Looks great, and clearly a lot of time and thought invested. Not news to you, I'm sure, but these sites typically only last for a while. Because nobody has really hit on a way to subsidize a reasonable free plan enough to pay for the bandwidth it collectively consumes, and to implement enough spam protection. Especially once it hits a certain adoption curve. So they either die or find a way to push ads, like imgur did. This is so nice though, I'm really rooting for it to find a way.
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#22How is it private if you can't self host?
(I'm hoping I missed something :)
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#23Should add the names of your competitors under the logos. I'm sure they're very famous, I'm assuming Imgur and something else - but I don't recognize either of the logos.
Good call! The second one is Gyazo.
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#24Looks great, and clearly a lot of time and thought invested. Not news to you, I'm sure, but these sites typically only last for a while. Because nobody has really hit on a way to subsidize a reasonable free plan enough to pay for the bandwidth it collectively consumes, and to implement enough spam protection. Especially once it hits a certain adoption curve. So they either die or find a way to push ads, like imgur di…
Thanks! It's been operating for the past 3 years without any ads or third-party trackers, and I don't have plans to shut it down for the forseeable future.
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Haha. Didn't even realize that. The goal was mountain-themed metaphors. Hopefully the "Horizon" prefix is enough to differentiate.
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#27Incredible timing, I was just looking for somewhere to store and share my video game clips. This looks more appealing (cheaper) than Streamable. I love that there is a Linux Appimage but does it also work with just a browser?
Yes, absolutely! You can use the built in uploader[0] on the web dashboard which works in parallel and supports large files. [0]: https://horizon.pics/help/articles/start-uploading-files
Thank you!
Some feedback after using it for a few minutes:
- When clicking the "+ create" menu, left-clicking whitespace on the page does not close the dropdown
- Home page takes very long to list videos (even with a single video). Updates after moving videos/deleting videos/creating folders also feel unresponsive.
- On home page or inside folders, videos do not have thumbnails (just a generic camera icon)
- While a video is being moved to a directory (spinner be spinning), the delete/move options under the search bar are still present
- Would like an option to apply resize/compression settings to videos on upload to help manage storage space
- When failing to upload due to size limit, the UI does not say what the size limit is
I think this is a promising service so I'll upgrade and hope the quirks improve over time!
Edit:
- Trying to upload 30-ish 100-200MB videos at the same time in the web UI, many error with `Unable to mark session as finished`.
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#28Looks great, and clearly a lot of time and thought invested. Not news to you, I'm sure, but these sites typically only last for a while. Because nobody has really hit on a way to subsidize a reasonable free plan enough to pay for the bandwidth it collectively consumes, and to implement enough spam protection. Especially once it hits a certain adoption curve. So they either die or find a way to push ads, like imgur di…
Thanks! It's been operating for the past 3 years without any ads or third-party trackers, and I don't have plans to shut it down for the forseeable future.
No one ever starts these things with plans to shut them down, the question is how much money do you have for this right now, how much money is it burning per unit of time, and how long will that last if no one pays for a paid plan. I'm not asking you to answer those questions, but pointing out the reality of the economics of the situation. If an image goes viral, can you pay a 10x or 100x hosting bill? For how long? How much are you commiting to spend before shutting it down becomes an attractive option?
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#29Should add the names of your competitors under the logos. I'm sure they're very famous, I'm assuming Imgur and something else - but I don't recognize either of the logos.
This will be a solid display of confidence.
That'd be cool if the self-hosting use-case was supported in addition to your main public site.
Throw a writable path or s3-compatible bucket in a config, set an admin password, and away..
Other folks could finally stop rewriting the basic aspects of image upload hosting. Wouldn't that be a nice gift?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, absolutely! You can use the built in uploader[0] on the web dashboard which works in parallel and supports large files. [0]: https://horizon.pics/help/articles/start-uploading-files
Thank you! Some feedback after using it for a few minutes: - When clicking the "+ create" menu, left-clicking whitespace on the page does not close the dropdown - Home page takes very long to list videos (even with a single video). Updates after moving videos/deleting videos/creating folders also feel unresponsive. - On home page or inside folders, videos do not have thumbnails (just a generic camera icon) - While a…
Thanks for upgrading! And sorry that you ran into some speed bumps.
1. Good catch. Will improve on this.
2. I'm not sure what could be causing this. My account with thousands of uploads loads in less than one second.
3. Thumbnails are not supported due to compute and processing considerations, but will investigate this.
4. Good catch.
5. Compression can be compute intensive, but will investigate this further.
6. Will add that in.
7. Hopefully this isn't too ubiquitous? I'll investigate what's happening - but from preliminary analysis, it looks like a chunk may have failed along the way.