I don't see any signs of cloudflare. joker_josue, did you remove the cloudflare protection? Tried accessing Talkimg from different browsers, different device. There aren't any annoying Cloudflare message, neither the capcha popup! Anyway, good thing everything works fine, for now, at least from my side. The loading time was pretty fast, and there were no issues with upload image either. So far, everything looks good. 

Everything is calmer now, so I lowered Cloudflare's interaction levels to the minimum. Now he only acts in very suspicious cases.

Personally, I would prefer not to use Cloudflare. But, at least in the near future, I will have to keep it active, to prevent any replication of the attack.




I don't have Avast, even if it installs it now, it wouldn't give me that error.

What I can ask for, which I would appreciate, is your help in doing this, in case this message appears again. To do this, follow these instructions: https://businesshelp.avast.com/Content/Products/General_Help/SampleSubmission/SubmittingFalsePositives.htm

I researched ways to contact them in this regard, and these were the only instructions I received on the subject. If anyone knows of anything else that can be done, please let me know.

joker_josue, is it okay if I use talkimg to host some other images that aren't intended for Bitcointalk? It became a habit for me to upload images on your website
By the way, today I was browsing imgbb and I think it will be cool if you add auto delete image feature. P.S. I just noticed that both of you use the same script.

Does anyone know what's the best way to compress images? I mean the best possible way, I'd love to know if there is a very good software with GUI. I was thinking about compressing images via TinyJPG but I don't like it, it loses quality too much and then when I convert TinyJPG converted image into WEBP, for some reasons, I get an image with higher size.
I'd love if anyone wants to share the best guide and knows good tools and techniques.

In that case, couldn't you give the user the option, when uploading, to leave the image permanent or delete it after X amount of time? I think that would help space-wise as well.

If talkimg.com is intended to host pictures for bitcointalk.org as sole purpose, why would you want some images to exist only temporarily?

I can only think of the following use case: an uploaded picture is never referenced or requested by bitcointalk.org. If an uploaded picture isn't requested to be displayed by bitcointalk.org, then delete it after x months.

I don't think talkimg.com should be used as some personal backup storage for pictures that are never used on bitcointalk.org. That's abuse of ressources. I'm fine with if talkimg.com only serves to bitcointalk.org and not for any other site.

But it's not me to decide. I'm just throwing my 2 cents on the discussion table.

Proper image hosts like Imgur, ImgBB and Postimages all have some sort of deal with content delivery networks (CDNs) to basically cache user images on their own servers so that they 1) load faster and 2) do not strain the image host's resources.

OP has nothing of that sort, so I understand where he is coming from when Talkimg blocks other sites besides Bitcointalk - it definitely helps mitigate the server instability problems too, of recent.

But if he wants to expand operations and secures a bigger budget for that, then allowing other sites would be a possibility.

As I mentioned, I may expand the project to make it more comprehensive. But, I have to take into account 2 points:
- Separate the images used in the forum from those that are not used, so that backups made by forum members do not contain images used elsewhere.
- Get funding for your project without having to fill the platform with ads.

In the case of the first point, it won't be that complicated, as I can try to develop a more sophisticated backup system capable of making that difference.
As for the second point, I see it as being a little more complicated. I don't know where I can get this financial support, outside of this community, without compromising the support given here.

Friends, I recognize each sat already donated to this project, as an act of trust in it, I do not want to disappoint that trust at any time. That's why I don't want to make decisions that don't have the support of the community and could jeopardize the original idea of ​​the project.




In reality, the two concepts overlap. The difference lies in the approach to each project.
But yes, it is different. Its proposal is more in the Google Photos style.

Maybe I can also talk about this in my guide. 

It is not a bad idea or thing to introduce ads on the talkimg site, I mean, as a matter of fact, i have been seeing ads, and it's never been a problem to me because the ads are correctly placed  in a strategic position where it doesn't disrupt or interfere with the user's reason for visiting the site, which often is to upload images, get links to the uploaded image for whatever purpose it is meant for.

So, in the nutshell, I completely agree with you, if allowing ads to run on the platform will help it continue to exist for a very long time, then that's very fine, as long as the ads doesn't take up important space on the site, or become pop-up, nothing annoys me like pop-up ads because sometime, when trying to close it, you end up clicking on which takes you another site altogether.

Other platforms have many advertising banners, in order to obtain high revenue.

I have nothing against having advertisements, they have existed occasionally on the site. But, I don't want anything highly aggressive or invasive, I want the platform to remain clean and pleasant to visit.

Therefore, whenever I managed to achieve this balance, I took advantage of this approach.