I've already been investigating what I could do, and I would practically have to set up a new website that would only work on onion.
What I would have to do was make a clone of the current site, then I would have to try to configure it so that it hosts the images on clear net.
In reality, you would end up having 2 independent services/sites instead of one.

The best solution would be to switch to a dedicated server/VPS. But, to maintain the same characteristics, it would cost twice as much. And as you can imagine, when I launched the project, I didn't want to make large investments, because I had no idea of the impact it would have. In this sense, if the project continues to evolve positively as it has done so far, and really receives support from the community, I will be able to adjust the server.

I have been blocked many times by your script. Actually so many I even created a shortcut so I can automatically reduce the size of a picture and meet forum requirement (and I even remember asking you to develop this function server side).
This is the first time an overload picture smuggled beyond the size checkpoint...

Doesn't this get much worse when Cloudflare goes into "full DDOS protection"? Without Tor, I also get the "Checking connection" page when I click "All". But when Cloudflare is going nuts, I get that page a lot more.

Well, Cloudflare has a free Firewall system, I can analyze the possibility of implementing it, and check what the result will be.
As soon as I have news, I'll let you know. 

 
 Statistics  September 2023____________________
In September I had the opportunity to present a new tool, which allows the user to upload an image larger than 2.5MB and it is compressed and sent to the hosting. This tool is still in beta, so errors may occur and many things may change. Server-side compression and PHP features are used, which may not guarantee the final quality of the image. But, I hope it is useful. If you want to test it, just visit: https://zip.talkimg.com/


Here are the numbers for the month and totals:

	Number of uploads in the month:  7.168 (+1.436 last month)
	Total image disk space:  15GB (+2 last month)
	Number of visits to the talkimg.com website in the month: 4.190 (+316 last month)  Bandwidth in the month: 337GB (+1 last month)

Thank you for using this service.

Yes, especially if I have already uploaded a couple of images prior.  I've found the "new upload" button _{(feel free to correct the actual name if you must)} doesn't always work, so what I do instead is go into my profile and then click on the "new upload" button and whatever the fault is has cleared.

I returned on this forum after some pause and discovered that imgur links don't work anymore and all images in my threads were missing. That's when I found this thread.
I have a thread about image compression where I explain benefits of image compression and tools that we can use, I think it will benefit you if people compress their images before they upload it on your website. Have a look at this thread, it will be pleasent if you add this here:  Links, Scripts & Add-ons  _______.

Btw, if you plan to improve visual aspect of your website and want to do some uix changes, I can help you for free (I can only design, I can't code). Here is the link of me making a bitcointalk's app design.

How many daily active users do you have? It's a very nice project, dedicated for bitcointalk, wish you all the best.

Well you are right I just tried to upload different png files with size 2.48mb, 2.46mb. 2.38mb, they all failed gave File Size error on client side.



I know this is error is on the client side since talkimg is checking image size on the client, before sending data to server.

However when I reduced the file size to 2.32mb, 2.2mb and 2.0mb i didn't get the error on client side but after I click upload got the same below error.



In the mean time i noticed my image size was <2.5mb but image dimension were above 1800x1800 pixels. When I reduced the dimension to 1700x1700 pixels, file was uploaded successfully.

I think joker_josue can answer this, however it looks like not only the image size but image dimensions or may be some other checks are in place which prevents upload on the server size.

Edit: I think my image dimension theory is wrong since I'm able to upload large 2200x2200 pixels image with smaller file size of 1.6mb.

But yes above error is valid and is reproduced able.

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Edit 2:
All my above work goes in vain, just click "Check the error report" link and it says



So in simple words file size must be 2mb not 2.5mb

Thank you for your feedback and reporting this error.

I checked, and there is indeed a failure in recognizing images larger than 2MB, causing the upload to fail. I am analyzing what is causing this problem, as everything is configured to be able to upload up to 2.5MB.

Until can fix the problem, uploading images up to 3MB is authorized. But remember that the forum only accepts images up to 2.5MB.

I apologize for the inconvenience caused! I am trying to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.