Information for supporters and interested parties
About new stuff or application issues in the Secret Lair
All passwords for the special folders have been updated, please go to the crowdfunding site where you are registered to get them. If you have any problems, please contact me immediately.
Thank you for your support!
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Dear Customer,
We would like to inform you about upcoming maintenance on one of our shared hosting servers. During this time, hardware upgrades will be performed, which will require a server reboot and result in a brief service disruption.
Details of the maintenance are as follows: Location: Atlanta, US Start Time: 2025-04-24 16:15 GMT+0 End Time: 2025-04-24 16:30 GMT+0 Expected Impact: Temporary service disruption due to a server reboot Maximum Duration: 15 minutes
We appreciate your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Thanks to XnViewMP (freeware, but still buggy) I was able to rename all the wrong "Britina" files in one go, and can only hope that these were the only files with wrong names. Case closed for now.
If you find any bugs in the Secret Lair, please feel free to report them to me.
Please and thank you.
To Platinum users (currently only).
I have just discovered that some files in the "Platinum" folder have been renamed or are missing. The Secret Lair is based on jAlbum software, which creates the entire gallery on my PC and then transfers the files to the server. This means that if any changes were made and not by me, they could only have been made on my PC. I didn't do it, so it must have been done by someone else, or some really weird and bad bug in the program.
I call this the "Britina hack" because many pictures now have "Britina" in the filename. Not funny.
Fixing this will take a lot of time. I'll check older backups, maybe it'll go faster, but I have no idea when this happened.
I have a firewall, but I can't say how well or badly it works.
Sorry this happened, I'm working on it.
All passwords for the special folders have been updated, please go to the crowdfunding site where you are registered to get them. If you have any problems, please contact me immediately.
Thank you for your support!
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Special Folders:
The Xmas pictures I uploaded had the date they were created, so they won't show up when you search for "Images taken in the past 48 hours". Instead, click on "Images taken in the past 14 days".
Please and thank you.
All passwords for the special folders have been updated, please go to the crowdfunding site where you are registered to get them. If you have any problems, please contact me immediately.
Thank you for your support! [Bear hug!]
If you only want to see the latest images from the last XX days, you can use the buttons at the bottom of the page, which show:
Images taken - in the past 48 hours - in the past 7 days - in the past 14 days
But if you want a different timescale, you can have it by simply changing the URL in your browser's address bar manually. First press one of the three buttons (see above), then change the number of days at the end to your liking:
gagala.org/Lair/Public/index.html#newimages=120
will show you the latest images of the last 4 months.
At the moment I'm uploading some great new stuff from PhillipThe2. Now that I'm in a different place I have a fast internet connection, but if I didn't I wouldn't be able to run my Secret Lair with jAlbum.
As an example, I will take the largest pile, the Platinum folder. Here are files up to 8k in size, the whole folder is currently 3.32 GB in size. I just added two new files, an image and a short story [together only 1.4 MiB (1,448,410 bytes)]. That makes an upload of 825.1 MB. That's totally crazy. At my old place it would take me more than a day to upload that. The organization of jAlbum is not ideal. One small change and this software reorganizes the whole folder with all files, which means a huge traffic on the SSD, which means a higher wear and a shorter lifespan.
To cut a long story short: If I find a better application, I will definitely change the software again. As bitter as that would be.
The passphrase for Platinum / 8k folders had to be changed. You can find it at the known places. I'm sorry for this.
Next month only the new Secret Lair v2.5 will get new passphrases, because there will be no more updates for the old Secret Lair v2.4 until it will be deleted on May 1st.
