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Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by stavros »

theon144 wrote: post #78
devy wrote: post #52

I found the "Money" page ( https://imgz.org/money/ )'s marketing style extremely distasteful and offensive. I understand the author is trying to be cool and all, but this is too much by piling up vulgar words all over, IMO.

Yup; don't mind a little informality, but all this shit and asses and fucks are trying too hard, don't really want to give my money to a project that markets itself as this hypercool.

Oof, man, tough crowd. There are 3 instances of "shit", 2 of "bullshit", 1 "cheapass" and 1 "fuck" in the public pages.

This would qualify as PG if it were a movie. I mean, you like what you like, but how much cussing is "just enough" for you?

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by rsp1984 »

What does the 1GB / 50 GB / 500 GB mean? Is that referring to storage capacity or bandwidth?

What if I use IMGZ to offload all the bandwidth-guzzling high-res images of my highly frequented website? Will IMGZ just serve up the image given a URL or also some stuff around it?

What if I have other large files that I'd like to offload. Just change the extension to PNG and I can host this on IMGZ?

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by StavrosK »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #61
devy wrote: post #52

I found the "Money" page ( https://imgz.org/money/ )'s marketing style extremely distasteful and offensive. I understand the author is trying to be cool and all, but this is too much by piling up vulgar words all over, IMO.

I donated because I like makers who don't take things too seriously. EDIT: @StavrosK, consider making the "From" set in your hello email to something prettier than "hello"

Hmm, what would you suggest?

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by stavros »

iandanforth wrote: post #90
stavros wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback! Yes, you have a choice. You can use Imgur, fighting off their user-hostile UI, pay for IMGZ or pay and set up a VPS yourself. For me, the best option was #2, but it didn't exist, so I made it. And yeah, the UI is trash. Buy the big plan so I can afford a designer!

I do like his "buy a key" approach. He's basically asking for an IMGZ giftcard he can buy without setting up an account. (Not as the primary model of course, just as an additional payment option)

That's like a free child pornography host pass, I'd rather not.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by xwdv »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #88
xwdv wrote: post #70

How do I browse submitted images? If it’s just for personal images why wouldn’t I just throw them up on S3?

Immense friction. Also you probably don't want every image you want to share on the internet coming from the same S3 bucket. And you don't want to pay S3/Cloudfront pricing so you'll probably want to put Cloudflare in front of it. Etc, etc.

Why? Just use GUIDs.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by ukyrgf »

devy wrote: post #52

I found the "Money" page ( https://imgz.org/money/ )'s marketing style extremely distasteful and offensive. I understand the author is trying to be cool and all, but this is too much by piling up vulgar words all over, IMO.

Agree 100%, but I did get a laugh out of the "Our Choice" banner on the "buy the site" tier.

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

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Post by stavros »

devy wrote: post #52

I found the "Money" page ( https://imgz.org/money/ )'s marketing style extremely distasteful and offensive. I understand the author is trying to be cool and all, but this is too much by piling up vulgar words all over, IMO.

This is for you: https://imgz.org/money-safe/

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

#98

Post by StavrosK »

rsp1984 wrote: post #92

What does the 1GB / 50 GB / 500 GB mean? Is that referring to storage capacity or bandwidth? What if I use IMGZ to offload all the bandwidth-guzzling high-res images of my highly frequented website? Will IMGZ just serve up the image given a URL or also some stuff around it? What if I have other large files that I'd like to offload. Just change the extension to PNG and I can host this on IMGZ?

I will refer you to the FAQ: https://imgz.org/help/faq/

Re: Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

#100

Post by fermenflo »

devy wrote: post #52

I found the "Money" page ( https://imgz.org/money/ )'s marketing style extremely distasteful and offensive. I understand the author is trying to be cool and all, but this is too much by piling up vulgar words all over, IMO.

It's a joke. Being distasteful and offensive was the entire point...
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