Imgur Image Hosting Talk

[Calum]

Placeholder for Imgur related talk.

[Calum]

@cyber-ninja His images are being rejected by my server because the file sizes are too big.

[andrewj1680]

@cyber-ninja it wouldn't let me do it that way for some reason mate kept telling me too big entity but I got there in the end that's the main thing lol. Thanks guys

[NINJA]

@andrewj1680 You can only upload 1 pic at a time dude, this forum is not greedy and she likes to chew her food one piece at a time!!! LOL

[Calum]

@cyber-ninja I am waiting for the day when Imgur demand money for image hosting. When that day comes....

[andrewj1680]

@cyber-ninja even 1 picture at a time seemed to be a problem I don't know maybe my phone I've had to go back to my old 1 I managed to smash my screen while fitting the engine in this one . Calum don't jinx it everyone else seems to be in it to make a quick quid I can imagine imgur isn't too far behind

[Calum]

@andrewj1680 I literally don't know where they're making their money from.

It's only a matter of time.

Worst case scenario, worst case, I will have to only enable image uploads to some sort of premium member. That way I could afford a dedicated image file server that's not located on my limited internet.

[NINJA]

@calum They make their money from advertising!!!

[Calum]

@cyber-ninja https://imgur.com/ Where. Where is there an advert on that page.

I do have adblock plus on here.

[Calum]

@CYBER-NINJA @andrewj1680

I moved our conversation out of Andrews build thread. I've cleaned up the thread to keep it on topic. Sorry bud.

Don't want to clutter up your build.

[declan]

@calum yeah that’s only fair it’s hard to not go off topic,my images used to work great coming directly from your server I could get 5 at a time within 30 seconds easy

[Calum]

@declan They don't actually come off my server.

You upload them to my server, my server uploads them to imgur, then deletes the uploaded image.

It then embeds the URL into the client, and that is what gets saved on my server.

When you press submit before the upload, you only save the percentage it got to.

[NINJA]

@calum I was assuming that Imgur was similar to Photbucket? Maybe their a less greedy profit orientated outfit???

[Calum]

@cyber-ninja Yeah no images on my PC. I literally don't know where they make their money from.

[NINJA]

@calum Well they do offer companies advertising space;

http://www.imgurads.com/

So maybe Adblock plus is working 100% or they are hidden somewhere else???

[andrewj1680]

@calum thanks mate. Keep up the good work without you we wouldn't even have a forum. I personally couldn't find enough hours in the day to keep on top of it. Well done mate

[Calum]

@andrewj1680 Pretty sure the old one is still alive.

The old one was fine, but the software was so out of date.

As you say, it's a lot of work keeping it running, we've had a great deal of outages this year alone.

It's nice to have a website where we all get along and a place to see what people are getting up to.

I don't have Facebook or anything so this forum is my outlet. And it's good cause people don't post up pictures of their food or post boring stuff.

It's always interesting to see what motors people are building etc. It's the members that make this forum what it is, so thank you for contributing.