Topic: TalkImg.com - Image hosting for BitcoinTalk - page 38. (Read 18611 times)

I tried visiting and image link and also visiting the default domain. It would load endlessly until a timeout error would appear. But I realized the problem might be from my ISP after all. For some reason, it's probably blocking the site, something it wasn't doing yesterday or a few days back. When I used the VPN, it now loads without any issues. Thanks.

Everything working and no errors in the server logs.

How are you trying to access the site?

all good here.

Can somebody please help and confirm to me if the site talkimg.com is not loading.
I have tried different browser but still no response. It's the first time I am experiencing this, so I am feeling it's not my Internet service provider messing things up since I am even able to stream without any buffering.

This could have been a failure to load the page locally.

Unfortunately, due to the security system of the server and the hosting company, sometimes the experience via Tor connection is not the best. I'm trying to improve that.

When this happens, what I can suggest is to close the browser and open it again, to avoid this situation. Sorry about the situation.

Is this normal? The interface messed up.

The regular issue I find is the browser stuck on the window which keeps checking the request verification.


I use tor connection with my firefox.

UPDATE 1.16
Based on user feedback, the following improvements have been made:

Added edit/resize button at image upload time. Before, you had to click on the image preview to edit, which was not very noticeable for users. Now, just click on the button for the effect with a pencil icon:



Improved the way to select links. Now it is more practical to select only part of the embed link manually, or continue to use the "Copy" button:

Every donation is valuable! Many, many thanks for your support!
Believe me, I will use this btc for expenses with this service.

This is the address, which is indicated in the OP.

A big hug and thank you! 

Maxxed my merits out for you.

I will toss some coin to your address at end of June.

To all reading so far he has received only three donations.

one was a nice one.

my donation was smaller 0.001 btc , but I will donate some coin monthly.

For
May- donated 0.001 btc
June
July
Aug

along with giving my signature to him.

bc1qhwnncpdd8gfzqwjkk9n052wf7g9mvks3xaa7qa

is his address but double check with him if you are going to donate coin.

STATISTICS - May 2023
This was the launch month of TalkImg, more specifically the 28th of April, but let's take it all together as it all started in May.

It all started calmly with several users starting to test the service and see how it works. Modest growth was planned during the first few months, until everything changes on May 13th. Imgur decides to change its Terms and block the forum proxy, as well as start an image deletion plan. This motivates a mass adherence by the forum community to the use of TalkImg.

This sudden and unexpected change meant that the project's entire growth plan was rethought, forced to make a new investment to increase its response capacity, given the demand it was experiencing. Since then, the use of the service has been increasing daily. But, let's go to the numbers, to understand what happened.



Until the 13th of May, 1216 images had been uploaded.
On May 14th, 3160 images were uploaded, making a total of 4376 images.
Day 15, the pace slowed down as I had to go into maintenance mode to improve the service.
But after the maintenance was done, almost twice as many images were loaded. Of the 5941 images uploaded by the 15th, we now have a total of 11134 images uploaded by the end of the 16th.
And it has continued to grow to this day, with over 300~500 new images uploaded each day.

That said, here are the May 2023 totals:
Total Images - 17361
Disk Space - 4.7GB (~270kb/image)
Bandwidth - 240GB

I appreciate the support of the community.

I hadn't thought of the use case where a user makes several uploads at once. When that happens, for sure my recommendation isn't that great and it makes more sense to implement a suggestion similar to the one discussed/shared by LoyceV...

This option is actually available before the upload, when everything is still being handled locally.
Also, it would only work if you only upload one image at a time. However, it is possible to send several images at the same time. So in reality, it would be more work for the user and eventually take longer for someone who doesn't want to make any changes.




The site is now available in several languages. It's true that maybe some aspects of the site may not be translated, because of some modifications I've made.
Perhaps, I will readjust this and provide a way for anyone who wants to collaborate in the translation.

Thank you joker_josue for this great initiative and for continuing to work on development with other great members.

Unfortunately, I am not in a position that authorizes me to contribute to the development, and my capabilities do not go beyond translating this topic into my local language (I have already done so) and submitting reports about any problems while using the site.

In the same context, I believe that the project, with the support it receives from bitcointalk community, is even able to compete with the major image hosting sites on the Internet, such as imagebb and imagur. Therefore, I suggest that the site be translated into different languages, especially since it does not contain much content and may be available in languages other than English. Members who wish to support the project can contribute to the translation of the site, just like those who support it through donations. I can help with this by launching a voluntary translation campaign or by bringing it up to [AOBT] The Alliance Of Bitcointalk Translators, of which I am a member.
I do not know what technical challenges this initiative presents, but I am convinced that it will support the site as well as facilitate the service for members, since not everyone is fluent in English.

Here's another suggestion: Why not automatically display this window after uploading the image?:



I think this would suit both users: Those that do not want to edit the dimensions would simply click on the "Submit" button (the same number of clicks that they would do without this window) and those users who are interested in resizing could do it instantly. That way you'll save an extra click for the "Edit" symbol and I think that the User experience wouldn't be too much affected (plus I think it would be easier for you to implement this).

The site is not under maintenance, nor do I have any errors registered in the log.  
Everything working normally.

Did it only happen with this image, or with all the ones you try to send?
Was this image larger than 2.5MB? Was the image JPG, PNG or GIF?

Can you send me that image in another way, so I can test it?

I am trying to upload images but there is error going on displaying this message:



So is site under some maintenance or any other issue I am facing at my end?

Ok, ok.. I see now that edit appears when I hover the mouse over image.
Instead of doing this I was think image first needs to be uploaded and then clicked on it.  
Maybe you could add a small text below image ^(resize?) saying that image can be resized like this.

Sounds good, try it

What do you think about having a button under the "x" with the edit symbol?

That's not very intuitive, I wouldn't have guessed it. Maybe a "click to edit" message can make it more obvious.
I like that it keeps the aspect ratio.