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Is there any other way to drop a picture? Even though drag & drop seems to be the easiest and most comfortable way, for me, it is not :-) I'd have to run some k
by thingie 16y ago
Is there any other way to drop a picture? Even though drag & drop seems to be the easiest and most comfortable way, for me, it is not :-) I'd have to run some kind of file manager, find the directory, image, carefully position both file manager window and the browser, do the job and then put everything back. Surprisingly hard, but that's a real setup that I have (and many people I know too).
- cing 16y agoAre you saying that you'd like to do image hosting from command line? I think you might be opposite to the target audience of this site.
- chrisbroadfoot 16y agoThat would be cool, though. Personally, I either want to upload stuff from Finder, or upload stuff from the command line. What I hate doing is browsing to an image from a file picker. Something like http://sprunge.us/ http://sprunge.us/ for images would be great!
- abraham 16y agoYou could use googlecl: http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/ http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/
- brlewis 16y agoYou can use the built-in photo sharing on Dropbox, or use Dropbox integration with http://ourdoings.com/ http://ourdoings.com/
- xiongchiamiov 16y agoImgur has a nice API. I modified a ruby CLI for uploading images to imgur to fit my particular needs; you can find it at https://github.com/xiongchiamiov/limgur https://github.com/xiongchiamiov/limgur (or gem install limgur). I believe you can also upload things pretty simply using curl, but I wanted to be able to generate bbCode thumbnails and such in one fell swoop.
- thingie 16y agoNope, but it'd be simply very useful to have at least some option to show file selector when I can put file path in my filesystem, because quite often I have that much more readily available than some option to drag and drop the file.
- mindotus 16y agoThe upload by folder option is already available in Opera/Internet explorer, we will add it for all browsers soon :)
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoSomething like this would be nice: curl -F @/path/to/image.jpg http://min.us/upload
- carlhu 16y agoThis is Carl, cofounder of Minus. Thank you for the suggestion, Ryan. We've been designing and iterating on an API and have just about finalized it. We'll implement this in a week's time or so, after we fix a few bugs first that folks on this list pointed out to us.
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoGlad to see you so responsive - and thanks for an elegant image hosting service!
- mindotus 16y agoThanks, it's been very exciting for us! :) - John
- archon810 16y agoYou don't have to carefully position anything. Just drag the files, hover them over the browser tab in the taskbar, wait for 2 seconds, and it will pop the browser into view. Then drop. Also, I have Total Commander open at all times. Can't live without it (there are similar tools for Linux, Mac, etc).
- thingie 16y agoI don't have a taskbar :-)
- CWIZO 16y ago"Alt-tab"ing should work too.
- mcrittenden 16y agoAlt-tab doesn't work for me while I'm currently dragging something (Ubuntu + Compiz).
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- dioltas 16y agoThere's lots of scripts that let you do this with imgur. I'm sure it would be possible to do the same with this, but I think the site isn't really aimed at 'nix gurus! :D
- senki 16y agoJust use an unsupported browser (Opera)!
- carlhu 16y agoCarl here (Minus co-founder). Thank you for the suggestion! Sometimes you want to drag, sometimes you want to pick files from a dialog. Look for this feature in 1.5 weeks or so. We'll also add the API (discussed in this thread) as well. People should be able to use whatever method is convenient for them. Thank you for your feedback!