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Re: Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur

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Post by borg16 »

corobo wrote: post #120
lelandbatey wrote: post #63

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Exactly; I still remember reading the imgur announcement post on reddit which had all the same descriptions. They were ad free and they were aiming to be great forever. Now though they're the "big bad". https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/comment/c...

The cycle of image hosting continues https://drewdevault.com/2014/10/10/The-profitability-of-onli... I've swapped to using the app Dropshare hooked up to a Cloudflare R2 bucket myself

what has been your experience with this alternative you have settled on?

Re: Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur

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Post by hoten »

"Failed to create session" when using Google sign up option, followed by "Invalid state" when attempting to retry.

I shared the service with some folks who dislike imgur and one said this:

> Seems like the images don't allow for embedding - only hotlinking. Or at least, I can't figure out the link settings

https://www.purezc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=78915

I can't see for myself but my guess is the service doesn't give you a easy to copy snippet to embed as html?

Hope this helps.

Re: Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur

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Post by corobo »

borg16 wrote: post #211
corobo wrote: post #120

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The cycle of image hosting continues https://drewdevault.com/2014/10/10/The-profitability-of-onli... I've swapped to using the app Dropshare hooked up to a Cloudflare R2 bucket myself

what has been your experience with this alternative you have settled on?

Plenty of ways to send an image to it - right click image in Finder, share menu on iOS from photos etc, replaced the built in macOS shortcuts for taking screenshots with Dropshare so a quick upload button to share a screenshot.

That combined with pointing a subdomain at the r2 bucket means I can share images virtually instantly without thinking too hard about it (the r2 URL is copied to clipboard once the image is uploaded). Having a personalised vanity domain is a cherry on top too http://img.cohan.dev/AXsaG.jpg

Also means it's on me to make sure images are available in the future and I trust me to keep my images online forever more than sites that have to find a way to fund themselves eventually.

Re: Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur

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Post by sweca »

hoten wrote: post #212

"Failed to create session" when using Google sign up option, followed by "Invalid state" when attempting to retry. I shared the service with some folks who dislike imgur and one said this: > Seems like the images don't allow for embedding - only hotlinking. Or at least, I can't figure out the link settings https://www.purezc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=78915 I can't see for myself but my guess is the service doesn…

That sign in with Google bug has been fixed. Sorry. Your account was created despite the error.

The images can be embedded with their attached raw URLs and/or toggling the CDN URL option in link settings.

Re: Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur

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Post by sweca »

dankwizard wrote: post #215

" clipboard sharing can be automatically deleted after one view" I think this can get broken by a few things, like if sent via FB/Discord messaging, the server themselves jump to it to generate their little thumbnail preview. Same with some email clients. Cheers

On Discord you can wrap it in to disable the crawler.

Re: Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur

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Post by ronyba »

sweca wrote: post #202
ronyba wrote: post #200

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Have you done an Independent security review of these features? What's your CRS score? Do you have CVE fix SLA in place? All these features are good if this was. 2000 website but a single vulnerability in any one of the vendors of your tech stack will compromise your users

Server side encryption is handled using the Go standard library. A more detailed breakdown of the process can be found in the Help Center. TLDR: It's reputable, and best practices are followed through cryptographically secure generation, random IV, high entropy keys, memory hard hashing, etc. Paste end to end encryption uses the native window crypto subtle API, widely used and reputable.

Coming from cyber security one thing I have learnt is no matter how many layers of security you add nothing is fool proof, I would strongly recommend doing an Independent review getting if not an international certification like ISO or GDPR then something domestic, I like what Mozilla does https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/, this really will enforce trust in your users as today it's really hard to trust websites

Re: Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur

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Post by cooper_ganglia »

zepolen wrote: post #210
cooper_ganglia wrote: post #166

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Wow, it’s so cool to be rude to a 17 year old that started their own file hosting business at 14. You’re so smart, we all think so!

Hi, welcome to the web.

Hacker News ≠ "The Web"

Re: Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur

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Post by sweca »

agersant wrote: post #77
sweca wrote: post #54

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I've added a new redundant check that will ensure all chunks are uploaded before marking the large upload as finished. Hopefully this resolves the issue you were facing. If not, please do send me an email at the address listed at https://horizon.pics/help . As for those files that failed but still show up in the dashboard, it means they're stored incomplete, and as such, will be automatically purged in 24 hours. I wi…

Thanks for the great support <3

It's been almost 2 weeks so you might never read this, but here's a little progress update on your reports. Many bugs fixed and several features have been implemented, including:

- List view for files - Select all - Video thumbnails (MP4, subject to eligibility depending on encoding)

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