/tech/ - Technology★

Jim hates Tor and he/CM sabotages it. For instance, images on the HS are still clearnet links because of a "mod_redirect misconfig haha oopsie" that merely existed unfixed for like three years now.

>>1072040

images are clearnet links because they have nginx serving static files and the image urls are in the page. Since they use media.8ch.net and not 8ch.net they cant just be relative links. if you enable javascript (apparently) it uses hidden service links. if they wanted hidden service links they would need to serve 2 versions of the page or change imahes to be served frommthe same subdomain as the html. 8chans design is so fucked.

>>1072053

Why not just serve thumbnails from the same place as the http and serve the actual full size images from elsewhere?

>>1072054

Or base64 encode the thumbnails into every page and keep the fullsize images seperate.

There's a captcha for every post because of spam.

>>1072053

>8chans design is so fucked.

Tell me about it, I use the JSON API. Did you know that the JS update mechanism doesn't use it? Check your network requests sometime. Or did you know that flags aren't in it? Or that file information for OPs and replies differs for no fucking reason? Or...

>>1072054

they dont serve them from the same server i guess to spread the load. and since it seems to run on ghetto hardware a load balancer to serve both would end up a bottleneck. i guess whatever their network storage setup isnt pretty either. or maybe CM just doesnt know how to configure nginx?

>>1072055

nah that would mean serving images wouldnt be in parallel, wouldnt be cached by users browser and would be alot more data on the html servers, plus it would be duplicating that data for thumbs across pages.

>>1072108

yeah i remember looking once. i think it downloads the json for the whole thread on hovering a quote? i guess they dont have an api endpoint for a single post. or maybe its actually better since then it wont have to send multiple requests for more hover posts from the same thread? idk. alot of maybes. but its not pretty thats for sure.

>>1072418

Worse, it downloads the HTML.