dba_afish said:
what month in 2024?

November-ish.
12 thousand videos are yet to be processed.

cinder said:
November-ish.
12 thousand videos are yet to be processed.

hmm... I was thinking that it might've been a year date mix-up problem, saw posts after 2024-05-15 not working and got mixed up was this year.

I mean, that's still a possibility, but they'd've had to have delayed the report by however long it took to get through ~6 months-worth of stuff, so maybe not.

cinder said:
That said, I have no idea what the issue is here.
Here is a video that was posted earlier today: https://e621.net/posts/5605668
You can find more videos here: type:webm.

Nope doesn’t work still idk could it be that im on ios so it doesn’t work?

is this about how webm videos aren’t loading for some people? i came here because of that.

… i don’t know if this is a proper fix but an idea could be to have sample sizes be a default option on all webm files? i think atleast part of the problem is that they’re too thicc, too hefty and large for lower-end devices to properly load.

… no idea how effective that might even be though.

edit: okay it’s already been brought up earlier in here, ios browser incompatibility or something which is about what i figured… still a weird bug though. looking forward to seeing it fixed as a mobile user.

dba_afish said:
the user with the issue didn't say anything about not finding stuff in the search, just that they weren't able to view videos from later than May. which sounds like it'd be the .mp4 sample problem.

Yeah that's how I read it
I was trying to save Cinder from having to repeat themselves for the umpteenth time
But it was still a partially educated guess, so sorry for that

deterioratedstarcell said:
is this about how webm videos aren’t loading for some people? i came here because of that.

… i don’t know if this is a proper fix but an idea could be to have sample sizes be a default option on all webm files? i think atleast part of the problem is that they’re too thicc, too hefty and large for lower-end devices to properly load.

… no idea how effective that might even be though.

edit: okay it’s already been brought up earlier in here, ios browser incompatibility or something which is about what i figured… still a weird bug though. looking forward to seeing it fixed as a mobile user.

Something I've noticed, I'm using IOS but the previews of WEBM format videos posted on other platform (like Discord) from E621 also stopped working.

Unless if this issue is also known then I apologize for any repetition.

millcore said:
Post the bugs you've found here. Please be as specific and as constructive as possible; the more info about the issue you include the easier it will be for us to fix it.

Other forums you can check:
https://e621.net/forum_topics/25717 - List of changes that are NOT bugs
https://e621.net/forum_topics/25748 - Quick FAQ/Q&A thread
https://e621.net/forum_topics/25718 - For documentation problems
https://e621.net/forum_topics/25716 - The theme/aesthetic issues (please read the main post before using)

If you find other bugs floating around in the forum you can post a link to those forums here so they don't get lost.
If you already made another thread for a bug then please go edit [Bug] at the start of the title so it's easy to spot.

So I currently have an issue wherein and “webm” type animated post just, doesn’t load for me. It only affects posts that are about 15 days old or less tho, I can still view older videos just fine. The 15 days or so is from the posting of this comment

Minor documentation error, but in the latest news update dated 2025-05-05, the "Get verified now!" link is broken.

Another bug with the AV1 stuff I guess? The site seems to be serving me the samples for AV1 uploads, even when I have the dropdown set to original. Going to download the video (with right click -> save as) confirms this, giving me the file that ends in _alt. This occurs on Edge (Windows). On Firefox, it works correctly, giving me the alt on other dropdown modes and the original video when the dropdown is set to original (though is this even actually the correct behavior)? My device can play AV1 videos fine.
Notably for WEBM videos it has that behavior for both Firefox and Edge, giving me the original when the dropdown is set to original and the sample otherwise.
On Edge, the only way to get the original video appears to be through the actual download button.
The "automatic" dropdown selection gives me the sample on both browsers, though my guess is it should detect somehow if AV1 works. I don't understand why "original" would ever give the sample.
Same thing occurs with Edge on android, where even original gives the sample but download works fine. Firefox on Android works the same way as on Windows, giving me the sample on everything but original and the original on original.
Chrome behaves the same as Edge on both Windows and Android, so that means a lot of users who want the original are getting served samples.

On further inspection: This is because in Chromium (and by extension Edge and Chrome), videoTag.canPlayType('video/mp4;codecs="av1"') returns an empty string. For it to return anything else, it would require either omitting the codecs part entirely (which would just return "maybe" even if it can't play AV1, since that would be for any codec including ones like h.264), or providing a full codec specifier as defined by https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-isobmff/v1.3.0.html#codecsparam (like 'video/mp4;codecs="av01.0.04M.10"'). Firefox, on the other hand, accepts just av1 as a codec without further specification.

