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alright, i‘ll make an exception and ask for constructive „criticism“: what better alternatives are out there?

by 345218435 7y ago

random42 7y ago
>... i‘ll make an exception and ask for constructive criticism Tangential, do you not usually do that? why?
- 345218435 7y ago
  well, constructive criticism for me is just calling out bullshit as well. if the receiver elects to be pissed instead of reflecting over the reason, i‘m not sorry. example: if my web service is bloody slow and somebody tells me „that‘s some slow bullshit“ i can go and investigate the claim „slow“ or bitch and mourne „can‘t you say that in a nicer way? be more constructive and suggest improvements?“. well, yes i can. but i don‘t have to do your job. since facebook and politics discovered the internet, it‘s full of emo‘s unable to handle anything. everything needs to „be nice or i‘ll need some psycho counseling and you pay for it!“. it‘s ridiculous. edit: you‘re welcome, members of the motherfucking vote brigade. oh how i love you butt-hurt generation-z-kind.
  - random42 7y ago
    I think you are saying 2 different things, in your definition of constructive feedback 1.) The feedback should be nice/not brash/not toxic. 2.) The work needs to be done by the person to give more detailed feedback. While 2.) is a not a reasonable expectation it is pretty simple to achieve 1.), by keeping emotions out of your feedback. For example I would just go with "The webservice is slow, could you take a look? It is affecting xyz".
  - dang 7y ago
    Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We ban accounts that break the site guidelines like this, and you've done it elsewhere recently too. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
capableweb 7y ago
Anywhere where you can directly link to a image without the hoster doing any funky redirects. Usually, the image hosts starts being like ^ while then slowly transitioning to more and more user-hostile patterns. Only way I found to avoid this is to setup my own Hetzner box (unlimited traffic) running nginx to serve images. Use `scp` to upload them.
- 345218435 7y ago
  obviously. got my own server as well. but i‘d like to know some side-project kind of thing. those are hard to find for me - in the age of seo-ridden search results trying to sell you everything and their mother.
- csande17 7y ago
  > Usually, the image hosts starts being like ^ while then slowly transitioning to more and more user-hostile patterns. Hilariously, Imgur itself followed this trajectory: it started out as a super-simple image hosting site whose creator was fed up with all the nonsense that other image-hosting sites did[1]. Now, though, Imgur has become the website everyone complains about! [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090227183112/http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting/ https://web.archive.org/web/20090227183112/http://www.reddit...
miki123211 7y ago
Somebody should set up a service that links with a GitHub account, makes you a repo, and publishes the images you upload as a Github page. This could even be easy enough to work for non-devs. That would mean absolutely no lock in, no pages, redirects, ads or other marketing campaigns. You would literally download the image, nothing else. Nowadays, using Keybases cloud might work, as it lets you set up direct links with no intervening pages.
faissaloo 7y ago
Server side rendering
- 345218435 7y ago
  well, my wording. i’m asking for alternative services.

alright, i‘ll make an exception and ask for constructive „criticism“: what better alternatives are out there?

random42 7y ago

>... i‘ll make an exception and ask for constructive criticism Tangential, do you not usually do that? why?

345218435 7y ago
well, constructive criticism for me is just calling out bullshit as well. if the receiver elects to be pissed instead of reflecting over the reason, i‘m not sorry. example: if my web service is bloody slow and somebody tells me „that‘s some slow bullshit“ i can go and investigate the claim „slow“ or bitch and mourne „can‘t you say that in a nicer way? be more constructive and suggest improvements?“. well, yes i can. but i don‘t have to do your job. since facebook and politics discovered the internet, it‘s full of emo‘s unable to handle anything. everything needs to „be nice or i‘ll need some psycho counseling and you pay for it!“. it‘s ridiculous. edit: you‘re welcome, members of the motherfucking vote brigade. oh how i love you butt-hurt generation-z-kind.
- random42 7y ago
  I think you are saying 2 different things, in your definition of constructive feedback 1.) The feedback should be nice/not brash/not toxic. 2.) The work needs to be done by the person to give more detailed feedback. While 2.) is a not a reasonable expectation it is pretty simple to achieve 1.), by keeping emotions out of your feedback. For example I would just go with "The webservice is slow, could you take a look? It is affecting xyz".
- dang 7y ago
  Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We ban accounts that break the site guidelines like this, and you've done it elsewhere recently too. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

capableweb 7y ago

Anywhere where you can directly link to a image without the hoster doing any funky redirects. Usually, the image hosts starts being like ^ while then slowly transitioning to more and more user-hostile patterns. Only way I found to avoid this is to setup my own Hetzner box (unlimited traffic) running nginx to serve images. Use `scp` to upload them.

345218435 7y ago
obviously. got my own server as well. but i‘d like to know some side-project kind of thing. those are hard to find for me - in the age of seo-ridden search results trying to sell you everything and their mother.
csande17 7y ago
> Usually, the image hosts starts being like ^ while then slowly transitioning to more and more user-hostile patterns. Hilariously, Imgur itself followed this trajectory: it started out as a super-simple image hosting site whose creator was fed up with all the nonsense that other image-hosting sites did[1]. Now, though, Imgur has become the website everyone complains about! [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090227183112/http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting/ https://web.archive.org/web/20090227183112/http://www.reddit...

miki123211 7y ago

Somebody should set up a service that links with a GitHub account, makes you a repo, and publishes the images you upload as a Github page. This could even be easy enough to work for non-devs. That would mean absolutely no lock in, no pages, redirects, ads or other marketing campaigns. You would literally download the image, nothing else. Nowadays, using Keybases cloud might work, as it lets you set up direct links with no intervening pages.

faissaloo 7y ago

Server side rendering

345218435 7y ago
well, my wording. i’m asking for alternative services.