I find it consistently amusing when you put photos in your posts and they come through to the RSS reader on my domain I get asked not to steal your bandwidth. Then I load the permalink in a new tab and (this being Opera) instead of sending a new request for the image it loads it from cache, and it appears that you are admonishing yourself for stealing your bandwidth.
On further reflection, it seems I am easily amused.
That’s a very good point, Cathy, and one that had not occurred to me. I’ll see if I can come up with some appropriate solution.
Who stole your bandwidth?
That’s what you get for not using Flickr, anyway. 🙂
The intention is that nobody should steal my bandwidth. Unfortunately, it’s hard to tell the difference between someone viewing one of my images posted on a MySpace page, and one of my images being viewed in a feed reader.
My reasoning for not using Flickr is that it is (relatively) easy to upload your images onto their service, but if you ever want to get them all back out, then you’re fucked. Until they provide a decent “Export” feature, I daren’t invest too much of myself in it. In fact, I did once use Flickr, but made the decision to get out and relocate all the images to this domain sooner rather than later.
Well, of course stealing bandwidth should totally be a crime. But who stole it?
Good reasoning, for not using Flickr as a storage service. As a sharing service though, it’s still brilliant.
My bandwidth has been stolen by dozens of clueless MySpace users and forum-dwellers over the years. However, it tends to be the same images over and over again, so I’ve changed the rules to just test for hotlinking on those files. It’s not my preferred approach, but it fixes the whole feed-reader issue.
It is an annoying problem. I’ve not had much issue with hotlinking, so I just don’t bother banning it. I think the interim approach I used to use was to allow big known feedreaders like Bloglines and disallow everyone else. (The fact that it didn’t work for people sucking in RSS on their own domains didn’t bother me that much until I started doing same 😉 )
Kevin’s interest has been piqued by this discussion, and he’s working on a solution that would allow hotlinking for images that are less than, say, one week old, and disallow after that. If you’re interested in testing the results you can drop him an email at the address attached to this comment…. and he promises not to blow up your server with his code 🙂
Wow. I hadn’t even THOUGHT of using Flickr purely for storage. That’s just daft!!
Anyhoo, my fav flower that, love the ‘architectural’ ones.
Flickr is a useless storage service. If your needs are purely sharing, then it is great; but if you are looking for something that does a bit of both sharing and storage, then keep looking.
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I find it consistently amusing when you put photos in your posts and they come through to the RSS reader on my domain I get asked not to steal your bandwidth. Then I load the permalink in a new tab and (this being Opera) instead of sending a new request for the image it loads it from cache, and it appears that you are admonishing yourself for stealing your bandwidth.
On further reflection, it seems I am easily amused.
That’s a very good point, Cathy, and one that had not occurred to me. I’ll see if I can come up with some appropriate solution.
Who stole your bandwidth?
That’s what you get for not using Flickr, anyway. 🙂
The intention is that nobody should steal my bandwidth. Unfortunately, it’s hard to tell the difference between someone viewing one of my images posted on a MySpace page, and one of my images being viewed in a feed reader.
My reasoning for not using Flickr is that it is (relatively) easy to upload your images onto their service, but if you ever want to get them all back out, then you’re fucked. Until they provide a decent “Export” feature, I daren’t invest too much of myself in it. In fact, I did once use Flickr, but made the decision to get out and relocate all the images to this domain sooner rather than later.
Well, of course stealing bandwidth should totally be a crime. But who stole it?
Good reasoning, for not using Flickr as a storage service. As a sharing service though, it’s still brilliant.
My bandwidth has been stolen by dozens of clueless MySpace users and forum-dwellers over the years. However, it tends to be the same images over and over again, so I’ve changed the rules to just test for hotlinking on those files. It’s not my preferred approach, but it fixes the whole feed-reader issue.
It is an annoying problem. I’ve not had much issue with hotlinking, so I just don’t bother banning it. I think the interim approach I used to use was to allow big known feedreaders like Bloglines and disallow everyone else. (The fact that it didn’t work for people sucking in RSS on their own domains didn’t bother me that much until I started doing same 😉 )
Kevin’s interest has been piqued by this discussion, and he’s working on a solution that would allow hotlinking for images that are less than, say, one week old, and disallow after that. If you’re interested in testing the results you can drop him an email at the address attached to this comment…. and he promises not to blow up your server with his code 🙂
Wow. I hadn’t even THOUGHT of using Flickr purely for storage. That’s just daft!!
Anyhoo, my fav flower that, love the ‘architectural’ ones.
Flickr is a useless storage service. If your needs are purely sharing, then it is great; but if you are looking for something that does a bit of both sharing and storage, then keep looking.