I noticed a massive spike in our bandwidth usage, and guess what I found out? You guys have been hotlinking us like MAD! I had to put in some anti-hotlinking measures so assure this would stop. Now when you hotlink, it puts stress on a local server. So please, do not hotlink, we cannot afford you all being this lazy. If you want, save the images and post them on Photobucket or Imgur. Please do not make us have to go through more work just because you want to save time posting us on some website about reposting funny things…
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Updated Mondays or whenever I feel like it
those dicks, that’s like one of Godot’s main rules
Kept reloading the site four times before I realized there is no comic.
And to think, this is a post about *saving* bandwidth…
I find your comment ironic as your deviantART page has, “Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” Do as I say but not as I say? You silly, silly person!
Only adding to the bandwidth usage!
Awesome comics, the rss feed never seems to display the image in google reader btw :( it does in the feed itself though. I don’t mind clicking through, but you might wish to know.
It’s invisible 1×1 pixel comic. You have to think up the joke by yourself, though.
As usual, the punchline is machismo.
*sunglasses*
YEEEAAAAAHHHHHH
Gee, couldn’t be 4chon or anything..
No it can’t be you upload images there, not hotlink
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, but no, it couldn’t. Those images are uploaded, not hotlinked.
Neill Cameron started storing his comic images on Flickr because of this, and then gained a whole load of new fans who found him there. Not sure if this would work for you, but worth a shot?
this is a pretty legit suggestion – either flickr or some other image host with social media overtones.
Unless you want to create the tutorial on using comicpress with hotlinked images it’s not very feasible.
Posting URL to friends of new comic is still okay ya? D:
I imagine so.
Hotlinking is when you put the image on your own site, but instead of saving it to your own webspace (to use your own bandwidth), linking to the image from here instead (using Coela’s bandwidth).
That’s nothing to do with sending people links to go and see the comic on its own site, which is cool.
Yeah I know what you mean.
Instead of saving the image or providing a link people put the link of the url in their .
It loads the image from his site (Vorked) everytime someone looks at the picture on your (everyone else) site.
I think people just dont know how these things work :)
Good info from Rince though…I use RSS too. Would that mean that it uses your sites bandwidth.Maybe contact or google or somethin
btw,great comic!
Found some interesting links on RSS:
1. Look at number 11 about RSS feeds
http://www.instantshift.com/2009/03/10/11-tips-to-reduce-server-load-and-save-bandwidth/
2. Not sure about the guys post but maybe just scan through it.
http://blog.glennf.com/mtarchives/004445.html
(This is my site, Vorked just keeps it from breaking)
My bad mate
Translation, share comics by sharing the whole page like this:
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/527
not this:
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/comics/2010-12-06.jpg
Solution: replace all hotlinks with a single black/white comic of Captain Awesome saying the poster was too lazy and is a total douche and you should go to the website to view the comic.
If it goes on, we have something like that in store for hotlinkers.
….except not hotlinking is copyright infringment. Eg, downloading the comic and uploading it somewhere else.
Only if someone doesn’t want you to. You can save someone else’s work, and then upload it somewhere else, just as long as you aren’t taking credit for it.
Copyright is generally speaking, most restrictive. It doesn’t matter if you take or don’t take claim for it. As soon as you publish it anywhere, it’s copyright infringement. From a server perspective, not hotlinking is a good idea.
Please note I’m not saying I’m for hotlinking, I’m actually glad the author is forgoing his copyright. However, doing so may make it hard for him to get a book deal, as he is essentially giving up his right to control the distribution of his work.
That is to say, if I were nefarious, I could create another webpage, charge money for it, and include the authors work in it. Or even create a book myself, since the author is waiving his control rights.
By hotlinking, the author still has control of the content — that is to say, his website is the only authorized entity to control the distribution of it.
Asking people not to hotlink is not forgoing my copyright. I share my work under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license, so you can repost it, you can fiddle with it, you can send it to your friends, but you can’t sell it, you can’t discredit me for the original work, and you have to share it under the same conditions that I do.
If that clears things up for you.
