[BUG] Frontpage converts upload size to MiB not MB about chibisafe HOT 8 CLOSED

The values are nearly the same because the difference between a Megabyte and a Mebibyte is relatively small, and answering your question, i don't know, ask the owner ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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The values are nearly the same because the difference between a Megabyte and a Mebibyte is relatively small, and answering your question, i don't know, ask the owner ¯_(ツ)_/¯

That's why I'm making this report? The difference is small maybe on the kB > KiB level, but at the Megabyte level I disagree.

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Thanks for mentioning this.
Currently we do some weird stuff with calculations between what's allowed on the backend, what the uploader parses, and what it reports, so we have a mix of everything.

It would be great to move everything to MB instead of MiB, so that numbers are more legible as you mentioned. If I recall correctly, one of the reasons to convert to MiB was because that way it was easier to stay below the max file size limit. What should've happened, is to increase a few bytes on the max allowed size instead.

Right now, this is really low priority, so if this is something you would like to attempt to contribute, you are more than welcome to open a PR to take care of it.

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Perhaps it's because 500,000,000 bytes equate to approximately 476.8 megabytes? Nothing seems wrong for me.

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Perhaps it's because 500,000,000 bytes equate to approximately 476.8 megabytes? Nothing seems wrong for me.

https://convertlive.com/u/convert/bytes/to/mebibytes#500000000

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Perhaps it's because 500,000,000 bytes equate to approximately 476.8 megabytes? Nothing seems wrong for me.

https://convertlive.com/u/convert/bytes/to/mebibytes#500000000

https://www.convertunits.com/from/byte/to/MB

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Perhaps it's because 500,000,000 bytes equate to approximately 476.8 megabytes? Nothing seems wrong for me.

https://convertlive.com/u/convert/bytes/to/mebibytes#500000000

https://www.convertunits.com/from/byte/to/MB

1 MiB = 1 mebibyte = 1,024^2 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes;

1 MB = 1 megabyte = 1,000^2 bytes = 1,000,000 bytes;

Why not use SI prefixes? It's much more understandable.

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Alright, thanks :)

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