Announcements: Is this you?
Posted Apr 15, 2024 5:32PM EDT
Short version: We're supporting an image file format we didn't support before. We have some photos people uploaded in that format. They're available to view now, but we no longer know who uploaded them.
I've put them all here:
https://oldergay.men/images/collections/orphans
Please take a look. If you see one that's yours, there are instructions there for claiming it.
Tedious details:
I got around to investigating the HEIC files members have uploaded and which have caused so many problems, including the briefly-broken galleries a week or two ago. I just added code to ignore them then, but I looked closer this weekend. HEIC/HEIF has many advantages but slow adoption. It's been the default format for images on the iPhone for seven years, but is only supported by one web browser. When members uploaded files like these (probably from their phones), they were accepted as images (since they are), but the software we use for manipulating images (for example, creating thumbnails of member profile photos) choked on them.
I rewrote the relevant code to convert HEIC uploads to the more common JPEG format before continuing, and all should be well with this now. Thanks for your patience, and again, take a look to see if something you uploaded was affected.