Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

Post by Sammi » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 9:45 AM UTC

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #225

ryandrake wrote: post #176

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> ~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…

In the case of imgur, I think the problem was financial. Running an image hosting site for you to share memes or screenshots with a couple friends is cheap. But becoming the primary method of posting images to reddit gets extremely expensive fast! Imgur had to expand. They had to become more. They also had to discourage being only used as a direct image linking site, as they needed a way to serve ads. The alternative…

Post by unnouinceput » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 11:08 AM UTC

aeorgnoieang wrote: post #187

unnouinceput wrote: post #179

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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.

Post by StavrosK » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 1:25 PM UTC

gitgud wrote: post #245

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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!

> You can use Imgur, fighting off their user-hostile UI What's so bad about the Imgur UI? I find it extremely pleasing, all I need to do is go to imgur.com and simply drag an image onto the page and there's a publicly avaible link basically available forever... for free Also, they're original slogan shows how much they cared about improving the experience.... "Imgur: The image sharer that doesn't suck!"

Post by defined » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 4:27 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #45

trillic wrote: post #41

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So it's not true. You don't have rust?

I do have Rust: https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/blob/master/main.rs Gotta keep the fanboys happy.

Post by redm » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 5:58 PM UTC

kwhitefoot wrote: post #172

I have 15 GB free on Google Drive and something similar on Microsoft OneDrive. Sharing files is as easy as dragging the file to a folder on my PC and right clicking to get a link that I can paste into email, IM, etc. How is IMGZ better?