wthax.org - image hosting

Baza210 wrote: »

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wthax.org kicks ass, and I thank you sincerely for it. It's like Tinypic.com was before it became a load of toss.


PS. Hope I wasn't anything to do with the mentioned problems.. I've only started using it in the last month or so =/

Cheers, no you're nothing to do with the problems, just some crowd of spammers in Taiwan uploading a lot of porn.

I might take a chunk of time somewhere to revise the codebase again, the current one was unfortunately birthed in -dev when I accidentally deleted the entire source tree of the original! I haven't really fiddled with it since getting it up to bare minimum "it'll do" standard Plan is to keep it simple and clean. If it ever gets to the point that I can't afford to maintain it, I'm told Boards.ie Ltd will happily take over running costs, so I'll never have to spam people with ads or awful thumbnail branding or trick links, or any of the other crap image hosting sites tend to do.

*added those to the whitelist now btw*

It's not, but even if it was, the code is a mess, and hardcoded to work under the particular nuances of dreamhost.

This is the evolution of the script I initially used when I set up the site. Apparently they've had some financial difficulties or something reading the news. Always had problems as far as I was concerned.

This is another fairly basic script you might want to try, although as a caveat, I haven't looked at the code since uploading it in 2006 or whenever it was. Runs quite happily at http://images.wthax.org still though.

kaimera wrote: »

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Very bold removing all the Mihalism copyright stuff.

Tut tut!

kaimera wrote: »

Whats with the hate all of a sudden?

It's all love, baby.

Baza210 wrote: »

CuLT, could you add dailymobile.se to the whitelist too, please?

Sure, done.

Also, for the curious, I'm planning out entirely rewriting wthax.org from the ground up again, if there's features you'd like to see, now's the time to ask.

Howdy,

I've made a couple of (mostly unnoticeable) changes to wthax.org over the last couple of weeks, mostly to do with removing porn.

This has allowed me to reopen hosting to "all" sites, so a site doesn't need to be on the whitelist anymore for you to be able to link to it.

One thing I've decided to do is cut off all the images in the "wthax.org/images" directory, which was where images were originally stored pre-2008. While I don't like having to do this, a lot of the "images" in there were actually scripts, or images with strange characters, etc, and I don't have the time to manually review every one of them.

If you have a specific image that you would like "retrieved" (you don't have it yourself anymore) and know the URL, let me know here and I'll see what I can do about recovering it.

I've started doing some basic caching and setting expires, simple stuff that should improve the general responsiveness of the site.

Hosting will likely be moving too, and getting quite a bit faster.

Eventually, when I get around to "rewriting" the codebase, all of those annoying errors for certain uploads/transloads/tags will be gotten rid of too.

Baza210 wrote: »

CuLT, this is the image hosting script I mentioned to you - http://chevereto.com/ - in case there's anything in it of interest to you.

Hah, what a completely impossible to remember name indeed

Looks cool, might make my life a lot easier, cheers!

I'm certainly amenable to the concept - what would you like to be able to do?

Well, a more immediate solution might be to use the imgur API if you're not particular about where you want to put images, it's basically the same service as wthax.

Edit: I'll likely add an API after the current set of revisions I'm working on.

Back up and running now.