diff --git a/src/components/pages/Invites.tsx b/src/components/pages/Invites.tsx
index f3f66b9b0..3baad6b2d 100644
--- a/src/components/pages/Invites.tsx
+++ b/src/components/pages/Invites.tsx
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ function CreateInviteModal({ open, setOpen, updateInvites }) {
     if (!expires.includes(values.expires)) return form.setFieldError('expires', 'Invalid expiration');
     if (values.count < 1 || values.count > 100)
       return form.setFieldError('count', 'Must be between 1 and 100');
-    const expiresAt = values.expires === 'never' ? null : expireReadToDate(values.expires);
+    const expiresAt = expireReadToDate(values.expires);
 
     setOpen(false);
 
diff --git a/src/lib/discord.ts b/src/lib/discord.ts
index a73db8f51..a37fc758f 100644
--- a/src/lib/discord.ts
+++ b/src/lib/discord.ts
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ export function parseContent(
 }
 
 export async function sendUpload(user: User, file: File, raw_link: string, link: string) {
-  if (!config.discord.upload) return;
-  if (!config.discord.url && !config.discord.upload.url) return;
+  if (!config.discord.upload) return logger.debug('no discord upload config, no webhook sent');
+  if (!config.discord.url && !config.discord.upload.url)
+    return logger.debug('no discord url, no webhook sent');
 
-  logger.debug(`discord config:\n${JSON.stringify(config.discord)}`);
   const parsed = parseContent(config.discord.upload, {
     file,
     user,
@@ -97,8 +97,9 @@ export async function sendUpload(user: User, file: File, raw_link: string, link:
 }
 
 export async function sendShorten(user: User, url: Url, link: string) {
-  if (!config.discord.shorten) return;
-  if (!config.discord.url && !config.discord.shorten.url) return;
+  if (!config.discord.shorten) return logger.debug('no discord shorten config, no webhook sent');
+  if (!config.discord.url && !config.discord.shorten.url)
+    return logger.debug('no discord url, no webhook sent');
 
   const parsed = parseContent(config.discord.shorten, {
     url,
diff --git a/src/lib/queries/folders.ts b/src/lib/queries/folders.ts
index f73b342dc..c076a8b6b 100644
--- a/src/lib/queries/folders.ts
+++ b/src/lib/queries/folders.ts
@@ -17,27 +17,17 @@ export const useFolders = (query: { [key: string]: string } = {}) => {
   const queryString = queryBuilder.toString();
 
   return useQuery<UserFoldersResponse[]>(['folders', queryString], async () => {
-    return fetch('/api/user/folders?' + queryString)
-      .then((res) => res.json() as Promise<UserFoldersResponse[]>)
-      .then((data) =>
-        data.map((x) => ({
-          ...x,
-          createdAt: new Date(x.createdAt).toLocaleString(),
-          updatedAt: new Date(x.updatedAt).toLocaleString(),
-        }))
-      );
+    return fetch('/api/user/folders?' + queryString).then(
+      (res) => res.json() as Promise<UserFoldersResponse[]>
+    );
   });
 };
 
 export const useFolder = (id: string, withFiles = false) => {
   return useQuery<UserFoldersResponse>(['folder', id], async () => {
-    return fetch('/api/user/folders/' + id + (withFiles ? '?files=true' : ''))
-      .then((res) => res.json() as Promise<UserFoldersResponse>)
-      .then((data) => ({
-        ...data,
-        createdAt: new Date(data.createdAt).toLocaleString(),
-        updatedAt: new Date(data.updatedAt).toLocaleString(),
-      }));
+    return fetch('/api/user/folders/' + id + (withFiles ? '?files=true' : '')).then(
+      (res) => res.json() as Promise<UserFoldersResponse>
+    );
   });
 };
 
diff --git a/src/pages/api/user/check.ts b/src/pages/api/user/check.ts
index 257d3c433..d8925612b 100644
--- a/src/pages/api/user/check.ts
+++ b/src/pages/api/user/check.ts
@@ -3,18 +3,19 @@ import prisma from 'lib/prisma';
 import { NextApiReq, NextApiRes, withZipline } from 'middleware/withZipline';
 
 async function handler(req: NextApiReq, res: NextApiRes) {
-  if (!config.features.user_registration && !req.body.code)
-    return res.badRequest('user registration is disabled');
-  else if (!config.features.invites && req.body.code) return res.forbidden('user/invites are disabled');
+  const { code, username } = req.body as { code?: string; username?: string };
 
