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Twitter is also chock full of censorship, hell in some places it outright demands age verification, which I shouldn't have to tell you, will leave you vulnerable to data fraud and identity fraud where all your credentials are either sold to the highest bidder, or hacked and you get scammed into bankruptcy.
 
ThienDe01 said:
Could we use Google Drive? I find it accessible to everyone and offers long-term storage.
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No, because people can arbitrarily change whether items are publicly visible or not, and when they set it to being privately visible, anyone who tries accessing it is given an option to request access, which sends their Google account's name/email (I forget which) to the person who uploaded the file.

We're concerned about it being used as a tool to fish for personal information from our users.
 
Agnaa said:
No, because people can arbitrarily change whether items are publicly visible or not, and when they set it to being privately visible, anyone who tries accessing it is given an option to request access, which sends their Google account's name/email (I forget which) to the person who uploaded the file.

We're concerned about it being used as a tool to fish for personal information from our users.
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Privacy and security issues are always a major concern. Given what you've said, I think we shouldn't use Google Drive here (even though its features and capabilities are very good).
 
Agnaa said:
Twitter's an extremely bad place to host scans, it heavily rate limits and blocks access from people without accounts.
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Yes, and it is not primarily an image-hosting site. 🙏
 
Agnaa said:
No, because people can arbitrarily change whether items are publicly visible or not, and when they set it to being privately visible, anyone who tries accessing it is given an option to request access, which sends their Google account's name/email (I forget which) to the person who uploaded the file.

We're concerned about it being used as a tool to fish for personal information from our users.
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Extremely strongly agreed. 🙏
 
Agnaa said:
I don't think this is a permanent issue. Their status website indicates that there's some issues with uploading. That's presumably what's been causing this for the last few days.
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I guess you were right on this part, it seems like it takes several days rn for imgur to completely upload a new mp4 file.
But ye, I'm still gonna switch to the other recommended sites.
 
So, as a question to our staff members, which of the alternatives mentioned here are sufficiently reliable for our wiki to officially begin to use? 🙏
 
Okay, but I think that our higher ranked staff members need to make an official decision, including a rule-change, before we can begin to allow our members to freely link to potentially unreliable image-hosting sites. 🙏
 
Imgur is straight up not working right now.

Edit: It's back, just a server issue.
 
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@Tahoy49574 Imgur literally had a policy change over a year ago where if you don't have an account and start making posts, they will get deleted. You're better off making an Imgur account before you start posting scans there so you don't have to worry about losing your scans.

On the topic of the thread, assuming Imgur is unreliable to use for linking scans, is there any alternatives where you can post gifs or scans alongside typing out entire text like if you're translating a foreign language to english to further explain the context or would we have to rely on multiple different sources for archiving our scans?
 
Theglassman12 said:
On the topic of the thread, assuming Imgur is unreliable to use for linking scans, is there any alternatives where you can post gifs or scans alongside typing out entire text like if you're translating a foreign language to english to further explain the context or would we have to rely on multiple different sources for archiving our scans?
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I'm not sure whether Gyazo has this (I'm not gonna download that program to check), but Catbox lets you if you have an account.

Unlike Imgur, you can only type out text in one batch, rather than underneath each image, but there should hopefully be enough space there for our purposes.
 
@Agnaa I've used Gyazo for a long while and you need a paid subscription to do multiple posts as well as have gifs that are longer than 7 seconds. Plus if you don't archive every single link you've made for Gyazo in a discord server or some other place, your base account only lets you view the last 5 gyazo images/GIFs you've made.
 
Oof.

When using Gyazo to include multiple posts, does it let you add accompanying text?
 
I think you're able to add text in the base account, but the problem is trying to make a link that houses numerous scans like say numerous japanese text that extends to an entire scene to explain context with the translation at hand requires the paid subscription. Imgur links with an actual account can help alleviate that issue, but Gyazo's at best helps with single scan replacements or smaller clips.
 
I've been preaching about just using the wiki itself for years now, and with mass additions being possible by way of message walls, I really can't see how this is still even open for discussion.

The exception to this being GIFs and videos, in which case yeah, an image hosting site would probably be necessary if one cannot simply compress those enough to fit. But for regular images, using external sources has brought nothing but headaches for as long as I've observed them.
 
Well, the problem is that if our wiki is spammed with full comic book page scans, it will likely be deleted for copyright reasons. 🙏
 
Then implement rules to crop the pages for the relevant panels only.
 
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