I.E. delete images in the instance that are over X days old and aren’t saved by a user?

If not, I will be writing one.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    1 year ago

    Might also make sense to, if not delete them, mark them as old and move them to a different storage location. With the idea being the marked images get moved to a lower-powered server with cheap, but plentiful, storage.

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Good call. I’m about to look at methodologies now, first I’m posting a Community Seeder for new or small instances here momentarily. The purgePost API could work, but I’m going to need direct DB access to get a list of saved and commented on items for all users anyway, so this may be deeper. I’m

  • palitu@lemmy.perthchat.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hahah, I was just about to say that there is a post in selfhosted that will do this.

    Nope, itsa you! Great job!

  • rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.ioEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure pict-rs only caches images for a week. The cache being thumbnails, etc for links that are posted on any instance federated with yours.