Omnimaga
General Discussion => Technology and Development => Web Programming and Design => Topic started by: {AP} on July 25, 2010, 01:36:59 am
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.:|BETA|:.
url: http://img.removedfromgame.com/
So, as you may have heard, with Imageshack having so many issues (http://ourl.ca/6374) a new image uploader was suggested.
Well, I'm hosting an image uploader that anyone here at Omnimaga can use. It simply lets you pick an image to upload, then uploads it.
If nothing goes wrong, then it'll give you a screen with a direct link to the image and the bbcode for posting it in threads.
Also, it'll send me an email with the picture so I can make sure no one is uploading porn or anything.
Go ahead and test it out. Let me know of any problems and any suggestions you have.
Again, this is a beta so it's far from done but it works right now.
(Oh, and don't go around sharing this with everyone. I don't need a huge server load. It should be able to handle anything our members can deal out easily though.)
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Nice! This is certainly useful.
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(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/1280037013-Water1.gif)
Hooray Animated Gif's work :] Excellent job {AP}! And may i assume that once a page is loaded no further toll is taken on your server? Otherwise if a gif ends up on a page like the main page things might get nasty perhaps o.O
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Thanks! Didn't take too much time, but that's because I didn't bother with any real graphics yet and used some already made code then heavily modified it to work for what we need right now.
Also, whoever uploaded that screenie... (I'm making a bet on Builderboy I was right!) that's freakin' epic!
(Maintenance killed my edit. Dx)
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Sounds good :) Its fine and simple for what it needs to do. And yeah that is a fluid simulator i released a while ago :] its buried somewhere in the projects thread in Axe
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Awesome! Most of the time I use attachments, but I'm sure this will come in handy for me at one point!
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The original idea was for it to be used for signatures but feel free to use it however you like.
For now the filesize limit is 10mb with no restrictions on length or width and I will be making sure the images are appropriate. (No porn or detailed instructions to illegal activities and such.)
These rules will be added to the home page later. Tired right now. ^^;
Couldn't sleep so I made a few adjustments. Added a logo, a favicon, and the rules.
Also, the logo links back to the upload form so you don't have to hit 'back' or anything anymore. (Don't know why I didn't have it set up like that in the first place.)
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Awesome, working great! Thanks, {AP} ;D
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/1280046828-Hospital.jpg)
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Not a problem. ^^
Remember, if you guys can think of suggestions, let me know.
I plan on adding in the thumbnail feature later. After that, I'll have a page to view all the pictures uploaded by everyone.
Though, that's all the features I can think of at the moment.
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When it comes to image uploading there really aren't a whole lot of features besides that and it actually working :P (That I can think of anyways.)
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xD
You have a point.
Well, I guess that makes my job easier. ^^
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Cool! I don't have an awesome image to upload right now, but this could be useful. :D
* calcdude bookmarks
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This is awesome, I hope people put it to good use. It should help getting around the imageshack issue and if I decided to disable attachments/userbar scripts in signatures
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Not a problem. I hope to make a version of the Userbar site that doesn't need scripts later on but that will take some time. Until then, hopefully everyone moving from Imageshack to RFG will help loading problems enough.
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Cool, I wish you good luck
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It is always nice to make our own tools. ;)
Really cool simple visual.
I will use it for Omnimaga forums. ^^
Imageshack service got bad... But a friend knowing that suggested me TinyPic and I have been using it since.
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Long time no see, everyone. Just hopped back on to give an update to the image server.
- Added the number of images that have been uploaded to the front page. (because I was curious... I mean, I went through SO many emails and wanted to know just how many)
- Changed the way images are named to how I wanted it in the first place. New images uploaded have 40% less annoying URLs.
- Added a preview of the image you just uploaded to the Success page. If the image is too large, it's resized to fit there and you can view the image at full size by clicking on it.
- Unfortunately, despite that last update, I haven't gotten thumbnails working yet. I hope to have it done before I'm shipped off to Illinois in December.
That's it for now. If you want to contact me about anything, PM me or email me. (I won't be on Omnimaga really... but when I get PMs it's sent to my email and I check my email daily. Email: [email protected] )
Seeing as there's over 700 images uploaded already I can tell you guys are enjoying the server so I'm definitely making sure I keep it running and hope to update it more in the future.
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Hey long time no see indeed! I hope things have been ok. :)
Nice updates by the way, and yeah it's quite popular. :)
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Thanks. =)
Things are okay over here. Just finally got some free time to see what's going on and get some coding done.
Oh, on that note... to the person uploading all those dragon pictures... I'd like to know who you are and why you're doing it, if it's alright to ask. Nothing wrong with it but there's like 200-300 of them uploaded so I'm REALLY curious. ^^
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Oh cool ^^
ALso various people uploaded the dragon pics. There was a dragon egg craze over here a few weeks ago, but the site on which that dragon game is is insanely slow and it caused slow Omni loading times, discouraging some people from visiting/posting. As a result, I had to setup a filter on them and now people have to upload them elsewhere.
http://www.dragcave.net is the site in question. Topics took about 20 seconds per dragon to load.
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Oh cool ^^
ALso various people uploaded the dragon pics. There was a dragon egg craze over here a few weeks ago, but the site on which that dragon game is is insanely slow and it caused slow Omni loading times, discouraging some people from visiting/posting. As a result, I had to setup a filter on them and now people have to upload them elsewhere.
http://www.dragcave.net is the site in question. Topics took about 20 seconds per dragon to load.
That's terrible, I don't know what Dragon Cave is, but many people have them in signatures, does that cause slowness while loading pages?
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It used to, which is why we switched to using the RFG Image Uploader.
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I think that was meishe uploading the images.
The updates are great. Can't wait for thumbnails (which will be very helpful).
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It used to, which is why we switched to using the RFG Image Uploader.
Great, so save images and then upload to RFG or some other Image Uploader.
Nice idea. Is there punishment or just warning for the ones who don't?
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It used to, which is why we switched to using the RFG Image Uploader.
Great, so save images and then upload to RFG or some other Image Uploader.
Nice idea. Is there punishment or just warning for the ones who don't?
Don't go upload all the images. There is a thread with a bunch of them already uploaded and we hate to do duplicates. There is no punishment, because they are completely disabled. Any image from dragcave.net will simply not work.
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Just keep in mind that you dragon won't grow if you host it elsewhere. (other than dragcave)
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Disabled? Great job then, speed in the forum is of xtreme importance
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Just keep in mind that you dragon won't grow if you host it elsewhere. (other than dragcave)
That has nothing to do with the pictures, only the links, though.
@ScoutDavid
Basically, with every dragon you get this:
[url=<URL to dragcave.net>][img]<Image url that should be replaced>[/img][/url]
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Just keep in mind that you dragon won't grow if you host it elsewhere. (other than dragcave)
That has nothing to do with the pictures, only the links, though.
@ScoutDavid
Basically, with every dragon you get this:
[url=<URL to dragcave.net>][img]<Image url that should be replaced>[/img][/url]
You don't get views if the image isn't hosted on dragcave. That's why people dragons have been dieing.
