Image Policy Change

chamber · Post Post #100 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:43 am

↑ zoraster wrote:I don't think it's a joke. That was my understanding as well. Or at least that was the concern that chamber had with allowing images to be hosted on site.

I said I didn't know. Hohum is the person that would given that he owns the server MS is hosted on.

ISO · Post Post #101 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:48 am

↑ chamber wrote:
↑ zoraster wrote:I don't think it's a joke. That was my understanding as well. Or at least that was the concern that chamber had with allowing images to be hosted on site.

I said I didn't know. Hohum is the person that would given that he owns the server MS is hosted on.

Right. that's why I said it was your concern.

UberNinja · Post Post #102 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:52 am

Well if hohum wants to pay for the extra bandwidth, I'm not exactly against the idea. It's just a waste of resources.

Why not set up a script that will load all images to imgur.com instead? ... I'm sure one could be found/written.

ISO · Post Post #103 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:53 am

well hohum hasn't even said that we don't have enough BW, UN.

chamber · Post Post #104 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:55 am

After actually talking to hohum about it, bandwidth isn't a reasonable concern.

hohum · Post Post #105 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:57 am

↑ UberNinja wrote:Well if hohum wants to pay for the extra bandwidth, I'm not exactly against the idea. It's just a waste of resources.

Why not set up a script that will load all images to imgur.com instead? ... I'm sure one could be found/written.

Things on imgur tend to go *poof*

That's why.

You guys couldn't run me out of bandwidth if you tried.

UberNinja · Post Post #106 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:59 am

I've never had a problem with imgur, just tinypic. And cool, lets do it.

animorpherv1 · Post Post #107 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:02 am

Alternatively, photobucket things don't go poof, I think.

hohum · Post Post #108 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:05 am

↑ animorpherv1 wrote:Alternatively, photobucket things don't go poof, I think.

Yeah they do.

ISO · Post Post #109 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:05 am

Out of interest, hohum, what's the cause for somewhat slow loading of pages with lots of photos? Is that just on my end, the site that the photos are being hosted at, some sort of server-side stuff?

hohum · Post Post #110 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:08 am

We're not currently hosting any photos and we have no control over contented hosted externally. Part of the reason I'm enthused about this idea is it gives us a guarantee that content within threads can be delivered at the same speed as the threads themselves. Also the whole *poof* thing.

hohum · Post Post #111 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:09 am

The Internet is a Best Effort service.

ISO · Post Post #112 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:11 am

cool. Sounds good to me. Keeping in mind I have no idea what goes on behind the scenes and whether this is a "duh" statement, you might ask mith before implementing it. Although there's not really a practical difference, mith may not feel good about actually hosting some of the images that get posted here... and potentially having those photos get hotlinked to from other sites.

CooLDoG · Post Post #113 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:05 am

↑ hohum wrote:
↑ UberNinja wrote:Well if hohum wants to pay for the extra bandwidth, I'm not exactly against the idea. It's just a waste of resources.

Why not set up a script that will load all images to imgur.com instead? ... I'm sure one could be found/written.

Things on imgur tend to go *poof*

That's why.

You guys couldn't run me out of bandwidth if you tried.

bold statements.

hohum · Post Post #114 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:11 am

It's not really a bold statement. This network is partially designed to deal with DDoS attacks. About the only way you could knock the site off line is if you generated a DDoS attack in excess of 10Gbit/sec

UberNinja · Post Post #115 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:12 am

In my experience, things on MS go *poof* more than anything on imgur ever has.

I'd prefer not to have the stuff I post here hosted here, if I have a choice. m2c

hohum · Post Post #116 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:14 am

↑ UberNinja wrote:In my experience, things on MS go *poof* more than anything on imgur ever has.

I'd prefer not to have the stuff I post here hosted here, if I have a choice. m2c

If you're genuinely worried about it then stop posting.

Actually, just stop posting.

hohum · Post Post #117 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:16 am

↑ hohum wrote:It's not really a bold statement. This network is partially designed to deal with DDoS attacks. About the only way you could knock the site off line is if you generated a DDoS attack in excess of 10Gbit/sec

That's not to say an attack of that magnitude isn't outside of the realm of possibility. In fact it's quite doable. But the point is the traffic would need to be entirely malicious before it became a problem.

UberNinja · Post Post #118 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:19 am

↑ hohum wrote:If you're genuinely worried about it then stop posting.

How the hell would that help.

hohum · Post Post #119 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:20 am

↑ UberNinja wrote:
↑ hohum wrote:If you're genuinely worried about it then stop posting.

How the hell would that help.

You wouldn't lose your precious internet forums posts if you stopped making them. Duh.

hohum · Post Post #120 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:22 am

The shit hosted here isn't going anywhere dude. The last time there was data loss it was a fluke.

UberNinja · Post Post #121 (ISO) » Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:15 am

↑ hohum wrote:The shit hosted here isn't going anywhere dude. The last time there was data loss it was a fluke.

Alright, I'll take your word for it.

Oman · Post Post #122 (ISO) » Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:04 am

↑ UberNinja wrote:In my experience, things on MS

Joined : December 31, 2011

Fucking rough six months.

Revolution Smile II suffers minor setback.

UberNinja · Post Post #123 (ISO) » Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:18 am

↑ Oman wrote:
↑ UberNinja wrote:In my experience, things on MS

Joined : December 31, 2011

Fucking rough six months.

Revolution Smile II suffers minor setback.

Well, yeah, the site crashed, was down for over a month, and I lost all game data I ever had and had to start over. On a scale of 1-10, at the very least that's rough enough for me to complain about it, I'd say.

Why do people keep bringing up join dates in arguments, is that the cool kids thing to do? It's fucking retarded.

And is "Revolution Smile" supposed to be "Resolution Smile?"

redFF · Post Post #124 (ISO) » Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:21 am

↑ UberNinja wrote:Why do people keep bringing up join dates in arguments, is that the cool kids thing to do? It's fucking retarded.

Joined : December 30, 2011