Loforo will now fetch and mirror any external images (jpg, gif, webp, png) and videos (mp4 and webm) that are in posts to our server shortly after posting (so if that external service goes down or deletes the image/video, it'll always be available on Loforo).

We've also added full .webp support (both static and animated webp images) to the image uploader (via our other service, Thumbsnap).

All existing posts with external content are being processed from newest to oldest at around 2000 posts per hour and we expect to be done with the full backlog in a few days.

For those more technically inclined: this mirroring only works with img and video tags at the moment and not any iframe content so if you are linking posts from something like giphy, try to add the direct link to the gif/mp4/"gifv" and we'll be able to download it.

Reposted from blog