wthax.org - image hosting

CuLT

Just going to put this thread up here for questions, etc regarding http://wthax.org, the really hastily scripted image hosting site that has been happily serving people's sigs and *hilarious* lolcat pictures since 2005.

I'm posting this partly because since last month the site has been getting hammered with all sorts of asian language uploads, I've no idea what half of them are, but the other half is porn. I've had to start using a whitelist model as I couldn't keep up with blacklisting.

So the allowed refers are:

Boards.xx sites
Adverts.ie
Eirtaku.com
SomethingAwful.com

If you use wthax.org for your site and would like to be added to the whitelist, first off apologies for having to whip the rug out from under you, and second post your site here so I can add it to the whitelist.

Thanks.

Brian

www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/forums/
forums.xkcd.com
forums.msiwind.net

wthax.org kicks ass, and I thank you sincerely for it. It's like Tinypic.com was before it became a load of toss.


PS. Hope I wasn't anything to do with the mentioned problems.. I've only started using it in the last month or so =/

CuLT

Baza210 wrote: »

www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/forums/
forums.xkcd.com
forums.msiwind.net

wthax.org kicks ass, and I thank you sincerely for it. It's like Tinypic.com was before it became a load of toss.


PS. Hope I wasn't anything to do with the mentioned problems.. I've only started using it in the last month or so =/

Cheers, no you're nothing to do with the problems, just some crowd of spammers in Taiwan uploading a lot of porn.

I might take a chunk of time somewhere to revise the codebase again, the current one was unfortunately birthed in -dev when I accidentally deleted the entire source tree of the original! I haven't really fiddled with it since getting it up to bare minimum "it'll do" standard Plan is to keep it simple and clean. If it ever gets to the point that I can't afford to maintain it, I'm told Boards.ie Ltd will happily take over running costs, so I'll never have to spam people with ads or awful thumbnail branding or trick links, or any of the other crap image hosting sites tend to do.

*added those to the whitelist now btw*

Brian

Ta. Is wthax sorta.. open source? I mean, there's a free digiweb.ie offer for a year's .org hosting and I wouldn't mind having my own similar service except one that saves the images into a little album for me. Although if I wasn't so lazy I could just add a tag to everything I upload on wthax.. and I can't come up with a domain name that I like
Even tried a random string generator, xkcd style.

CuLT

It's not, but even if it was, the code is a mess, and hardcoded to work under the particular nuances of dreamhost.

This is the evolution of the script I initially used when I set up the site. Apparently they've had some financial difficulties or something reading the news. Always had problems as far as I was concerned.

This is another fairly basic script you might want to try, although as a caveat, I haven't looked at the code since uploading it in 2006 or whenever it was. Runs quite happily at http://images.wthax.org still though.

Brian

Ah it's all a bit over my head right now..
Jmcc, you know any PHP?

Jonathan

Baza210 wrote: »

Ah it's all a bit over my head right now..
Jmcc, you know any PHP?

I do.

Brian

You would..

Brian

Oh, CuLT, could you please add badmintoncentral.com, ipis-osx.wikidot.com too? Thanks

CuLT

Baza210 wrote: »

Oh, CuLT, could you please add badmintoncentral.com, ipis-osx.wikidot.com too? Thanks

Sure, done.

Brian

Thanks. Are you sure I'm not the only person that uses wthax? =P

CuLT

It's a small crowd

Sherifu

I use it, mainly for boards. .o>

Small crowd indeed

Thomas_S_Hunterson

So eh where can I get to this porn?:p

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Could you add Hottaiwaneseladiesofthenightoncamerahavingsex.com please?

kaimera

pix.sparky-s.ie
pix.sparky-s.ie/adv/

CuLT

kaimera wrote: »

pix.sparky-s.ie
pix.sparky-s.ie/adv/

Very bold removing all the Mihalism copyright stuff.

Tut tut!

Sherifu

CuLT wrote: »

Very bold removing all the Mihalism copyright stuff.

Tut tut!

Ya but they gave us so much...





DJ Spider porn for one thing...

kaimera

CuLT wrote: »

Very bold removing all the Mihalism copyright stuff.

Tut tut!

hey it aint my site! thought it was obvious whos it was :P

CuLT

kaimera wrote: »

hey it aint my site! thought it was obvious whos it was :P

Pfft, the domain name is too obvious, I know it's just you up to your old tricks.

kaimera

CuLT wrote: »

Pfft, the domain name is too obvious, I know it's just you up to your old tricks.

Whats with the hate all of a sudden?

Sparky

Aye CuLT reason for that was the link was 404 for ages hence when I was modding the site I removed it, but I didn't know they had a .org site now.
It seems a friend of the owner bought the domain and are hoping to get things running again. Good news indeed.

CuLT

kaimera wrote: »

Whats with the hate all of a sudden?

It's all love, baby.

Brian

CuLT, could you add dailymobile.se to the whitelist too, please?

CuLT

Baza210 wrote: »

CuLT, could you add dailymobile.se to the whitelist too, please?

Sure, done.

Also, for the curious, I'm planning out entirely rewriting wthax.org from the ground up again, if there's features you'd like to see, now's the time to ask.

Jonathan

CuLT wrote: »

Sure, done.

Also, for the curious, I'm planning out entirely rewriting wthax.org from the ground up again, if there's features you'd like to see, now's the time to ask.

An account so you can pull your own images down again.

Brian

jmccrohan wrote: »

An account so you can pull your own images down again.

This, if possible. And please, CuLT, retain the beautiful simplicity of the current set up.. cheers.

CuLT

Hosting provider moved all my stuff and broke half my scripts, don't have time to look at it now, so wthax.org isn't accepting new images right now.

javaboy

CuLT wrote: »

Hosting provider moved all my stuff and broke half my scripts, don't have time to look at it now, so wthax.org isn't accepting new images right now.

So it was your fault I got FAIL, EPIC FAIL and EPIC FIAL thrown at me. :mad:

Brian

CuLT, could you please add onmix.co.uk to the whitelist? Ta

Brian

Bumping for a request for echochamber.me