# lust

Auto-optimising image server that re-encodes uploaded images into several formats and serves resized variants over HTTP.

STUB. This software has no release or pre-release in four years, or its project site no longer shows it, so it is not part of the register, not counted and not indexed. It will be checked again.

Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/lust/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust
- docs: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/blob/master/description.md

### Identity

- status: stub
- maintainer: Harrison Burt
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2021
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: media
- hosting: binary
- language: rust
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: docker

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2022-04-03

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 435
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 5
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/blob/master/description.md (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/releases/tag/2.1.0 (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/releases/tag/2.1.0 (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/releases/tag/0.1.0 (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://github.com/ChillFish8/lust/graphs/contributors (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

lust is an image server. It re-encodes uploaded images into png, jpeg, webp or gif, creates the sizes (presets) set in a configuration file, and serves the variants over HTTP. A request picks a variant with a size query parameter. The storage backend is a file system, ScyllaDB or an S3-compatible blob store.

It is installed from a Docker image, through cargo install from the repository, or built from source with cargo. The server also serves its OpenAPI documentation at a UI endpoint.

## Worth knowing

The README says the file system backend is designed for testing and points to ScyllaDB or a blob store for full-scale deployment. The in-memory cache holds more images as its size setting grows, and the README warns that bigger images can raise RAM use.

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