RE: Steemit Needs: Please comment with your ideas to improve Steemit!! E. 2
Nice list. Love all three.
Tim, you might look into why Steemit provides for the ability to hotlink, even when the hosting sites have put in place code to block doing so. Pixabay states clearly that it's not allowed. Many other sites do as well.
Here's a good example:
Shows up nicely, doesn't it? Right click on it and choose to show it in another tab (or copy the link and open it in another tab). Still looks good, right? Now strip out the https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/ (leaving http://www.smoothieweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/owl-made-from-fruit-496x479.jpg)and you'll see that hotlinking this image is prohibited. I know that folks are encouraged to use hosting services, such as steemimg, but right now Steemit is unknowingly hotlinking illegally.
If you look at the link in your post, it is actually:
https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/http://www.smoothieweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/owl-made-from-fruit-496x479.jpgSteemit is actually not hot-linking to the smoothieweb URL. When you first create your / comment, it hotlinks once to pull the image into Steemit's local image server, and then after that it points to the image that is stored locally on the Steemit server.
So Steemit is hosting it?
That's interesting. In the RSS feeds from Streemian, the Steemit portion of the url is removed, so I thought it was hotlinking. It results in the RSS feed hotlinking.
Thanks for the tip. Maybe this can help me fix the layout issue I'm having.
Not sure if it is 'ok' but Steemit's links might be hotlinkable.
Thanks. Yeah, that might not matter, and I haven't tried. The RSS feed doesn't include them though. I asked @xeroc if he had any ideas. We'll see.
Thanks again!
What are you trying to make work / do?
Using Stremian's RSS feed to move articles to a WP site. I have Markdown JP on it to help convert the Markdown, but the images just aren't working well. Part of it is because of the hotlinking issue. But there's something else too (some images work, others don't, and I can't find consistency to the problem).
Anyway, if I could get the hotlink issue taken care of, it'd be a great step in the right direction. You just showed me part of the problem.... it's a great step. :)
Wlcm. Steemit is hosting the images if you are viewing it through Steemit.com. If you view through a non-Steemit website, it will pull the raw text from the blockchain. In those cases, technically those sites are hotlinking. That is not Steemit's job to prevent though :)
Yeah, I get it. Now trying to figure out how to make it work. Hrmmm.... Any ideas?