Why haven’t we made a proper paid image host for Bitcointalk?

[BuckyLucky]

I keep wondering why we still don’t have a serious Bitcointalk image host where people who care about quality just pay and it stays stable.

But then I think maybe the model is cursed here.

Bitcointalk posts live forever and many of them have a lot of traffic. If an image gets embedded in a popular thread, it can keep getting loaded for years and now the whole forum is your bandwidth bill. How do you price that without annoying people?

If anyone here has run a host or has real numbers, I’d love to hear what actually kills these projects.

Hope we can figure something out soon, i was thinking of building something like this for the experience and knowledge.

P.S. Talkimg is a cool project but limits the file size to 2.5MB which is kinda annoying for serious people who value quality. Maybe they can also join this conversation and we can all help them to improve.

[PX-Z]

Talkimg is run by a community member and that is enough. If the size limit is the issue i guess you are free to make a suggestion about that if you you will need more high quality image. Which might cause a big problem, loading on a forum page where images is loaded at the same time.

[BuckyLucky]

Talkimg is run by a community member and that is enough. If the size limit is the issue i guess you are free to make a suggestion about that if you you will need more high quality image which might cause a big problem, loading on forum where images is loaded at the same time in every page.

of course, its great. but i think we should all try to find a solution to increase this limit to 6MB minimum. that's the goal of my post

[TryNinja]

P.S. Talkimg is a cool project but limits the file size to 2.5MB which is kinda annoying for serious people who value quality. Maybe they can also join this conversation and we can all help them to improve.

You can't embed images bigger than 2.5 MB on BitcoinTalk... that's why @joker_josue put this limit in place.

Do you just want a place to upload 10 MB+ images and link them here? They won't load on the posts, so you can only post the url.

See:

If an image doesn't load consistently (or at least frequently), and it doesn't break any image rules that would cause it to be rejected by the proxy, send me a link to the image or proxied image.

Image rules are:
- Must be less than 2.5 MB
- The entire transfer must take less than 3 seconds.
- The proxied server must not keep the connection open for "a long time" without transferring data.

[BuckyLucky]

P.S. Talkimg is a cool project but limits the file size to 2.5MB which is kinda annoying for serious people who value quality. Maybe they can also join this conversation and we can all help them to improve.

You can't embed images bigger than 2.5 MB on BitcoinTalk... that's why @joker_josue put this limit in place.

Do you just want a place to upload 10 MB+ images and link them here? They won't load on the posts, so you can only post the url.

See:

If an image doesn't load consistently (or at least frequently), and it doesn't break any image rules that would cause it to be rejected by the proxy, send me a link to the image or proxied image.

Image rules are:
- Must be less than 2.5 MB
- The entire transfer must take less than 3 seconds.
- The proxied server must not keep the connection open for "a long time" without transferring data.

I see, interesting. So there is nothing we can do to change this limitation? That's kinda disappointing, not that it's super important, but would be good to have more limit.

[Vod]

of course, its great. but i think we should all try to find a solution to increase this limit to 6MB minimum. that's the goal of my post

6MB maximum?    At maximum web resolution, images should take up no more than 300 to 900k.   Why do you want to upload a full editable image just to display?

[BuckyLucky]

of course, its great. but i think we should all try to find a solution to increase this limit to 6MB minimum. that's the goal of my post

6MB maximum?    At maximum web resolution, images should take up no more than 300 to 900k.   Why do you want to upload a full editable image just to display?

I was mainly thinking that gifs have the biggest issue regarding their size. The 2.5mb limit is fine for images.

[BuckyLucky]

Btw thank you guys for jumping in with your knowledge and try to explain everything. 

[Vod]

Btw thank you guys for jumping in with your knowledge and try to explain everything. 

Think of it this way.  A poster (picture of a model) in your room is cheap.  The actual model would be... not.