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  • THX-1138@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I noticed that the cookies stored for lemmy (on Firefox at least) grow to huge amounts… it’s almost 1GB just for the cookies stored? Any reason why?

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      2 days ago

      This is most likely cached images. For example emojis from your instance or other instances you’ve viewed as well as maybe other images but definitely emojis. Possibly other things like the images in post thumbnails which helps reduce costs by ensuring your instance doesn’t have to re-send you the same images over and over again each time you close the browser.

      Lemmy doesn’t generate enough content yet daily that most people who check in twice a day and scroll a bit through pages won’t almost certainly encounter several posts with images they’ve already seen before. I’ve had many cases where just a bit of scrolling brings up 3-4 day old posts I’ve seen before so caching associated images could save in cases like those at least 3-4 transfers of those images per user which adds up for a non-profit no ads service like lemmy.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
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      2 days ago

      You’ll need to open an issue on the lemmy-ui repo. Its most likely cached images, not cookies, as we don’t store that many.

    • MBM@lemmings.world
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      2 days ago

      This is especially a problem because I have them for like 10 instances I visited once, throughout the year. I guess it’s not expiring?

    • lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr)@feddit.nl
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      2 days ago

      I can confirm.

      7.8 GiB in ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile_name/storage/default/https+++feddit.nl/cache/morgue/.

      It’s safe to delete it?

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Great work!

    Not sure if this is the place for feature requests, but in the Jerboa app would it be possible to add a “upload image” button next to custom thumbnail field? Currently I upload the image in the body, then select the link from the post and put it in the custom thumbail field.

    On desktop pasting an image in the custom thumbnail field is also not possible like in the post body.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
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      18 hours ago

      You’ll need to open an issue there. Jerboa needs more contributors tho, because I’ve been too busy with other things.