It might be possible to get the full codec specifier for videos to do this properly. However, in the event of the user selecting original I think it should ignore whether or not the browser thinks it can play the video and give the original anyway.

Also, in the Firefox case, despite the browser reporting that it can play the video the "Automatic" dropdown selection still defaulted to the sample. This seems to be because in iterating over the variants it adds the original after the samples, so since it can play the samples it never checks if it can play the original. This is a separate issue and should be fixed so automatic actually works. This also effects WEBM, so it's a rather significant issue - automatic should give the original if the browser can play it, and it doesn't.

To fix these, my recommendations are:
Update the codec of all av1 videos to their expanded form, finding some tool to parse the needed headers. Or take the cheap way and just use av01.0.00M.08 which would pretty much always be reported as playable if the browser can play any AV1 content at all. Could cause false positives, though.
Update posts.js so if original is selected ("source" in the code), provide the original video regardless of browser support.
Update posts.js so the original video is added to the list first, making automatic actually select the original if the browser supports it.

When viewing the profile page of a user with an avatar that you have blacklisted, the image will still appear even when the blacklist is enabled. I tested this a few different ways and here are some notes I have found:
- If you are not logged in, you CANNOT use this to see explicit images of young characters
- e926 still does not show NSFW images, but it will show blacklisted SFW images
- This only seems to happen on profile pages. If you are viewing comments, forum posts, etc made by the user, the image will still be blocked there.

I haven't looked into if this affects other wikis, but this wiki shouldn't claim to have 8 posts when it's been aliased to another tag: https://e621.net/wiki_pages/show_or_new?title=belly_humping

donuts5432 said:
When viewing the profile page of a user with an avatar that you have blacklisted, the image will still appear even when the blacklist is enabled. I tested this a few different ways and here are some notes I have found:
- If you are not logged in, you CANNOT use this to see explicit images of young characters
- e926 still does not show NSFW images, but it will show blacklisted SFW images
- This only seems to happen on profile pages. If you are viewing comments, forum posts, etc made by the user, the image will still be blocked there.

Known bug

crocogator said:
I haven't looked into if this affects other wikis, but this wiki shouldn't claim to have 8 posts when it's been aliased to another tag: https://e621.net/wiki_pages/show_or_new?title=belly_humping

There's a lot tags that do that. No idea what it means tho

nin10dope said:
There's a lot tags that do that. No idea what it means tho

It's a cached count and not a live count, issues are bound to happen with race conditions and other nonsense

donovan_dmc said:
It's a cached count and not a live count, issues are bound to happen with race conditions and other nonsense

That makes sense, I've tried to view the cache for tags that have that issue but got no results, so I just shrugged it off as a IT silly thing.

Why is most of the site’s legacy now suddenly missing after switching from the pussy tag to the vulva tag?

theaestheticfur said:
Why is most of the site’s legacy now suddenly missing after switching from the pussy tag to the vulva tag?

The "site's legacy"? I'm not sure what you're referring to, but there's a lot of posts with the pussy tag. It's going to take some time for the site to actually update them to vulva, so posts may not show up when searching for one or the other.

I was searching some tags and pictures that have that tag are not showing up. The pictures still exist and I can find them searching other tags and they still have all their old tags. They just aren't showing up on searches for all of them.

Edit: Nevermind I just saw about the update and it taking time.

Im having trouble with making sets, yesterday the set features were working perfectly but now I cannot create any new sets anymore because i just get the error "The database timed out processing your request" and I cant add any posts to sets either anymore or else it just gives me a blank error at the top of the screen. I dont think its my internet connection because i have tried on multiple devices and connections and i consistently am getting the same errors

seeing the talk of the tag changes makes me think maybe it's an issue with the database doing a lot of work right now and being overloaded?

qwazi said:
seeing the talk of the tag changes makes me think maybe it's an issue with the database doing a lot of work right now and being overloaded?

Sets overall have been having more and more (unrelated) stability issues lately, aliases shouldn't affect that

For some reason, using wildcard in a blacklist entry causes tags with that letter sequence to be nondiscriminatingly omitted. It blacklists tags containing a set of letters, rather than blacklisting words beginning/ending in a particular way.

What this means is that writing "moth*" inside your blacklist is more like writing "-*moth*" in the search field, rather than like writing "-moth*." As a practical example:

"-moth*" in a search will omit posts with the tags for "moth," "mother," and "mothra."

