Comments on: GIFexplode – community powered web development

By: Jer

Jer — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:37:21 +0000

I’m disappointed! I’ve gone through about 30 or so images, and so far only one porn gif… geez… ;)

By: user24

user24 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:57:57 +0000

Yes, absolutely.

I plan to rewrite the code pretty much from the ground up.

When you upload a new file, it’ll MD5 the contents and add that entry to the database, along with details like upload time, dimensions, meta-data if applicable and so on. It will generate a unique short URL for the file at that time (I’ve already got the code for that in place on another site of mine). Then it will split the file into its component frames and display.

The component frames will be deleted 24 hours after the last viewing. The original upload will be deleted 10 days (or so) after the last viewing. This way popular files will be served almost statically – no splitting needs to take place, and intermittently popular files can be re-split on demand.

If you upload a file that’s already been uploaded within the last 10 days, it will just redirect you straight to the existing file.

I think that represents the best way to manage both space and server resources.

By: P

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:14:52 +0000

if I may make a suggestion as to file space, do some processing on the images, optimize them and whatnot, then find out if the image already exists on the server, trading off using space for cpu usage.

By: user24

user24 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:02:37 +0000

yes it was Shay

By: ahoho

ahoho — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:20:52 +0000

is the bouncing boobs shay laren? jesus, i know that girl IRL and see her everywhere online.