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:O I understand, your dragon grows when you see it... Hm... Even though, you can just put a link in the dragon URL :D
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It grows when others view the image, and when the click on your dragon.
When they view it, it doesn't need to be the dragon's page on dragcave, but the image needs to be hosted on dragcave.
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Ya, sorry about the dragon images. That was me. Since people were getting into Dragon Cave so much and with the slowdown I figured I'd go and just get them all uploaded so people didn't keep making a bunch of duplicates. The thread is here (http://ourl.ca/7802). I still have about 157 more images to upload but if you want I can post those on Photobucket or something. Up to you :)
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Thanks for making this {AP}. I've found it very useful for when I want screenshots in the middle of my posts. ;D Thanks!
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It grows when others view the image, and when the click on your dragon.
When they view it, it doesn't need to be the dragon's page on dragcave, but the image needs to be hosted on dragcave.
That would explain the slowness then. Those images aren't just images, but scripts. Just like my 'dynamic userbars'.
Though, I imagine that code would be massive with so many possible images. Not to mention it must have a LOT of traffic.
No wonder they were killing loading times.
Anyway, it's no problem meishe. Like I said, I was just curious. =P
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I think I'll get another update or two on the image server done tonight.
I'll let you guys know my progress.
By the way, the only reason I've been having trouble with thumbnails is I don't know what to do about animated gifs yet.
I'm thinking I'll just have to not make thumbnails for .gif images. I'll keep looking into it. Hopefully I can find a way to distinguish between normal gifs and animated gifs though.
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Hey {AP}, pleasure to meet you. Know your websites, very useful, congratulations!
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I think there's also the fact Dragcave server is just crappy or overloaded with other sites (kinda like when we used 1and1 for Omnimaga). They went from 2000 users online to 300 and still had major slow downs.
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Ok, sounds good. Thanks :) And good luck with the updates. Would it be possible to just steal a random frame, or the first one, and use that as the thumbnail for animated .gifs?
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Don't do the first one. All of them will start with the TIOS homescreen. :P
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Not all, just depends how people want to start them :P
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Maybe have people choose, or it default to a third of the way through or something?
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Well since each .gif is probably well over a hundred frames, if not a lot more, things could get hectic for the person (unless it was like a text box that just said select frame 1-#). So I would go a random one, the first, or just some consecutive one.
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Left/right arrows, that increment 5 frames or something?
That or have it a default value.
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Well since each .gif is probably well over a hundred frames, if not a lot more, things could get hectic for the person (unless it was like a text box that just said select frame 1-#). So I would go a random one, the first, or just some consecutive one.
Probably >90.00% of animates shots start with either a homescreen or a shell GUI, though :P Random might actually work.
And thanks for doing this, {AP}! And as a suggestion, maybe keep a page with all the images? Then people who want to (read: are totally bored and want to do something useful) can look for duplicates for you and suggest you remove them.
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I'm thinking that stealing the first frame is how it'll have to be done. Of course, that wouldn't really be much of a problem because most of the time because you won't need a thumbnail for the calc gifs. They're already pretty small and you really don't wanna have to make people click on an image to see the animated version. We'll see what I can do.
For now, some minor updates.
- Bug Fix: Fixed the preview image resizing on the success page. It originally resized all images to 350px width even if it was smaller but now it only resizes it when it's bigger than 350px width. This doesn't really change much but just makes things look right while uploading.
- Update: Added some formatting to make things look a little better. (probably what took the longest)
- Update: Although the logo takes you back to the upload form, it's not too obvious to those who haven't read this topic so I added an 'upload another?' button to the bottom of the success page.
- Development: Added a mirror of the image server to test out code before making it live. I should have done this earlier... but it slipped my mind. Oh, and no... you can't get access to it. =)
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Also, I was planning on making a gallery for the site but I think I need to get thumbnails working first. Especially since galleries are usually just lists of thumbnails anyway. Though, I think I can set up a really lazy gallery this week (or tonight).
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Nice. Btw I really love the design, for some reasons.
One thing about thumbnails: on 1and1, SMF software had troubles resizing extremly large images (I think 1024px or larger). It gave an 500 Internal Server Error when trying to display the thumbnail, so I was forced to disable this. I think this took too much ressources for 1and1 or they disabled those scripts. I wonder if you may have the same issues?
A gallery would be nice. It might also be easier for people to help spotting bad images if any are uploaded.
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Nice. Btw I really love the design, for some reasons.
Thanks. =D
I like it too. I'm not a big fan of complicated website designs so mine are always really simple.
One thing about thumbnails: on 1and1, SMF software had troubles resizing extremly large images (I think 1024px or larger). It gave an 500 Internal Server Error when trying to display the thumbnail, so I was forced to disable this. I think this took too much ressources for 1and1 or they disabled those scripts. I wonder if you may have the same issues?
It shouldn't have the same problem. The SMF script resizes images while they're loading and it's not a permanent change. For my script, as you upload your image it will make a copy of it, resize it, and save it somewhere else. Of course, this will make the upload process take a bit longer... but I can add an option to not make a thumbnail for those who don't want the extra wait.
A gallery would be nice. It might also be easier for people to help spotting bad images if any are uploaded.
Yeah, I plan to make a couple of buttons for people to report either a duplicate image or inappropriate one.
I kinda worry about the duplicates already being used though... If I just get rid of one, then someone's image will be broken wherever they posted it. Hopefully, I'll think of something.
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Ah ok sounds cool. As for the duplicate you should leave them as it is I think, else it's gonna be a chore to moderate if it ever gets more popular.
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{AP}, if you read this, feel free to delete http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/EMAG_EHT_USOL_UOY.JPG
Spelling fail on my part x.x
Also, If we upload an image of the same name, does it overwrite the previous one?
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I'm not sure about that. I hope not, since anyone may be able to overwrite other ppl images X.x
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I'm not sure about that. I hope not, since anyone may be able to overwrite other ppl images X.x
I think it should ask us if we want to change the name :)
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{AP}, if you read this, feel free to delete http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/EMAG_EHT_USOL_UOY.JPG
Spelling fail on my part x.x
Also, If we upload an image of the same name, does it overwrite the previous one?
Nope, it adds a [1] to the end.
And that reminds me, if you are reading this, {AP}, could this be changed to simply _1 or something like that? BBCode doesn't like [1] :(
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Yeah I noticed that the other day when Calcdudee84se tried to link to a torrent of my songs. X.x
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Strange. It was originally supposed to added "-#" at the end of the name but I found that it added it after the ".png"/etc. so I fixed it to do "#-filename.extension".
I haven't seen the [1] thing yet. I think that was actually in the filename that was uploaded. As for how to 'fix' that... I guess I could just strip brackets from filenames.
In fact, I did.
Just tested it fully and it works fine now. Brackets are stripped and it will continue to add a number at the beginning for duplicates to infinity so no more problems should arise.
Sorry for the absence again. I'm leaving for sure on the 13th of December and have been working on a huge project that I want in good shape before I ship off.
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Cool :D, hopefully this should prevent BBCode issues. :)
Also are you being deployed somewhere? I hope it's not a too bad place. I hope things are OK!
