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Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by lawn »

StavrosK wrote: post #132
_8j50 wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So is btc... You will need to be much more proactive about that. I can easily get a burner phone i cash, register gmail with it, buy btc , buy vpn with btc and upload to your site. There are better ways to manage and police fraud and crime (ML can very easily detect age and human body -- require human review if ML flags it before hosting it). Or better yet ban all nsfw like tumblr

Yeah, if I get any illegal images from BTC payers I'll take BTC down. Hopefully I won't have to.

Are you going to shut down credit card payments when someone used a stolen card to upload illegal images?

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by StavrosK »

lawn wrote: post #151
StavrosK wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, if I get any illegal images from BTC payers I'll take BTC down. Hopefully I won't have to.

Are you going to shut down credit card payments when someone used a stolen card to upload illegal images?

Yes.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by StavrosK »

_8j50 wrote: post #130
StavrosK wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should buy $100 of BTC or so and keep it for stuff like this, I like paying with it. The experience is pretty good and you own your money.

I do that for other services but it does not change how I have to spend more,which is fine but more is more and I will spend only if it really solves my needs.

You should use Bisq, it's slow but quite nice.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by jessaustin »

i_am_nomad wrote: post #64
devy wrote: post #52

I 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.

Plus, the author seems not to know the difference between “vulva” and “vagina.”

Pictures of the latter usually include the former as well, but not always...

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by StavrosK »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #102
StavrosK wrote: post #93

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Hmm, what would you suggest?

IcanHas Imgz? Not picky, just thought you might want to polish that just a tad.

I'll think about it, but I thought "hello" was better than "noreply" or something similar.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by stavros »

spiralganglion wrote: post #107

In the Terms and Conditions[1]: "It's mysterious and alluring, and maybe it slaps you a bit from time to time, but it doesn't really mean it, deep down you know it loves you and if only you weren't such an annoying user, it wouldn't have to do that." This is a joke about physically abusive relationships. I found the rest of the irreverent tone funny, but then this made me sad. [1] https://imgz.org/help/terms/

Yes, I share your feelings. That's what I was going for, it's definitely not a "ha ha" sentence. I don't think it's offensive, I think it's a reminder of how this exists and if you're the victim, you have to stop blaming yourself and seek help.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by toomuchtodo »

StavrosK wrote: post #155
toomuchtodo wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IcanHas Imgz? Not picky, just thought you might want to polish that just a tad.

I'll think about it, but I thought "hello" was better than "noreply" or something similar.

I'll send you a screenshot from my Inbox so you can see how it compares to other mailing lists. hello is not bad, it could just be a bit more descriptive so I know it comes from Imgz.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by StavrosK »

markkat wrote: post #129

This is great. I think I am going to integrate into Hubski, and pay for our users. I hope you stick around. Imgur is awful.

Please send me an email beforehand if you're going to integrate somewhere, so I can be ready for any potential influx. I might also be able to give you a discount, depending on the volume!

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by hinkley »

_8j50 wrote: post #46

Glad 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…

There's a strategy I only saw applied [twice, forgot another team was using this somewhere else] but I've been stumping for it every place else (I may almost have my current team convinced)

If you segregate classes of service (consumer/producer/admin, or paying/non-paying), then you can over-allocate one class of service to guarantee responsiveness. The most obvious cost is that you need monitoring to make sure all classes of service are working, but you tend to have that anyway.

With this structure, the HN hug of death still leaves your admin console running even while the public traffic is falilng over. Logged in users can still modify content. Or in the case of an image service, paying customers are undersubscribed and free tier is oversubscribed.

In my situation, the customers are responsible for most of the CPU load on the system. We could throttle them while keeping their customer's requests highly responsive.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by jefftk »

habosa wrote: post #145

I remember the day that Imgur launched on Reddit. The post title was something almost exactly like this. At the time it was a revolution, every other photo upload site was shady or slow or expensive or some combination of the above. ~10 years later and Imgur is basically a social network itself. I hate seeing an imgur link now. Photo upload doesn't seem to be something that can be offered in a way that pleases everyo…

"My Gift to Reddit: I created an image hosting service that doesn't suck. What do you think?

I got fed up with all the other image hosts out there so I made my own. It doesn't force you to compress your images, and it has neat things like crop, resize, rotate, and compression from 10-100. It's my gift to you. Let's not see anymore imageshack/photobucket around here ;)

I'll be listening if anyone has some suggestions."

-- https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_t...

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