Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by danielskogly » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 4:44 PM UTC

Issues with Cloudflare Images
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Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

#2

Post by jgrahamc » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 4:54 PM UTC

I have passed this on to the product manager and engineering lead for Cloudflare Images. Thanks for the write up.

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

#3

Post by danielskogly » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 4:58 PM UTC

jgrahamc wrote: post #2

I have passed this on to the product manager and engineering lead for Cloudflare Images. Thanks for the write up.

You're very welcome! I posted this on the CF Developers discord as well. Really hoping that I'll be able to fully migrate over to CF Images in the not too distant future :)

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Post by powell1 » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 4:59 PM UTC

I'd also add to your feedback by saying that there isn't a "Simple" way to integrate it into existing CMS's or even static sites, a plugins for the top 3 CMS's would be nice + an "imgbot" equivalent for static sites.

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Post by cabyn » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 5:03 PM UTC

I was very excited about CF Images, but after doing some basic napkin math the pricing was way more than expected. That, coupled with some of the other limitations you mentioned, had me abandon CF images pretty quick!

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by carom » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 5:09 PM UTC

I've run into a lot of these issues using it and I've even reported them on every available channel.

The original image is my biggest complaint. I was making a service where users would want to batch retrieve what they've uploaded. No response on the forums to that.

Also hit the CORS issue, so rather than fetching an image and loading it into a canvas I have to use a fake image element. This makes the canvas untrusted.

Delete was also annoying. I wanted to blow out my dev environment and there was no way to just purge everything.

I kinda stalled, was going to try S3 since the original image thing was such a breaker for me. I was vocal about all these same issues, making my own threads and bumping others in the forum.

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by rob74 » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 5:10 PM UTC

> No way to retrieve original image

that's probably the logical continuation of video hosting - if you upload something to, say, YouTube, you also don't expect to be able to retrieve the original video from there. It may be a high-quality version, but it still gets reencoded on upload...

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by bavxo » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

> No way to track how many images has been served

How is it possible that they shipped this product in this state?

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Post by cobookman » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 5:22 PM UTC

rob74 wrote: post #7

> No way to retrieve original image that's probably the logical continuation of video hosting - if you upload something to, say, YouTube, you also don't expect to be able to retrieve the original video from there. It may be a high-quality version, but it still gets reencoded on upload...

Well, Vimeo does allow downloading the original video. When I think YouTube I think of a Video Social Media network. Similar to how I don't expect to download the original picture on Instagram, Snap, or Facebook.

Where-as Vimeo is closer to a video hosting service.

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by jcsnv » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

We were charged $10k for the first month of use and immediately reverted the implementation. CF was kind enough to refund us since we're still an early stage co. It would be great if pricing was more reasonable