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

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Post by aeorgnoieang »

stavros wrote: post #81
weinzierl wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And yeah, the UI is trash. Buy the big plan so I can afford a designer. I don't know, I just tried it quickly on my mobile and everything was smooth. If you hire a designer be sure to get a good one so they don't ruin the simple use case experience.

It's smooth and quick because I bought a $10 theme and removed all the Javascript, it just looks like crap because I suck at design. I'm glad it worked well for you, though, since the reality is I'll probably never afford a designer from the $30/mo this is going to bring in.

I think it looks perfectly fine. I prefer simple 'lean' designs anyways tho.

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

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Post by aeorgnoieang »

StavrosK wrote: post #152
lawn wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yes.

I think the grandparent comment was asking if you'd disable credit card payments for everyone, i.e. for your entire site.

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

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Post by ryandrake »

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…

> ~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 everyone.

It seems like it can start out good. But then, inevitably, some “product owner” or UX designer won’t be able to keep his or her hands off it, and will eventually ruin it with chat, social features, newsletter subscriptions, JavaScript, scrolljacking, clickjacking. It always ends up like “imgur 10 years later”.

This is how so many good software products go bad. People can’t just leave it alone.

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

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Post by aeorgnoieang »

_8j50 wrote: post #104
pjc50 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're paying for something, the concept of an "account" has to exist in order to record the payment against. If you're paying for something, that generally transfers a chunk of personal information for anti-fraud purposes. Given that, an email is not a huge ask, and is very useful for e.g. billing reminders. It doesn't have to be a spam thing and GDPR is gradually cracking down on that. There are children and peo…

> If you're paying for something, the concept of an "account" has to exist in order to record the payment against. If you're paying for something, that generally transfers a chunk of personal information for anti-fraud purposes. Given that, an email is not a huge ask, and is very useful for e.g. billing reminders. It doesn't have to be a spam thing and GDPR is gradually cracking down on that. Now that makes little se…

> Why do I care about how a site keeps records of payments?

I think you might want to care because that's a basic requirement of any legal business (or non-profit) pretty much anywhere.

The service is also time-limited. Would you pay some amount for images to be hosted for a limited time? That seems like a perfectly valid decision.

It may not be feasible to accept anonymous payments or accept credit card payments without at least an email address.

Also, services like this must necessarily 'bundle' their specific products, e.g. hosting individual images in the case of this site. The transaction costs, e.g. credit card payment processing fees, preclude charging too small amounts.

Maybe it would be possible to avoid requiring an email address, but then I'd expect they'd have to use your credit card 'fingerprint' as an account/user identifier. But I'm skeptical that any credit card processors would allow that, especially given the possibility (and likelihood) that people will upload illegal images like child pornography.

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

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Post by aeorgnoieang »

ryandrake wrote: post #176
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…

> ~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 everyone. It seems like it can start out good. But then, inevitably, some “product owner” or UX designer won’t be able to keep his or her hands off it, and will eventually ruin it with chat, social features, newsletter subscriptions, Jav…

I think a lot of site re-designs are make work for designers. I'm of two minds about it tho. I almost always personally hate re-designs; they're almost entirely extraneous for me. But what else are full-time designers going to do?

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

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Post by unnouinceput »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #82
unnouinceput wrote: post #58

I prefer postimages.org, it's even less shady or no-bullshit then this one.

A free image host doesn't give me much confidence in the guarantee of "image will not expire". Also, I don't like how me and my 10 images are on the same free tier as the guy abusing the service with 1,000,000s of images. This is also my problem with Discord: no way to give them money as a server operator. So every time there's downtime or API issues, I think of the Discord servers I've been to where children are lit…

You should care about your images and that's all. You have no need to worry about the guy abusing the service with his 1M images, that's the owner of said service problem. As for confidence in service I can tell you I use it for at least 5 years and still can access those images. For a free service I'd say is quite good. I don't have earlier images since I discovered the site only 5 years ago so I can't speak for higher image retention time.
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