Hello together. I have a problem uploading posts on this site and a question about it. I posted an image two days ago in 4k resolution and png format. Now in Sample(850px) format it looks like a badly compressed jpg, but if I choose another format like Fit(Vertical) it is perfectly fine. What did I wrong when uploading since other images don't seem to have this problem? I am sorry if the question sounds stupid but it is my first time uploading something and I probably missed some information. I also know that my image is not the highest quality, but I thought I'd just try uploading it now and see what happens. But now it looks really terrible in the sample(850px) format.
Thanks for your help and sorry again if I did something wrong.

The sample image looks like a badly compressed JPEG because it is a badly compressed JPEG. That's its job. It enables people on slower connections to determine whether it would be worth spending minutes of their life downloading your beautiful, artifact-free, enormous PNG without having to do that first. It also saves a ton on the site's bandwidth costs not to show full-res images to everybody unless explicitly asked. There's an option in the user settings to always show the full-size image if the sample image distresses you that badly.

wat8548 said:
The sample image looks like a badly compressed JPEG because it is a badly compressed JPEG. That's its job. It enables people on slower connections to determine whether it would be worth spending minutes of their life downloading your beautiful, artifact-free, enormous PNG without having to do that first. It also saves a ton on the site's bandwidth costs not to show full-res images to everybody unless explicitly asked. There's an option in the user settings to always show the full-size image if the sample image distresses you that badly.

Thank you for the explanation.

I can't click on any posts for some reason, all it says when I do click on something is "update pending" then it says error with no error code or anything like that

The thing is, I was using mobile and from the looks of things I cant really change the view mode

n4m313ss said:
The thing is, I was using mobile and from the looks of things I cant really change the view mode

Read that message again.
The second line specifically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron

e621 cannot render some letters with the caron diacritic correctly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron#Letters_with_caron

Caron ◌̌ Ǎ ǎB̌ b̌Č čČ̣ č̣Ď ďĚ ěÊ̌ ê̌F̌ f̌Ǧ ǧȞ ȟǏ ǐJ̌ ǰǨ ǩĽ ľM̌ m̌Ň ňǑ ǒP̌ p̌Q̌ q̌Ř řŘ̩ ř̩Š šṦ ṧŤ ťǓ ǔǙ ǚV̌ v̌W̌ w̌X̌ x̌Y̌ y̌Ž žǮ ǯ

Rendering issues are related to the browser, operating system, and font choice used. It's unfortunately out of our control without changing the font the site uses.

Hello so for some reason I have a bug that ever time I click on a post it says error and I was wondering if this is happening to anyone else?

hugemandamn said:
Hello so for some reason I have a bug that ever time I click on a post it says error and I was wondering if this is happening to anyone else?

I believe this usually means you're in a mode other than "View". Go to Posts and check the Mode dropdown menu just below the search bar on the left (on desktop) or just below the page numbers, below all the thumbnails (on mobile).

On Mozilla Firefox, the content-type header for images is not set correctly. This incorrectly causes a warning that downloaded images and videos are executable and should not be opened.

MDN Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Type

(Edited to sound less passive-aggressive, sorry about that :)

emacslinuxuser said:
On Mozilla Firefox, the content-type header for images is not set correctly. This incorrectly causes a warning that downloaded images and videos are executable and should not be opened. This is obviously not the case, and it has been a bug for a while now.

MDN Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Type

I don't know what you are talking about, it looks fine to me. Can you give me an example of what the header is and what it should be?

earlopain said:
I don't know what you are talking about, it looks fine to me. Can you give me an example of what the header is and what it should be?

Thank you for the reply, @Earlopain

If the content-type header is not correctly configured, browsers are likely to misinterpret the contents of files, or downloaded files may be mishandled.

Binary data (such as images) whose true MIME type is unknown (e.g. Content-Type is not set) has the application/octet-stream MIME type. My theory is that the content-type header is not set. This would cause downloaded images to have a MIME type of application/octet-stream, which is not correct. All application MIME categories are treated as executable files by the browser.

The header should be set in the image category such as image/jpeg or image/png.

It is possible that there is nothing wrong with the site, and it is just my system. You'd probably want to know if other people are also experiencing this issue.

If you have any other questions, i'd be happy to answer ^_^

Reference:
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/MIME_types

emacslinuxuser said:
Thank you for the reply, @Earlopain

If the content-type header is not correctly configured, browsers are likely to misinterpret the contents of files, or downloaded files may be mishandled.

