Love how buying the site only gets you 1GB hosting. Hope this works out.
Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
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#52I found the "Money" page (https://imgz.org/money/ )'s marketing style extremely distasteful and offensive.
I understand the author is trying to be cool and all, but this is too much by piling up vulgar words all over, IMO.
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#53Hah, domain brothers! (I own imgy .org)
I enjoy how your DMCA link is just for show.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, that's my worry as well. Hopefully the fact that people have to pay will curb that a bit, but yeah, I'm worried about it.
Just keep an eye out for bad actors trying to use stolen credit cards
What, like Sylvester Stallone? Why would he do such a thing?
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#55@the developer
Consider implementing Coil.com as an alternative way to pay for non-frequent users.
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#56Glad this exists. Still does not replace imgur. You just need a free tier. No way out of that. I am not paying you even $0.01 if I need to upload 2 memes and share it with 5 people. I can afford it but not gonna happen. Here is ideas: make it a subscription. Allow free hosting with no registration but let the image expire (unhost) after N views and rate limit clients. Don't freaking ask me for my email. No, I do not…
Pretty sure you're not his target customer then. I'm giving this a whirl with the free trial and will probably end up paying for it, it absolutely replaces imgur for me.
And that is fine. But I could be. Just needs to go all in with the no b.s.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imgur really jumped the shark by doubling down on social features. Image hosting has seen a lot of players come and go. It’s a simple service complicated by business. The Craigslist model comes to mind. Looks the same, works the same, and cheap to run compared to their traffic volumes. https://www.developerfusion.com/media/76730/how-craigslist-w...
> Imgur really jumped the shark by doubling down on social features. I don't know if you can blame them (then again, that hasn't stopped my IMGZ character from doing it), nobody's going to pay to upload memes and they have to make money somehow , and social was one alternative. There aren't many ways to monetize serving an image...
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#58I prefer postimages.org, it's even less shady or no-bullshit then this one.
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#59Glad this exists. Still does not replace imgur. You just need a free tier. No way out of that. I am not paying you even $0.01 if I need to upload 2 memes and share it with 5 people. I can afford it but not gonna happen. Here is ideas: make it a subscription. Allow free hosting with no registration but let the image expire (unhost) after N views and rate limit clients. Don't freaking ask me for my email. No, I do not…
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, you have a choice. You can use Imgur, fighting off their user-hostile UI, pay for IMGZ or pay and set up a VPS yourself. For me, the best option was #2, but it didn't exist, so I made it.
And yeah, the UI is trash. Buy the big plan so I can afford a designer!
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#60What if I need absolute surety my image(s) is not going to be subject to bit rot and not be available in a few years time? What if I do 'multi-posts' and share the same image across 10,000+ bulletin boards? Your bandwidth will run out very quickly if you saw the types of posting that I do (I use automation software to post to 10,000+ boards). And those posts last for decades. I am not sure I can rely on this service for my needs.
This is why I self-host my own image server and have it hooked up to a well-provisioned CDN for peace of mind. Then I have full control and can renew the domain for ten years each time to keep the images online.