Long time no see, everyone. Just hopped back on to give an update to the image server.

• Added the number of images that have been uploaded to the front page. (because I was curious... I mean, I went through SO many emails and wanted to know just how many)
• Changed the way images are named to how I wanted it in the first place. New images uploaded have 40% less annoying URLs.
• Added a preview of the image you just uploaded to the Success page. If the image is too large, it's resized to fit there and you can view the image at full size by clicking on it.
• Unfortunately, despite that last update, I haven't gotten thumbnails working yet. I hope to have it done before I'm shipped off to Illinois in December.

That's it for now. If you want to contact me about anything, PM me or email me. (I won't be on Omnimaga really... but when I get PMs it's sent to my email and I check my email daily. Email: [email protected] )

Seeing as there's over 700 images uploaded already I can tell you guys are enjoying the server so I'm definitely making sure I keep it running and hope to update it more in the future.

Thanks. =)
Things are okay over here. Just finally got some free time to see what's going on and get some coding done.



Oh, on that note... to the person uploading all those dragon pictures... I'd like to know who you are and why you're doing it, if it's alright to ask. Nothing wrong with it but there's like 200-300 of them uploaded so I'm REALLY curious. ^^

Oh cool ^^

ALso various people uploaded the dragon pics. There was a dragon egg craze over here a few weeks ago, but the site on which that dragon game is is insanely slow and it caused slow Omni loading times, discouraging some people from visiting/posting. As a result, I had to setup a filter on them and now people have to upload them elsewhere.

http://www.dragcave.net is the site in question. Topics took about 20 seconds per dragon to load.

That's terrible, I don't know what Dragon Cave is, but many people have them in signatures, does that cause slowness while loading pages?

I think that was meishe uploading the images.
The updates are great.  Can't wait for thumbnails (which will be very helpful).

Quote from: graphmastur on November 13, 2010, 10:09:08 am

It used to, which is why we switched to using the RFG Image Uploader.

Great, so save images and then upload to RFG or some other Image Uploader.

Nice idea. Is there punishment or just warning for the ones who don't?

Don't go upload all the images.  There is a thread with a bunch of them already uploaded and we hate to do duplicates.  There is no punishment, because they are completely disabled.  Any image from dragcave.net will simply not work.

Disabled? Great job then, speed in the forum is of xtreme importance

Quote from: MRide on November 13, 2010, 10:25:59 am

Just keep in mind that you dragon won't grow if you host it elsewhere. (other than dragcave)

That has nothing to do with the pictures, only the links, though.

@ScoutDavid
Basically, with every dragon you get this:

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[url=<URL to dragcave.net>][img]<Image url that should be replaced>[/img][/url]


You don't get views if the image isn't hosted on dragcave.  That's why people dragons have been dieing.