Binary data (such as images) whose true MIME type is unknown (e.g. Content-Type is not set) has the application/octet-stream MIME type. My theory is that the content-type header is not set. This would cause downloaded images to have a MIME type of application/octet-stream, which is not correct. All application MIME categories are treated as executable files by the browser.

The header should be set in the image category such as image/jpeg or image/png.

It is possible that there is nothing wrong with the site, and it is just my system. You'd probably want to know if other people are also experiencing this issue.

If you have any other questions, i'd be happy to answer ^_^

Reference:
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/MIME_types

There's no need to be patronising, you could have just answered the question.

I'm also using Firefox on (I presume you are using) Linux, so I went to the most recent post at the time of writing (post #3474758), opened the network debugging pane (Ctrl+Shift+E) and clicked Download. This was the response header of the resulting image:

The content-type: image/png line appears to be what you are looking for.

earlopain said:
I don't know what you are talking about, it looks fine to me. Can you give me an example of what the header is and what it should be?

I didn't word that all that well. What I wanted was what the header looks like right now and what the correct value would be. But like wat wrote, the content type is set correctly, and I don't have any issues downloading files myself.

If an implication thread (presumably alias or BUR thread would be the same?) has a separate BUR in the comments, voting on either one removes the buttons to vote on the other until you refresh the page.

I noticed this on this thread: https://e621.net/forum_topics/34687

Thanks for the replies, @wat8548 and @Earlopain, they are much appreciated!

wat8548 said:
There's no need to be patronising, you could have just answered the question.

I am very sorry about that. I wasn't trying to be patronizing, I was just trying to be as helpful as I could.

wat8548 said:

I'm also using Firefox on (I presume you are using) Linux, so I went to the most recent post at the time of writing (post #3474758), opened the network debugging pane (Ctrl+Shift+E) and clicked Download. This was the response header of the resulting image:

HTTP/2 200 OK server: nginx date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:24:06 GMT content-type: image/png content-length: 3186527 last-modified: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:20:13 GMT etag: "62e440fd-309f5f" expires: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 20:24:06 GMT cache-control: max-age=31536000 accept-ranges: bytes X-Firefox-Spdy: h2

The content-type: image/png line appears to be what you are looking for.

You are correct, the header is set correctly and it was just an issue with my system. It was a very obscure issue on my system that seemed quite unrelated, and I didn't really look into it that much until now. I have fixed it now, and I am very sorry about the trouble. I will make sure to research problems with my system before reporting bugs such as this anywhere in the future.

Some pages with webm don't load on mobile firefox. See for example https://e621.net/posts/3462057. I'm almost 100% sure it's e621 since if I open the original source it works there. Sometimes some webm load but give "corrupted file" error. See for example https://e621.net/posts/3435243. Of course the file is not corrupt since it works on desktop and in other browsers (just like the pages that don't load).

The problem might be in the specifications of the video-tag. Could you try adding "type" attribute?

foxxy~ said:
Some pages with webm don't load on mobile firefox. See for example https://e621.net/posts/3462057. I'm almost 100% sure it's e621 since if I open the original source it works there. Sometimes some webm load but give "corrupted file" error. See for example https://e621.net/posts/3435243. Of course the file is not corrupt since it works on desktop and in other browsers (just like the pages that don't load).

The problem might be in the specifications of the video-tag. Could you try adding "type" attribute?

Both of these webms are loading perfectly fine for me with Firefox 103.1.0 (Build #2015892987) + Android 10.

faucet said:
Both of these webms are loading perfectly fine for me with Firefox 103.1.0 (Build #2015892987) + Android 10.

Huh... I have the same firefox version and android 12. I know my problem isn't about add-ons as I've disabled them and the videos still didn't work. While writing this I again deleted my cache (no effect), forced shut down (no effect), restarted my phone (no effect), but then clearing cookies somehow fixed it even though it didn't do it in the last 10 tries... I guess there's a reason why I don't work in IT.

E: There's a weird bug still... After clearing cookies the linked videos play. After logging in they don't play anymore.
E2: And if I then log out they start working again... So the problem seems to be somehow connected to me being logged in?

Help: Cheatsheet>>Post-Based Metatags>>Dates:>>Last Annotation(* =Range Syntax)

*Only x..decade is supported (e.g., year..decade)
**If used as the first of a range, will start at the first day of that range. For example, date:month..year will range from 30 days ago to 1 year ago.