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I'll just be in Illinois for a couple months then I'm heading down to Florida for a bit. After that, I'm not sure where they'll have me. From the looks of things, I might be heading to North or South Korea. Apparently, we're pissing off North Korea or something and are 'on the brink of war'.
Otherwise, life is great.
Though, I won't be able to do any more upgrades to the image uploader for awhile. I can still fix bugs and such, but that's about it.
Far too busy these days. It'll slow down in a few months and I'll have free time again.
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Oh ok, I thought they were deploying you right now. As for NK I think it is more likely if USA ever gets involved in trying to help the South Korea or if they decide to attack them for the nuclear stuff. I really hope it won't get too bad, though, because other countries in general are kinda tired of USA getting involved everywhere... That said, regardless of what happens, I hope you are OK, though. Are you planning to give admin access to RFG img uploader so someone can moderate innapropriate content? (Maybe one of the OmnomIRC maintainer)
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The 1000th image has been uploaded! YAY!
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Woah nice. The site sure grew in popularity since it started.
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Offtopic: anyone know what the image in {AP}'s sig is?
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Offtopic: anyone know what the image in {AP}'s sig is?
yes. http://ourl.ca/2782
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Woah that brought back some memories. :O
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>1000 images is great ;D
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On a side note I hope {AP} still moderates the image folder, though. It would suck if somebody started uploading pr0n and the like X.x
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On a side note I hope {AP} still moderates the image folder, though. It would suck if somebody started uploading pr0n and the like X.x
Unless of course, it was calc pr0n like KOS is. ;-) j/k.
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On a side note I hope {AP} still moderates the image folder, though. It would suck if somebody started uploading pr0n and the like X.x
Unless of course, it was calc pr0n like KOS is. ;-) j/k.
Or the inside of a Prizm :P
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On a side note I hope {AP} still moderates the image folder, though. It would suck if somebody started uploading pr0n and the like X.x
The worst isn't porn, I think, it could be spam :S
EDIT: I also think he gets all images by email.
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Yeah he gets notified. But he has limited internet access I think.
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Oh, nice. Over 1000 images already. Making great progress. =D
As for monitoring uploads, I've been watching though there was a good number of them that I just skipped but I've seen every upload for 2011 for sure. (And yes, they're getting emailed to me. I just have the site set up to email me the image as it's uploaded so I can check it.)
Also, after thinking about it more, I don't think I'll do the gallery for a number of reasons. It'd have to be done inefficiently one way or another. Also, if two people upload the same image without knowing it and someone deletes one because it's a duplicate than that just screwed up one person's image and it may have been the only one used because we have no way of knowing which is used or not. It just overall will cause more problems than it's worth. Worse case scenario, I'll have to get rid of images uploaded x number of years ago or something but I doubt that will happen.
However, thumbnail support still needs to get done but I have to find an efficient way to handle it without killing the upload time. I'll test some things later, but it's low on my list of priorities at the moment.
Anyway, thanks for the continued support of my image server. Glad it's so useful. =)
Offtopic: anyone know what the image in {AP}'s sig is?
Um, did you mean my old signature (the 'bloody' one) or something else?
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I know the source of the picture in his current signature. :)
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Oh? Do tell. =)
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RuneScape ftw! ;D
EDIT: Tried to include picture in post but it isn't loading right :(
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Hm, didn't know that.
I just found this (http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/SummoninWolfcutout.png) image and changed the colors then worked my Photoshop magic to finish it up.
Interesting to know the real source though. =)
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Yeah, it's in the RuneScape Wallpapers (http://www.runescape.com/kbase/guid/wallpapers_archive#wallpapers) section, it's a part of Summoning Concept Art 1. :P
Yours looks a lot cooler than the original wolf though. ;)
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I like your sig/avatar AP. Also about deleting old images, do you think you could simply track images that got not enough hits for a while that are old instead? Otherwise some good stuff might get deleted, such as screenshots in Omnimaga archives from regular members (since they can now put their calc games there)
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I like your sig/avatar AP.
Thanks! To be honest, I made it in like 20 mins at 3am one night but it still turned out pretty good. =)
Also about deleting old images, do you think you could simply track images that got not enough hits for a while that are old instead?
I honestly wouldn't know how to track hits like that. I seriously doubt I'll ever need to delete anything anyway though so we don't need to worry. If any problems come up, I'll make sure to let you guys know about it before I take any actions.
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Woah, that's an awesome sig, {AP}. Nice! ;D
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And a thanks to ztrumpet. =)
BTW, here's a sneak peek (http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/shhdonttell.png) at what I've been furiously coding since 2am this morning.
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nice, you mean editing userbars?
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You'll be able to make an account to create and manage your userbars. The beauty is being able to keep the same URL even after you change it so if you have a userbar on like 3 different sites that you want to update, you can update them all at once without having to change your sig on every site or anything else. It also looks better and will have more updated features.
So far I've finished registering, logging in, creating userbars, and deleting them. Just need to finish the editing feature and I can say it's officially open for beta testing.
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Sweet :D can't wait to use this!
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You'll be able to make an account to create and manage your userbars. The beauty is being able to keep the same URL even after you change it so if you have a userbar on like 3 different sites that you want to update, you can update them all at once without having to change your sig on every site or anything else. It also looks better and will have more updated features.
So far I've finished registering, logging in, creating userbars, and deleting them. Just need to finish the editing feature and I can say it's officially open for beta testing.
This looks great! So we have an account and a fix url :)
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It seems the URLs are more BBCode-friendly too, right? I think Kerm on Cemetech had to modify PhpBB2 to allow your userbar links a while ago.
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Yeah, this time the image is being created then it's actually stored on the server so it's just like any other image. Before, the userbars were just generated code and not quite signatures. In fact, if you tried to save the image it'd try to save as a ".php.png" unless you changed the extension.
But yeah, now everything is handled much better.
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I guess that's why sometimes your host was down. There is a reason why we switched away from 1and1: heavy PHP requests causes 500 internal server errors or downtimes, so when there are 30 sigs being loaded every second 1and1 servers prbly don't like that. It's best for such host to have an image being generated then use that image instead.
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(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/1337.png)
I think the image speaks for itself. =)
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Congrats! Thanks again for the excellent site. ;D
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Great website. So much easier than using photobucket or the like.
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(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/4-Screenshot.png)
OMNOMOM
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Nicely done. Did you just happen to notice it, or did you set up alarms and bells and what-not? Possibly prevent uploading more files until you took a picture?
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He could have done it the way I did :P
firebug ftw :P
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xD
I was about to upload an image earlier and saw that I was at 1327, so from that point on I just kept a close watch on my emails. (if you didn't know, I get an email for every picture uploaded as a temporary way to moderate the images)
Infact, the image in this thread is image 1338. I prefer obsessively observing over cheating. ;P
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(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/4-Screenshot.png)
OMNOMOM
Lol easter egg at 1337? O.o
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Nah. Eeems used Firebug (a plugin for Firefox) to change how the site looked to him.
