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Quote from: joker_josue on August 23, 2023, 02:43:39 PM

Quote from: Flexystar on August 23, 2023, 11:51:01 AM

Good going mate. I think I should make habit of using your service. For now I have bookmarked the website and will slowly keep using your services only. I was wondering why there are no google ads? I think you want to keep your website clean or have you not thought about it.
The donation is really nice thing from people, but I hope you can also go ahead of it and apply for Google Adsense. You will be able to get good revenue for yourself and for the future development of website.
Hope so we will see your website search engine optimized soon! Next time I put upload image it should be TalkImg coming up in the search results. Cheesy

To the moon mate!

This is a project for the BitcoinTalk community. I trusted that the community will help me keep the project on the air, as it has done so far. I'm not going to use systems like Google Adsense, because that would just create "noise" on the site, and I don't want to. Not to mention the possible collection of information, which I don't want either.
But, I am available to have publicity coming from the forum, similar to what happens with subscription campaigns. By the way, this is already happening, this time with the sponsorship of Duelbits, which will soon have a new banner on the site.

Disregard community opinions; what matters most is you generating income. Just Kidding! Kudos to Duelbits for sponsoring your website. No third party service in that campaign right?
Anyway, Regardless of whether it is a project for the Bitcointalk Community knowing that it involves cryptocurrency audience will Google AdSense allow you to use their service and monetize your website?

If not, I would recommend Coinzilla instead of Google AdSense, since TalkImg.com's audience is more about cryptocurrency.

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Quote from: Synchronice on September 09, 2023, 05:45:27 AM

Wow, this is amazing. I think that around 4K visits on your website means that your website is very popular, I would say these are good numbers, congrats! Bandwidth is pretty high, just wondering, is your website used outside of bitcointalk? Is it allowed or do you block it?

The site is configured so that images only work on the forum - Bitcointalk. This does not mean that it may be possible to use it on other sites, but if you do so you run the risk of sooner or later it may stop working.

In this sense, 98% of the bandwidth comes from the forum. Which makes perfect sense, because this was designed for the forum. Wink

Quote from: Synchronice on September 09, 2023, 05:45:27 AM

I can do it manually and do sometimes but built-in compression is a better idea.

Quote from: cafter on September 09, 2023, 06:15:18 AM

how it would be when talkimg.com automatically compress big images (which are more than 2.5mb) into under 2.5mb limit? it's just an idea which is solving a problem of wasting time of users.

I will have some news about this soon. Wink

cafter

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is it a right idea to add a feature of automatically compressing big images to 2.5mb limit? like some images are bigger than 2.5mb and I need to go to third part websites to compress that image, which waste so much time,
how it would be when talkimg.com automatically compress big images (which are more than 2.5mb) into under 2.5mb limit? it's just an idea which is solving a problem of wasting time of users.

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Quote from: joker_josue on September 08, 2023, 07:34:54 PM

Statistics August 2023____________________
The month of August was a little calmer compared to the previous ones - but at a good pace, perhaps because many people usually go on vacation at this time.
Also this month there has been no wave of new entries, with users uploading large batches of images to the service. I therefore take this opportunity to remind you that you can have access to all the images that each user posts, using the database provided by @LoyceV here... Or use the script created by @TryNinja to transfer your photos to TalkImg.

Here are the numbers for the month and totals:


	Number of uploads in the month: 5.732 _{(-6.291 last month)}
	Total disk space occupied: 13GB _{(+2 last month)}
	Number of visits to the talkimg.com website in the month: 3.874 _{(-572 last month)} Bandwidth in the month: 336GB _{(= last month)}

Thanks for your support.

Wow, this is amazing. I think that around 4K visits on your website means that your website is very popular, I would say these are good numbers, congrats! Bandwidth is pretty high, just wondering, is your website used outside of bitcointalk? Is it allowed or do you block it?

Quote from: joker_josue on August 27, 2023, 03:58:38 AM

As LoyceV commented, the most efficient systems that exist are native to PHP, which is GD or ImageMagick. They do their job well, but for those who like to see images always with quality - like me, I'm always a little reluctant to use these tools. Not to mention, that security is more exposed.

But I'm going to study the possibility of having an additional platform that performs these conversions and then sends the image to TalkImg. Wink

Lossless image compression is not a bad option to be honest. It will significantly decrease the size and quality won't be significantly affected. I think you can add it as an optional service and some people like me will use that option when they have to upload a screenshot or snap. I can do it manually and do sometimes but built-in compression is a better idea.

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Statistics August 2023____________________
The month of August was a little calmer compared to the previous ones - but at a good pace, perhaps because many people usually go on vacation at this time.
Also this month there has been no wave of new entries, with users uploading large batches of images to the service. I therefore take this opportunity to remind you that you can have access to all the images that each user posts, using the database provided by @LoyceV here... Or use the script created by @TryNinja to transfer your photos to TalkImg.

Here are the numbers for the month and totals:


	Number of uploads in the month: 5.732 _{(-6.291 last month)}
	Total disk space occupied: 13GB _{(+2 last month)}
	Number of visits to the talkimg.com website in the month: 3.874 _{(-572 last month)} Bandwidth in the month: 336GB _{(= last month)}

Thanks for your support.

philipma1957

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I will be sending a sept donation tonight. 0.001 btc

https://btc1.trezor.io/address/bc1qhwnncpdd8gfzqwjkk9n052wf7g9mvks3xaa7qa

coin sent.

In October I will have time and ask for an account for now I am just doing it on bitcointalk.