The beginning and end of the range syntax must be reversed for it to work correctly.
(date:year..month)

• status:any -type:swf -type:webm sound

• status:any -type:swf -type:webm no_sound

Both searches seem to be returning flash posts, I checked and the filename is indeed .swf

You can't use the same metatag multiple times in the same query, it's a general limitation of the search system. It only respects the last one.

There are posts that do not match your search results.
post #355934

Fault:tagcount:<10 id:355934 True:tagcount:10 id:355934

drag007 said:
There are posts that do not match your search results.
post #355934

Fault:tagcount:<10 id:355934 True:tagcount:10 id:355934

probably because flora_fauna now implies elemental_creature but it didn't when the last tag edit happened.

drag007 said:
There are posts that do not match your search results.
post #355934

Fault:tagcount:<10 id:355934 True:tagcount:10 id:355934

It has ten tags, so it won't match a search for "less than ten"

kiranoot said:
It has ten tags, so it won't match a search for "less than ten"

the problem is that it's showing up in the <10 search and _not_ the 10 search, the search system thinks that the post has 9 tags rather than the 10 that it actually has.

kiranoot said:
It has ten tags, so it won't match a search for "less than ten"

Try the searches you quoted again. For me, it does match the less than 10 tags search, but does not match the exactly 10 tags search.

This isn't something that happens anymore and will only affect older posts. I assume that there was a bug some time in the past where the post tag counts didn't get updated when implications were getting approved. The same issue also comes up with tag category count searches.

Take this as an opportunity to add some tags to these posts, after that the counts will be correct again.

Replying recently stopped working for me. When I click "Reply »" at the bottom of a thread to open the reply box, then "Reply" on a particular post, the post would be added as a quote in the reply box, but now nothing appears. It was working fine less than an hour ago when I made this reply, but it stopped by the time of this reply. Replying to image posts seems fine, it's just forum posts where it won't add the quote when clicking Reply.

Using Pale Moon 31.2.0.1.

Yup, it's broken. I changed how dtext fields are generated. This includes the textbox I'm typing in right now. I'm assuming that it tries to insert the text, but fails because the selector is not matching anymore. I looked where that might be a problem, but missed this.

It seems to still work for some people? Even stranger is that the deploy for that already happend hours ago. Anyways, I can reproduce, that's always good.

It seems to still work for some people?

It oddly seems to work for some posts (clicking Reply works with Furrin Gok's latest post in topic #34541), but not most others I've tried (including yours).

watsit said:
It oddly seems to work for some posts (clicking Reply works with Furrin Gok's latest post in topic #34541), but not most others I've tried (including yours).

It's broken if you have already replied in that thread.
A bug is causing all comment edit and reply fields to have the same ID, which means the quote ends up in the wrong field.

I've patched it in RE621, but I presume that a fix to the underlying issue should be coming soon.

bitwolfy said:
I presume that a fix to the underlying issue should be coming soon.

It's fixed

earlopain said:
It's fixed

well, now it only seems to work when RE621 is off.

darryus said:
well, now it only seems to work when RE621 is off.

You are going to have to update to version 1.5.40.
Click on Tampermonkey icon, then on "Utilities", and finally on "Check for userscript updates".
I briefly fixed the issue in 1.5.39, thinking that it'll take longer to have it addressed on the site. But no, Earlopain was on it.

foxxy~ said:
Huh... I have the same firefox version and android 12. I know my problem isn't about add-ons as I've disabled them and the videos still didn't work. While writing this I again deleted my cache (no effect), forced shut down (no effect), restarted my phone (no effect), but then clearing cookies somehow fixed it even though it didn't do it in the last 10 tries... I guess there's a reason why I don't work in IT.

E: There's a weird bug still... After clearing cookies the linked videos play. After logging in they don't play anymore.
E2: And if I then log out they start working again... So the problem seems to be somehow connected to me being logged in?

The problem is with the default view type. Some videos (like this for example https://e621.net/posts/3504897?q=norubahu) won't work if the view type is anything but "sample".

foxxy~ said:
The problem is with the default view type. Some videos (like this for example https://e621.net/posts/3504897?q=norubahu) won't work if the view type is anything but "sample".