Writing "moth*" in your blacklist will omit posts with the tag "mother," "smother," and any other tags containing the letter sequence "moth" anywhere within them.

The way that wildcard works in searches is preferable to the way it works in blacklist, since this same function can be achieved through writing *[tag]* in your blacklist to omit tags containing certain letter sequences.

Search is broken, placing a single term to search works, but placing 2 terms returns no results.

sigmundsl said:
Search is broken, placing a single term to search works, but placing 2 terms returns no results.

male female works fine, give us more details

donovan_dmc said:
male female works fine, give us more details

If you get something like 'female vagina' or a word with an alias, it implodes

sigmundsl said:
If you get something like 'female vagina' or a word with an alias, it implodes

The problem is just the vagina tag because, currently, it is not aliased to anything, it's just an empty tag.
Try pussy (which still works for now) or vulva (the inevitable replacement in progress)

I will add a source to a post and sometimes it will say I removed like 5 tags even though i never touched the tags

funkwolfie said:
I will add a source to a post and sometimes it will say I removed like 5 tags even though i never touched the tags

When a post's tags were changed because of an alias, it will show the removals/additions with the next person to change the post's tags, sources, or description. It's just the way the system works.

watsit said:
When a post's tags were changed because of an alias, it will show the removals/additions with the next person to change the post's tags, sources, or description. It's just the way the system works.

ah ok my apologies that a tad annoying

funkwolfie said:
ah ok my apologies that a tad annoying

It is until you know that it's just the programming blaming you, then it's silly and a little funny. You'll never get in trouble for it cuz the trail is easy to follow.

the background area no longer has the hexagon overlay the only place that currently uses it is the little box in the footer with the site logo.

dba_afish said:
the background area no longer has the hexagon overlay the only place that currently uses it is the little box in the footer with the site logo.

Oh my god you're right and I hate it. It looks like a css error because it's only present in the main header

I got three new messages but i cant see them for some reason?

derptron5000 said:
I got three new messages but i cant see them for some reason?

Do you have the sender blacklisted? Specifically user:name

Seems the tag Exceassive_pussy_juice got changed to Excessive_vaginal_fluids, and it seems that since that most of the posts that were originally tagged with it, no longer come up when searching? There's only one page of results when originally it was definitely 5+

Edit(i saw that it might take time to update)

catlover00 said:
Edit(i saw that it might take time to update)

Correct, it's work in progress

When entering four or more tags into the search bar on mobile, the results are erroneously saying No Results
I'm on Chrome, up to date android os etc

If I remove one of the tags, the results show up, and I can check those individual posts and confirm that they also have the fourth tag I used. But just adding that fourth tag to the search gives me the Nobody here but us chickens

nin10dope said:
When entering four or more tags into the search bar on mobile, the results are erroneously saying No Results
I'm on Chrome, up to date android os etc

If I remove one of the tags, the results show up, and I can check those individual posts and confirm that they also have the fourth tag I used. But just adding that fourth tag to the search gives me the Nobody here but us chickens

What prevents you from providing more details about which tags you used?
I just tested it with five tags, and it works just fine.

cinder said:
What prevents you from providing more details about which tags you used?
I just tested it with five tags, and it works just fine.

Nothing, I just thought the specific tags might not be the problem.
Trial and error reveals that the bad tag might be ffm
I was trying to find a specific tag for Laf so I was searching assisted_sex impregnation and I could confirm that some of those results had ffm too, but adding that to the search breaks it and shows no results

nin10dope said:
Nothing, I just thought the specific tags might not be the problem.
Trial and error reveals that the bad tag might be ffm
I was trying to find a specific tag for Laf so I was searching assisted_sex impregnation and I could confirm that some of those results had ffm too, but adding that to the search breaks it and shows no results

Looking at the results for assisted_sex impregnation, it looks like there's only 1 result (coincidentally the first one) with a related tag; specifically ffm_threesome, which doesn't imply ffm. Using the json endpoint for `assisted_sex impregnation` & using Ctrl+F yields that single post. Changing assisted_sex impregnation ffm to assisted_sex impregnation ffm* also yields this single result. You said you used 4 tags; was there another, or was it only these? You also said "some" of those results had ffm, implying more than 1; is that true?

aacafah said:
Looking at the results for assisted_sex impregnation, it looks like there's only 1 result (coincidentally the first one) with a related tag; specifically ffm_threesome, which doesn't imply ffm. Using the json endpoint for `assisted_sex impregnation` & using Ctrl+F yields that single post. Changing assisted_sex impregnation ffm to assisted_sex impregnation ffm* also yields this single result. You said you used 4 tags; was there another, or was it only these? You also said "some" of those results had ffm, implying more than 1; is that true?

