Image Uploading

Tonight we temporarily disabled uploads for a short period of time after several accounts performed automated uploads of shock imagery. We have removed the offending images and taken time to review the situation. The troll in question created nearly 600 accounts between October 16 and November 2 as part of a pre-planned attack. We have manually reviewed and shut down all accounts involved. We are in the process of taking further actions to prevent this from happening in the future.

We have re-enabled uploads and will continue to monitor the site.

Thumbnail Performance

We are also aware of an issue impacting thumbnail performance and will be performing maintenance tomorrow to resolve it.

UPDATE: We pushed the scheduled maintenance updates to tonight (which resulted in roughly 5 minutes of downtime required to reboot a server). Speed should improve over time, and we are continuing to monitor.