TalkImg.com - Image hosting for BitcoinTalk

[joker_josue]

 
 Statistics  First Year____________________
Today marks a year since TalkImg was launched. To this day I have to thank all the members of this forum for the support they have given to this project, whether through donations or simply using the service. But how was all this progress? What happens and what are all the numbers for this first year?

At the end of a year, more than 107k images were uploaded, which means more than 30GB of data. More than 30 forum users requested to open an account. Several users use the site on their bots and scripts, others make a backup of all images. Over the course of this year, 5 images that violate NSFW rules were removed. Although it is not possible to have a real calculation of how many times the images were viewed here on the forum, estimates indicate that more than 30,000,000 were viewed. Below is the graph shown in some of these numbers (graphic from image upload):


The first days started timidly, as expected, with some users questioning the reason for creating this service, when there are many other image hosting options. But, without anyone predicting it (not even me), the main reason for me creating TalkImg emerged: one of the most used image hosting sites, decides to block BitcoinTalk - Imgur. This event caused many to start migrating their images to TalkImg.

With the help of TryNinja and its script for migrating images, a real adventure began. Within a few hours, TalkImg began receiving a large number of images, which it had only expected to receive over several months. This forced me to reevaluate the plans I had, and quickly update the server. It took almost 2 days of hard work, so that everything was working optimally until today. See how it all happened here.

Throughout this year, several improvements were made to the service, resulting in a major update to all of the site's software. We have a zip tool, in case the images are larger than allowed here on the forum (2.5MB). At the request of some users, I even created a signature for those who don't have a campaign and want to publicize the project. I thank @theymos for placing a reference to TalkImg on the help page, and for creating a factoid about the project.

The numbers prove the support that users are giving to this project, which I hope will last for many, many years. Don't forget to thank everyone who has made donations (so far 0.05BTC) to ensure the maintenance of TalkImg. I also have to thank the sponsorships I have received, which are another excellent help to support this project.

Thanks again for using TalkImg, and I hope this is just the first year of many!

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[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Thanks again for using TalkImg, and I hope this is just the first year of many!

Impressive success for Talkimg. You are doing well. Congratulation.

A side question: How much it is costing you per month for maintenance?

[Mate2237]

@Mate2237 Looks like there's something wrong with the BBCode you used. After reading your post, I tried TalkImg.com and uploading some images and copying the BB codes and everything went smoothly without any problems, including the BBCode.

I checked your post history from 26 April 2024, and  I didn't see any uploaded image. So how do I know that you upload an image? As for me you gave wrong information without checking out the complain and you only read my post and check the bbcode and confirmed that all is well when all is not well. You would have done the practical by uploading an image in this your post for everyone to see. Guy, you annoyed me.

After your post I still checked my previous comment to see if it works but it didn't.

[xLays]

@Mate2237 Looks like there's something wrong with the BBCode you used. After reading your post, I tried TalkImg.com and uploading some images and copying the BB codes and everything went smoothly without any problems, including the BBCode.

I checked your post history from 26 April 2024, and  I didn't see any uploaded image. So how do I know that you upload an image? As for me you gave wrong information without checking out the complain and you only read my post and check the bbcode and confirmed that all is well when all is not well. You would have done the practical by uploading an image in this your post for everyone to see. Guy, you annoyed me.

After your post I still checked my previous comment to see if it works but it didn't.

It seems you used the wrong BB codes, as I mentioned. I think you might not be familiar with how BB codes work, so I've provided the correct one. Additionally, it isn't necessary to provide or upload an image here to confirm that the website is currently working. However, if you'd like, I can share the latest image I uploaded on TalkIMG to know that I'm telling the truth.

Look:


The code I used.

Code:

[img height=200]https://talkimg.com/images/2024/04/28/rnJbc.jpeg[/img]

Looks like you have some anger management issues. Last time, you suspected me that I am posting here just to meet my signature quota when you're the one doing that. Lol

[PX-Z]

@Mate2237 Looks like there's something wrong with the BBCode you used. After reading your post, I tried TalkImg.com and uploading some images and copying the BB codes and everything went smoothly without any problems, including the BBCode.

...As for me you gave wrong information without checking out the complain and you only read my post and check the bbcode and confirmed that all is well when all is not well. You would have done the practical by uploading an image in this your post for everyone to see. Guy, you annoyed me.

Here's what your post looks like with the img tag wrongly placed. You can check how the image looks like by using the "Preview" button. No need to be annoyed, the guy just want to help you.




With the image you want to post, i see there's a width and height on the img tag with URL, you can do this instead.

Code:

[url=URL_HERE][img width=500 height=200]https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/04/27/rZn2d.jpeg[/img][/url]

[Mate2237]

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But did you check the website? Right now the side is down it shows bad when uploading. No image is uploading. Try to check the website so that you will understand what I mean. This morning I discovered that the forum image width was already inserted in the hosting website so you don't have to click the width in the forum anymore but all what you have to do is to copy the link in the hosting website and paste it here and it works. And that was what he has explained to me if he has checked the website.

Because normally we clicked the width from the forum standard tool bars and copied the link from the hosting website and paste it inside the width but now everything is already there. You don't have to check only my post but also check the website before explaining so that you would understand what I mean. Just now I was trying to upload an another image but the website is down to upload image. It's showing ❌ it is working now, probably he was working on the site.

