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Still can't upload from url or am I missing something? If not (missing something) then this is not going to replace imgur anytime soon.
 
mclaren777 said:
Facebook blocks what?

Has anyone else experienced this?
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I haven't that's bizarre, but i wouldn't be surprised since FB sees Imgur as a threat I'm sure at this point, some what.

Dali said:
Still can't upload from url or am I missing something? If not (missing something) then this is not going to replace imgur anytime soon.
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One of our main goals is to encourage uploading of original content whether its photos, music, files documents etc.. but to upload remote items, we do have chrome / firefox extension for time being. http://min.us/pages/tools
 
minus said:
One of our main goals is to encourage uploading of original content whether its photos, music, files documents etc.. but to upload remote items, we do have chrome / firefox extension for time being. http://min.us/pages/tools
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There's a really strange problem with the Firefox extension. If you open a new window the min.us logo doubles. It keeps adding a new icon for every window you open, and the icons remain until you quit Firefox. If you open six windows, you'll see six icons.

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PS: I'm using Nightly.
 
keuja said:
Awesome extension! Thanks.
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Anytime :) Be sure to send us feedback/suggestions and help us spread the word!

mclaren777 said:
That sounds normal to me.
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If you put link to Min.us image in facebook it'll show thumbnail

salva said:
Yes. I tried putting a pic from imgur and it didn't show it. It only showed the direct link to it.
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Try a Min.us link? :D

hateradio said:
There's a really strange problem with the Firefox extension. If you open a new window the min.us logo doubles. It keeps adding a new icon for every window you open, and the icons remain until you quit Firefox. If you open six windows, you'll see six icons.

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PS: I'm using Nightly.
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Thanks, will document this!!
 
Wads said:
To those complaining about the minus guy, I don't see this being any different than a game developer coming and asking for feedback on the gaming side. Most people are already aware of it and he didn't make the thread so no big deal to me. Not that I have any say in the matter anyway, but I don't see what the big deal is.
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Yeah, I mean, how would 999 have become a sleeper hit on GAF it it hadn't been for Akselziys (or however you spell it) posting in the official thread for it all the time? I'm sure a lot of GAFers are thankful to him for it (haven't played it myself though).
 
cooljeanius said:
Yeah, I mean, how would 999 have become a sleeper hit on GAF it it hadn't been for Akselziys (or however you spell it) posting in the official thread for it all the time? I'm sure a lot of GAFers are thankful to him for it (haven't played it myself though).
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=) Hope we get more evangelists onboard for Minus~ We listen!
 
cooljeanius said:
Yeah, I mean, how would 999 have become a sleeper hit on GAF it it hadn't been for Akselziys (or however you spell it) posting in the official thread for it all the time? I'm sure a lot of GAFers are thankful to him for it (haven't played it myself though).
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What is 999?
 
min.us gets negative points for not allowing me to batch get embed codes. It's a big pain in the butt, so I mostly use abload.
 
alr1ghtstart said:
min.us gets negative points for not allowing me to batch get embed codes. It's a big pain in the butt, so I mostly use abload.
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~we encourage linking to gallery with the CODE, it is much simpler and we had too many "PORN" related abuse of hotlinking,,, it's too dangerous to add :(

Izayoi said:
That's what I use.

Will min.us will let me upload 20MB BMPs?
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Yes~ we have 50mb limit, just need to register/signin :) We encourage however linking to galleries or image link(fullsize)
 
Izayoi said:
2560x1600 screenshots.

They don't get to 20MB very often, but abload seems to be the only place that will let me do it.
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Why wouldn't you convert them to PNG first? BMP is not really a web format.
 
Thanks for updating this thread, John. It is kind of spammy, but it's also really helpful, so whatevs. :-)
 
Futureman said:
What is 999?
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999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is a visual novel/"escape the room" game for the Nintendo DS that became a sleeper hit on GAF's gaming side last year. Apparently it had a really good story...
 
I use MediaFire for image hosting. It can be used to host any other files types as well, with the only limit being 200 MB per files. You can batch upload also and use direct linking (for pics). There are no limits to the amount of files you can upload.

Your files stay online forever as long as you log in every month also.
 
omg.kittens said:
Thanks for updating this thread, John. It is kind of spammy, but it's also really helpful, so whatevs. :-)
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hehe, thanks for the support ^_^


PatMcAtee said:
I use MediaFire for image hosting. It can be used to host any other files types as well, with the only limit being 200 MB per files. You can batch upload also and use direct linking (for pics). There are no limits to the amount of files you can upload.

Your files stay online forever as long as you log in every month also.
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We do as well but @ 50mb per file limit and we have profiles and apps as well
See http://min.us/pages/tools and http://min.us/u/john
 
Hi!

If anyone is interested in helping http://min.us as volunteer or take possibly part-time positions in one of below tasks please email me john@min.us

Things we need help with.

- Marketing intern/volunteer and doing bit of data entry tasks

- User engagement tasks, sorting out feedbacks, feature requests

- Debugging, testing and quality control cross-platform

- Mobile iOS/Android application developers and designers

- Frontend developers

- UI / GFX Designers w/ lot of experience


See our API http://min.us/pages/api and http://blog.min.us/2010/10/14/minus-tech-spec/

Thanks!
 
Is there any way you can specify when min.us resizes your photo thumbnails or to what size? Most of my pictures get 900 pixel thumbnails, but when I upload something that's 1200 pixels wide, it doesn't get a thumbnail.

When I want to dump a bunch of pictures into GAF's photography thread it's annoying to have one picture be a lot bigger than the others.
 
tokkun said:
Is there any way you can specify when min.us resizes your photo thumbnails or to what size? Most of my pictures get 900 pixel thumbnails, but when I upload something that's 1200 pixels wide, it doesn't get a thumbnail.

