Is it okay to post images to Reddthat directly, or is better to use an image hoster like catbox.moe?
Is it okay to post images to Reddthat directly, or is better to use an image hoster like catbox.moe?
Basically, title.
I have no idea what is the best from a cost/performance/reliability perspective.
I usually use catbox.moe, but got a few issues today, so I was thinking that having all of the content I post to one hoster might cause issue if they were to go down one day.
What do you think?
Yes, you can upload images to Reddthat when posting, commenting, etc.
We have a CDN In front and aggressively cache all of the images.
3rd party images are fetched to generate a thumbnail, and to cache the image. The problem with this is, catbox can be slow at times and if that happens when you post it can't generate them.
Some clients also only open the direct links instead of showing the cached image, resulting in images not loading, or taking forever to load.I say if you are posting on Reddthat, I'm happy for people to use the features provided by Reddthat. So upload here, if you so wish.
Just remember that the images you upload are linked to your account.
Noted, thanks!
I'll mostly use it for !imaginary@reddthat.com, I'll use my alts for communities on other instances
If you point a link to a third party, your instance just stores the link.
If you post directly the instance has to save it, which adds up over time, and everytime someone views that post the instance has to provide it.
Whether or not that traffic is negligible depends on a lot of stuff.
Could it be that federated instances provide the pictures as well?
- OP post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/20796897
- OP picture link: https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/095ee3e8-93ef-4ce7-af34-211f75f2e391.jpeg?format=webp
- Federated post: https://reddthat.com/post/20574609
- Federated picture link: https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/ad18e321-636a-4a5d-af4c-92e2ea19a070.jpeg
Also I know I didn't took two instances on 0.19.4, something have changed there too IIRC
I'm not 100%, but yeah, it's still about where it was first posted, not that every instance that views it has to store the image.
Now, if a post is cross posted to a community on another instance, that's my grey area for who's hosting it. The new instance may save their own copy so they're not reliant on the origin post being deleted or anything. But it might just point to the picture on the original instance
That's something I'd be curious to hear from some admin what the real answer is.
But if you example was double hosted than all the smaller "personal" instance would be needing to save every picture one of the few people on there view.
That would get excessive quickly
in the meantime I discovered https://imgbb.com/
I can't speak for the performance of your instance & federation but catbox.moe is most often incredibly slow, to the point of being virtually unusable. No idea why it is so popular.
It's usually very fast on my side (Europe), but thanks for the feedback
