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I like the UI and it seems pretty nice. But under Firefox the image does not upload at first (stays a 00%). I first have to cancel and reclick Upload for it to work.

When I'm on a website and right-click -> copy Image, its says nothing is in my clipboard, I first have to paste it in Paint and copy it again for it to work on the site, is it a bug or am I misunderstanding how the clipboard works (I'm under Win7)?

When you generate the URL, it would be great if it was clickable or at least a button to go to the image. I understand the goal is for the user to have a URL to share so copying may be more important that clicking.

Do you plan to add the ability to delete a picture? I don't see a button anywhere to do so, and no info on how long you keep the data. Will you apply a policy like pastebin for text?

Anyway it's really an easy way to share a picture with someone, hope you'll add features!

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Does this upload bug happen every time? There are still some weird bugs that I haven't figured out how to solve yet since they are hard to recreate. I'll keep working on that though.

About the copying images from a website: See my answer to arkitaip.

I'm considering adding a clickable link as well under the generated URL, that might actually be useful.

If I were to implement the ability to delete a picture, I would have to add some kind of user authentication which I'm not planning on doing at this moment. It might be possible to put some kind of secret client ID in the users localStorage to allow them to delete their own images, but I would have to make sure it can't be exploited so that other people can delete your images. Feel free to leave suggestions on how you could do this without requiring user accounts.

I would like to be able to store the images forever, but if the costs of doing so becomes to much for me to handle, I'm going to have to reconsider that.

I'm definitely planning on adding more features to the app, but one of the strong points of it is that it's very clean and simple at what it tries to do, so it's important that I don't try to add too much to it.

Strangely the bug does not seem to appear anymore sorry I cannot give you more info on this now.

A clickable link or maybe a button with an image representing "Go to" action!

Storing images forever seems really hard and costly wouldn't it? Especially if you don't limit the original image size or resize it on your server.

For deletion of the image a solution could be to do like doodle.com. You provide one "administration link" where the uploading user can resize/crop/change the image, and a "publishing link" that he can provide to over people to see ?

A quick share through twitter/FB/G+ etc of the image uploaded could be nice too and help spread the word!

I currently limit the image size to 10MB, but even with that I guess storage space could quickly become a problem. A 30 day expiration time might be needed to keep the costs down.

Giving an additional administration link is a possibility, but I'll have to put some more thought into what the best way to handle image deletion / editing would be.

Adding sharing options is on my to-do list!

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