If you’ve noticed that you’re landing on tesseract.dubvee.org by default now, it’s because I’ve done some restructuring to Dubvee’s infrastructure to take advantage of the new features I’ve written into Tesseract. It also means you will need to login to your account again. Sorry about that, but it’s a small price to pay for the benefits we’ll see.

If you have Dubvee installed as a PWA, you’ll probably also need to “re-install” it from the tesseract. domain. It’ll redirect gracefully, but unless you resinstall, it will have a title bar and not look app-like. Again, my apologies.

Why?

I’ve added image proxying and caching to the Tesseract server process which allows it to act as a pseudo-CDN. This takes a significant burden off of my Lemmy + Pict-rs server while also making images and other media load faster for users. It also reduces the load on other Lemmy instances by not repeatedly fetching the same media. Win/win/win!

Additional Perks

I’ve left this Tesseract server instance unlocked so you can login to multiple Lemmy instances at the same time and seamlessly switch between accounts.

Beta Notice

I still have this version of Tesseract (1.2.8) in beta right now, so please let me know if you encounter any bugs.

Update

Other third-party apps and frontends are unaffected by this. They’ll still function as normal but won’t benefit from the caching. When configuring other apps (Jerboa, Sync, etc), you’ll still put dubvee.org as your instance.