be all gone, but there’s a bunch of incorrect images that I’ll be flushing out starting now. Thanks for your patience!