-  if (!req.body?.code) return res.badRequest('no code');
-  if (!req.body?.username) return res.badRequest('no username');
+  if (!config.features.user_registration && !code) return res.badRequest('user registration is disabled');
+  else if (!config.features.invites && code) return res.forbidden('user invites are disabled');
 
-  const { code, username } = req.body as { code: string; username: string };
-  const invite = await prisma.invite.findUnique({
-    where: { code },
-  });
-  if (!invite) return res.badRequest('invalid invite code');
+  if (config.features.invites && !code) return res.badRequest('no code');
+  else if (config.features.invites && code) {
+    const invite = await prisma.invite.findUnique({
+      where: { code },
+    });
+    if (!invite) return res.badRequest('invalid invite code');
+  }
+  if (!username) return res.badRequest('no username');
 
   const user = await prisma.user.findFirst({
     where: { username },
diff --git a/src/pages/auth/register.tsx b/src/pages/auth/register.tsx
index 8a75a5157..c62dc3f9f 100644
--- a/src/pages/auth/register.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/auth/register.tsx
@@ -6,14 +6,13 @@ import useFetch from 'hooks/useFetch';
 import config from 'lib/config';
 import prisma from 'lib/prisma';
 import { userSelector } from 'lib/recoil/user';
-import { randomChars } from 'lib/util';
 import { GetServerSideProps } from 'next';
 import Head from 'next/head';
 import { useRouter } from 'next/router';
 import { useState } from 'react';
 import { useSetRecoilState } from 'recoil';
 
-export default function Register({ code, title, user_registration }) {
+export default function Register({ code = undefined, title, user_registration }) {
   const [active, setActive] = useState(0);
   const [username, setUsername] = useState('');
   const [usernameError, setUsernameError] = useState('');
@@ -196,20 +195,9 @@ export const getServerSideProps: GetServerSideProps = async (context) => {
         notFound: true,
       };
 
-    const code = randomChars(4);
-    const temp = await prisma.invite.create({
-      data: {
-        code,
-        createdById: 1,
-      },
-    });
-
-    logger.debug(`request to access user registration, creating temporary invite ${JSON.stringify(temp)}`);
-
     return {
       props: {
         title: config.website.title,
-        code,
         user_registration: true,
       },
     };
diff --git a/src/server/decorators/rawFile.ts b/src/server/decorators/rawFile.ts
index 80783451c..b3c4a194a 100644
--- a/src/server/decorators/rawFile.ts
+++ b/src/server/decorators/rawFile.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ function rawFileDecorator(fastify: FastifyInstance, _, done) {
   done();
 
   async function rawFile(this: FastifyReply, id: string) {
-    const { download, compress } = this.request.query as { download?: string; compress?: boolean };
+    const { download, compress = 'false' } = this.request.query as { download?: string; compress?: string };
 
     const data = await this.server.datasource.get(id);
     if (!data) return this.notFound();
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ function rawFileDecorator(fastify: FastifyInstance, _, done) {
 
     if (
       this.server.config.core.compression.enabled &&
-      compress &&
+      compress?.match(/^true$/i) &&
       !this.request.headers['X-Zipline-NoCompress'] &&
       !!this.request.headers['accept-encoding']
     )
-      if (size > this.server.config.core.compression.threshold)
+      if (size > this.server.config.core.compression.threshold && mimetype.match(/^(image|video|text)/))
         return this.send(useCompress.call(this, data));
     this.header('Content-Length', size);
     return this.send(data);
diff --git a/src/server/index.ts b/src/server/index.ts
index 73cd082ae..9f268dcc6 100644
--- a/src/server/index.ts
+++ b/src/server/index.ts
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ async function thumbs(this: FastifyInstance) {
       workerData: {
         videos: chunk,
       },
-    });
+    }).on('error', (err) => logger.child('thumbnail').error(err));
   }
 }