I am resorting at this initial stage to Alibaba Cloud OSS with a server in the USA. But the objective will be to use a dedicated server for this purpose, because in the medium term it has lower costs.
There's a problem with this: you don't own the image-location now! When I first tested TalkImg, I got this link:
[img]https://talkimg.com/images/2023/04/22/bitcoin-logo-1-1-267084567290052a980fb3a46d.png[/img]
And this was good!
When I tested it again, I didn't look at the link closely:
[img]https://talkimgac.oss-us-east-1.aliyuncs.com/2023/04/27/logo2f1be96d6b5142e35.png[/img]
That's
not good: This domain is owned by Alibaba Cloud. If they decide to change the URL (be it soon or 10 years from now), all embedded images are gone. It also means you have a vendor lock-in: you can't move to a different webhost anymore without losing those images. I'd say change this while it's still early.
My suggestion is to add Delete button, if user decides to delete image himself for privacy or any other reasons.
If images are created after embedding them on the forum, it will still create broken image links. The user could just edit their post so the image isn't shown anymore. It's better to have a delete-button that only works for a short time.
- What will happen to the image database if something happens to you? Would you consider give access to another (trusted) user in the future perhaps?
- Are you considering backups in the future? It would be a tremendous loss if anything happens to the pool of images later down the line;
I wouldn't mind making regular backups (
rsync) of the data. Ideally, a few people should do that, and if joker_josue ever loses interest, the data could be restored on talkimg2.com. All we'd have to do is
kindly ask theymos to replace the domain in the forum database and the images are back.
Shouldn't the website be accessible only to bitcointalk users? Like everything on the Internet, as soon as it gets more attention surely people will start to upload dozens of images (and probably some illegal as well).
It shouldn't be too hard to disable hotlinking from any other site than Bitcointalk's image proxy. It's not perfect though:
other sites can use the same proxy too.
Request: please add height
and width tags.
This post has only width tags, which means my browser doesn't know the image height until it's loaded. By adding full size tags, other content on the forum doesn't move when the images are loaded.
It would be very interesting if you obtained approval from the forum administration to integrate the site within the image tools for ease of access.
That doesn't really fly with the way Bitcointalk handles
image copyright complaints:
That image is hosted elsewhere, and we are only proxying it from the original location in order to protect user privacy. You should not complain to us.
Also consider paid version which let user upload bigger image size
There's no point: Bitcointalk's image proxy has a size limit.
After a few years of noticing how many images do not appear correctly in the forum or are very slow to load, not to mention the images that stop appearing after a few months or years, the TalkImg project was born.
When I started using Bitcointalk, I used tinypic.com.
My very first post now has a dead image. Permanent image storage is really a good thing.
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Without checking the URL, I already knew it must be Rickroll.