That video is quite large, and it isn't a standard resolution. Your phone most likely rejects trying to play it for these reasons. The samples are intended to solve this for mobile devices.

Why does the reply button still generate an old-style user link (users/show/xxx) before the quote instead of the current users/xxx?

No reason in particular except for that no one noticed/complained about it until now.

1. On Popular page the highlighted tab is "More" instead of "Posts".
2. According to the last site changelog, the old url of popular page is supposed to redirect to the new one. The thing is, the old url was /explore/posts/popular and not /post/explore/popular like the changelog says. As a result, the old https://e621.net/explore/posts/popular shows 404 error page instead of redirecting.

ebea57 said:
1. On Popular page the highlighted tab is "More" instead of "Posts".
2. According to the last site changelog, the old url of popular page is supposed to redirect to the new one. The thing is, the old url was /explore/posts/popular and not /post/explore/popular like the changelog says. As a result, the old https://e621.net/explore/posts/popular shows 404 error page instead of redirecting.

No idea where I got that wrong url from, will fix that sometime. The other thing too.

I have a bug that seems to be browser specific, but I have no idea how to fix it? This may just be a general tech question, but so far I've only seen the issue on this site.

The Issue:
There seems to be an overflow issue on any of the pages under Posts, so that the comments and images and even the 'next page' function I have to scroll to the right to view (I am on desktop)

I also know diddly-squat about computing language, and nothing I look up makes me think I can fix this myself, so any help would be appreciated.

On the profile page:

Note Changes X on Y posts

The X seems accurate but the Y changes in a very inconsistent manner.

Searches don't seem to reflect tag changes properly. post #3514868 was initially mistagged with humanoid+feral, and I fixed it to anthro. Despite having changed it over an hour ago, it's still turning up in searches for humanoid feral (yet the hover-over tooltip shows the corrected tags for the post, which excludes those tags), and not turning up in searches for anthro.

watsit said:
Searches don't seem to reflect tag changes properly. post #3514868 was initially mistagged with humanoid+feral, and I fixed it to anthro. Despite having changed it over an hour ago, it's still turning up in searches for humanoid feral (yet the hover-over tooltip shows the corrected tags for the post, which excludes those tags), and not turning up in searches for anthro.

Seconding this. I was coming here for the same problem. The breaking seems recent though, since I was tagging things earlier today without problem.

The post changes queue is filling up faster than it's being processed because of https://e621.net/forum_topics/30736

It will recover in time, once the implications are finished processing. Until then there will be delays to tag changes. Currently there are about 125k pending changes and rising, so it might take a while.

Edit: It's starting to catch up again, 115k left in the queue. The queue is empty. Two implications are still processing, but the server is able to keep up with it.

Newly added posts to my favorites gallery don't seem to be actually added to it, like, I click on "favorite" on a post and then go check my favorites gallery and it's not there, but I go check the post again and it's favorited, is this happening to anyone else?

purplebutt said:
Newly added posts to my favorites gallery don't seem to be actually added to it, like, I click on "favorite" on a post and then go check my favorites gallery and it's not there, but I go check the post again and it's favorited, is this happening to anyone else?

Favorites don't appear in order, it might be there but it won't be right at the start of your favourites list.

faucet said:
Favorites don't appear in order, it might be there but it won't be right at the start of your favourites list.

They does unless you searching them. I don't have that problem though. My favorites are always up to date.

Hi. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is something wrong here.
I was browsing though the Pokémon(copyright) tag and I found several posts before id #3524148 is missing despite the posts are tagged.
I tried to crosscheck with similar tag like pokemon_(species) tag and it seems to be fine as it is.
Is anyone else experiencing this too?

vortexter said:
Hi. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is something wrong here.
I was browsing though the Pokémon(copyright) tag and I found several posts before id #3524148 is missing despite the posts are tagged.
I tried to crosscheck with similar tag like pokemon_(species) tag and it seems to be fine as it is.
Is anyone else experiencing this too?

the tag's currently having a huge alias changing everything from pokémon to pokemon, it'll take some time for the changes to settle in

vortexter said:
Hi. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is something wrong here.
I was browsing though the Pokémon(copyright) tag and I found several posts before id #3524148 is missing despite the posts are tagged.
I tried to crosscheck with similar tag like pokemon_(species) tag and it seems to be fine as it is.
Is anyone else experiencing this too?

As you would know if you had so much as glanced at the front page and spotted the multiple threads about this matter that have already been created, yes, they are.

