Hello,
So I am trying to upload a thumbnail, I did it at about 9am BST, and It’s now 15:00 BST. My thumbnail is still waiting approval. I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, but I remember when it used to take 10 - 15 minutes to be approved. It’s showing the waiting for approval image. I have no idea what’s going on.
I notice this only occurs during the weekend or some sort of brake who knows they might have a slower API running because it’s a little more careful without human guidance and doesn’t need a moderator to check them over. That’s my theory about why it’s slower not guaranteed.
I believe it’s a mix of both kind of like the USPS where they have a robot scanner for the mail and if that mail passes it passes for good but if it gets elected it’s checked. So without the employees at the office they have a slower more in-depth scanner.
There is a degree of automation (e.g. if an image with the same hash has already been uploaded, it won’t be reviewed a second time), but everything goes through a human.