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Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by mrmuagi »

gilrain wrote: post #368
mrmuagi wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look, kudos for having a great sense of humour, but nobody is talking about a SLA or NDA, I was talking about the fact it's almost a guarantee that your service will cause an inordinate amount of pressure on you and that's quite obvious. Though I must congratulate you for making trawling through hckrnews a source of work as evidenced by the corrupt file upload that was brought to your attention.

Having a hard time getting your “business advice for people who aren’t trying to run a business” consultancy off the ground? Giving the advice away for free is a good start, but have you tried targeting people who want advice?

Woah, why so hostile? I am not trying to self advertise anything. The type of business this is in line with -- image uploading where probally data retention matters. There's just one guy runnning this and it's a no brainer you shouldn't use it for anything serious outside memes.

I'm not talking to stavros initially (but look, he replied so it's reasonable for reading that intent), I'm talking to people like me who want an imgur replacement (a la imgur acquired announcement yesterday at the same time) and host a lot of images, or just people who want a service that will be here for longer than the life of a single person.

But if you want to shut off your brain, go ahead, I had a laugh too. Just make to shut it off when reading my comments too, as it's not serious in that context then, and plus it'll be a no-op for you and it won't warrant implying I'm running a consultancy (where did this fabrication come from, really? I have no links or socials at all but I'm software guy who has a datahoarder hobby) -- please for the love of god, think me atleast smart enough to shit on the produt to try and get some sort of consultancy work.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by mrmuagi »

yesenadam wrote: post #313

I thought the comments to this were well above average on the entertaining scale. Pretty embarrassing, though, that probably the majority of comments seemed to take it seriously, even reprimanding the creator for not being serious enough, not taking his Business seriously enough. It seems to create dissonance among many that such a thing even exists. People seem deeply confused it's not full speed ahead, like every o…

> Wasn't the internet 100% like that in the good old days?

Maybe I was too harsh and you are describing my comments, but I was reading on this very site image hosting is not a funny joke business, it's a serious endeavor that deals with content abuse and CSAM content infringements quite often. There's maybe truth to your statement, but once a piece of work's defense is its a joke, does it really shield you from the law? Would that work in court? I'm not sure where stavros resides.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by mrmuagi »

gilrain wrote: post #366
mrmuagi wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TBH, I would avoid this service on the grounds it seems to be run by one person (to what extent its just clever self promotion hinges on charitable interpretation) -- this blurb whilst humorous is on line with the Discord cutesy error messages. It really hammers home this is not in the big leagues (or the minor leagues rather) and if you are using this service, you should be fine with that. However charging customers…

> It really hammers home this is not in the big leagues “This piece of writing, saying A, indicates that the author really does mean A” is a very boring observation.

Lucky for you, I wrote more than that. Trying to nitpick that sentence might as be well deserved from my criticism, I accept that, but I missed the boat this project was meant to be a "Joke" and had to deal with stuff like content abuse (seems like it's not on the CDN's radar from other threads), CSAM, data retention (see other customer thread here where data was corrupted). My biggest complaint really was it's one guy, and what happens when he gets hit by a bus? Or takes a vacation? Or is busy with other life stuff really. Really, shame on me for thinking that stuff matters given the context, and I regret that, but let's be clear, this is not a serious project, my serious criticism, let's just ignore that here (and let new people discover it out for themselves)? Lest I agitate you further let me preemptively call my observations banal -- that's a new word for you to use, it will make you less boring.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros »

ryan-allen wrote: post #272
stavros wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me check... TWO more images were added today! At this rate, I'm going to need to buy a whole datacenter by next week. https://imgz.org/blog/2020/12/23/haha-suckers/

I like you (and I like storing images in the database). EDIT: I uploaded an image into your database https://imgz.org/i3joC5jC/

That is an excellent image, worthy of gracing my database.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by mlukaszek »

toby- wrote: post #279
AussieWog93 wrote: post #217

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>I'm still a sarcastic asshole. Beats being a boring asshole like me! :P (And thank you for the kind plug)

I purchased one based on this exchange alone. I'm an impressionable sod!

Same. You can say I'm easily influenced, I don't care :-)

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros »

zcw100 wrote: post #353

I think I've seen the "where do I put my image files?" in the database or not for about two decades now with no definitive answer. I can't believe someone hasn't come out with a custom database specifically for storing images.

Actually, that'd be great, especially if it could resize/add logos/etc and cache variants.
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