Honestly after looking through that stuff again, it might have been as simple and stupid as me seeing "ffm" and not noticing the underscore for the longer tag. I checked that post's history and it never had ffm tagged so I think that tells me for sure what happened. I don't remember what the fourth tag was but I'd have to assume that I ruled it out as being the troublemaker.
tl;dr I was probably dumb

kartelsal said:
Dunno if anyone else is having this problem, but my left click is not working. Instead of moving to the linked picture, it shows a message saying "removed favorite" which is confusing since I haven't set any favorites. Also the main pages, or browsing pages I guess, have a green background behind the thumbnails of the pictures, but I haven't changed any settings for the page's theme.

you accidently set your mode to favorite, under the search bar is a mode section, which if you click you can select view which is default. the different background colors denote which mode you are in! ^^

edit: oop looks like you must have figure it out as i was typing this!

the "Disable cropped thumbnails" setting seems to no longer function (properly?).

Seems like all thumbnails are larger than normal. Not sure if there was a setting somewhere that got changed with the maintenance update but I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Thumbnails are no longer in a uniform size. It can happen that you have three tiny thumbnails (leaving a ton of space in between) or three really big ones (with basically no space in between).
Also, was it needed to only have three thumbnails being displayed now per row on mobile in landscape mode? In portrait mode it is only two thumbnails per row.

dba_afish said:
the "Disable cropped thumbnails" setting seems to no longer function (properly?).

Would explain my first issue. Thumbnails no longer being cropped which causes them to no longer fit neatly on a grid.

Thumbnails are gigantic now, in order to show the same amount of pictures it goes far, far lower on the page now, makes browsing take longer and is harder to do

duorogue said:
Thumbnails are gigantic now, in order to show the same amount of pictures it goes far, far lower on the page now, makes browsing take longer and is harder to do

Yeah, it's incredibly frustrating, there's not option to go back to normal? Why change it to only two columns of images instead of four?

Adding to this thread, the thumbnails are large for me now. ts gotta be a bug, the only way this is an improvement is to make the thumbnails easier to see, but people didn't have much of a problem before and they're blurry af now, so you can't really make that argument.

there's a setting button only visible in desktop view that allows you to change the thumbnail crop in the settings (a gear under the search bar). if you're on mobile you can either disable mobile mode at the bottom of the screen or just rotate your device so it shows up. reenable mobile mode after that.

dba_afish said:
there's a setting button only visible in desktop view that allows you to change the thumbnail crop in the settings (a gear under the search bar). if you're on mobile you can either disable mobile mode at the bottom of the screen or just rotate your device so it shows up. reenable mobile mode after that.

This fixes it but the fact that the behavior changed is a bug imo. Also making this default before generating the new size thumbnails is a bug, as some new posts are obviously getting thumbnails made for the new UI but everything else is going to take a while.

Speaking as someone through an iPad on Safari, and this might just be an isolated instance/issue, but the setting changing and 'mobile mode: on/off' button both seem to do Nothing. Trying to even force my iPad to display a Desktop iteration of the site doesn't seem to be causing any change in any observable fashion.

Not sure if this is a "Clear out your cache and then try" thing, but feels pertinent to report on, I think.

If you just want to tell everyone how much you hate the larger thumbnails, please take it to this thread: https://e621.net/forum_topics/58042
Please, only leave actual bug reports here.

The new placeholder image for when someone's avatar in the comments or on the forums is blacklisted doesn't properly scale with the margins, so it juts out into the body of the post and depending on the length/formatting of the message can occlude the text. This isn't affected by the Image Crop/Card Size settings since it's not a search results page.

Is anyone else noticing missing content? I had a bunch of favorites from different artists that are now missing from the site after the maintenance.

Have you tried checking if they were deleted first? fav:mumboclancy88 status:deleted

so not sure if this is a bug or me being stupid but, so I tagged a post i uploaded with lipstick and it didnt implicate makeup so I thought there wasnt a implication for it for some reason, but I checked lipstick wiki page and it should implicate makeup (i edited my post to manually add it)

Why the frick is the website so slow all of a sudden?

I know it’s not just a problem with my Wi-Fi because all other sites and apps work fine.

splashykoy11 said:
Why the frick is the website so slow all of a sudden?

I know it’s not just a problem with my Wi-Fi because all other sites and apps work fine.

