Imageshack - What don't you like?
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.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
.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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