thanks for the image. for some reason i can’t see the firewall event for your attempt, but when i tried to upload the image myself i found the event. it’s a rule related to a php file upload vulnerability in software we’re not even using, it’s disabled now.

a JSON parsing error is certainly unexpected. I wonder if you happen to be triggering some automatic Cloudflare WAF rule.

could you try uploading the same file from a computer? before uploading, please open your browser dev tools (F12) and visit the network tab. it should show some more details in there. especially the response tab should show an actual error message. in the headers tab, you could also share the value of the cf-ray header with us and we can take a look at our logs. please be careful not to share everything you see in that network tab, as there are values visible there that allow taking over your lemmy account. specifically cookies and the jwt value; in some cases also an authorization header. cf-ray is not sensitive, it’s just an identifier associated with the individual request.

feel free to pm me the cf-ray value rather than posting it publicly.

https://lemmy.world/post/5397202

we’ll try to get the post out the coming week, at this time we’re roughly looking at updating late January.

that surely wasn’t intended to be paused for an extended period. I wasn’t actively aware of this until now. usually we update all interfaces automatically shortly after releases.

i assume there was an issue at some point where the update broke something and it was forgotten to follow up on that later. I’ll have a look at that later.

many communities would be happy to have more mods. many of these cases come from the lack of people volunteering to moderate a community. this is already being considered when people are promoted as moderators in communities by our admin or community team if a community doesn’t have active moderators. we already try to find people that aren’t already moderating as many communities in those cases.

suggesting ‘crimes that have not yet happened’ - itself is not a violation

this was already covered. this is not a new change. if you write “someone should kill person XYZ” this is clearly a call for murder that we do not tolerate here. discussing jury nullification in the same context where murder or other violent crimes are suggested is what was clarified to be subject for moderator action.

I haven’t seen the actual error message displayed, but “failed external validation” is definitely how the scanning process works.

By illegal we are not referring to copyrighted content or anything like that, only much more serious things.

Unfortunately, this will sometimes falsely identify content that should be allowed. In the past this would have silently erased the image shortly after the upload, with this only becoming noticeable days after the upload due to caching.