Imageshack - What don't you like?
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Not thinking of making an image upload site are you....almost like, if you wanted to upload something, you could just...uploadit? 
I don't use Imageshack enough to know anything about it really, so I can't help out I'm afraid. But one thing I find annoying is how sometimes people manage to post a thumbnail-sized image in a forum thread and clicking on it leads to Imageshack's homepage. I don't get that.
I don't use Imageshack enough to know anything about it really, so I can't help out I'm afraid. But one thing I find annoying is how sometimes people manage to post a thumbnail-sized image in a forum thread and clicking on it leads to Imageshack's homepage. I don't get that.
Beansprout said:Not thinking of making an image upload site are you....almost like, if you wanted to upload something, you could just...uploadit?
I don't use Imageshack enough to know anything about it really, so I can't help out I'm afraid. But one thing I find annoying is how sometimes people manage to post a thumbnail-sized image in a forum thread and clicking on it leads to Imageshack's homepage. I don't get that.
Damn, busted. I miss the old girl
.I think the thumbnail issue is caused by the fact that they've actually uploaded a tiny image and, when you use the 'standard' image code (without thumbnail), it automatically adds a link back to Imageshack. What I've typed makes absolutely no sense but I think you'll get the gist of it
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Adz said:Damn, busted. I miss the old girl
It's not as good as it used to be either
.Not a big fan of Imageshack, similar point of view, you click on a link and then it says to get a full res pic click on the picture. It never seems to work and you're left looking at a badly artifacted image.
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It would be good if there was client side resizing, and compression, like when I have a 3Mb camera photo it would be nice if it was re compressed and resized my end instead of having to upload tho whole thing first.
Also a Firefox plugin would be nice, or a rightclick explorer "upload" button.
Also a Firefox plugin would be nice, or a rightclick explorer "upload" button.
To make any kind of dent it's going to need to be infinitely better than Imageshack and of course UploadIt which is over 3 years old now and around 2 years since I sold it.
Technically it'll be a big step forward. It'll be quick, very quick. Load balanced and UK based. I've got ~3000mbit/sec to play with whereas, 3.5 years ago, I was relying on leased US based dedicated servers. Should be fun.
It's not really intended to make any money, it's more of an experiment and technical challenge.
Benjo - Batch uploads, already covered. Resizing/thumbnailing/watermarking I've been involved with a lot for a recent commercial project so I can bring some of that knowledge and experience over. There's obviously a tradeoff between image quality/featureset and CPU availability.
Edit: Client side resizing is tricky. It could be done with a Java applet but I've played with that for the aforementioned commercial project and nothing which is currently available on the market is reliable enough. I think the answer is to develop something from scratch, possibly a firefox plugin as you said which will resize the image and 'upload it'
to the web in one fell swoop.
Technically it'll be a big step forward. It'll be quick, very quick. Load balanced and UK based. I've got ~3000mbit/sec to play with whereas, 3.5 years ago, I was relying on leased US based dedicated servers. Should be fun
.It's not really intended to make any money, it's more of an experiment and technical challenge.
Benjo - Batch uploads, already covered. Resizing/thumbnailing/watermarking I've been involved with a lot for a recent commercial project so I can bring some of that knowledge and experience over. There's obviously a tradeoff between image quality/featureset and CPU availability.
Edit: Client side resizing is tricky. It could be done with a Java applet but I've played with that for the aforementioned commercial project and nothing which is currently available on the market is reliable enough. I think the answer is to develop something from scratch, possibly a firefox plugin as you said which will resize the image and 'upload it'
to the web in one fell swoop.
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Pros:
PERMANENT HOSTING. I cannot stress this enough. Hosts that delete images after X amount of time are really annoying.
No silly bandwidth restrictions, per-domain or per user.
Community support - plugins, shell extensions etc.
Cons:
Absolutely billions of adverts. Although adverts are largely a necessary evil, Macbeth took it a bit far IMO.
Spammy link back to the ImageShack homepage on every image by default.
Not much to it, it's just an image host really.
Things you could add:
Archive support
Easier way to bulk upload images (á la Gallery's "add another field" ad infinitum).
PERMANENT HOSTING. I cannot stress this enough. Hosts that delete images after X amount of time are really annoying.
No silly bandwidth restrictions, per-domain or per user.
Community support - plugins, shell extensions etc.
Cons:
Absolutely billions of adverts. Although adverts are largely a necessary evil, Macbeth took it a bit far IMO.
Spammy link back to the ImageShack homepage on every image by default.
Not much to it, it's just an image host really.
Things you could add:
Archive support
Easier way to bulk upload images (á la Gallery's "add another field" ad infinitum).
Good Points:
Thumbnail Images - smaller versions of the image.
OnClick Highlight Code - You don't have to select all the code, you just click the box and it highlights it.
Firefox + Windows Plugins - Can upload from desktop or firefox
No Bandwidth limits
Perminant Hosting
Allows enough space - for my use anyways - i am not a photographer so it may be different for others
Don't have to sign up - you can for extra features, but you can just pop on there to upload an image when you need.
Downtime - Not often down, if down at all?
Easy to remember URL - small, catchy and easy to remember URL.
Image Download Speeds - pretty quick in my opinion.
Site Layout - Nice, simple and fast loading site (if it wasn't for all the ads)
Bad points:
Site Speed - the site itself is slow, took ages from the point of getting to the site to getting the code, although the image loading is generally an ok speed.
Ads - the user is plastered with ads whenever using the site, it's ridiculous, makes the site way to busy.
Links to site - When you click a hotlinked image, it takes you to their site
Preview in their site - When you click a thumbnail it previews in their site instead of a direct link to the image.
US Based - would be nice to have a uk based image hoster, fast one.
Nice extras to have:
Borders - A choice of border styles, like for presentation (of desktops maybe?)
Thumbnail Text - Maybe have "Click to Enlarge" instead of the usually details for the thumbnail text.
Upload from a different site - Would be nice to be able to upload an image from my homepage, but still go through your site obviously.
Rotating Signatures - maybe the ability to create and host on your site?
Hope that helps!
Thumbnail Images - smaller versions of the image.
OnClick Highlight Code - You don't have to select all the code, you just click the box and it highlights it.
Firefox + Windows Plugins - Can upload from desktop or firefox
No Bandwidth limits
Perminant Hosting
Allows enough space - for my use anyways - i am not a photographer so it may be different for others
Don't have to sign up - you can for extra features, but you can just pop on there to upload an image when you need.
Downtime - Not often down, if down at all?
Easy to remember URL - small, catchy and easy to remember URL.
Image Download Speeds - pretty quick in my opinion.
Site Layout - Nice, simple and fast loading site (if it wasn't for all the ads)
Bad points:
Site Speed - the site itself is slow, took ages from the point of getting to the site to getting the code, although the image loading is generally an ok speed.
Ads - the user is plastered with ads whenever using the site, it's ridiculous, makes the site way to busy.
Links to site - When you click a hotlinked image, it takes you to their site
Preview in their site - When you click a thumbnail it previews in their site instead of a direct link to the image.
US Based - would be nice to have a uk based image hoster, fast one.
Nice extras to have:
Borders - A choice of border styles, like for presentation (of desktops maybe?)
Thumbnail Text - Maybe have "Click to Enlarge" instead of the usually details for the thumbnail text.
Upload from a different site - Would be nice to be able to upload an image from my homepage, but still go through your site obviously.
Rotating Signatures - maybe the ability to create and host on your site?
Hope that helps!
