I'm going to try finishing security updates related to saving and uploading images tonight.
Hopefully there won't be any downtime to applicable areas of the Community, but if there are, they shouldn't be more than a few minutes at a time.
In the end, you will see all image uploads placed into a pending state for up to a minute before populating into your account. This is to prevent bots from pushing up malicious files to the server, something they have been attempting for a while.
UPDATE: I have the server-side functionality all in place for image uploads:
* Folder permissions are locked down to block malicious bots.
* A script processes new uploads every minute.
* Another script purges all deleted images once a day.
I ran a one-time purge of all images that have been flagged for deletion or were tied to disabled accounts. This cleaned out about 40% of the database records and about 200MB of server space.
The interface for image uploads still needs to be updated to support dark mode and to provide pending status for all new uploads. I'll try getting to that tomorrow.
UPDATE 2: The image maintenance page has been updated with a new interface to support dark mode. I still have to add pagination, but it's at least much better than it was. Enjoy
By @HullBreach