Not saying people should run to donate, but he has not got that much for the work and time and server rental.

Also gave joker more merits.

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Just popping into the thread to say great service. Am a bit late to the recent changes regarding imgur etc but am glad to see such a friendly alternative for the forum. I did try imgbb recently as alternative but actually found it very inconvenient for getting the image url or bb code, whereas talkimg actually seems a lot easier with no delay on speed either, it's no wonder so many people approve.

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Quote from: DYING_S0UL on September 04, 2023, 02:23:04 PM

Quote from: joker_josue on September 04, 2023, 02:05:50 PM

Quote from: DYING_S0UL on September 04, 2023, 09:59:03 AM

Just a quick question what's the advantage of having an account? Can't I just upload and use it without an account anyway?

After what has been said, which is correct - thanks for the help guys. If you want an account, just send me a PM. Wink

Do I need to provide any kind of email address for an account?

No! Just send a PM asking for an account.

It will have your username, the same as the one on the forum, and a fictitious email that you can later change if you want.

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Quote from: joker_josue on September 04, 2023, 02:05:50 PM

Quote from: DYING_S0UL on September 04, 2023, 09:59:03 AM

Just a quick question what's the advantage of having an account? Can't I just upload and use it without an account anyway?

After what has been said, which is correct - thanks for the help guys. If you want an account, just send me a PM. Wink

Do I need to provide any kind of email address for an account?

joker_josue

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Quote from: DYING_S0UL on September 04, 2023, 09:59:03 AM

Just a quick question what's the advantage of having an account? Can't I just upload and use it without an account anyway?

After what has been said, which is correct - thanks for the help guys. If you want an account, just send me a PM. Wink

dkbit98

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Quote from: DYING_S0UL on September 04, 2023, 09:59:03 AM

Just a quick question what's the advantage of having an account? Can't I just upload and use it without an account anyway?

Other than what was previously said, I think you can also enable dark theme that is only available for registered accounts, unless something was changed recently.
You can upload images without account and it will fork just fine if you are posting images only on bitcointalk forum.

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Quote from: DYING_S0UL on September 04, 2023, 09:59:03 AM

Just a quick question what's the advantage of having an account? Can't I just upload and use it without an account anyway?

You can delete your images and organize them through different albums. Also, you can have your own API key which is useful when using screenshot softwares (like ShareX).

DYING_S0UL

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Just a quick question what's the advantage of having an account? Can't I just upload and use it without an account anyway?

joker_josue

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Quote from: OgNasty on August 28, 2023, 09:29:10 AM

Was bitcointalk ever going to fix the existing images not displaying issue or was the final solution to leave every member to resolve this issue for themselves?

The point is that this problem is not exactly on the side of bitcointalk. Restrictions are imposed by image hosting sites, which block proxy or forum IP, or have limits on bandwidth.

Therefore, according to what is known so far, nothing should be done on the forum side. Each user must take care, to review their images.

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I have been using your image hosting recently. It's super cool and easy to use. I hope this project lasts long. Grin

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Was bitcointalk ever going to fix the existing images not displaying issue or was the final solution to leave every member to resolve this issue for themselves?

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Quote from: dkbit98 on August 26, 2023, 06:51:09 PM

You can easily convert them online to different formats with smaller size, usually .jpg takes less space and .WebP even less.
There are several free open source tools for image compression, one of them is Squoosh, and other alternatives are Caesium, ImageOptim, etc.
https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool

But these are not online systems per se. For example, Squoosh is a browser extension. The conversion is done on the client side. Hence I say, that it makes more sense for the user to use their favorite tools to adjust the image, instead of using a system implemented by me.

As LoyceV commented, the most efficient systems that exist are native to PHP, which is GD or ImageMagick. They do their job well, but for those who like to see images always with quality - like me, I'm always a little reluctant to use these tools. Not to mention, that security is more exposed.

But I'm going to study the possibility of having an additional platform that performs these conversions and then sends the image to TalkImg. Wink

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Quote from: joker_josue on August 26, 2023, 12:46:44 PM

Yes... it's something that makes sense and I've even thought about it. The issue is that the web systems for resizing the image and reducing the size are not of very good quality. Even the most basic image editing programs are better at doing this than online systems.

You can easily convert them online to different formats with smaller size, usually .jpg takes less space and .WebP even less.
There are several free open source tools for image compression, one of them is Squoosh, and other alternatives are Caesium, ImageOptim, etc.
https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool

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Quote from: joker_josue on August 26, 2023, 12:46:44 PM

The issue is that the web systems for resizing the image and reducing the size are not of very good quality. Even the most basic image editing programs are better at doing this than online systems.

Use ImageMagick and build your own? I won't be able to tell you how, but I'm confident you can figure that out with PHP: ImageMagick:

Quote from: https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.imagick.php

Imagick is a native php extension to create and modify images using the ImageMagick API.

This may be the reason you can't find good web systems, they can't beat this.

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Quote from: fillippone on August 26, 2023, 11:16:43 AM

Feature request:
As the upload limit on Bitcoin Talk is 2.5 MB, now talking refuses images bigger than that.
Would it be possible instead to propose an “automatic resampling” to a lower size?
I.e. Uploading an image of 5 Mb with a 50% resizing would cause the resulting image to be in the accepted size range.
Does it make any sense?

Yes... it's something that makes sense and I've even thought about it. The issue is that the web systems for resizing the image and reducing the size are not of very good quality. Even the most basic image editing programs are better at doing this than online systems.

But, it's something I might add in the future, if I can set up a system that is both efficient and quality. Wink

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