The images would be uploaded on Amazon's S3. So I wouldn't worry about scaling for this. What I do worry about is the site in general is about to break out of the current box. There are a few hours a day where the site is hitting a high load, which means I'll probably need to upgrade the server in a month or two.
Users can always ask for a screenshot.
I think adding this feature will need bigger servers.
Maybe a little note below the "Description" section, that says that a screenie may help clarifying, and link to ImageShack for example.
Having internal feature for uploading screenshots will probably add some motivation for authors to actually make them and upload, which could result in improving avg user experience.
aeosynth
I already use imageshack.
about 1 month ago
anotherjesse
The images would be uploaded on Amazon's S3. So I wouldn't worry about scaling for this. What I do worry about is the site in general is about to break out of the current box. There are a few hours a day where the site is hitting a high load, which means I'll probably need to upgrade the server in a month or two.
5 months ago
jerone
Users can always ask for a screenshot.
I think adding this feature will need bigger servers.
Maybe a little note below the "Description" section, that says that a screenie may help clarifying, and link to ImageShack for example.
5 months ago
Mikado
Having internal feature for uploading screenshots will probably add some motivation for authors to actually make them and upload, which could result in improving avg user experience.
6 months ago
anotherjesse
I agree that external services is easy. With internal screenshot it would allow thumbnails to be shown on the script list page (visual search/browse)
6 months ago
iamah
Well you got a point there =)
6 months ago
LouCypher
If people can write user scripts, why do they have problems with just a simple img tag?
6 months ago
iamah
that's kinda easy to do, upload to imgshack and paste the html code... but I understand some people may have problems with that...
6 months ago
jerone
ImageShack works also.
6 months ago