Nginx can do this with the ngx_http_image_filter_module (included in stock distribution): <a href="https://neosmart.net/blog/2014/nginx-wordpress-images-with-ngx_http_image_filter_module/" rel="nofollow">https://neosmart.net/blog/2014/nginx-wordpress-images-with-n...</a>
Looks great. I see mention of limits, but there is no pricing page. It's hard to adopt a service if I have no idea what it will cost me.<p>I have used Embed.ly's similar service in the past. There is a sizable free tier (25,000 images) and it works more or less the same. <a href="http://embed.ly/display" rel="nofollow">http://embed.ly/display</a>
This was built by our awesome community on Assembly. If you have any feedback or want to get involved and help us continue to build this, check out the project on Assembly: <a href="https://assembly.com/firesize" rel="nofollow">https://assembly.com/firesize</a>
Bit off-topic, but... it feels like there's a trend towards "x as a service" away from "x as open-source software". Is that something other people are seeing, or is it just my imagination?
Do you have a utility that lets me port over my named transformations from Cloudinary? Also, is there any way to pull images directly from an S3 bucket rather than from my Heroku instance?
One small issue is that it doesn't correct for gamma. Most browsers don't even do it properly, so it isn't a very important issue at all.<p>Demo: <a href="http://firesize.com/100x100/g_center/http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma_dalai_lama_gray.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://firesize.com/100x100/g_center/http://www.4p8.com/eric...</a><p>More info: <a href="http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html</a>
Is there anything yet to prevent abuse? For example, in the case of Cloudinary, they allow signing of URLs[0] to prevent anyone from just using your account to serve arbitrary images.<p>[0] <a href="http://cloudinary.com/blog/on_the_fly_image_manipulations_secured_with_signed_urls" rel="nofollow">http://cloudinary.com/blog/on_the_fly_image_manipulations_se...</a>
Great :), first impressions:<p>I've seen a few of these before and the things I remember I liked about them was the ability to provide a default image incase you cannot load the image.<p>Major kudos if you could do a g_face so you could center / crop around faces!<p>You say you provide a CDN and yet the images are loading slow under HackerNews weight. I guess the type of people who are going to use these aren't super concerned about being hammered!<p>Lastly the Heroku add-on, does that mean I can run your code on my Heroku instance instead of rely on your site? That would be fantastic!
Quick bug report,
g_none seems to not be working, instead it's just doing the same thing as g_north<p><a href="http://firesize.com/720x100/g_none/http://i.imgur.com/hHpJscb.png" rel="nofollow">http://firesize.com/720x100/g_none/http://i.imgur.com/hHpJsc...</a><p><a href="http://firesize.com/720x100/g_north/http://i.imgur.com/hHpJscb.png" rel="nofollow">http://firesize.com/720x100/g_north/http://i.imgur.com/hHpJs...</a>
"This app is in region eu, firesize is only available in region us." Thats a shame. But is guess getting manually hooked up would work for this case too?
I built a JavaScript library which automatically applies this optimization to all the images on any site it's placed on (using a MutationObserver): <a href="https://github.com/EagerApps/FireSize" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/EagerApps/FireSize</a>
Free during beta, but how much will it cost after? Are you going to limit access through the Referrer header? Why do I need a Heroku addon if I can just use a Firesize URL from anywhere automatically? How much does it cost to run a massive service like that?
I have an old project that does a similar thing: <a href="https://github.com/kristopolous/apophnia" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kristopolous/apophnia</a> ... enjoy
Just so you know, Web of Trust gives firesize.com a "Very Poor" Trustworthiness and Child Safety rating. <a href="https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/firesize.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=warn-viewsc" rel="nofollow">https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/firesize.com?utm_source=a...</a>