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Great name! Also, seems like a nifty, simple and useful service for quick prototyping. This seems like a bandwidth heavy service. I am curious to hear how you are thinking about managing/scaling this.
The service has actually been around since about 2014, currently, we serve about 400 million images a month, using some 6TB of bandwidth. It's pretty manageable since we use a CDN on top of the service, to cache already processed images. Hoping to do a write-up of the architecture in the future, but the source and deployment setup is available at https://github.com/DMarby/picsum-photos if you're interested
I'm personally partial to PlaceKitten[1] though around halloween I will sometimes switch it up with PlaceZombie[2] This one looks nice in that you wouldn't be embarrassed if it goes live since the images are generally nice looking but part of the appear of YAPHS (Yet Another Placeholder Service) is that it is really obviously a placeholder so you catch it before it goes live. [1] https://placekitten.com/ (warning: co…
I don't like the fact that it's /200/300, it should be /200x300. The slash makes it more difficult to read, i.e. in the example: https://picsum.photos/id/237/200/300 , it would be much easier to read and understand if it were https://picsum.photos/id/237/200x300 . Terrible decision.
Sometimes we are way too harsh and pedantic on each other. Instead of trying to help each other grow, we call our fellow engineers out for making decisions we disagree with.
This service is offered for free, and new routes can likely be added without trouble. It isn't like this is a choice that actually impacts anyone. It's merely a matter of style.
The only thing terrible here is the way the criticism is being offered. So I'm offering you feedback.
What is the difference between this and Unsplash Source[1]? [1]. https://source.unsplash.com/
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I haven't seen any other image placeholder services that look similar to this. Can you share some examples?
http://lorempixel.com/ It's pretty old, too. https://www.awwwards.com/sites/lorempixum
http://neil.panchal.io/articles/quantum-lorem-ipsum/
https://github.com/neilpanchal/quantum-lorem-ipsum
Edit: Created a Github repo