I’ve currently got “Use content delivery network for images” unchecked (the default, I think, unless I goofed it up). I understand the pros & cons from my side of the table: I’m unlikely to ever want to upload a revised version of an image, so I don’t care about cache invalidation. And speed is always nice. But at the moment, it ain’t broke, so I’m reluctant to change things without a good reason.
So is there a good reason? In particular, if it’ll save Micro.blog money, I’ll be happy to move images to the CDN.
(Also, I did poke around the help for a bit, but didn’t find this. It does seem to me that all options should be documented somewhere, so maybe I wasn’t looking in the right place.)
I recommend enabling the CDN. We’ve slowly moved more and more to the CDN, it just makes things work more smoothly. Even with the CDN disabled, we are increasingly redirecting photo URLs to the CDN anyway, even if the original photo URL is still going to your own domain name first.
I’ll review our help pages too and see what needs to be updated to match how things actually work now. Thanks!
Thanks. I enabled the CDN and everything seems to be working fine from my point of view.
It does seem like the admin UI and help pages in general could use some work…but having been in the software industry for decades, I know how hard it is to integrate new features, keep the lights on, and still update everything!