+1 rebooted my network multiple times I just assumed it was my internet failing

ohmanwhatsthis said:
The new placeholder image for when someone's avatar in the comments or on the forums is blacklisted doesn't properly scale with the margins, so it juts out into the body of the post and depending on the length/formatting of the message can occlude the text. This isn't affected by the Image Crop/Card Size settings since it's not a search results page.

Fixed.

funkwolfie said:
+1 rebooted my network multiple times I just assumed it was my internet failing

Performance issues are being looked into.

Can someone just revert the site? Whatever this update is, it isn't an improvement at all this sucks!

yellowsnowleopard said:
Can someone just revert the site? Whatever this update is, it isn't an improvement at all this sucks!

Not a bug report, go to the appropriate topic #58042

cinder said:
If you just want to tell everyone how much you hate the larger thumbnails, please take it to this thread: https://e621.net/forum_topics/58042
Please, only leave actual bug reports here.

Am I to assume then that the way thumbnails are now isn't a bug? I came here to report them. I'm on a 2K display and only 32 images fit per screen now. Is that intentional?

calico said:
Am I to assume then that the way thumbnails are now isn't a bug? I came here to report them. I'm on a 2K display and only 32 images fit per screen now. Is that intentional?

Correct, not a bug. You can return them to normal by clicking the cog settings under the search bar

nin10dope said:
Correct, not a bug. You can return them to normal by clicking the cog settings under the search bar

Ah!! I completely missed that! I was looking around in the settings from the gear in the top right. This helps a lot, thank you!

calico said:
Ah!! I completely missed that! I was looking around in the settings from the gear in the top right. This helps a lot, thank you!

My pleasure c:

“The video in this post is still being processed. It may take a few minutes to complete.
Playback on some devices may be affected.”
Any reason why a post 10 hours old still hasn’t been processed yet? On mobile btw.

Search settings for image crop and card size entirely non functional
cookies enabled and checked. using firefox

is there are a reason why the option to fit the image in original size, horizontal, vertical or sample size resets each time to original size instead of staying on what i chose?

The new thumbnails broke flash files' thumbnails.

type:swf now have a 404 data/preview URL thumbnail instead of the generic download-preview thumbnail.

tf2_heavy said:
is there are a reason why the option to fit the image in original size, horizontal, vertical or sample size resets each time to original size instead of staying on what i chose?

It's just how it's always been. You can set the default value in the settings.
I could have the dropdown on the post page also change that setting, like it already does in re621, but I am certain that people would be upset with me over that.

raven1800 said:
Search settings for image crop and card size entirely non functional
cookies enabled and checked. using firefox

I am also using the latest version of Firefox, and it works fine for me.
If you are using a private window, then the browser would obviously not save your setting.
Otherwise, I'm not sure what could be causing this.

fireballliquor said:
“The video in this post is still being processed. It may take a few minutes to complete.
Playback on some devices may be affected.”
Any reason why a post 10 hours old still hasn’t been processed yet? On mobile btw.

Both videos and image samples are being processed on the same server (and more importantly in the same queue).
Since the site is currently regenerating thumbnails for older posts, video conversions will also be delayed.

Trust me, we are trying to get this process done as quickly as possible.

arcflight said:
The new thumbnails broke flash files' thumbnails.

type:swf now have a 404 data/preview URL thumbnail instead of the generic download-preview thumbnail.

Damn.
I'll look into it.

aacafah said:
Have you tried checking if they were deleted first? fav:mumboclancy88 status:deleted

"Nobody here but us chickens!" is all i get with that search. They aren't under status:any either. I searched the artists that made the content and those pics and vids aren't on the site anymore.

mumboclancy88 said:
"Nobody here but us chickens!" is all i get with that search. They aren't under status:any either. I searched the artists that made the content and those pics and vids aren't on the site anymore.

Giving us some names to work with would be useful

cinder said:
I am also using the latest version of Firefox, and it works fine for me.
If you are using a private window, then the browser would obviously not save your setting.
Otherwise, I'm not sure what could be causing this.

in Firefox private keeps all the stuff until all of the session tabs are closed. the way this user described the problem in the other thread...

raven1800 said:
sadly that doesnt do anything for me and once i click i and refresh the site it just goes back to the previous settings [...]

the issue is happening within a single session, which shouldn't happen even with private browsing.

it's like it got set to read-only or something...?

When searching any tag images are big squares and "default image width" setting doesn't work. I'm on brave browser but issue still present on chrome and edge