My malware protection is listing the site are compromised. Meaning it's blocking all images on the site. I'm sure it's overreacting and it's just a malicious ad that somehow made it on the site or something. But until it's fixed the site is unusable. This is something that only recently started today, as it was working fine yesterday.

katetheglaceon said:
My malware protection is listing the site are compromised. Meaning it's blocking all images on the site. I'm sure it's overreacting and it's just a malicious ad that somehow made it on the site or something. But until it's fixed the site is unusable. This is something that only recently started today, as it was working fine yesterday.

topic #35070
it's a false positive; they're working on it

For some reason, the site seems to be completely broken. I can't see any pictures or videos and instead of previews, I'm just seeing a long list of tags. My graphics driver and java are fully updated, so I don't know what could be the issue. Is this because of the Malwarebytes issue?

awesomnessman said:
For some reason, the site seems to be completely broken. I can't see any pictures or videos and instead of previews, I'm just seeing a long list of tags. My graphics driver and java are fully updated, so I don't know what could be the issue. Is this because of the Malwarebytes issue?

Having the same problem here

awesomnessman said:
For some reason, the site seems to be completely broken. I can't see any pictures or videos and instead of previews, I'm just seeing a long list of tags. My graphics driver and java are fully updated, so I don't know what could be the issue. Is this because of the Malwarebytes issue?

s-dog said:
Having the same problem here

I swear some people think this is a write-only thread.

For those of you dealing with the Malwarebytes issue, site admins have said it's a false positive here
To get things working, try whitelisting "static1.e621.net". That's what worked for me.

If that still doesn't work, bring up the browser's developer tools for the page. In firefox, it's as easy as Right Click > Inspect.
Then, in the developer tools, switch to the "Network" tab.
Then refresh the original page with the dev tools still open.
After refreshing the page, the network tab, it should show you exactly which requests failed, which are likely the ones you need to whitelist.

Really annoying bug here, I don't want to see the same post again so I blacklisted fav:bobbylobby and votedup:bobbylobby. However it just didn't work, if this could get fixed that'd be awesome.

bobbylobby said:
Really annoying bug here, I don't want to see the same post again so I blacklisted fav:bobbylobby and votedup:bobbylobby. However it just didn't work, if this could get fixed that'd be awesome.

I haven't tested it, but supposedly fav:me works in the blacklist for your own favourites only (not anyone else's).

Hey i dont know if it was asked before but im currentyl experiencing a problem on PC where it doesnt show any images only that broken image symbol and a bunch of tags. it still works on mobile though. If tried disabling my extensions, deleting cookies and cache and disabling mobile support mode. any one know how to fix it?

wat8548 said:
I haven't tested it, but supposedly fav:me works in the blacklist for your own favourites only (not anyone else's).

Didn't work, really hoping they fix this bug soon

lordgeo said:
Hey i dont know if it was asked before but im currentyl experiencing a problem on PC where it doesnt show any images only that broken image symbol and a bunch of tags. it still works on mobile though. If tried disabling my extensions, deleting cookies and cache and disabling mobile support mode. any one know how to fix it?

Disable Malwarebytes. topic #35070

wat8548 said:
Disable Malwarebytes. topic #35070

Don't disable Malwarebytes entirely.
It's fine. For the most part.

Add static1.e621.net to the detection whitelist.
https://support.malwarebytes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038479234-Exclude-detections-in-Malwarebytes-for-Windows

wat8548 said:
I haven't tested it, but supposedly fav:me works in the blacklist for your own favourites only (not anyone else's).

bobbylobby said:
Didn't work, really hoping they fix this bug soon

I just tested and adding fav:me to the blacklist is working for me - are you sure you haven't disabled your blacklist by accident?

The blacklist toggle only appears on the posts page when a post relevant to your blacklist is on the page - so searching fav:Bobbylobby is probably ideal and then the toggle can be found below the search bar on desktop or below the results on mobile

When editing a tag If you enter </3, the tag name will not be displayed in tag analysis and only the count will be displayed.

drag007 said:
When editing a tag If you enter </3, the tag name will not be displayed in tag analysis and only the count will be displayed.

it dosn't like displaying anything with </ in it, probably intended to stop people typing dumb stuff like </div> in it and breaking the whole page

If you're talking about the "Tag Changes" when editing a post, this is actually a feature of re621 and not something native.