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11-25-2019, 11:38 AM | #101 |
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Nick - I can walk over to Imgur's HQ and talk to them about this if you would like.
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11-25-2019, 11:40 AM | #102 |
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I’m looking at just spinning up a server for image hosting. I'm not interested in going through this ever again.
I want something as easy as imgur to use without further worry of this happening again in the future. Because we haven't had a single recommend image host through all these years that hasn't eventually ended up at the same dead end destination. This one in particular looks pretty promising: https://chevereto.com/ However, I would have to limit the hot-linking to only within NASIOC. Otherwise we'd end up destroying our available bandwidth. |
11-25-2019, 11:42 AM | #103 |
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11-25-2019, 11:42 AM | #104 |
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11-25-2019, 11:45 AM | #105 | |
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that's the host that Reflex used for his lordofthegif.com image hosting. I tried it out once several years ago as a lark. Seemed to work well enough. |
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11-25-2019, 11:49 AM | #106 |
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I'm a member of multiple subreddits that are expressly for selling items. Everyone uses imgur. This is some stupid ****.
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11-25-2019, 11:50 AM | #107 |
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All of this would explain why every other forum moved to internal image hosting awhile back...
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11-25-2019, 11:52 AM | #108 | |
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I did like its search feature, though. |
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11-25-2019, 11:52 AM | #109 |
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11-25-2019, 11:52 AM | #110 |
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Well, thank's to what / whom ever made it work.
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11-25-2019, 11:54 AM | #111 |
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Also rip imgur. Had a good run, no? 4-5 years maybe? Seemed like Imageshack remained free for maybe ~2 years. Tinypic 1.
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11-25-2019, 11:56 AM | #112 |
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11-25-2019, 11:58 AM | #113 |
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11-25-2019, 12:01 PM | #114 | |
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11-25-2019, 12:08 PM | #115 |
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I agree, this is gonna be a problem.
The hotlinked avatars for Matt and r0bman (and I had one at one point) are so incredibly tiny and rare that it'd be hilarious if that was the "reason." Like... a few KB of data, it's nothing. But fair enough, easy to fix. But the classifieds are a violation? Oof. I'd be fine with making users post an Album and just link to it, so that Imgur gets their pound of flesh on advertisements from the new tab opening. But it's insanely hard to stop everyone out there from posting hotlinks to stuff they want to sell... it's gonna happen. |
11-25-2019, 12:09 PM | #116 | |
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B) Doesn't fix the fact that we have a million images uploaded and hotlinked to imgur already. They were the chosen one, we thought the golden age would last forever. |
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11-25-2019, 12:10 PM | #117 |
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11-25-2019, 12:19 PM | #118 |
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11-25-2019, 02:03 PM | #119 | ||
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My feeling at this stage is the classifieds are their larger sticking point. Especially since I've gotten no further reply since my last. I simply asked if we could get the rest of the site reinstated if we removed all imgur ads and future ability to post them from all classifieds sections. *crickets* I agree completely... this classifieds decision on their part seems short-sighted. They could have almost just as easily started tapping users to pony up if they want to hot-link classifieds images. Seems like a much more sound business model than directly screwing over a bunch of people who had nothing to do with classifieds images. Surefire way to lose a lot of customers and ad revenue by holding 100% responsible for maybe 10% (likely not even remotely that high) of the violating content. Quote:
You should start writing an app for folks to grab their imgur content to post it back up to whatever solution I end up using. You'd be the hero of OT! I can create a rewrite that could live time redirect all imgur URL calls to whatever URL we need. IE. https://TedsSuperAwesomeApp.com?URL=imgurlink.jpg |
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11-25-2019, 02:07 PM | #120 | |
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If I can find something simpler, cleaner and faster I'd use that. It's only real purpose will be simple easy upload and sharing. The rest of the stuff is really not necessary for our direct hot-linking needs, but the bell and whistles are usually nice features to have. |
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11-25-2019, 02:15 PM | #121 |
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11-25-2019, 02:26 PM | #122 | |
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If we spin up our own image hosting site, it isn't going to break the bank on data usage. Especially if you put limits on file size and use a CDN. Really it's a basic AWS hosting service with a few features added on. It'll cost a couple bucks a month to run, but I bet you could do it for NASIOC reasonably at about $100. |
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11-25-2019, 02:28 PM | #123 | |
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All they know is an HTTP Get request from an IMG tag comes across, same as any other hotlinked picture on a thread. However: they'd keep getting GET requests for years for the same image from the same domain, which would indicate that we "used" it as a site asset. A normal hotlink that we post in a thread and gets seen for a few days will die off as the thread moves on or people stop reading that page. That's normal usage for sites like imgur: rogue posts a meme, a few hundred people see it for a few days, then it kind of fades away. |
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11-25-2019, 02:29 PM | #124 | |
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Perhaps there were optimization features I was unaware of. It was my first and only foray into running a site, so I'm no expert. I wish my site was still live for you to demo. |
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11-25-2019, 02:31 PM | #125 | |
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Let's take a step back.
It's insanity to suggest that NASIOC users can no longer use imgur going forward. 1) Like Ted said, there are tons of images already embedded and/or linked to, so all of that **** would break, and 2) to tell all of the users that they can no longer use the most popular image sharing site on the internet would surely result in a mass exodus. It simply doesn't make sense. Imgur needs to clarify this part: Quote:
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