You can alter the code of websites real-time and see what your changes would look like.
Of course, this doesn't really change the website for everyone else and they only can get into your HTML and JS and such. Things like the PHP behind it are still not possible to be seen.
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I just used this again, and I'm really pleased with it, as always. By any chance can you make a couple of supporter userbars for both the userbar manager and for the image uploader? If I had a couple, I'd add them in my sig. ;D
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By the way how much bandwidth and traffic does this use per month?
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By the way how much bandwidth and traffic does this use per month?
I've honestly forgotten how to check... do you remember? (still using 1and1 here)
I just used this again, and I'm really pleased with it, as always. By any chance can you make a couple of supporter userbars for both the userbar manager and for the image uploader? If I had a couple, I'd add them in my sig. ;D
What do you mean by adding supporter userbars exactly? ^^;
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Look at my sig for some examples. ;)
Maybe something like what you have right now, but with "Progress: 81%" replaced with "Supporter." ^-^
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I like the cli2 :) Was that from xkcd?
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Look at my sig for some examples. ;)
Maybe something like what you have right now, but with "Progress: 81%" replaced with "Supporter." ^-^
Hm, seems simple enough. once I manage a good alignment code it'll be even better. Unfortunately, coding in alignment isn't as easy as it sounds since everything is placed pixel-by-pixel and the font used has variable width so the code I currently have looks bad if you use things like exclamation mark, period, one, or the letter I. I think I have an idea now though... Not sure I'll get anything done today because I've been kinda sick but soon.
I like the cli2 :) Was that from xkcd?
Yeah, it's a modified version. I got permission from the original coder to use my version on my site. It has everything the xkcd version has and a few new commands and such. Just type in "help" to see more. ;P
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/bandwidth.png)
That's what I've found bandwidth-wise for all my sites total. I'll keep looking for traffic and more specific stuff.
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Nice rickroll >.<
EDIT:
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/Screenshot-1.png)
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Look at my sig for some examples. ;)
Maybe something like what you have right now, but with "Progress: 81%" replaced with "Supporter." ^-^
Hm, seems simple enough. once I manage a good alignment code it'll be even better. Unfortunately, coding in alignment isn't as easy as it sounds since everything is placed pixel-by-pixel and the font used has variable width so the code I currently have looks bad if you use things like exclamation mark, period, one, or the letter I. I think I have an idea now though... Not sure I'll get anything done today because I've been kinda sick but soon.
I like the cli2 :) Was that from xkcd?
Yeah, it's a modified version. I got permission from the original coder to use my version on my site. It has everything the xkcd version has and a few new commands and such. Just type in "help" to see more. ;P
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/bandwidth.png)
That's what I've found bandwidth-wise for all my sites total. I'll keep looking for traffic and more specific stuff.
HOLY CRAP! THat's a lot of views! O.O I didn't realize it already got so much traffic. O.O That's like half of the bandwidth the entire Omnimaga site gets in a month and I think 30% of the traffic!
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To be fair, most of those views are probably from Omnimaga pages and since there are multiple images on each topic from my site I pretty much get like 5-20 requests for every 1 from Omnimaga. But yeah, pretty impressive. =D
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Yeah that's what I thought, plus Cemetech too because I saw it being used there.
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Couldn't help but notice...
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Today I uploaded 2000th image, and I had already uploaded 1000th :D
The 2000th image was:
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/ContestEntry.gif)
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You did that on purpose :P
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You did that on purpose :P
The 1000th image I did it on purpose, but this one I didn't. Jim Bauwens said he was never rickrolled ever because he had Flash deactivated (his browser only opens flash if he allows). So I gif'ed him a fake contest entry for the Nspire Contest to rickroll him.
I named it "ContestEntry.gif" but it sounded too obvious so changed to "Pong.gif". When I uploaded "Pong.gif" I noticed "2001 images".
Then I knew ContestEntry.gif was the 2000th :)
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You did that on purpose :P
The 1000th image I did it on purpose, but this one I didn't. Jim Bauwens said he was never rickrolled ever because he had Flash deactivated (his browser only opens flash if he allows). So I gif'ed him a fake contest entry for the Nspire Contest to rickroll him.
I named it "ContestEntry.gif" but it sounded too obvious so changed to "Pong.gif". When I uploaded "Pong.gif" I noticed "2001 images".
Then I knew ContestEntry.gif was the 2000th :)
Nice, but you uploaded an extra image D: You should tell {AP} so he can get rid of the duplicate.
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"Proudly hosting 2,997 images."
Wow, almost getting to 3000!
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it's 3017 now XD
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Up to 9001.
I don't think AP would like that. :P
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his server will freeze?
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I don't know. But it might be too much for it to bear.
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My server is just fine! =D
Seriously, I can easily handle another 100,000 and have space for my other stuff and by the time that happens, I'll be able to upgrade/change hosts/migrate to my own server.
So don't worry about space too much, guys. ;P
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Isn't the 1and1 limit around 216000 files anyway?
Also nice to see you around {AP} :D
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Yep! Which is absolutely ridiculous. I've already used a total of about 10k.
Though, I plan on switching sometime next year. (Don't worry, I'll bring the old sites and the domains over with me.)
Sadly, I'll still be very on and off. Job hunting and all. I might be moving several states over too.
I'll fill you guys in when I know more about what's going on.
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Usually the limit isn't really restrictive, considering Omni and TIMGUL combined together only used 10% of it after over two years.
Also good luck with job hunting. Hopefully you don't have to resort into getting out of United States (since it seems finding jobs there is harder and harder) and that your trip accross states won't get too expensive.
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Oh wow! I didnt know you guys use 1and1. (My dad's site is hosted on 1and1, i prefer avahost.)
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Omni doesn't use 1and1 anymore. Only AP's image uploader (which isn't owned by Omni anymore) use 1and1 now. Omni was just too ressource-intensive to stay on 1and1 and the database grew way past the 100 MB database cap I'm sure.
Suggestion for new features:
-Allow the ability to setup expiry time for image uploads, so if someone uploads an image there but wants it gone in 2 weeks, he can set the time to 14 days for example. To make sure people know an image will expire, have the image be renamed to reflect that, such as changing NspireEmu.gif to temporaryImageFileExpiringIn14Days__NspireEmu.gif, so people won't use those images for permanent linking purpose, such as Omnimaga news or download section.
-The ability to view all images currently uploaded on the server.
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AP your site got hacked, you might need to fix it asap (and fix the exploits/bad passwords)
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Just got the memo from Eeems on Google+.
Honestly, it's strange. The only thing they did is replace my index.php files and I'm not the only person they did that to.
There are hundreds of completely random sites that have been given the same treatment and I can't really figure out how they managed it. There's literally no correlation between the site that were defaced and no explanation. I thought they may have gotten my FTP or 1and1 password somehow, but it ONLY affected my websites that use the removedfromgame.com domain. The others were untouched.
I'm thinking the ONLY possibility is that my upload form isn't completely secure but without knowing exactly what they did, I can't really make it invulnerable. At least, not very soon.
