#FacesOfTheRiot #SeditionHunters facesoftheriot.com is completed with a new UI, faster loading(no more loading 6,000 pictures at once), and a much easier way to view videos and face clusters! Small UI tweaks and quality of life improvements will continue throughout the week

#FacesOfTheRiot We are aware that videos are not currently loading on our website and are working on resolving the issue.

#FacesOfTheRiot #SeditionHunters Possibly will be processing a lot more video this weekend, increasing our database size. facesoftheriot.com should also look much better when viewed on mobile devices.

#FacesOfTheRiot We are aware the current FBI tip line has expired, we will be updating to their general tip line shortly.

#FacesOfTheRiot #SeditionHunters We will likely be embedding google analytics in the website for analytics purposes (curious to see traffic and our new host recommends using google analytics). If there are significant complaints, we will remove it.

#FacesOfTheRiot facesoftheriot.com is currently down while we migrate to a host with a better package.

#FacesOfTheRiot #SeditionHunters @bluehost @bluehostsupport Well... thanks for the unlimited bandwidth. Videos are hosted with an external cdn, and bandwidth is currently less than 50gb per day.

#FacesOfTheRiot #SeditionHunters Our site should be back up, but may not be accessible from certain devices. Please report issues you may have accessing the website

#FacesOfTheRiot Currently waiting to hear back from the team @Jigsaw pending our application to be approved for the Project Shield program (Free ddos protection for journalism and independent political websites)

#FacesOfTheRiot After some unscheduled maintenance that we were not notified of, the website is back up and running. Also, new clusters have been implemented, feedback is welcome

#FacesOfTheRiot New clusters are currently uploading, some images will fail to load for the next ~10 minutes

#FacesOfTheRiot #SeditionHunters Publishing a new clustering later tonight. There will be more false inclusions in clusters, but we reviewed ~200 clusters manually and believe this tracks individuals across videos significantly better than before.

#FacesOfTheRiot Thank you to everyone who submitted faces that needed to be removed. Still working through some of them. We are trying a new way of clustering that should significantly reduce duplicates. Should.

#FacesOfTheRiot #SeditionHunters We are aware that some videos display a blank screen and only play audio. This is due to h.265 encoding in certain videos. We are working on re-encoding these to h.264 within a reasonable time. No dedicated encoding card, might take a couple days.

#FacesOfTheRiot #SeditionHunters After a short ddos attack, pictures should be loading again.

#FacesOfTheRiot #SeditionHunters Back on for another round of picture removals, thank you so much for all the help! Also, 100k unique visitors in our first week. 100,000 people have used our site. That's a lot of people.

#FacesOfTheRiot Will be doing more database cleanup later today

#FacesOfTheRiot Finishing cleaning up the database with user submitted errors later today. Thank you for all the help!