Anonymous A started this discussion 2 years ago#110,505
Imgur has decided they want to slash their profits and cause their traffic to nosedive. To accomplish this feat they are enacting some new rules, two of which will affect this great board, as it uses imgur to host all the images. First, all existing nudity and sexual content will be removed and it will be prohibited going forward. Second, they will be removing any "inactive" content that was uploaded anonymously without an account. As a result, the vast majority of images here will be deleted.
These new rules will go into effect on May 15. If anyone has the means to back up the images here, now is the time to do so.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 1 hour later[^][v]#1,229,811
> If anyone has the means to back up the images here, now is the time to do so.
If we lose the vast majority of our images, it will be entirely due to tteh's hand. The heavy handed cloudflare bullshit makes it very annoying and not worth the effort to scrape the board. This is not even considering the idiotic decision to rely entirely on a single third-party image host and scrubbing the site of all the natively host images. These free image hosting sites have had a reputation of being unreliable for literally decades. The board should've never been setup like this.
These free image hosts all follow the same guidebook:
1. Start an image host with no pre-planning on making it profitable.
2. Host images.
3. Start deviating from the one and only purpose of the business by restricting and/or deleting images. Bonus points if you decide to suddenly disable hotlinking and serve up generic placeholder images, breaking thousands of posts across hundreds, perhaps thousands of forums.
4. Find out that you still aren't profitable and are now losing traffic.
5. Complete implosion and shutdown.
Let's hope imgur jumps to step 5 sooner rather than later.
> >If anyone has the means to back up the images here, now is the time to do so. > > If we lose the vast majority of our images, it will be entirely due to tteh's hand. The heavy handed cloudflare bullshit makes it very annoying and not worth the effort to scrape the board. This is not even considering the idiotic decision to rely entirely on a single third-party image host and scrubbing the site of all the natively host images. These free image hosting sites have had a reputation of being unreliable for literally decades. The board should've never been setup like this. > > These free image hosts all follow the same guidebook: > > 1. Start an image host with no pre-planning on making it profitable. > 2. Host images. > 3. Start deviating from the one and only purpose of the business by restricting and/or deleting images. Bonus points if you decide to suddenly disable hotlinking and serve up generic placeholder images, breaking thousands of posts across hundreds, perhaps thousands of forums. > 4. Find out that you still aren't profitable and are now losing traffic. > 5. Complete implosion and shutdown. > > Let's hope imgur jumps to step 5 sooner rather than later.
tteh !MemesToDNA joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 6 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,229,907
I'll make sure every Imgur image is backed up by then. We have a good chunk of them saved already. I'll probably wind up re-enabling our own image hosting, instead of finding another third-party host.
@1,229,811 (B)
I can whitelist you in Cloudflare's security shit, if you'd like.
tteh !MemesToDNA double-posted this 2 years ago, 2 minutes later, 12 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,229,909
@1,229,811 (B) > and scrubbing the site of all the natively host images.
Images were lost during one incident (a decade or more ago?), but we never actually deleted images from img.minichan.org when we disabled uploading. They're all still there.
> I'll make sure every Imgur image is backed up by then. We have a good chunk of them saved already. I'll probably wind up re-enabling our own image hosting, instead of finding another third-party host.
Thank you!
> I can whitelist you in Cloudflare's security shit, if you'd like.
Thanks. How would this work, do you need a static IP to whitelist?
I'm most interested in a text archive of, preferably, all posts and threads. I'm unfamiliar with the board's database layout, but would it be feasible (and would you be willing) to provide a database dump of things like each post's text, timestamp, topic ID, post ID, and the publicly supplied name (if any)? Just stuff that's already available publicy.
It'd be awesome if it were an archive made available to everyone. There's a lot of cool stuff that could be done with it and I'm sure the possibilities will only increase in the next few years with how fast things are moving.
boof joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,230,085
you ever read a Something Awful thread that would have been hilarious and classic but the only reason to look at it is the images that they don't save? so it's just shit
> you ever read a Something Awful thread that would have been hilarious and classic but the only reason to look at it is the images that they don't save? so it's just shit
SA‘s image host had an epic name like Waffle Images or something
tteh !MemesToDNA replied with this 2 years ago, 18 hours later, 1 week after the original post[^][v]#1,231,236
@1,229,912 (B) > Thanks. How would this work, do you need a static IP to whitelist?
Yeah, an IP or IP range. I don't really use Cloudflare for anything beyond Minichan, but AFAIK I can have basically everything bypassed easily by whitelisting you. I can try to figure out if there's an easier way if you'd rather not give me an IP (like via cookie or something) if you'd prefer.
> I'm most interested in a text archive of, preferably, all posts and threads. I'm unfamiliar with the board's database layout, but would it be feasible (and would you be willing) to provide a database dump of things like each post's text, timestamp, topic ID, post ID, and the publicly supplied name (if any)? Just stuff that's already available publicy.
I can do that, sure. I have an archive of exactly that but it's a year (ish) outdated; I can do a db dump (sans IPs, UIDs, etc.) that's up to date.
Anonymous B replied with this 2 years ago, 32 minutes later, 1 week after the original post[^][v]#1,231,241
@previous (tteh !MemesToDNA) > I can do that, sure. I have an archive of exactly that but it's a year (ish) outdated; I can do a db dump (sans IPs, UIDs, etc.) that's up to date.
A recent dump would be great, thanks! Although if you for some reason don't get to it, an outdated one is better than nothing.
Since you said earlier you were gonna take care of the imgur images, I don't otherwise have a reason to scrape, so no need to whitelist me.