Wow - Some (all) of the images on the homepage are really NSFW.
Convert Any Webpage to an Image
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#62Yeah I got tubgirl. Welcome to the internet, guys. If you have a public place that displays user generated content, it's going to be flooded with the most vile images around. Since we've already had goatse and tubgirl, I'm guessing the next is lemon party.
Before reading the comments, I clicked on the link and saw meatspin. I'm glad I work at home, so I can laugh about it instead of being embarrassed.
I saw a picture of an alien and an old man being a lil too friendly. I wish I could laugh but I fear this will haunt me for the rest of the night.
I've decided I'll now read comments first.
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#63ShrinkTheWeb.com has been around a while and (I think) made a decent small business out of this. However, their site is horrific and it's pretty expensive. A more recent alternative I've used is url2png.com which has been great. edit: sorry, not thumbalizr, meant url2png
ShrinkTheWeb was our inspiration for building LinkPeek.com We would like to correct all the things they do wrong.
I think the first step is correcting the things you're doing wrong, such as not removing the potential for your site to be showing photos of graphic anal sex on the front page. I'm a bit surprised you didn't 1> foresee the potential for abuse or inappropriate images and 2> fix it immediately as soon as it was brought to your attention.
Being on the front page of HN is a grand thing. Unfortunately you may be not only squandering this chance for positive results, but bringing yourself negative publicity.
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#64It's been 6 hours since this was posted and there are still NSFW images on the homepage, one of your differentiators is 'customer support' this really needs to be sorted ASAP. Even if it's just a static image while you work on moderation, I'd rather not see a disembodied head at 8am whilst eating my frosties..
7 hours ago foxhop just said: "Yeah, sorry about that." Well sorry about never using your website again. I've just seen things I never want to see again. Tip: Never launch a site after a day of work. Always launch it when you start your work day. There will always be some problems you like to fix immediately.
Yeah, huge mistake. Sorry.
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#65Yeah I got tubgirl. Welcome to the internet, guys. If you have a public place that displays user generated content, it's going to be flooded with the most vile images around. Since we've already had goatse and tubgirl, I'm guessing the next is lemon party.
Truly sorry.
Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image
#66I was also trying to develop such service but ended up working on something else. I would sell my domain name ( html2image.com ) to anyone who can make better use of it.
Drop me an email.
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#67When I went to this site it showed a thumbnail for YouPorn on the right. Maybe not a good idea to show the most recent thumbnails generated! Useful service though. I had a need for this a year or so ago.
Yeah, sorry about that. I hope nobody gets flagged for NSFW. I'll have to rethink the recent image on the right. If you don't mind me asking, what did you need this service for a year ago? I'm still trying to fit the proper market.
I've created my own service like this. The goal was to provide an archive of images for clients, showing their website's content over time and 'proof' of this or that. The setup involved a system to create VNC/xvfb screens, which ran a real browser and created a snapshot further processed with imagemagick. This required a bit of a larger VPS than I would have needed otherwise. There was some overhead and complexity. I researched the systems available at the time, and most of them were either too expensive or inadequate (i.e. only provided thumbnails, and we needed full size snaps).
Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image
#68There are both Firefox and Chromium extensions to do this. What does this service do that they do not?
This sort of service can be automated more easily.
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#69If you don't mind me asking, which stack did you build this in? I built something identical in about to do the actual HTML --> image conversion. Took Always curious to see how many different ways the same problem can be solved. :)
I created something to do this using VNC and Firefox a few years back. At the time, people suggesting using webkit to do a simulated render (which I suppose is what you did) but we required Adobe Flash. So, I created a rotator which could create up to 20 VNC screens on demand, start firefox, and create an image using vncsnapshot.
Re: Convert Any Webpage to an Image
#70http://linkpeek.com/screenshot-news-and-updates
LinkPeek.com Apology
Mon Dec 5 16:59:32 EST 2011
I am truly sorry for the grotesque and disgusting imagery posted on our site this morning.
I left the "most recent" image on the website even though multiple people warned me about the possible misuse. I blame only myself.
I lost my lunch today. My nerves are all messed up. I have worked on the LinkPeek software for the past 6 months.
The thought that LinkPeek was used as a weapon against my peers makes me sick.
I feel exploited, I feel embarrassed, I feel ashamed and I have only myself to blame. This is a nightmare and I have no way to fix it.
Yesterday was one of the best days of my life; Today is the worse day of my life.
I don't expect many will read this, but truly I am sorry.
-Russell