When I want to dump a bunch of pictures into GAF's photography thread it's annoying to have one picture be a lot bigger than the others.
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Hi,

We have a specific algorithm for resizing to optimize loading time, but you can always click on "View original" to open up the full size image. We keep original files.

Cheers
 
Can you add a direct link to the sidebar here? Right now it requires an extra step since you have to click 'Share' first.

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Imgur does this which keeps me using them more often than minus.

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minus said:
Hi,

We have a specific algorithm for resizing to optimize loading time, but you can always click on "View original" to open up the full size image. We keep original files.

Cheers
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I understand that, but it is irrelevant to my complaint. The problem I have is that the size of the thumbnail image I get when I use the 'Forum Code' option is not always uniform. For images that are very large, I will always get a 900 pixel wide thumbnail. However for images that are, say 1200 pixels, I do not get the thumbnail but rather the full size image. When I link multiple images in a forum thread, I would like them all to have thumbnails of the same width.

It would be even better if I could specify that thumbnail width, as I can do with Gallery. NeoGAF's photography assignment threads will not allow me to post a thumbnail larger than 800 pixels, so I can't use min.us unless I want to manually create all my own thumbnails a priori.
 
tokkun said:
I understand that, but it is irrelevant to my complaint. The problem I have is that the size of the thumbnail image I get when I use the 'Forum Code' option is not always uniform. For images that are very large, I will always get a 900 pixel wide thumbnail. However for images that are, say 1200 pixels, I do not get the thumbnail but rather the full size image. When I link multiple images in a forum thread, I would like them all to have thumbnails of the same width.

It would be even better if I could specify that thumbnail width, as I can do with Gallery. NeoGAF's photography assignment threads will not allow me to post a thumbnail larger than 800 pixels, so I can't use min.us unless I want to manually create all my own thumbnails a priori.
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Thanks, I understand but many users actually complained to us when we setup the "Thumbnail" for forum code...and said they wanted the original image in there. WE'll try to figure out a way for you to tweak this in the future though!
 
minus said:
Thanks, I understand but many users actually complained to us when we setup the "Thumbnail" for forum code...and said they wanted the original image in there. WE'll try to figure out a way for you to tweak this in the future though!
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From a user interface perspective, it doesn't seem too hard to me. Just include an option in the settings that says:

For images larger than X pixels horizontally, generate a thumbnail of Y pixels when linking to forums.


where X and Y are user definable values. For users like me, I would set X=Y=800. For users that want no resizing, they just set X=9999 or some other large value. Non-power users need never alter the default values, so the ease of use is not impacted. Based on the behavior of min.us now, I take it that you already have such an algorithm in place, but users do not get to change the values of X and Y.

Perhaps this is very difficult to implement on your backend - I wouldn't know. But I think the concept is easy to understand.
 
element said:
I'd love to see a wordpress sidebar widget, similar to the flickr ones.
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Can you link me to some samples? We can build it if someone can help with that ;) We do have the EMBED gallery option already.
 
tokkun said:
From a user interface perspective, it doesn't seem too hard to me. Just include an option in the settings that says:

For images larger than X pixels horizontally, generate a thumbnail of Y pixels when linking to forums.


where X and Y are user definable values. For users like me, I would set X=Y=800. For users that want no resizing, they just set X=9999 or some other large value. Non-power users need never alter the default values, so the ease of use is not impacted. Based on the behavior of min.us now, I take it that you already have such an algorithm in place, but users do not get to change the values of X and Y.

Perhaps this is very difficult to implement on your backend - I wouldn't know. But I think the concept is easy to understand.
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Thanks, it is not difficult so we will look into implementing it. What would you title this feature in settings? "Use thumbnail image for forum/html code?"

Cheers
 
Hey everyone

John here from Minus. Some great news !

1) We're now officially http://Minus.com and will continue to provide Min.us links for sharing

2) We're hiring! Visit http://minus.com/pages/jobs for details. We're hoping to hire frontend/backend devs in NYC area that involves jquery/javascript and django/python

3) We're going to increase upload file size limit soon to #GB Per file, be sure to subscribe to http://blog.minus.com for latest news or follow us on tw/fb!

Thanks again for everyones' continued support!

Cheers
http://minus.com/u/john
 
Hi everyone!

John here from Minus, some exciting announcements.

- NEW* File Upload Limit to 200 MB per file, drag and drop 20 files at once to upload if you wish.

- NEW* Unlimited storage + bandwidth for images/files hotlinked

- NEW* Android mobile and Windows/Mac/Ubuntu Desktop app updates - visit http://minus.com/pages/tools

- File downloads now retain filenames, same with Download as Zip function

- Many bug fixes

- Best of all, we're now in NYC with a mini-office and hiring! Check out http://minus.com/pages/jobs

Hope everyone enjoys the updates!

http://min.us/u/john
 
Holy shit, didn't know there was a minus' dude on GAF.
I've been using it since the death of "Imagehost" and i'm loving it so far.
It's quick and the images do stay up for a long time, perfect for a quick image response or the like.
 
UrbanRats said:
Holy shit, didn't know there was a minus' dude on GAF.
I've been using it since the death of "Imagehost" and i'm loving it so far.
It's quick and the images do stay up for a long time, perfect for a quick image response or the like.
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thanks ^_^ remember we do 200MB files now as well, so not just images!!
Unlimited uploads/space and downloads, share away and have your friends try it too ^_^


-Pyromaniac- said:
ah nvm, ignore this.
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