David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yay. Six years late, and a backlog of only 7 million files. -Stevertigo

Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)gmail.com> wrote: Don't imagine they will want to let just anyone start moving files - not just for the server load reason, nor RAM or disk space issues (?), but because its just not necessary. We learned long ago to treat filenames as arbitrary and part of some kind of useful scheme. -Stevertigo

2009/9/21 Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)gmail.com>om>: Ask on the tech blog :-) The Commons page on the subject asks people to take it slowly so bugs can be caught. - d.

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:17 PM, stevertigo <stvrtg(a)gmail.com> wrote: All of that would seem equally applicable to articles. ('If you don't like the random name it was created with, just make a redirect...') -- gwern

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:17 AM, stevertigo <stvrtg(a)gmail.com> wrote: I disagree, and I'd like to see file renaming opened up. It sucks seeing a file with a blatantly wrong name sitting there for years. Sure, the file names could be totally arbitrary (a882be8.jpg) or they could be extremely meaningful - but having them stuck at whatever the uploader originally thought of is not ideal. Especially since redirects exist and work. Steve