This has probably come up before, but I just joined this group, and I searched everywhere for this.
I understand why user HTML is not allowed in topics and replies. But....
Why not create a meta tag like this: [img] url_of_image [/img]
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Lots of sites that are less advanced than tribe have come up with that already. Why don't we have it?
I understand why user HTML is not allowed in topics and replies. But....
Why not create a meta tag like this: [img] url_of_image [/img]
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Lots of sites that are less advanced than tribe have come up with that already. Why don't we have it?
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Re: Image tags
Sun, March 16, 2008 - 6:34 PMBecause in reality, there's a lot we don't want people to do with such a thing.
For instance, we don't want unauthorized sites tracking our users. Yeah, we have google doing that now.... but they are PAYING us for the privelege and that brings tribe.net to you in some part.
One of my hopes with tribe.net is to improve the image handling. This is a major bottleneck with the site. At the same time, we need to implement a system where you can add only authorized images into messages. But that takes money to do quickly. -
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Sun, March 16, 2008 - 7:02 PMThanks Darren.. I am one of those folks who would not want embedded images in posts within threads.... -
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Sun, March 16, 2008 - 7:10 PMSame here. I've been on lists that have that "feature" and some upload images so big that they take up a whole page. It's a chore to work through a thread that way. -
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Sun, March 16, 2008 - 7:11 PMI completely agree...it makes it really impossible to read some forums ! -
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Sun, March 16, 2008 - 11:36 PMI think I'd rather be able to add more than one photo to my blog...
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Re: Image tags
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 11:34 AMTribe already scales images. Just look at images imported from RSS feeds of blogs.
Bzzzt... next.
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Re: Image tags
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 11:49 AMImage handling is a bottleneck? Probably because you're doing all the image hosting and processing on the servers. If other sites hosted most of the images, the servers would have much less load.
As for tracking... fine, let me post images HOSTED ON TRIBE in the topics section of a tribe. No more tracking issue (except google).
Authorized images? What is this communist Russia? I can post an image to a tribe right now without authorization, just not in the topics. Are we only going to allow authorized speech from now on too?
Who's the minister of communications? I need to contact them to get permission to post this response. It has not been authorized yet.
And the "I don't wanna see images at all" people could easily click "turn off images" and all image tags would turn into links when pages for those people are generated. Not rocket surgery.
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Re: Image tags
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 11:54 AMEvery image that is uploaded has the ability to be flagged. There's not any one person who does this, rather the folks who make up the tribe.net community. This is what the law means by 'community standards' when referring to offensive material. In other words, it's mob rule rather than communist Russia.
There may be images that can't be flagged or deleted by a moderator -- point them out to me and I'll add the flagging code to that page.
I do agree about the image hosting. We can't afford a CDN at the moment, sadly enough.
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Re: Image tags
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 12:18 AMTribe actually allowed that when it first launched. We took it out pretty quickly, partially because it made some of the threads quite ugly. I agree that there are ways to do it without making it horrid (what Vox does with embedding images in blog entries is reasonable) but it's a fair bit of work. -
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Mon, March 17, 2008 - 11:54 AMIts not much work at all. And since tribe is closed-source I cant do it. Being a corporation with ad revenue and subscription fees, cant they just hire a fucking programmer? -
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Re: Image tags
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 12:37 PMI'm going to make a wild guess that acting like a prick won't strengthen your case much.
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Re: Image tags
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 1:24 PMYou're new around here huh.
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