Technical Issues - TPU Main Site & Forum (2021)

[W1zzard]

The internet runs 24/7. Those departments need a matching schedule. Or at least need on-call staff.

Yup, won’t be our problem though as we’ll take our business somewhere else. Been with them for 4 years for that server, which sure is paid off like 5 times now

 

[W1zzard]

Emails should be working again, using a different machine to send outgoing

 

[lexluthermiester]

Emails should be working again, using a different machine to send outgoing

Yup, can confirm.

 

[Jetster]

So not only is TPUCaptue not working. The inmage hositng is down so all my old post are blank now Not even an X just nothing. lol

 

[lexluthermiester]

So not only is TPUCaptue not working. The inmage hositng is down so all my old post are blank now Not even an X just nothing. lol

W1zzard is switching host servers. Give him a few days to sort things out.

 

[W1zzard]

The inmage hositng is down so all my old post are blank now Not even an X just nothing. lol

people have been uploading bad things, including child porn, so this is becoming a huge nuisance and i feel like i should just delete all uploads and be done with it

 

[lexluthermiester]

people have been uploading bad things, including child porn

Damn.. WTF are people thinking?!?

so this is becoming a huge nuisance and i feel like i should just delete all uploads and be done with it

Right there with you. You don't want that on your site. I'd kill it quick...

 

[Solaris17]

people have been uploading bad things, including child porn, so this is becoming a huge nuisance and i feel like i should just delete all uploads and be done with it

I would probably just not support TPU capture any longer. I feel like this is a problem that is just going to get out of hand. Maybe delete whatever got hit with a take down so they resolve the abuse complaint and put TPUcapture out with my old gold fish. Keeping of course the forums images and anything uploaded from gpu-z.

 

[Jetster]

people have been uploading bad things, including child porn, so this is becoming a huge nuisance and i feel like i should just delete all uploads and be done with it

Whatever you need to do. Maybe report it to the authorities

 

[Selaya]

Damn.. WTF are people thinking?!?

Right there with you. You don't want that on your site. I'd kill it quick...

Welcome to the world of free image hosting. Judging from what I've read from other free imagehosters that seems to be par course for one ...

 

[lexluthermiester]

Keeping of course the forums images and anything uploaded from gpu-z.

This please. Uploading screenshots and photos is greatly helpful in many ways including assisting other users with problems.

 

[Mussels]

Just move it to be part of the forum, and require a login to use so you can ban the users?

A lot of good content is on the forum from the image host, i'd hate to lose it all

 

[lexluthermiester]

Just move it to be part of the forum, and require a login to use so you can ban the users?

That could work as a strong deterrent.

 

[W1zzard]

Uploads from within GPU-Z are hosted somewhere else and not affected

I can't distinguish forum uploads from TPUCapture uploads from manual (web-based) uploads. So basically I'd have to go through every single image (4 million of them) to sort and categorize somehow. Not fun, especially if there's a chance you'll see something that you can't unsee.

From what I understand, all these problematic uploads came through the techpowerup.org web upload interface, not tpucapture.

In theory I could extract all links to images hosted on tpu.org from our forums and keep those images and delete the rest.

 

[Jetster]

What a mess

 

[lexluthermiester]

From what I understand, all these problematic uploads came through the techpowerup.org web upload interface

Ok so shut that down. I've got an idea that might be helpful. Please see PM.

In theory I could extract all links to images hosted on tpu.org from our forums and keep those images and delete the rest.

This seems like a good idea. Question is, would it work?

 

[W1zzard]

This seems like a good idea. Question is, would it work?

Probably, I could keep the old images around in storage, so people can report missing images or ping me if they want to recover something specific

 

[Jetster]

Probably, I could keep the old images around in storage, so people can report missing images or ping me if they want to recover something specific

It's a lot of images, al the way back to 2017 when we moved over from GN

 

[lexluthermiester]

Probably, I could keep the old images around in storage, so people can report missing images or ping me if they want to recover something specific

I can think of a ton of threads that are really wonderful, that have a tons of images. It would be a shame to loose them.

 

[W1zzard]

It's a lot of images, al the way back to 2017 when we moved over from GN

Storage is practically free nowadays, I think it's less than 100 GB

 

[Mussels]

Yeah, i like the idea of keeping those that are linked from the forum and deleting the rest... maybe have the rest go to a redirect image saying the service was shut down, contact X for a backup if needed?
The odds on someone having something important hosted on TPU image are looooooow, but there may be other forums or web guides using it for that

And then make the new one require a forum login, or only work if we throw images directly to the forum?

I love TPU capture, but i could learn to live without it as long as we keep our precious uploaded images

 

[Jetster]

I don't know what you did but thank you. Images are back

 

[W1zzard]

I don't know what you did but thank you. Images are back

Server has been reconnected

 

[Ferrum Master]

I am the only one having these often today?

 

[Jetster]

I've been on and off the site for the last 4 hours. No issues