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Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by BitAstronaut »

nevir wrote: post #48
civilized wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did anybody else read the copy, then read this comment, then read the copy again and go "what planet is this guy from?" How did "being such an ass" get defined down to something this mild? People are so easily offended these days. You can sign up for any image hosting website you want. I mean, you wouldn't go to Chipotle and rant at them for three paragraphs about how their mild salsa is way too spicy for you.

TBH, I find the following from that site as "being a bit of an ass": > You are a guest here. You can use IMGZ, and it'll always be great, because I'm great. I've even open-sourced it. (in particular, due to the "because I'm great.") > It's super cheap. Like, $5/yr. And that includes bandwidth. There's even a free trial because I'm nice. (same theme: "because I'm nice") --- past that, the honest talk is nice to see, I…

This is what I’d expect a bot to write if it was only trained on zlatan ibrahimovic comments.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by Minor49er »

umvi wrote: post #108
CosmicShadow wrote: post #9

Strike while the iron is hot I guess, but not sure why you you are being such an ass in your copy, it's kind of a turn off, even if it is super cheap. Maybe it's a trend where if something is super cheap people tend to write in that style, but it kind of erodes trust, unless this is supposed to be a joke site, but the fact that I don't know really hurts your chance to actually get users to want to give you their emai…

This is same character "Maddox" plays (if anyone remembers him)

After he imploded later in his comedy career, I kind of wish I didn't remember him

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by alex_munroe »

CosmicShadow wrote: post #9

Strike while the iron is hot I guess, but not sure why you you are being such an ass in your copy, it's kind of a turn off, even if it is super cheap. Maybe it's a trend where if something is super cheap people tend to write in that style, but it kind of erodes trust, unless this is supposed to be a joke site, but the fact that I don't know really hurts your chance to actually get users to want to give you their emai…

I found the copy hilarious, refreshing, and delightful.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by dijit »

stavros wrote: post #114
pkulak wrote: post #99

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> saved image in the DB Whoa now... you're putting images in the database?

Yes, it's a database. That's where you're meant to put DATA.

... depending on the type of data.

Binary data in databases is usually not a great idea, but tolerable in low amounts.

I can't imagine storing images in a database, you're probably better off with a document store.

Relational Databases (well, the ones that I know the internals of) tend to have soft limits on row sizes, in PostgreSQL this is 8kb (which is very small for an image); to overcome this limitation Postgres uses what they call a TOAST table, which forces compression by default, which absolutely crumbles on binary data.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/storage-toast.html

But, if it works, I'm not complaining- and I'm very certain that other such sites have worse architectural flaws in the beginning- this one is pretty easy to overcome if it becomes an issue and can be alleviated with aggressive caching of CDNs/varnish to buy you time if there's immediate issues. :)

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros »

kragen wrote: post #130
stavros wrote: post #123

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That's a bit of a liberal retelling. You had a free account, the system sends you one (or two, I forget) emails if your free account is inactive, and if you don't log in for a few months it deletes the data to make room for others. There was a period where I didn't keep backups of the data on free accounts, but people complained, so I added that. I think it's a bit unfair to expect me to keep account data around fore…

It seems like there's a dispute of fact, whether this person was paying you or not: you say "You had a free account," and they say they were a paying customer. I don't think "half a decade ago" is a reasonable time horizon after which to consider accusations of outright fraud irrelevant. If this person is telling the truth, then not only did you defraud them a few years ago, but you're lying about it now; this seems…

I found and posted the email thread where he admitted to not having a paid account. He also managed to get into his account fine (that's how he saw that the data wasn't there), so the stuff about the username isn't accurate either. I can look at payment records, but I've literally never had a single complaint of paid users' data being deleted by accident.

I don't think he wants to hurt me (who cares about me or my service anyway?), I just think he's misremembering stuff from seven years ago.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by hunterb123 »

pugz wrote: post #102
civilized wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did anybody else read the copy, then read this comment, then read the copy again and go "what planet is this guy from?" How did "being such an ass" get defined down to something this mild? People are so easily offended these days. You can sign up for any image hosting website you want. I mean, you wouldn't go to Chipotle and rant at them for three paragraphs about how their mild salsa is way too spicy for you.

I was fine with all of it except the domestic violence jokes. Those weren’t funny enough to warrant the topic.

Alright, I'll bite. Which one? Seriously scoured the pages searching trying to be offended, couldn't find a "domestic violence joke".

- edit -

Ah the ToS, the one thing I never read. I thought it was pretty funny FWIW.

Never got the point to being offended by a joke myself or on someone else's behalf. Jokes help you cope and heal, they work wonders for overcoming dark situations.

The trick is to lighten up and learn to recognize an insult from a joke. Noone was insulted or attacked.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros »

bradenb wrote: post #97
paxys wrote: post #73

Those are some pretty terrible prices. You can share images (or anything else) publicly from Dropbox/Box/GDrive/OneDrive for a lot cheaper. Or just cut out the middleman and set up a S3 bucket for a few cents.

Really? It doesn't get much cheaper than $1/mo. Yes, I know that's only 2GB, but how many images do you need to share anonymously with the internet?

Definitely the best part of IMGZ for me is the cli utility:

https://pypi.org/project/imgz_cli/

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros »

hnaccy wrote: post #116
supperburg wrote: post #111

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Yeah but then you’re supporting Apple and google and also certainly being spied on and putting yourself at risk of being flagged as a pedophile.

imgz will flag you to NCMEC too ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28676746

Yes! Definitely don't upload any child porn.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros »

detritus wrote: post #110
paxys wrote: post #101

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$12/year for 2GB. Free plans: Dropbox 2GB, OneDrive 5GB, Box 10GB, GDrive 15GB. They all let you generate public read-only links which aren't connected back to your account.

You know what, I literally couldn't give a fuck. I have multiple hosted web storage, google storage, paid-for dropbox etc accounts, as well as reddit and imgur accounts - and the one I use to share stupid images is this one. This was posted here a couple of years back, I liked the pitch, i paid for it. I also enjoy avocado liberally smashed on shit.

Make sure you use https://pypi.org/project/imgz_cli/, I love it:

    02:07:53 $ imgz uruav-dji-fpv-porturuav-dji-fpv-port02.jpg 
    Page URL: https://imgz.org/i32hJdL8/
    Image URL: https://imgz.org/i32hJdL8.jpg
So nice.
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