Anyway, I'll see if I can get the image uploader back up quick before I go to bed and deal with this... later. I'm moving this weekend so this really couldn't have happened at a worse time.
Update: It's back up. Glad I had an extra copy of the homepage lying around and they didn't do any real damage. The other pages that use the removedfromgame.com domain are still down and some of them may remain that way permanently. I'll keep you updated when I actually have time to deal with it. =/
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the home page still says hacked for me. The image uploader is fine though.
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Defaced for me too
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Yeah for me it still looks defaced. The images seems intact, though (for now).
Btw by permanently does this mean the Userbars generator might disappear for good?
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Not for me. I guess it's your cache.
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Not for me. I guess it's your cache.
Oh darn I thought the images would still be there.
AP did you have any backup of the images? It would suck if they were gone forever O.O
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The images are still up.
@{AP}, as far as I can tell, the group uses automated tools to do whatever they do. There's no real connection between any of the defaced sites, except that the sites are immediately reported as defaced by them. Might just be a "prize" kind of thing?
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The images are still up.
But...
Not for me. I guess it's your cache.
??? ???
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DJ, I've tried refreshing the test image bunch of times. I'm pretty sure it's not in my cache.
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/2-Heightmap.png)
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Aaah ok. I guess maybe juju was refering to another post, then. :P
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The main page and the images all works, that's what I meant, as not being defaced.
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Just cleared my cache and it still says defaced :/
Images are working tho. I can tell that the userbars are still there as well.
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removedfromgame is defaced for me, but not img.removedfromgame.
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img.removedfromgame.com shows up for me too now. Userbars is still down and I'm not sure if the userbars still exist anymore because almost nobody seems to use them anymore.
EDIT: Nvm Yunhua98 does and they still works. However we can't make new ones anymore.
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Yeah, like I said. Those sites are all still down. I only fixed the image upload homepage because that's what most of you use and I didn't have time to deal with anything else.
The Userbar site will take a while to to get back up because I lost actual code there.
The main site ( http://removedfromgame.com/ ) didn't have anything there in the first place so I'm not going to mess with that for a while longer.
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I have made the move to my new house but I'm going to be concentrating on job hunting more than anything and then I'll have to adjust to whatever new schedule that job has for me.
After ALL that is taken care of, I can get back to handling this little defacing issue.
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Also, let me clarify the situation. No files were lost (except the homepages to the affected sites) and no information was taken. It wasn't a real hack, just a script that managed to upload new "index.php" files to my server and the pages are 100% clean. So everyone, and everything they put up through my sites, is completely safe.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused by the horrible timing of this random script kiddie attack.
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No problem. I wonder if it was due to an exploit in your code or due to a guessed password? When TIMGUL ran Invisionboard 1.3 final hackers uploaded russian scripts to send spam from my e-mail account, which was a real hack, but when I moved to SMF, until I changed my password, they still could upload those files.
Anyway I'M glad all the other files are intact. A lot of the Omnimaga news use images from your server. Do you think in the future you could make a backup and send it to Juju or Netham45, in case one day your site shutted down or was deleted? In that case they would just have to install a word filter that censors img.removedfromgame.com/ to the new URL, so links continue to work.
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I'll work on getting something like that set-up soon. I think I can get a script up to do daily back-ups that will be accessible by whoever wants it.
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That's good to hear. :)
My guess is that at least the main people in charge of doing coding changes on the site (right now I think it's Juju and Netham45, but I think Eeems can too) could have access to downloadable backups or something.
Also keep an eye on what people upload on your server. You know what happened to Megaupload recently. X.x
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Good news!
I managed to find a back up of the Userbar site (http://userbars.removedfromgame.com/index.php) on my old laptop and it's now back online.
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Is removedfromgame still messed up though? It still has the defaced message for me, and I even tried clearing my cache D:
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The main site is, just not the img uploader and userbars one. The main site and the creepy pokémon story (which can be found at several places online) are gone forever.
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hmmm I can see the pokemon story, if this (http://removedfromgame.com/pokemon/) is what you are talking about.
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It's as DJ says about the main site. Then again, there was never much there in the first place because I don't know what I should put there anymore. I suppose I'll make it into some sort of portal to access the rest of the sites I've made. Maybe even have it be a place to showcase everything I've ever done. Not sure entirely. I'll come up with something.
Also, I'm kinda surprise the Pokemon story didn't get taken down because there was NO way I was re-doing. In fact, I was going to just get rid of it soon enough anyway and yet it wasn't hit. How annoying.
Oh well, I'll be back when I either have a job or have something worth showing you guys.
Hit me up on Google+ or PM me if something else comes up. I'll see the emails.
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Yeah you should make a portal to your other sites, like something made in 5 minutes.
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Alrighty, went ahead and spent 5-10 minutes throwing together a portal (http://removedfromgame.com/). (only took so long from the time it was suggested because I had to go shopping and cook/eat dinner)
I'll get something all new, fancy, and full of Javascript interactive-y-ness sometime in the future. (and stop re-using that same layout/theme)
I only have one site to get back online and I'll have that done tonight.
Oh, and yeah. I'm a brony. (as you'll notice by one of the sites made) Don't worry, I'm not the kind that posts pictures everywhere and I'm not going to shove ponies down anyone's throats. Hay, I've gone this long without anyone here knowing. Just letting you know before anyone freaks.
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Well, not bad for a site made in 5-10 minutes :)
And don't worry about the ponies, I already posted my quota of ponies in here. :P
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Didn't realize you had so many projects :D Some of those weren't linked from your old front page last time I checked. Exploring them right now...
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Yeah, I completely neglected my front page earlier because I always had big plans for it that I never got around to actually working on.
Currently working on that PonyRank site. I plan on having it in Beta by Friday at the latest. Then it's back to the MMO projects.
The Image server hasn't been getting any updates because it's kinda doing everything it needs to do for now. I'd like to get a gallery up to let people look at everything uploaded... but at the same time it seems like an invasion of privacy that isn't really needed. I could possibly set up a log in system an let people manage all the images they upload, but I always wanted the site to be as quick as possible with nothing extra needed and logging into a site just to upload an image seems like it's just extra time. I may still do it and allow people to upload without ever logging in still so that those who WANT to manage the images they upload can do so and those that don't want to waste any time can just upload quick. Otherwise, I planned on a couple of visual things like a progress bar for those big images that take awhile to upload.
Let me know what you guys think of those ideas and if you have any more ideas for the image uploading site or any of my other projects.
Hell, feel free to suggest a new site altogether. I'm devoting more of my free time to web development so I can build up a portfolio.
(Oh and I still have to make that back-up script that DJ_Omni suggested. I'll see about getting that done this week too)
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well, for that gallery you could check on IP. by only showing the images uploaded from a specific IP adress you only get your own pictures, and still don't have to logg in, and i don't think it's really possible to get to see others pictures then (not that they're not allowed to see mine :) )
Of course then you need to upload them from the same ip every time, otherwise you won't see them
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Of course then you need to upload them from the same ip every time, otherwise you won't see them
Yeah, that's the problem there. Lots of people have dynamic IPs or will be uploading from new computers/etc.
