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Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by danielskogly »

pier25 wrote: post #72

Off topic, but I couldn't read this because the blog is in dark mode and doesn't offer a light mode. For a lot of people with astigmatism, dark mode is simply unusable for text heavy sites. There are objective reasons why dark mode is worse than light mode, but I think anyone should be able to pick whatever mode they prefer. See this for more info: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/why-dark-mode-causes-more-a... I hav…

Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I wasn't aware that was even a thing :)

It's not in "dark mode" though, it's simply a dark theme, and those have been around since forever. I'll look around for a theme that supports both when I get the time, but until then I echo the suggestion of a sibling comment to use the reader mode.

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by musharofchy »

Big fan of Cloudflare but they have started a trend of releasing "half-baked products" and making them live for all users.

I have also faced issues with their web analytics and pages. It's been ~ a year they launched these products and still glitchy.

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by NicoJuicy »

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…

In the same context, if you would use .net. I really like ImageResizer : https://github.com/imazen/resizer

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by javajosh »

simonswords82 wrote: post #77
youngtaff wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you want to import them – why not just fetch them from origin based on demand?

I can't stand Cloudflare, the only cause of downtime we've in the last 5 years...we've switched to Microsoft Front door

Context-free recommendations for a competitor smacks of "jumping on the bandwagon", which isn't a good look for you or the product you're hawking.

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by floren »

PeterisP wrote: post #75
pier25 wrote: post #72

Off topic, but I couldn't read this because the blog is in dark mode and doesn't offer a light mode. For a lot of people with astigmatism, dark mode is simply unusable for text heavy sites. There are objective reasons why dark mode is worse than light mode, but I think anyone should be able to pick whatever mode they prefer. See this for more info: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/why-dark-mode-causes-more-a... I hav…

> dark mode looks more modern, unlike these damn boomer UIs from the 90s (sarcasm). At least for me dark mode brings back all the feelings of the 80s text UI, which was predominantly white/gray on black or perhaps white/yellow on dark blue - and quite readable. (I also recall that in some domains MDA monochrome monitors with green or orange on black were popular).

On the other hand, after a few hours using a green-on-black VT220, the real world looked slightly purple for a while until my eyes adjusted back :)

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by stanmancan »

I was always resizing images myself and storing separate versions before I heard about Cloudflare Images. The CF implementation looked a bit confusing and expensive though and I ended up using Bunny.net and it's been fantastic. Incredibly easy to use, the API is dead simple, you can pass in different parameters live and it will manipulate the source image and cache it for future requests. It's cheap and support is top notch. Highly recommend people check it out if they're looking for something like this. It's so much easier sending up the original file and being able to change dimensions on the fly.

Update your UI and now thumbnails need to be 400x400 instead of 250x250? Just update the parameters and you're done. No need to manually resize your whole back catalogue as they'll be done on demand.

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by jjkmk »

yawnxyz wrote: post #18
jcsnv wrote: post #10

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

I remember there was another article about image uploads and content moderation (here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28684250 ), essentially saying that if you create a open uploading service, you WILL start getting lots of spammy images / abuse. CF Images always seems like a LOT more $$ than other image hosting tools out there. What other service did you end up going with?

How does imgur stay alive, out of curiosity.

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by kmf »

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…

Wow, this looks so awesome! Really simple UI too — gonna have to give this a try. I was just struggling with some client-side image upload stuff last week, and I love the idea of doing the full service integration from client to backend as a product.

BTW - I’m part of the dev advocate team at Cloudflare, would you want to chat sometime about your experience with Images? Definitely would love to hear your perspective as a dev on what could be better!

Re: Issues with Cloudflare Images

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Post by simonswords82 »

javajosh wrote: post #85
simonswords82 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't stand Cloudflare, the only cause of downtime we've in the last 5 years...we've switched to Microsoft Front door

Context-free recommendations for a competitor smacks of "jumping on the bandwagon", which isn't a good look for you or the product you're hawking.

Sorry may bad - I do see how it comes across that way but I'm not saying Microsoft's platform is perfect either or in any way hawking.
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