Important question I forgot to ask is how do you plan to provide funding for hosting servers, maintenance and protection against ddos attacks? (Ads, donations, ?)
We all know this is not free, and if website grows it will need much more money to keep everything alive.
I hope to draw on donations and perhaps accept an advertising banner similar to subscription campaigns if any campaign managers are interested. I just haven't mentioned it yet because I thought it was too early to talk about it.
Although you said that the only images allowed are the formats accepted by the forum (JPG, JEPG, PNG), gifs are also acceptable and can appear on the forum.
The important thing is not to exceed the 2.5mb limit.
You're right, GIF is also supported. Forgot to mention. I will update the OP later.
I really appreciate your effort to code such a site for Bitcointalk members to upload pictures for including them in our posts.
To create awareness about your website, I've written a topic about it in our local German section and linked your website + original post from Meta in it:
Neue Seite zum Hochladen von Bildern zum Einbinden der Bilder in unsere BeiträgeIf more members will know about it, more mebers will upload pictures on your website.
Thank you for doing this, it will really help to popularize the service.
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.
You're absolutely right!
I set it up like this, for the sake of starting resources. But, I already realized that it is not the best strategy. It is part of the experience and learning. My idea is to keep the service for as long as possible! In that sense, I can inform you that I am already making preparations to adjust the server.
I can inform you that the new images to be uploaded will no longer be directed to the cloud service!
So I appeal to those who have already uploaded images that they are using in posts (which were not just for testing) to upload them again.There weren't many and I believe most were for testing. Either way, I will logically leave the cloud service active as long as possible.
[img]https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/04/30/logo_v3_big15552fcf6c36af30.png[/img]
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.
Perhaps I will be able to implement this type of time button. But, at this stage, the only way to delete it will be to save the link generated at the time of upload. If you don't save that link, you won't be able to delete it again.
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's part of one of my future development plans. Thanks for your help with everything, including the tests you've been doing before. You've only been helping.