It's possible, but it'd be more annoying to the users than logging in would be.
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Don't worry, I'm not the kind that posts pictures everywhere and I'm not going to shove ponies down anyone's throats. Hay, I've gone this long without anyone here knowing. Just letting you know before anyone freaks.
Yeah I was worried O.O
J/k I'm fine and we can actually discuss them on Omni, now that Sir is banned :P
As for an image gallery it would be nice, but I guess privacy might pose a problem indeed. You could make future images so the user can choose an expiration date and private/public option like Pastebin, though.
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Might it be possible to use the same accounts from the userbar manager?
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Might it be possible to use the same accounts from the userbar manager?
Now THERE'S an interesting idea.
I'll think more on this. I might make it to where you can log into ANY of my sites from the same account. (like F2P MMO companies do or even Google sites for that matter)
It's on my to-try-to-do list now.
You could make future images so the user can choose an expiration date and private/public option like Pastebin, though.
I might add that in regardless of if I go through with Darl181's suggestion or not.
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To anyone who's used the image uploader since I got it back online, sorry for any weirdness that may have happened. Turned out that I didn't completely fix that page before putting it back online and all your images were both uploaded to the wrong place and if there was ever a duplicate filename, it gave out a completely wrong URL and made the file mostly inaccessible. Completely my fault for overlooking that.
It's properly fixed and I encourage you to re-upload anything you uploaded in the past few days. But you don't have to if it worked out... just know that these pictures will NOT be included in the backups made with the script I'll be making so if my sites ever get taken down permanently, then they'll be gone forever too.
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Minor Update:
I finally made it to where the final URL given doesn't ever have any spaces in it which will allow for easier copy/pasting to a site and won't confuse any browsers.
Also, I fixed a bug which made images not resize properly for the preview. Ironically, it was because I was missing a space that it happened.
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Btw do you know if it's a community user who caused RFG to be disabled or is it a random Internet person? Also what rule was broken?
Maybe if you don't have time to moderate it, you could give moderator privileges to another community member who is aware of every rule? There are some trustable people here, you would just need to ensure they monitor the uploader everyday to ensure that no innapropriate content gets uploaded.
And if the issue is that too many images are uploaded, you could just modify the code so that it limits uploads to a certain file size (eg 2 MB per file) and 5 images a day.
Just giving suggestions since it would kinda suck if this was disabled forever since it's a nice image uploader (unlike every other, this one runs fast and work in every browser). Of course we have the forum uploads, but now uploads larger than 1 MB or so usually fail to process and they can't be linked on every forum.
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Damn, that sucks. :/ DJ_O is correct though, there are several trustworthy people here who could run RFG. If a file approval system were put in place, it'd make things even easier. *edit* I believe the rule was no pornographic/inappropriate content may be upload. IIRC, that was pretty much the only rule.
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Yeah, the rules were these -
http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/1337.png
Seconding the multiple moderator idea, tho that may be a pain to get set up.
Maybe some sort of trusted account thing?
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It's a bit sad, since I too used it a lot. :/
But I can completely understand his point. I myself removed registering on my blog completely from all the hassle spam brought me. (People can still request and account by email though).
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Yeah, the rules were these -
http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/1337.png
Seconding the multiple moderator idea, tho that may be a pain to get set up.
Maybe some sort of trusted account thing?
The main danger is if being moderator requires full FTP access due to possible lack of a RFG admin panel. Not everyone wants to give such access to anyone. In our case, since AP hasn't been active much since 2009 he barely knows the currently trusted community members.
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Hmm.... I wish I could host something similar, but 000webhost doesn't allow file upload sites, and I don't have money to pay for hosting... :-\
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Maybe We could create something on withg...
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Maybe We could create something on withg...
how do you use withg? sounds promising.
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Maybe We could create something on withg...
how do you use withg? sounds promising.
Does anyone have the original source for that page?
Then I could probably set it up...
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withg is already pretty heavily-laden. i don't think it would be a good idea to have it serving up several thousands of images constantly
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I could maybe do something. That or Omnimaga install an image upload plugin or something?
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Well, we can already attach images to posts (max 4096kb tho), and they can be linked from there.
Some sort of personal directory* or something over # posts might be pretty cool tho.
*would ofc have to be calc-related screenshots and stuff, otherwise storage could fill up fast
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What about a "user's images" page on everyone's profile, which would end up being self-moderating. If someone saw an inappropriate (or off the calculator topic, etc) image, there would be a 'report image' button.
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That would be nice, although I think there were concerns about privacy when the public image viewer idea was brought up. Some people, for example, uploaded images intended to only be known by friends or teachers, not the public.
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actually we would prefer images be kept off omni as we pay for bandwidth. Now setting up a second image host is doable an im sure someone will see this thread and offer something other then withg after a while.
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wasn't removedfromgame once a part of omni?
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no, it's always been a separate service hosted by {AP}
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oh, ok, after a little talk with geekboy, i'd be ok with hosting a service (as long as it doesn't exeed my mem, so maybe some compression there) but i'm just to busy to set it up myself, somebody else would have to.
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If i knew pHp i would but i don't. so i will nag eeems when he is on in a day or 2 to see what he can work out.
IF any of you know php you can gladly help :D i can layout guidelines for what you have to work with/what we want in a uploader
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geekboy: I'm working on one right now.
I'll tell you if/when I get it up
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don't forget to optimize pngs to save space, and thanks a lot for doing it! (having a server is so awesome.... :P)
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My little image uploader (and by mine, I mean I changed 2 lines of code from another guy):
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EDIT: I added the single rule to the page. Also: It doesn't handle duplicates yet. Sorry.
EDIT 2: Also available at : -snip-
EDIT 3 MOD: will post links to a proper one once it is done right. this is not acceptable on withg for the current time being. sorry for the minor inconvienance.
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Hope this stays up, I could moderate if needed.
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Well, I thought I had geekboy's permission... I guess it was just not good enough :P
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no, it's always been a separate service hosted by {AP}
actually it almost merged IIRC, but we had concerns about the feasibility of moderating innapropriate content and possible disk space issues. Back in 2009, AP was Omnimaga co-admin with me and others.
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Well, I thought I had geekboy's permission... I guess it was just not good enough :P
withg is alberthros server, for a image hoster, which uses a lot of hdd space if people use it, ask him.
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^ this
i have deep thought working on an imageloader with an admin panel for us. soon as its done i will make a news post about it and stuff. which reminds me i need to send {ap} an email.
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Just notify me once you put it online (and let me do the nginx part) so that i don't wonder why my server is suddenly fuller (the hdd)
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i have {ap} getting me all the old pictures off removedfromgame.
Sorunome set up the nginx part for me but don't post any links its not secure yet. have to work out some security flaws with deep thought before its ready to go public.
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Question: Will the old links to photos/screenies still work? Or will I have to edit all my posts <_<
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All links on omnimaga (and hopefully cemetech) will still function as before. I will issue a word filter to make it as such. its not the first time this has happened.
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Thanks. I was worried for a sec.
