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Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 7/3/2025 (lemmy.nz)
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Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey Dave, how much storage space is this lemmy instance using out of interest?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The main VPS drive is currently using 330GiB of storage. Onsite and offsite backups are extra.

This is largely the image storage (266GB) and that's partly historical (Lemmy used to keep full size images indefinitely as "thumbnails" and currently has no way to delete them). The database itself is around 25GB.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thats less than I thought, considering how much content goes through this server each year.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 weeks ago

A couple of versions back there were some changes to images. The current set up we have is to proxy all images and save none. Previously thumbnails were stored forever and other images were loaded direct from source (e.g. if someone on Lemmy.world uploaded a meme, everyone one looking at it on every instance would always load the image from lemmy.world). Proxying is optional in Lemmy but I've enabled it. There is still some tweaking to do because certain sites don't work well (from memory I think Imgur and Youtube are two big ones).

The proxy is currently configued to store images for 3 days after they were last accessed. So if no one on lemmy.nz looks at a particular meme for three days then the cached image is deleted. The image is re-loaded on demand, so if you go to look at something from a month ago and no one else has looked at it recently, then the lemmy.nz server will re-download it and then proxy it to you. If you browse All with order set to New you'll see this in action, as the brand new posts take a little while for the images to be downloaded and provided to you.

Posts from before we turned on proxying don't use the proxying, they just have the thumbnails stored in full resolution and kept indefinitely. I did previously use a tool for deleting old thumbnails which also helped.

Long story short, it's been a struggle to keep the hard drive use that small 😆