[PX-Z]

But did you check the website?

Yes, that's why i am able to upload the image and posted here using talkimg, and it can be seen here.

When website is down, it could be your internet connection, your dns settings (which is i encountered before with slow loading to not be able to use the site), or the site is down.

By checking their status page https://talkimg.betteruptime.com/ it looks like the site is facing an issue, so your concern of website uptime is valid.

[joker_josue]

Because normally we clicked the width from the forum standard tool bars and copied the link from the hosting website and paste it inside the width but now everything is already there. You don't have to check only my post but also check the website before explaining so that you would understand what I mean. Just now I was trying to upload an another image but the website is down to upload image. It's showing ❌ it is working now, probably he was working on the site.

The website is working, without any type of interruption since my last update feedback.
What you are reporting has nothing to do with the functioning of the website, nor when the image is uploaded, but rather the BBCode code within the image page.

An error is actually occurring on the image page, in the embed section, which does not correctly display the code "BBCode full fix HxW". Thank you for the alert, which I will analyze and try to resolve.

But no user said anything wrong. Because when you upload it, everything is fine:


But, when you open the image page, it appears like this:



In short, it is true that there is an error on the image page, but this does not affect the normal functioning of the site. Furthermore, what is normally used to copy the BBCode code is working correctly. When I fix this I will let you know.

[joker_josue]

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In short, it is true that there is an error on the image page, but this does not affect the normal functioning of the site. Furthermore, what is normally used to copy the BBCode code is working correctly. When I fix this I will let you know.

Situation resolved. I apologize for any inconvenience caused.

[Richy_T]

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I'm getting 500 internal service errors.

Were you using any API?

It's just that at the moment all services are ON.

Just Curl in Perl.

Maybe you changed the way the auth token was passed in the first page. I'll take a look at it tomorrow.

[Mate2237]

Last time, you suspected me that I am posting here just to meet my signature quota when you're the one doing that. Lol

Your explanations are not indepth but on the shallow surface. You only check my bbcode and said all is right when I was facing difficulty to upload images on my posts. There are some comments you will  like to make and it needs practical. You can just upload any picture as you did to show the service is okay and probably the way I did my was not properly done then if possible you direct the person how to do it.

Let me show why I was facing the problem. I discovered that two things have changed which I have been using to upload images from www.talkimg.com. Number one. Whenever I am uploading an image I first click the bbcode/width on the forum tool bar which showing on the image below.

But now we don't have to click on the bbcode/width again on the forum and it is already in the link on the website. And you can also see it.
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And also the second thing I discovered is, before when I was uploading any images from the website, I normally clicked on the send link and not the first link and now it is the first link. And because of all this I came here to find out the issue and you gave me a shallow contribution that didn't solve my problem. Well I am okay now because it has been resolved. Thanks to the Op and PX-Z for there resolution.

[joker_josue]

Let me show why I was facing the problem. I discovered that two things have changed which I have been using to upload images from www.talkimg.com. Number one. Whenever I am uploading an image I first click the bbcode/width on the forum tool bar which showing on the image below.

The way TalkImg works has not changed at all. The BBCode code has always been available first in embed codes. If you just copy the image link, then yes, you have to manually add the [img] code. If you copy the entire BBCode code, it already includes the code necessary for the image to appear on the forum.

I remember that from the first day of this project, it was to facilitate the use of images on the forum. Therefore, it is prepared from the beginning so that there is no need to manually write the code [img].

Either way, the situation is clarified.  

Good use of this service by everyone, and any suggestions are welcome.

[Richy_T]

Looks like it just needed the mimetype added.

OK, so...

Obviously, nothing changed at my end but as I'm using Curl, it's possible that something changed under the covers that I need to account for. But I'm looking at the network traffic for a successful upload and I'm not seeing anything different than what I am doing (but I'm only digging surface level so far).

Successful upload through browser:



I assemble the form like so:

Code:

 my $form = WWW::Curl::Form->new();
 $form->formaddfile("$filename",'source', 'image/png'
 );

 $form->formadd('type','file');
 $form->formadd('action','upload');
 $form->formadd('timestamp',time());
 $form->formadd('auth_token',$auth);
 $form->formadd('expiration','');
 $form->formadd('nsfw','0');

$i->setopt( CURLOPT_HTTPPOST(), $form );

But the error I am now getting is:

Code:

{"status_code":500,"error":{"message":"\u2b55\ufe0f Something went wrong \u2022 Incident ID:663132d5a78cf","type":"Chevere\\Throwable\\Exceptions\\ErrorException","time":"2024-04-30T18:05:09+00:00","code":0,"id":"663132d5a78cf"},"status_txt":"Internal Server Error"}

There is an incident code there so I'm not sure if you can check that?
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[joker_josue]

There is an incident code there so I'm not sure if you can check that?

Perhaps the security system has been increased a little, which may make it difficult to upload in this way.
I will send you a PM with an API, so you can try to do this via the API. 

[Richy_T]

There is an incident code there so I'm not sure if you can check that?

Perhaps the security system has been increased a little, which may make it difficult to upload in this way.
I will send you a PM with an API, so you can try to do this via the API. 

Nah, it was just the mimetype thing. I'll have a look at the API.