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Did you manage to contact him already or are you gonna try? O.O
Sadly all I had left was his Yahoo e-mail and his Google+ profile, since he somehow vanished from my Trillian MSN list (not that MSN even exists anymore anyway) and I can't figure out what was his Gmail anymore.
That said, would it be possible to make it so only people who have an Omnimaga account can upload images? All those images must take a crapload of space.
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Sorry for the sudden take down without much warning, geekboy got a hold of me and here's what I told him about it.
No one got more [information] than what's on the page now, but essentially, someone's been randomly uploading a bunch of pornographic pictures in chunks randomly (probably multiple people because some are animated gifs and some looked like they were self pics from a cellphone) and I haven't had the time to manually get rid of them all.
It's really a matter of disrespect though. That's the only real rule I had and it was being broken repeatedly. Besides, some days I'd like to check my email without penises in face. (not to mention my host doesn't allow that sort of content... it's not like they'd just shut down the sites, but they'd want me to go through and get rid of them all) I could probably handle it a bit better if I actually finished the system to moderate the images, but right now I have to go in and find the file in question and either just delete it or replace it.
I guess I was being a little petty about it since I've been going through a lot, but I just got tired of it. I can get it back up and running if you guys still really want it. (though it's a surprise that this still gets used with much better solutions out there)
To direct answer some questions brought up in the topic:
Q: Can you give others mod privileges?
A: Unfortunately, I never set up a moderation system. I planned on it, but just didn't have the time. How the 'system' works now is, once a image is successfully uploaded a email with the image is sent to my personal email (to make sure I check it). If it's inappropriate, then I have to load up my FTP program, scroll through the thousands of images (list of file names) to find the bad one, then delete it or (as I usually do) replace it with an image with the same name and a warning so the offender sees it and has no excuse to repeat it. This wasn't working and took entirely too much time due to how often people were uploading this stuff.
Q: When will it come back?
A: Well, I planned to get it back up when I had a bit more time and cooled off some, but geekboy is trying to replace now... so unless you guys don't like his version of the site or his version dies/has issues, it will stay down permanently.
Q: What will happen to all the images already uploaded?
A: They will continue to stay on my server until I die. (aka, they'll work forever) I'm downloading all of them as we speak so I can zip them up and share it here. Geekboy will apparently host a copy of them and anyone else is free to as well. Take note that this is over 8000 images, so it's pretty big and will take a good deal of time. Links should be up tomorrow sometime.
Aaand... I think that's it. (ask here if I missed something or there's something you want to know)
Again, I'm really sorry to have taken it down so quickly. I was responding based on my emotions instead of being rational. I hope the new uploader works out for you guys. I'm willing to help out however I can.
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Thanks for the help {ap} yeah hopefully the new setup is easier. will make it much nicer to work with.
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Well, nice to know. Will it be integrated with Omnimaga?
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no it will not be integrated completily. it will remain public for use. it just has a much easier to use moderation que. i have to click check boxes then delete thats it.
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Sorry for the sudden take down without much warning, geekboy got a hold of me and here's what I told him about it.
No one got more [information] than what's on the page now, but essentially, someone's been randomly uploading a bunch of pornographic pictures in chunks randomly (probably multiple people because some are animated gifs and some looked like they were self pics from a cellphone) and I haven't had the time to manually get rid of them all.
It's really a matter of disrespect though. That's the only real rule I had and it was being broken repeatedly. Besides, some days I'd like to check my email without penises in face. (not to mention my host doesn't allow that sort of content... it's not like they'd just shut down the sites, but they'd want me to go through and get rid of them all) I could probably handle it a bit better if I actually finished the system to moderate the images, but right now I have to go in and find the file in question and either just delete it or replace it.
I guess I was being a little petty about it since I've been going through a lot, but I just got tired of it. I can get it back up and running if you guys still really want it. (though it's a surprise that this still gets used with much better solutions out there)
To direct answer some questions brought up in the topic:
Q: Can you give others mod privileges?
A: Unfortunately, I never set up a moderation system. I planned on it, but just didn't have the time. How the 'system' works now is, once a image is successfully uploaded a email with the image is sent to my personal email (to make sure I check it). If it's inappropriate, then I have to load up my FTP program, scroll through the thousands of images (list of file names) to find the bad one, then delete it or (as I usually do) replace it with an image with the same name and a warning so the offender sees it and has no excuse to repeat it. This wasn't working and took entirely too much time due to how often people were uploading this stuff.
Q: When will it come back?
A: Well, I planned to get it back up when I had a bit more time and cooled off some, but geekboy is trying to replace now... so unless you guys don't like his version of the site or his version dies/has issues, it will stay down permanently.
Q: What will happen to all the images already uploaded?
A: They will continue to stay on my server until I die. (aka, they'll work forever) I'm downloading all of them as we speak so I can zip them up and share it here. Geekboy will apparently host a copy of them and anyone else is free to as well. Take note that this is over 8000 images, so it's pretty big and will take a good deal of time. Links should be up tomorrow sometime.
Aaand... I think that's it. (ask here if I missed something or there's something you want to know)
Again, I'm really sorry to have taken it down so quickly. I was responding based on my emotions instead of being rational. I hope the new uploader works out for you guys. I'm willing to help out however I can.
Yeah that's what I thought. Another possibility is spambots uploading adult images for posting on forums or something.
A moderating system would definitively be nice, although at least I'm glad you don't have to telnet through the server then delete pics via a command line interface like ticalc.org or something. :P
It sucks how some idiots can ruin something for everyone else, though. The issue is if those pics kept being uploaded, someone might have eventually ran into them then complained at 1and1, then you would have gotten problems.
no it will not be integrated completily. it will remain public for use. it just has a much easier to use moderation que. i have to click check boxes then delete thats it.
Could you add a 1 MB file limit, so that people stop uploading 4 MB large animated GIFs of homescreens followed by title screens a minute later because they can't type Asm(prgmNAME properly? :P
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wut, {AP} posted? O.O
ok, that aside, it stinks that people can't follow a simple rule.........
but thanks for the sources {AP}, i hope it'll make it quicker to run the new image hoster
and BTW, what kinda server did you host your image hoster on? (also specs)
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Indeed he posted :P. Also for rule following, if someone wants to troll he's certainly not gonna follow rules. And I know AP is involved in non-Omni communities, so it is possible that he ran into people elsewhere that got angry at him or something and they happen to know his tools and server.
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i will not add a 1mb file limit dj it set to about 16megs as of now. If space becomes an issue (which it should not) ill just start removing the older images. not to hard.
@sorunome he has it on a 1and1 shared hosting plan. So what we have is probably weaker but it will be enough.
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I have like 100GB of space on a server if you guys want.
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the 20gb sorunome has is more then plenty for now. and its a safe playground that is only mildly affiliated with omnimaga. which should keep it under the radar a bit longer :P as the whole reason we got rfg was because we wanted to dodge school filters and such with it for as long as possible.
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the whole reason we got rfg was because we wanted to dodge school filters and such with it for as long as possible.
