Squidge Images - PLEASE READ!

[squidgestatus]

Two very updates for Squidge Images.

The first update is we have opened up signup access for Squidge Images. Instead of having to leave us a ticket for an image hosting account, we have decided that it's been long enough, and the folks who were abusing image hosting have most likely moved on. So all that is done.

Second, and most important, Squidge Image Hosting will be down starting at 8am Pacific on Sunday, March 1st for an upgrade. Read that again.  I say this because we will inevitably get 8,000 tickets asking us why image hosting is down, and when will it be back up again. Seriously. We've seen this with FenRecs.com posts - they are completely ignored and people will log tickets asking when it will be back (later this week, we hope!).  This upgrade is important because will be transitioning from on-site hosting of images to remote hosting of images. Oh, and the upgrade should bring video support as well!  So if you have videos you need hosting and, like us, hate Youtube, you'll be able to host your videos on Squidge Images.

Again, Squidge Image Hosting will be down starting at 8am Pacific time on Sunday, March 1st for an upgrade.  We hope to be fully upgraded and back up within four hours, but we all know technology can be a giant pain sometimes.

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Comments

[bluedreaming]

Thank you for the update!

[yourlibrarian]

Good luck with the upgrades and great news about the video hosting!

[yuuki_15]

Awesome! Good to know, thank you!

[mistressofmuses]

Thank you for the heads up!

Video hosting is VERY exciting, especially as youtube seems to get worse and worse toward creators. (I doubt I'll ever have videos to host, but I'm thrilled whenever there are options!)

[meningioma]

OMG video hosting!! :D what fun! I can't wait!! thank you for the update~

[tinny]

I am very happy about the idea of video hosting.

As to the image hosting...

I just noticed today that the direct image urls (which I need to embed into dreamwidth posts) have changed from

https://images.squidge.org/images/
to
https://squidgeimages.s3.us-west-002.backblazeb2.com/

for the images I uploaded today. I tried to use the old URL format, but that doesn't work anymore. So I have to use the backblaze url in my posts.

This feels to me like an issue if you ever have to change providers again.

Would it be possible for you to add the old url again as a proxy/redirect?

Image Hosting

[squidgestatus]

There's good and bad in this. The good thing is, with using Backblaze, even if we go down for an extended period of time (hasn't happened lately ::knock wood:: but it DOES happen from time to time) images that are on BackBlaze will still display, even if we go down. But the bad news is, yes, if we have to change providers again. I don't think we will have to; BackBlaze SHOULD be our provider from here on out, but still.

I'll see if there's a way to go back to the old URL format within the code.

Walter

Re: Image Hosting

[tinny]

Thank you for looking into it!

Ah, so that means that the images I uploaded before the move are still hosted where they were before, which is why the old urls are still working for those? I had somehow assumed you'd shifted everything to the new provider.