I'm interested in buying the site, but I don't want to pay $999,999.98 per year. That sounds like renting. Shouldn't it be a one-time thing?
You need to buy a year to show good faith, then we'll talk.
Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
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Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because I'm a fan of the gift economy. This was the way the Internet used to be when it started. This is the spirit that's common in academia, but has sadly waned once the internet got commercialized and grew out of control.
Academia is not free
They're still struggling to give away stuff that they've (somewhat implicitly) promised to give away, like their research.
Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
#183Hah, domain brothers! (I own imgy .org)
FOR LIFE
Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
#184I love ur tone jajajaj Won’t subscrive tho, but I love you!
Yo te amo tambien <3
Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
#185I am not interested in seeing the rise of yet another image host that is not a nonprofit
Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you seriously believe in that? You have to be trolling. "be free" is how we ended up with a dragnet surveillance that is plaguing the web. Who is going to pay for the storage and the bandwidth? If you want it to "be free", you are free to host it on your own hardware. > There used to be sites that passed all of these > Sadly, I haven't seen one in many years. Of course you won't see one: they're all dead or dying…
It is sustainable. Take a look at Wikipedia, archive.org, libraries, blogs, mailing lists, usenet, IRC, a huge variety of websites offering free tools, etc. The list goes on and on. None of them need work on a surveillance model either. To participate in or contribute to surveillance is a personal choice, not something forced upon you when you make a service available to the internet for free.
Wikipedia and archive.org are supported by donations. That is possible for an image hosting site/service.
"blogs, mailing lists, usenet, IRC" are all paid by someone and all tho their are free hosts for them (or similar services), a lot of people are perfectly fine paying for them and otherwise seem mostly content "to participate in or contribute to surveillance". I'm fine with that too.
But it's very much always been "the way the Internet used to be" to pay for things you value sufficiently. Someone has always paid for everything and gift economies are inherently limited. They're also much harder now than when the Internet was younger.
Academia also seems like a poor example of 'the gift economy spirit'. They're struggling to live up to that spirit badly enough that it's disingenuous to suggest it as something to emulate.
Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 hig…
> that's the owner of said service problem
Thus, at least indirectly, it's a potential problem for every user or customer of said owner's service.
Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
#188Earlier 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. This is obviously a some…
> allow anyone with a link to the file to top up the hosting funds for the image
This is a genuinely differentiating feature and might be useful even without the Bitcoin aspect. It's easy to imagine someone being annoyed by a deep linked image going away - but being able to pay to revive it.
Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Immense friction. Also you probably don't want every image you want to share on the internet coming from the same S3 bucket. And you don't want to pay S3/Cloudfront pricing so you'll probably want to put Cloudflare in front of it. Etc, etc.
Why? Just use GUIDs.
I'm guessing you're thinking about discoverablity? I think the comment to which you were replying was pointing out that you might want to serve different images out of different buckets (e.g. because they have different audiences) or use a different bucket for images versus other content.
But if you're happy with just using whatever S3 bucket you have, then there's no reason to switch.
Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
#190A no BS image host would: 1 - be free 2 - require no login or javascript 3 - give you direct links, without ads or tracking This site fails at least the first two tests. There used to be sites that passed all of these, and really were no BS image hosts. Sadly, I haven't seen one in many years. Now pretty much all of them at least require logins or javascript.
Why "be free"? Why not "pay you"? I mean, where do you draw the line?
I have a great way StavrosK can offer his image hosting for free, forever. pmoriarty if you would just pay all of StavrosK's hosting bills going forward we can all live in the promised land of free image hosting.