UPLD.IM - No Bullshit Image Hosting

How are you dealing with the problematic users uploading inappropriate images? Have you run into any problems with the law?

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I haven’t had any serious issue so far and no legal trouble.
If there’s a report or if I notice any image that can cause any problems, i just delete it and ban the uploader’s IP. Those are very rare tbh.

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Sure, adult is allowed and people mostly upload screenshots and some gifs.
if something involves extreme violence or CP. It goes to bin

Nice and well done :smiling_face:

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Just uploaded a few images yesterday. Nice.

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Some updates. The site has picked up faster than I expected. A lot of API uploads so there aren’t many users registered which is totally fine

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It is also the same with this kind of sites: very easy for them to grow them as people loves free image hosting, specially if you allow adult content. But it reaches a point where it becomes unsustainable because of the legal trouble and/or resource constraints.

I don’t say this to discourage you, it’s just that the same story has repeated for the last two decades and even the biggest players have had trouble with this. For example you are using Cloudflare now, but they will kick you if hotlinked traffic becomes excessive.

Again I don’t say this to discourage you, but is my opinion as a former image upload site owner which also has friends who were image upload site owners.

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I have a friend are running image hosting for couple local forums. He is the only image hosting and other two closed their door during last two years. Which turns out a pretty huge cost.
Luckily his income is good enough to cover it and cloudflare still not kick him out , yet.

I’m aware of it, I host a few hundred terabytes on some other sites and so far buying their premium is enough for now. If that doesn’t work, I can always just move it some other paid cdn. Bunny CDN for example, it’s not that expansive.

this is another site I run and it’s not kicked from Cloudflare yet

Sorry to hear about your project. I do know a few people hosting over 5 million images currently and one former image host owner who was hosting around 10 million but had to shut it down due to legal trouble. The world knows that his domain was blocked in a few countries and lost ad revenue and the server cost got unsustainable but the real story is something else.

I have been at it for 2 years now and I never tried to promote it except a few posts like this one.
so it sure took it’s time but now that people know about it, I’m more careful and I do monitor every image as soon as I can

Does using Cloudflare really save you that much computing power and traffic (do you pay for it extra?).

Cloudflare definitely helps a small site. I’m not as worried about bandwidth usage as much as I am for their CDN and ddos protection. A popular site has to be fast or it’ll rank low in SERPs and no one wants a slow site tbh. But for people with limited bandwidth plans, once the static contents are cached after they are accessed a few times it saves a lot.

I do pay for cf premium on some heavy duty sites only for the cdn.

:o that’s creepy!

You monitor every image or you monitor the ones which get reported?
Might as well put an AI to find out if the image has skins/face and then perhaps you look at it manually? you know, to mitigate child pr0n stuff.

Offtopic, I really don’t know why people are into child pr0n and other related stuff, sick bastards!

I try to monitor every image because most of them are uploaded via API because from what I have seen so far is that most of them are porn screenshots so I have to be extra careful. The images are private and search engines won’t index them unless they are shared somewhere. other than that it’s just me who has the complete access to them

The AI you are talking about it too expensive. Both Microsoft and google have developed one but it’s aimed at corporations and not for individuals.

that’s the least I need to do to stay out of legal trouble. Ofc I cannot monitor 2k images daily so some of them are skipped.

you haven’t seen enough yet.
People have some really weird fetish ranging from licking feet to drinking pee and eating poop

And here it is.
The first Milestone

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102,327 images uploaded with just 50 users ??

All API uploads which doesn’t require an account.

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Yeah, I know. But feel like a bit crazy

yeah people don’t need an account to use the site, the only benefit of making an account is the ability to control your uploads later. You can do everything without an account including create albums