Datacenter outage
There was a power outage at our datacenter which restarted all servers and caused downtime.
We're now checking on and restoring the various services.
There was a power outage at our datacenter which restarted all servers and caused downtime.
We're now checking on and restoring the various services.
You can now manually tag a post as NSFW by including the #nsfw tag in your post (there seems to be some instances where the automatic NSFW image detection is failing which we're looking to fix but the manual tagging is a workaround).
We've also made some tweaks to speed up the database so write actions (like creating/liking/repost) should be faster.
Issue resolved. Video + Photo uploads should work without issue now
We are currently experiencing some issues related to media processing (especially video uploads).
We hope to have this resolved in the next 24 hours.
Thanks for your patience.
We will be moving the Loforo server to a higher capacity one later today.
The service will be unavailable for a few hours during the migration (probably 3-4 hours).
Edit: Migration is now complete and the site should be faster now. Let us know if you notice any issues.
Edit 2: We're aware of some stability issues and are working on fixes. Thanks for your patience. (Edit 2.5: Fixed now)
A Notification type filter option that allows you to filter the Notifications by the type of notification has now been added (Comments/replies, Reposts/likes, Follows, or the default unfiltered).
Just a quick update -- there is now a post filter option that allows you to filter the post list by the "status" (Published, Draft, Queued).
Loforo went live a little over a year ago and we've had some pretty explosive growth thanks to you all.
We've rolled out a bunch of features over the past year based on your input and have many others in the works (archive view, mobile app, etc).
If you have any features/improvements you would like please let us know in the comments or through the Contact link at the bottom of every page. We read all comments/emails!
There had apparently been an issue with the way we were activating push notifications that was preventing users from getting the notifications.
The bug has now been fixed (we've also fixed it for the 90+ people who already subscribed to the browser-notifications in the past month).
You can now get push notifications of new notifications you get on your site.
If your browser supports push notifications, you'll see a blue "Subscribe" button on the notifications page.
It's very non-spammy even for high traffic sites and will only send at most 1 notification per 20 minutes (if you've been on the site or have checked the notifications page in the past 30 minutes, you will not receive notifications).
This has currently been tested on Firefox and Chrome browsers. It should also work on the newest version of Microsoft Edge as well as Firefox for Android (it won't work on iOS at this time as Apple hasn't added support for push notifications via the browser).
We've implemented a rate-limit on the number of posts a new user/site can make to groups to limit new users spamming groups with irrelevant posts.
The limit is currently set to 3 times the number of weeks since the site was created (for example: if your site was created less than 7 days ago, the total number of posts to any group that you can make per day will be 3; if you joined 8 weeks ago, you can post 24 posts to groups per day).
Posts to your own site/group are unrestricted regardless of the age of your account.
Group owners can now block users -- this will prevent the blocked user from posting (or reposting) to your group.
To block a user from posting to a group, switch to the group account (with the drop down at the top right) then go to the profile of the person to block and hit the crossed-out circle icon (next to the follow button).
Another highly requested feature, hashtags, have arrived!
You can tag your posts with any keywords to help you and others find posts about a subject or theme.
Adding a hashtag is easy -- goto the "Create post" page and at the bottom, you'll find a place to add 1 or more tags for your posts. You can just tap the pre-set tags we've added or type in your own tags separated by commas.
You and your site's visitors can see the tags for a post below the post and click a tag to see other posts sharing the same tag.
You can also edit your existing posts to add tags to them. Here's a sample tag page for #cats.
A tag listing/tag-cloud page will be added in the near future.
Loforo has released our first API (Application Programming Interface) and you can use it to create posts programmatically.
The Loforo API can be used to interact with Loforo from your own application (mobile apps, web apps, server-based app/scripts, etc).
Currently you can create posts via the API (both text posts and image/video posts are supported). More APIs will be added to fetch existing posts, edit posts and more in the future.
API documentation can be found here: https://loforo.com/api
We've had a few requests for this API from the developer/programmer types here so we look forward to seeing what you do with it. If you need any assistance integrating our API into your app/script, let us know -- we'd love to help!
The WYSIWYG post creation page has been updated to inherit the styles of the site so it should be more accurate to what is actually shown on your site.
This is the first part of the rollout of a new inline post editor (so you can post content directly from your site instead of going to a dedicated create-post page as you do now).
The Notifications page now shows a thumbnail-preview if the post mentioned contains an image which should help identify your posts more easily. We've also improved the image preview on the post list for posts that contain text and image content.
You can now set a background image for your site via the Settings page.
Click the "Browse" button under the section "Site Background Image" to upload and set a background image. There is a small trash icon to clear the background image also.
Loforo has had "Unlisted" blogs (which prevent your site's posts from appearing in any public feeds like /everyone) but now we've added "Private" site support!
Goto the "Settings" page and set "Site Visibility" to "Private" to prevent anyone else from seeing your site (you can switch between public and private any time).
Private sites will only be visible to you, the site owner, when you are logged in to your account. Any posts that were previously published or any new posts you publish while your site is set to "private" will not be visible to anyone else.
If you block a user (the crossed out circle button near the follow button), they will no longer be able to comment on your posts.
As requested, the multi-site repost has now been moved to its own button -- there's an upward facing arrow near the repost button to select the site to repost to if you have more than 1 site/group in your account.
The large repost button now does a "quick-repost" to the site you're logged in to.
You can now delete comments you've posted as well as any comments posted on your sites. You'll see a trash-bin icon near the name of each comment -- click it to delete it. Made a typo? Regret saying something? Don't like a comment on your own site/group? Delete it!