Thumbor
Infrastructure
image processing server
SHOW HN2014
113points
21comments
#248of 2,272 in 2014
Top 11%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.09.
Execution: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Extensible storage and filter plugins
From 2 comments
Not sure how it compares, but thumbor is fully extensible. There are people using it with HBase, others with Amazon's S3 and Cloudfront, others with filesystem based solutions…
heynemann on HNIt can be easily implemented as a filter[1][2]. If you need to use it via command-line you can save the current buffer as a tempfile[3], call your CLI with the tempfile path and…
heynemann on HN
Good work on the project
From 2 comments
Nice work! > By upgrading your image server to thumbor you would go from 0kb to 0kb for 0 images, thus saving NaN% (using WebP images). Maybe a special message could be used in…
p4bl0 on HNThis looks like it has come a long way since the last time I played with it. We wound up building something internally, but it might be time to re-eval.
ceejayoz on HN
Objections
Image size estimates on thumborize.me can be inaccurate
From 2 comments
Yes. Sometimes thumborize.me will get the image sizes weirdly. It's there mainly to give you an idea. The settings are the standard ones that come with thumbor. If you tinker…
heynemann on HN> By upgrading your image server to thumbor you would go from 12989.07kb to 16106.04kb for 22 images (using WebP images). On my gallery page: > By upgrading your image server to…
cfstras on HN
Images fail to load in Firefox due to WebP support
From 1 comment
on firefox maybe you should display a dummy webp image. Seems like FF doesn't support it yet, you should degrade gracefully in this case.
morenoh149 on HN
Requires cookies to serve images
From 1 comment
Some people might downvote me for this (as happened before) but I have cookies disabled by default. Only if I need to interact with a website I am ok with traces and I allow…
exceptione on HN
Requests
Show a message when no images are detected
From 2 comments
Nice work! > By upgrading your image server to thumbor you would go from 0kb to 0kb for 0 images, thus saving NaN% (using WebP images). Maybe a special message could be used in…
p4bl0 on HNWould definitely recommend showing a message akin to 'no images detected' in that event. Maybe with a few common reasons that might happen(such as the above) Cool stuff though!
ZoF on HN
Support for third-party image processing filters
From 1 comment
any tips on plugging-in any 3rd party image processing filters? Maybe I looked in the wrong place, but could only see storage plugins on the wiki. For example, we have a…
gingerlime on HN
Questions
Rails equivalent or integration
From 2 comments
Anybody know of a rails equivalent?
hackerboos on HNIt looks like you could use thumbor (or any similar solution) as an external resource[0], so it doesn't matter what language it's written in. That said, it usually feels safer to…
gingerlime on HN
Why images need cookies
From 1 comment
Some people might downvote me for this (as happened before) but I have cookies disabled by default. Only if I need to interact with a website I am ok with traces and I allow…
exceptione on HN
Alternatives named
django-rest-thumbnails
From 1 comment
Dealing with on-demand thumbnails is annoying, I've done something similar in the past [1]. In any case, transparently generating thumbnails from URLs is the saner solution,…
hcarvalhoalves on HN
magickly
From 1 comment
A similar app I worked on, which focuses on extensibility: http://magickly.afeld.me/
aidanfeldman on HN
carrierwave
From 1 comment
It looks like you could use thumbor (or any similar solution) as an external resource[0], so it doesn't matter what language it's written in. That said, it usually feels safer to…
gingerlime on HN