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Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by aarondf »

leenyburger wrote: post #55

I thought Cloudflare was going to win the image hosting/serving/resizing game based on their original blog post, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I kept getting frustrated with the complexity and changing costs of solutions out there, so about a year ago I launched https://www.simplefileupload.com . It's a super easy, flat rate cost solution to quickly allow users to upload images and files. It provides a custom…

What Colleen has built is indeed quite simple to use.

You just add the JS snippet, SFU handles all the storage and just returns a URL.

And bonus points, it's directly uploaded to S3. From the documentation: "Simple File Upload uses direct uploads. In a direct upload, a file is uploaded to S3 from a user's browser, without first passing through your app."

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by swyx »

leenyburger wrote: post #55

I thought Cloudflare was going to win the image hosting/serving/resizing game based on their original blog post, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I kept getting frustrated with the complexity and changing costs of solutions out there, so about a year ago I launched https://www.simplefileupload.com . It's a super easy, flat rate cost solution to quickly allow users to upload images and files. It provides a custom…

oh its leenyburger! loving that you are building it in public on your Software Social podcast. listening to you two over the past year has been really educational.

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by dceddia »

leenyburger wrote: post #55

I thought Cloudflare was going to win the image hosting/serving/resizing game based on their original blog post, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I kept getting frustrated with the complexity and changing costs of solutions out there, so about a year ago I launched https://www.simplefileupload.com . It's a super easy, flat rate cost solution to quickly allow users to upload images and files. It provides a custom…

Cool to see this here! I've been following your journey on the Software Social podcast [0] and it's awesome to watch the project progress. I also really enjoy that the podcast is not all sunshine and rainbows, like you actually talk about the ups and downs and it's great. We need more like it.

[0] https://softwaresocial.dev/

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by bloodyplonker22 »

marccl wrote: post #17

Thanks for the feedback. I'm on the CF Images product team. We will allow the download of the original images, it is actually one of the next features coming up. Also we will introduce webhooks and Images Analytics next.

"it is actually one of the next features coming up" is one of the most annoying things I hear from enterprise companies that I have issues with. I have received this response and waited for the feature for over a year or have never seen it released at all.

Thank you for the response, but, at the end of the day, people are going to judge Cloudflare on how quickly and accurately they can solve these issues.

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by mjwhansen »

swyx wrote: post #63
leenyburger wrote: post #55

I thought Cloudflare was going to win the image hosting/serving/resizing game based on their original blog post, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I kept getting frustrated with the complexity and changing costs of solutions out there, so about a year ago I launched https://www.simplefileupload.com . It's a super easy, flat rate cost solution to quickly allow users to upload images and files. It provides a custom…

oh its leenyburger! loving that you are building it in public on your Software Social podcast. listening to you two over the past year has been really educational.

thanks for listening, swyx!

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by freedomben »

leenyburger wrote: post #55

I thought Cloudflare was going to win the image hosting/serving/resizing game based on their original blog post, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I kept getting frustrated with the complexity and changing costs of solutions out there, so about a year ago I launched https://www.simplefileupload.com . It's a super easy, flat rate cost solution to quickly allow users to upload images and files. It provides a custom…

Ha! I started building the same thing. Luckily for you I never finished it ;-D

(just to clarify tone above, it's a total joke because your implementation is a lot better than mine was tracking to be)

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by breakingcups »

cabyn wrote: post #5

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!

That's basically the case for almost every paid Cloudflare product.

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by breakingcups »

johnebgd wrote: post #30

Cloudflare Pages has a show stoping bug at the moment. Link a repo from GitHub then change the name of your GitHub repo and the pages breaks but won't let you relink your Github repo anywhere. I opened a ticket with support. I have gotten no where in two months (Opened on October 7th 2021). We ended up switching to Netlify that has a more mature product. In case someone from Cloudflare cares to investigate this is re…

It's so sad that Cloudflare only responds to public fires like this but is often completely deaf on all the channels you're "supposed" to use.
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