[nfriend]

Sorry all for the long wait times! Was not expecting much interest. At the very least, I need to look into removing photos from the queue when people exit the page.

[selcuka]

I wouldn't even let people add new images to the queue if the wait period is over, say, 10 minutes.

[nfriend]

Not a bad idea!

[wishinghand]

How is the image processing being done? In broad strokes, what're you doing with the Python API?

[dylan604]

Do water color artists use broad strokes?

[gilleain]

Ho ho. As far as I know, you can make a wash with a broad brush.

Watercolour is a nice way to paint blurry things like oceans and clouds, which involves broad strokes.

[nfriend]

Moving it to a larger AWS instance - will be down for a few minutes!

[nfriend]

Done - upgraded to a t3.xlarge. Now it can process 4 images in parallel. Still not enough to keep up with HN demand, but it should chew through the queue a _bit_ faster.

[jansan]

It says I should keep that tab open for the next 17 hours. What happens if I still close it?

Congrats for the unexpected success :)

[nfriend]

Unfortunately nothing at the moment! Currently working on removing images from the queue if the user has left the page (which I'm guessing is the case for about 99% of the current queue).

[nfriend]

Fixed! Now abandoning the tab will remove the image from the queue.