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Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by kristjansson »

CosmicShadow wrote: post #129
blunte wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure there's any definite way to erode trust these days, since the most polished and believable sites can (and often do) completely betray the trust they instill or profess to uphold. Perhaps the creator is truly tired of the BS and guesses that there's an audience who also is. And for $5/yr, it costs virtually nothing to try. The bigger question is about limits of what can be posted, policing of content, and…

The fact that it's so cheap makes it feel even sketchier, like who am I giving my credit card to if they are making it that cheap and easy to do; is it a trick to get my CC? They don't care how little I give, because the $5 isn't their target, it's something else. As a developer I know you can build stuff that actually is that cheap, but still, makes some alarm bell go off. Maybe if the site was worded differently, i…

The pricing page (after you log in) redirects to Stripe for checkout, as one would expect.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by SixDouble5321 »

CosmicShadow wrote: post #129
blunte wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure there's any definite way to erode trust these days, since the most polished and believable sites can (and often do) completely betray the trust they instill or profess to uphold. Perhaps the creator is truly tired of the BS and guesses that there's an audience who also is. And for $5/yr, it costs virtually nothing to try. The bigger question is about limits of what can be posted, policing of content, and…

The fact that it's so cheap makes it feel even sketchier, like who am I giving my credit card to if they are making it that cheap and easy to do; is it a trick to get my CC? They don't care how little I give, because the $5 isn't their target, it's something else. As a developer I know you can build stuff that actually is that cheap, but still, makes some alarm bell go off. Maybe if the site was worded differently, i…

If you are concerned about your card there is a link to pay with bitcoin.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by solarkraft »

> You are a guest here. You can use IMGZ, and it'll always be great, because I'm great

> It's simple, what do you want

No bullshit, you say?

I like tongue in cheek stuff, jokes and all, but that tone sounds more like “fuck you” than a solid, reliable business relationship with adequate respect where the customer is not the product.

Besides that: Props for so quickly capitalizing on the (probably still brewing) imgur controversy!

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros »

buryat wrote: post #153
detritus wrote: post #110

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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.

> I also enjoy avocado liberally smashed on shit. good luck buying a house being so financially irresponsible

Damn Gen Z, with their avocado toast and IMGZ subscriptions.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stickfigure »

paxys wrote: post #101
detritus wrote: post #88

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This is like $12 a year. I also have a dropbox account, which I hate. I also have various web storage accounts. For sharing silly daft images that have little connection to me, I use my imgz.org account all the time.

$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.

Dropbox and GDrive both shut down the public links feature years ago (dunno about OD or Box). Is there some workaround for that that I'm not aware of?

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by solarkraft »

stavros wrote: post #93
NikolaNovak wrote: post #70

I see a lot of comments about the $5 a year quote. I see $12 on front page - I wonder if it's just changed in last hour or am I getting a Canadian special :-)

(It changed in the last hour https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf829... )

Unfortunate. 5$ is a perfect no brainer price, but I pay 1€/mo for my e-mail hosting and definitely get more value out of that ...

Flawless demand adjustment, though.

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