I will use this everywhere.
Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
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Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I remember correctly it used to be unsplash.it, github seems to confirm.
That's correct! We changed the name to avoid it being confused with unsplash.com as the sites grew in traffic
Do you get sponsorship from Digital Ocean and that CDN company? How does that work out?
Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
#43Tangentially, I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon. http://neil.panchal.io/articles/quantum-lorem-ipsum/ https://github.com/neilpanchal/quantum-lorem-ipsum Edit: Created a Github repo
There’s also the space ipsum with space exploration quotes.
Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
#44I 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.
https://placeimg.com/800/600
Common pattern for such a service. There is no 'id' in the path, that isn't how it works, you just want the one path component for the size in order to return a square image and then if you give a second path component you get the y dimension. It is as simple as that.
Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's correct! We changed the name to avoid it being confused with unsplash.com as the sites grew in traffic
Do you get sponsorship from Digital Ocean and that CDN company? How does that work out?
DigitalOcean sponsors our infrastructure, and BelugaCDN covers our CDN costs, yep.
Very happy with both services, been a customer of DO for years.
Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the top of the lorempixel page it says they used to be lorempixum.
Yes, I know that. First link is the service, second is the award they won in 2008.
I was noting it for the interest of the general reader, since the incredibly similar "Lorem Picsum" is garnering so much praise in this comments section.
Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
#47Anyone notice the CDN they are using ( https://www.belugacdn.com )? Looks like their pricing is 1/10 of S3 and GCP. Anyone used belugacdn before? Care to share your experience?
FWIW S3 is not a CDN, CloudFront is, but yes it seems cheaper. But no doubt there are other differences, like less edges, no lambda@edge, etc.
Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
#48Are the photos scraped automatically from Unsplash or are they manually curated in some way? I'm wondering because it looks like that website classifies photos by category (animals, architecture, fashion, food) but that information is not on your API. I think it would be really useful to be able to get a picture of a random animal or a random landscape rather than just a random anything. But I'm not sure if that's ou…
There’s a very similarly named “Loren Pixel” service which offers categories (but from a different image set): http://lorempixel.com/
Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I strongly suspect the name came first.
If I remember correctly it used to be unsplash.it, github seems to confirm.
Ah, I was just about to say that this looks like unsplash.it (which we actually use in our SaaS to generate random images on our 404 and 500 error screens [0]). Glad to see that it is one and the same!
[0] - https://medium.com/@dsabar/error-messages-don-t-have-to-be-b...
EDIT: Wonder it we will have to change the domain on our app to point to this new domain, or will the old unsplash.it one still be used going forward?
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#50Anyone notice the CDN they are using ( https://www.belugacdn.com )? Looks like their pricing is 1/10 of S3 and GCP. Anyone used belugacdn before? Care to share your experience?
Somebody researched a bunch of CDNs and compared them:
https://www.custompcguide.net/keycdn-vs-bunnycdn-vs-belugacd...