If that's the case, I'm hoping it doesn't have "game" in the title, b/c school filters often note that. :P
Also nice to hear it's going somewhere :)
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and BTW, what kinda server did you host your image hoster on? (also specs)
It's just a 1and1 server. I have no specs on the matter. (it's likely a shared server cluster or something) I only pay about $40 once every 3 months and have unlimited bandwidth and a space limit so high I don't actually know what it is.
Indeed he posted :P. Also for rule following, if someone wants to troll he's certainly not gonna follow rules. And I know AP is involved in non-Omni communities, so it is possible that he ran into people elsewhere that got angry at him or something and they happen to know his tools and server.
You could be right there. No clue who did it. I didn't bother to log anything about uploaders at all.
Also, if you want a copy of the image directory, ask Geekboy for the link. I was originally going to just post it on this topic, but I realized that maybe not all of it should just be out in public. There are some pictures in it that seem personal, but I actually haven't seen all of it... However, I'm sure Geekboy can judge whether or not whoever requests the link should have it.
(Actually, he'll probably have to set up his own copy of it if people want it. He's going through now and found a LOT of stuff that I missed that's pretty bad. =/ His call.)
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>Publicly giving out archive containing porn and probably personal stuff
Yeah, might not be a good idea.
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Hence why I decided against it.
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From what I remember, the server is the same 1and1 package as Omnimaga used from late 2008 to late 2010. It's shared hosting with unlimited everything, but databases can't be larger than 100 MB and heavy use of PHP causes Error 500's.
>Publicly giving out archive containing porn and probably personal stuff
WANT
jk
EDIT: By the way, what will happen to userbars.removedfromgame.com?
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EDIT: By the way, what will happen to userbars.removedfromgame.com?
Nothing. It'll stay around. Heck, I may even update it in the future.
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Good to hear. I was a bit worried because of the IMG uploader move which kept the URLs intact.
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I will not be releasing that link Public I'm actually going to tell you to delete it ap. There is contents that could have legal issues If that gets distributed.
On the flip side we will have a thumbnail browser to view all previous uploaded images at some point in time so it should not be a worry on having the pictures (of which more then Half are dupes anyway, I have not decided how I am going to deal with them yet.
@dj We will gave the Omnimaga and cemetech databases updates to reflect the url change.
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Aah ok I see.
That reminds me, every link from xlib.mtv-music-generator.com went down once again a while ago so all images like the OS 2.71 MP fake news content http://ourl.ca/10053 went offline. Not sure if I still have backups of those images, but would it be possible if I eventually find them to re-host the pics on Omni server or something instead in the future to ensure that those pics won't get lost over and over.
Anyway thumbnails would be nice in the future for images flagged as public stuff, since sometimes we end up forgetting the URLs of our uploads and have to re-upload a second copy :P
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It is already working geekboy? O.O
I hope you compress the size (or just optimize pngs :P)
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I hope you compress the size (or just optimize pngs :P)
Serve the pictures gzipped. I think some browsers can do that, ungzipping content before parsing it up.
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Ill talk to deep more he is doing the coding. I have way to many feature requests for him already xD
Todo ip logging, duplicate checking
that's it so far.
Other ideas? Excluding omni integration not doing that to unsecure
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Both items are done :)
Any other requests?
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Are there any updates on this? And I kinda like the css of this uploader :)
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I have 4000 images or so to we'd through still. Just have not gotten there. So yeah. Deep needs to make a run once import script as well
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Where is the new image uploader located? I posted a news item, but attachments don't show on the front page. Because of this it looks like my news item has no pictures at the moment. :/
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It's not public yet because the dudes in charge of it/me pokes geekboy
Haven't decided it being ready yet. Or maybe they have only I didn't notice
but anyways,
can somebody make then that like img.omnimaga.org points to my server? (134.0.27.190)
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Will there be more than one moderator by the way? If whoever is moderating gets busy that could get problematic. >.<
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There are currently three mods, geekboy, deep and me :)
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There are currently three mods, geekboy, deep and me :)
I think all the admins should have mod power ;)
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There are currently three mods, geekboy, deep and me :)
I think all the admins should have mod power ;)
geekboy had some problem with that, but idk, you guys can just pm me md5 hashes and a username and i code it into the script :)
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When will they bring back RFG? ^^
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Never, that is why we have http://img.omnimaga.org by now for images :3
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Oh, good!
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There are currently three mods, geekboy, deep and me :)
I think all the admins should have mod power ;)
geekboy had some problem with that, but idk, you guys can just pm me md5 hashes and a username and i code it into the script :)
well considering the uploader is hosted on Omni I guess all admins should have the last word on if they can admin it or not :P (or at least Netham45 should)
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There are currently three mods, geekboy, deep and me :)
I think all the admins should have mod power ;)
geekboy had some problem with that, but idk, you guys can just pm me md5 hashes and a username and i code it into the script :)
well considering the uploader is hosted on Omni I guess all admins should have the last word on if they can admin it or not :P (or at least Netham45 should)
It is hosted just as much on omni as OmnomIRC: Only the domain is hosted on omni :)
But i still agree with you that the admins should have the power.
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RFG (along with the image uploader and all images) seems to have disappeared D:
Giving me a 404 on everything.
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over here too....that sucks.
I had many pics on RFG. :'(
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I have all the pics on my home pc i have to finish removing porn and such then we can import and upload them to the new host. i will try to reach {ap} asap and figure out what is going on.
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Nonetheless I hope the old site gets back up (maybe with redirections of every file) so the calculator community isn't stuffed full of dead image links :/
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I noticed that yesterday :[ I do hope it can be put back online.
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Yeah, basically my whole signature is userbars made by RFG.
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I hope the domain name can be saved or at least a word filter applied on Omni to fix all broken linkss if the images can be relocated. It would suck to lose all those old images.
I think AP just decided to drop RFG after all or he just lacks the time or funds to pay the hosting bill. It is entirely possible that he was hacked as well.
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We will update urls as needed across omnimaga and cemetech for now I am still trying to reach ap will keep you all posted ^^
Also added a word filter to shorten load times on the site I change all rfg links to img.localhost :p
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Also added a word filter to shorten load times on the site I change all rfg links to img.localhost :p
I wondered what happened there. :P
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Yeah when an image is down on the forums I hate how OmnomIRC never loads x.x
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Yeah when an image is down on the forums I hate how OmnomIRC never loads x.x
with chrome omnomirc already starts loading before all the images are done ???
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Copy of my email reply to Stefan.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I've been away from my computer for almost a month now and just missed a payment. Service should be returned by tomorrow. It's all up to my host now. I don't plan on this happening again and apologize for the inconvenience. (If you wanted to start migrating, I wouldn't blame you though.)
Regards,
Jeff "{AP}" Delgado
Still not at a computer so I won't be able to reply to anything until Saturday night. Again, I'm really sorry.
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Ah I see now. Thanks for letting us know :)
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tis all good {ap} question is your # on skype accurate? cause I tried messaging you that way.
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RFG images are online again :D
EDIT: So I'm late.
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Glad to hear. :D
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{AP} Why is the site down again? D: Weren't the image links supposed to remain intact forever?