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Spectra Video @spectra.video · 07/10/2026

(This message best read in Professor Farnsworth's voice).

Spectra Video @spectra.video · 07/10/2026

But because God was not finished with raking the hot coals over your server admin, apparently there's a bunch of videos in storage that match up with the correct path, and a bunch of videos in storage that match up with the incorrect path. And it's not a little in either case! To make a long […]

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Spectra Video @spectra.video · 07/10/2026

Now, for the mind-fucking portion of today's lesson: the reason video entries older than 2 1/2 years or so don't play is because the video location in the storage bucket somehow no longer matches the recorded URL in the database. That's right! Somehow the URL pattern of `streaming-playlist/hls` […]

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Spectra Video @spectra.video · 07/10/2026

Good news, everyone! After extensive investigation, we've finally figured out why old videos no longer play. First, the good part: your videos are not lost! They're sitting in a massive 10.2 TB bucket of object storage that keeps growing exponentially because some of you stream 5-hour-long […]

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Spectra Video @spectra.video · 29/09/2026

We're currently investigating an ongoing issue with older videos on our instance that no longer play properly. We think we know the cause and a possible fix, but we need to basically fix affected videos one by one. We apologize for this experience, and will try our best to work quickly. If you […]

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Spectra Video @spectra.video · 20/09/2026

For those of you who have been waiting for #PeerTube account approvals: we apologize for the wait, but will be dispatching a bunch of approvals today! Watch your inbox.

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Spectra Video @spectra.video · 12/08/2026

It's time for the infamous "cleanup local server storage every six months" job. Basically, we have to run a data migration script that handles all videos that didn't make it to Object Storage...by basically checking every single video in the server. It's a resource-intensive process, but […]

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.fedizen.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Just got home from my trip a little while ago, working on @spectra right now.

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Spectra Video @spectra.video · 30/07/2026

Spectra Video is back online, and has been updated to the latest #PeerTube release. 🎉

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Sean Tilley @deadsuperhero.fedizen.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Hey peeps, sorry for not following up on @spectra. I know that it’s down, and I probably know what’s causing it again. I will try to get it back in working order within the next day or so, my health hasn’t been the greatest, and I’ve got a lot going on in my personal life. I’m sorry.

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Spectra Video @spectra.video · 23/06/2026

Here is a simple proposal of our plan options, feel free to provide feedback. We are thinking of setting default caps for accounts at 50GB, which feels fairly generous. Again, we are open to feedback.

A screenshot of the proposed subscription plan options for Spectra video.

Options:

$2 / month - 50 GB
$5 / month - 100 GB
$30 / month - 1 TB
$50 / month - 2 TB
$100 / month - 5 TB

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Spectra Video @spectra.video · 23/06/2026

@fiend_unpleasant It's an interesting thought, but would require software development as part of PeerTube itself, or as a plugin. There's probably some edge-cases that would also need to be considered, such as "I only want to delete videos older than this amount of time, EXCEPT for ones that […]

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Spectra Video @spectra.video · 23/06/2026

Spectra currently stores 7.5 TB of videos. As our costs continue to rise, we need to make a serious decision about the long-term viability of our platform and operations. One thing we are thinking seriously about is defaulting to a set per-account upload limit, with the ability to pay for […]

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Spectra Video @spectra.video · 20/04/2026

Just a quick update: our queue issue has been completely resolved, our server now has a lot of storage space, and everything is running smoothly! Sorry it took so long on this one, but we wanted to make sure that everyone's videos were properly taken care of.

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Spectra Video @spectra.video · 12/04/2026

We suffered another temporary outage today. The culprit was a partially-uploaded 20GB+ video that took out our remaining space. We ask our community members to please limit their video uploads for the time being. Our system currently only has a small margin to work with, in regards to these […]

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Spectra Video @spectra.video · 12/04/2026

Currently debugging our cross-posting bridge. Can anyone on the Atmosphere hear us?

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