Transparenttextures.com

Re:Transparenttextures.com by codetrotter on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @07:12PM (#41516110)

> If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I'll shut it down.

To avoid the problem of linked domains leading to malware or things like that, you might consider linking to archived snapshots on Wayback Machine of the links instead of the real pages, for those sites that are now no longer hosting what they used to.

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Re:Transparenttextures.com by dreadlordbone on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @07:15PM (#41516131)

i bet those load times would be very bad

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Re:Transparenttextures.com by codetrotter on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @08:14PM (#41516438)

Well that'd be ok. We are talking about the a href text links, not about hot-linking the images themselves.

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Re:Transparenttextures.com by rollcat on Thursday September 12, 2024 @04:55AM (#41518872)

Please don't ever treat archive.org as a free CDN, they are a public library in need of your support, not free hosting for your side-project. There are enough free resources (e.g. Github Pages, Netlify, Cloudflare...) that are better suited for this task.

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Re:Transparenttextures.com by choudharism on Thursday September 12, 2024 @06:19AM (#41519275)

They're talking about link rot, not hosting for the website itself.

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Re:Transparenttextures.com by codetrotter on Thursday September 12, 2024 @11:13AM (#41521862)

Exactly.

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Re:Transparenttextures.com by rollcat on Thursday September 12, 2024 @12:02PM (#41522358)

I think I actually meant to reply to dreadlordbone's comment, where they implied image hotlinking - "it loads slower" because archive.org is not a CDN.

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