#21 2025-10-29 02:24:03

johnraff

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Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

I've been using imgbox because the thumbnail image scales to show the entire image. The imgbb site is nice, but the thumbnails are cropped.

There is an imgbb upload script bl-imgbb-upload already shipped in bunsen-utilities - I just tried it out, it seems to work OK,  and yes the thumbnail is clipped:

Written, like the imgur script, by former BL developer and major scripter (he wrote BLOB too) Damo.
A main difference from imgur is that you have to create an imgbb account and get an api key (the script makes it very easy).

So for the first Carbon release I suggest editing bl-image-upload to call bl-imgbb-upload instead of bl-imgur-upload (very simple edit), and later on, if we settle on a different host, there will be time to write a new script for that. Meanwhile the menu entries and Thunar right-click image upload will continue to work and UK users will be able to see the images.

Previous discussion: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=8913
So bl-imgbb-upload will need editing so as not to choke on a '--auto-upload' option.

Last edited by johnraff (2025-10-29 04:28:21)

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Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

Bummer that there are countries that are blocking access to image hosting sites...

That is a bummer indeed, but it's not what is happening with Imgur in the UK. The UK Information Commissioner's Office plans to fine Imgur for some child protection violations, and  the company made a business decision to cease providing service to the UK. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

There's no guarantee that other international web services, especially image hosting, won't run into issues like that in the future.

It should be the hosting site's responsibility to immediately take down any content considered illegal once reported to them from anywhere or if their internal scans/review catch such material. Not to mention having such a process for reporting illegal content (such as child p**n) in their TOS.

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Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

Got bored last night. Thought I'd try something.

POST /api/uploads

requires that you post binary data with an appropriate content type (jpg/png/webp) and returns a text/plain response of the form

full-size-url
thumbnail-url

Max upload size is 10MB, thumbnails with either dimension above 400px are relatively scaled to 400px in that dimension, everything is encoded down to 80% lossy webp.

Last edited by bendingoutward (2025-10-29 21:05:12)

marens

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Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

Devs, have you seen this?
https://postimages.org/plugins/fluxbb

It looks promising.

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johnraff

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Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

^Thanks for searching it out - but that link is already in the first post: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 78#p146178

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marens

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Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

^ I had to open all the pages because I was testing CSS that overrides dark mode.

I don't know if this is applicable in our case, but it looks pretty good:

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