IMGZ – Paid image sharing • Hacker News Board

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by cugs » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 11:00 PM UTC

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…

I honestly love this copy. It's fantastically refreshing! I wish I got to see it more often... This was my favourite bit:

> Listen, this is half service, half art project. I made it in two days because I needed one and Imgur is an embarrassing husk of its former self, and I had nothing better to do. If you're expecting professionalism, call Oracle and ask for a quote of Oracle Advanced Image Sharing for Hadoop or whatever crap they sell, IMGZ is awesome but what you see is what you get.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by climb_stealth » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 11:50 PM UTC

Excuse me stavros, this is brilliant. I have no real intention of using the service but I got a subscription because this really cracked me up. I love every little bit of it. Great work!

Or maybe I will use it as I have an account now. We shall see.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by yarcob » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 6:08 AM UTC

tinus_hn wrote: post #300

jrochkind1 wrote: post #265

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I understand that postgres is pretty decent at storing large binary data though? I've been meaning to investigate trying storing images in postgres on a hobby web project where it could be convenient; I'd still want to make sure I was streaming bytes from postgres to the client, not loading the whole image into memory and only once fully loaded sending it to the client. Looking at the pg API's for my language/platfor…

Does it still require a backup/restore cycle for upgrades? That could be an issue.

Yeah, that hasn't changed. You can also use the pg_upgrade script instead of a full backup/restore, or use logical replication if you want to upgrade the db server with zero downtime, but upgrading PostgreSQL is still somewhat annoying.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by npteljes » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 8:38 AM UTC

toyg wrote: post #232

solarkraft wrote: post #179

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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.

Out of curiosity, what do you use for email? I'm currently on Office365 but it's way overkill...

Posteo is also €1/month

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 11:08 PM UTC

thih9 wrote: post #335

antihero wrote: post #320

If you don't mind using AWS you can just set up an S3 bucket and a point a CloudFront distro to it (takes upload() { aws s3 cp ${@:2} $1 s3://$BUCKET_NAME echo https://$CLOUDFRONT_DOMAIN/$1 | pbcopy }

Honestly, so many things could go wrong here. I’m a programmer and I’d have to google how to “do” the above. If anything, this makes me want to sign up for IMGZ. Maybe the above comment should be on IMGZ landing page.

Done!

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 11:19 PM UTC

climb_stealth wrote: post #402

Excuse me stavros, this is brilliant. I have no real intention of using the service but I got a subscription because this really cracked me up. I love every little bit of it. Great work! Or maybe I will use it as I have an account now. We shall see.

You should definitely use it for excellence.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by mnsc » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 9:12 AM UTC

brianshaler wrote: post #334

stavros wrote: post #295

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Don't tell me what to do! I want to fix animated gifs and I'll fix animated gifs!

Per the edits on your previous posts, I read this more as "and I'll pivot to only supporting animated gifs!"

Any picture can be an animated gif with one frame and a duration of 50 years which should do for this civilization.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by nikolay » Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 6:36 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #299

nikolay wrote: post #276

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Next time you get years of data deleted without any warning, let's see how you're gonna react to it!

I mean, it's not "without any warning" when you didn't see the warning. It was there.

Well, maybe you don't follow as many startups as I do, but we, who are early technology adopters, get thousands of emails a day from all kinds of services we've tried out. So, if you care about us, busy technology professionals, the essence of your email should be in the subject line, especially when you expect time-sensitive actions from them or destruction could follow if they skip your email! Absolutely every other service puts that sense of urgency in the subject line! Instead of defending your position, learn from my experience as it's really huge!

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by 6510 » Sun, Oct 03, 2021, 5:57 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #315

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…

This is how I feel too, it was surprising (and educational) to see some commenters having trouble accepting that someone might have just made a thing for fun. I think it's the fact that you can buy it that trips them up. I imagine Cards Against Humanity got a lot of the same comments.

I'm always serious when I make jokes. Your silly joke got way to much attention not to make it into a professional joke by adding additional puns to it.

The biggest discovery imho is that people accept your style as a refreshing alternative to the plastic people. We wish you were real. We all have a behavioral picture of an entrepreneur but now we see its all bullshit. Just do what you like and be yourself.

Maybe one should put a fixed position css door on the website with the word EXIT on it and have that nice promt to close the page if one clicks on it.