System status: Issue Detected
November 27, 2024
Registration suspension due to bot activity
We are currently experiencing a high volume of bot sign-ups. As a result, registrations are temporarily disabled. We are actively working on a quick resolution and appreciate your patience.
This issue is still ongoing.September 9, 2024
Performance issue when viewing photos
We're currently experiencing a performance issue when viewing photos on the website.
This issue has been resolved.February 6, 2024
Resetting password doesn't work
Requesting a password reset doesn't work as it sends users to the login page instead of the reset password page.
This issue has been resolved.April 13, 2023
IOS app crashing
We are currently investigating an issue where the IOS app crashes afterh the "+" icon was pressed to publish a photo.
June 22, 2023 - Update
We have rebuild the gallery picker from the ground up and the issue is now fixed.
June 16, 2023 - Update
This issue is still ongoing and we are now rebuilding the photo-picker from the ground up.
June 6, 2023 - Update
With today's iOS app release, we have temporarily reverted to Apple's native gallery picker as a fix for the crashing issue that many of you are still experiencing.
June 1, 2023 - Update
The issue persists despite our most recent IOS app release. While some users have seen improvement, many are still affected. We are actively investigating and trying to come up with a solution.
February 1, 2023
Missing photos on upload
We are currently investigating an issue where photos are not showing up in peoples profiles after upload.
February 1, 2023 - Update
All issues resolved.
February 1, 2023 - Update
This is now fixed for new uploads. We are now working on bringing back those photos that were posted during the time the issue existed.
January 30, 2023
EXIF data not being preserved
The maximum size for images stored in PortraitMode is now 2200 pixels in either width or height. Photos larger than these dimensions will be resized, and there is currently an issue where the EXIF data is being removed during the resizing process. This information cannot be recovered and we will update this page as soon as the issue is resolved.
January 30, 2023 - Update
We were able to fix this issue and the EXIF data for resized photos will be preserved moving forward.
January 11, 2023
App issues
We are currently working on fixing an issue with expired refresh tokens that's causing the app to not work for some users, and also we are aware of a problem with selecting photos from the media library and we're working to fix it as soon as possible.
Thanks for your patience!
January 17, 2023 - Update
The issue of accessing the media library on devices running Android 13 has now been resolved. The expired token issue some of you experienced should now also be resolved.
October 11, 2022
Broken photo upload
After todays platform update, there was an issue where photos could not be posted to the platform if no category was assigned.
This issue has since been fixed.
This issue has been resolved.August 29, 2022
PortraitMode membership purchase
We have identified an issue that prevents users from purchasing the PortraitMode membership.
This issue has been resolved.August 19, 2022
Scheduled maintenance
We are going to have another scheduled maintenance at 2pm CEST today on August 19th, 2022. The maintenance is scheduled to take roughly 2 hours as we are going to work on the PortraitMode server & configuration.
This issue has been resolved.August 16, 2022
Scheduled maintenance
We are going to have a scheduled maintenance at 7pm CEST today on August 16th, 2022. The maintenance is scheduled to take anywhere between 4 to 8 hours total as we are going to move the PortraitMode platform to a new server.
This issue has been resolved.August 10, 2022
Unscheduled downtime
We had another unscheduled downtime today of roughly 10 minutes 13:25 - 13:35 (GMT+2) in order to resize the server to handle the increased number of sign-ups & users.
This issue has been resolved.August 9, 2022
Unscheduled downtime
We had an unscheduled downtime of roughly 5 minutes today 14:22 - 14:27 (GMT+2) in order to resize the server to make space for more of your beautiful images.
This issue has been resolved.July 25, 2022
Google location picker
There is an issue where the Google location picker doesn't work which prevents people from signing up or uploading photos. Thanks @xinestill for bringing this to our attention.
This issue has been resolved.June 20, 2022
Performance issue
We are currently investigating a performance issue that occurs on the "Home" & "Featured" page after a new photo was added to PortraitMode.
June 27, 2022 - Update
The issue has been resolved. We have rewritten parts of the PortraitMode platform to optimize database queries. This resulted in a major performance boost across all pages. Thank you for your patience.
June 21, 2022 - Update
We have been able to reduce the load-time significantly, though there is still room for improvement. We will keep looking further into this.