Also, isn’t “he” inaccurate?
Yeah, but it’s a common enough mistake I don’t get huffy about it. Because it couldn’t matter less on the internet, I’m just a faceless, bodyless entity that brings you comics once a week.
You are incomplete in your understanding of copyright. You’re assuming that anything outside of “All rights reserved” means “No rights reserved.” In reality many things are somewhere in between and wear a “Some rights reserved” label.
Funny hotlinking story…
The Jawa Report occasionally gets pro-terrorist sites hotlinking their images (while simultaneously calling them filthy pigs who deserve to die in horrible manners).
So The Jawa Report quietly replaces the hotlinked image with scantily clad women, pigs, or other pics designed to lose the stealing site major cred with their jihad buddies.
Punked!
I’ve hotlinked the comic in the past… forgive me guys :( never again.
I wonder what the anti hotlinking measures are? My page isn’t going to get goatse’d is it? I wouldn’t hotlink, though so I guess I don’t have to worry about it.
At worst a drawing of Commander shot up with bullet holes that says “Sorry guys, hotlinking is killing the site”
…Huh. Now I’m tempted to hotlink just to see that.
it isn’t setup so it wouldn’t work yet anyway :P
Hosting your comic images on Amazon S3 might save you the headache while still keeping the hot-linky popularity.
That is basically what I did, but my own way. If too much stress is put on my measures, we will have to go a new way that involves Coela fighting the FTP server with guns.
DO WANT. Record it for us okay?
Also we cannot hotlink from other websites, even uploaders. We use Comicpress.
Dear all, most people don’t know that a thing such as hotlinking exists.
Do you mean how to do it or that it has a name? Because I’m pretty sure most people who have figured out how to post images on forums know how to get the URL of a picture so they can save themselves the time it takes to stick it on Photobucket…
Actually, almost anyone who’s ever owned a Geocities site knows what it is. Them and the other freebie sites which have gone the way of the dinosaur (but not the cool ones who wound up in outerspace, I mean) almost always had anti-hotlinking steps and some still do. Tripod was the first I know used it, because there would ALWAYS be someone with a page full of stolen artwork and they didn’t even bother to *steal* it properly and post it themselves. They just swiped bandwidth.
With geocities gone, and fewer places offering free site space, I suppose that more people will forget what hotlinking was – but most people do know.
There are still places like … EVERY FORUMS EVER
There should be a fee/tax on hotlinking. That’ll fix the economy right up.
Would if we could.
needless to say you have been linked on kotaku.com with your video game parody’s. Thats how i found your site.
Love your work
Kotaku doesn’t hotlink.
Not that I think you should be putting more work on yourselves, but what if you also posted an imageshack link with each comic so that the people who you know are going to stay lazy still have something to put in their forums? Given the choice between going through the work of re-uploading the comic and not posting the comic, I’d probably just not post it. That shoots yourself in the foot for popularity and spreading the comic via word of mouth.
Disclaimer: I’m not one of the guilty parties here, I just saw a solution that it didn’t seem anyone considered.
God damn, TinyPic and Photobucket (and others, I’m sure) lets you upload any image FROM A URL. If people are so lazy that they can’t copy/paste a URL into a box on an image hosting site BEFORE they copy/paste it into whatever thing they want to share the comic on, then I foresee a lot more problems with the world than bandwith spikes for Squid.
I like to hope that the reason for the hotlinking rash is more along the lines of people not knowing how it affects bandwith than people being too lazy to copy/paste a link twice instead of once.
Okay, wait.
You post an RSS feed and then tell people not to use it?
Ummm…
I don’t know how the RSS feed works, I’ve never used one myself and it came built in with the site, but I think Vorked is just asking people to upload the comic to their own image hosts if they want to post it on forums and stuff.
There is a fine line between how an RSS works and hotlinking. With most RSS’, and what I have set up, the RSS does not use much bandwidth at all. Now Hotlinking already has the image loaded on another site causing stress on our server.
Photobucket has a bunch of cool uploading tools through Firefox. Right click, upload, link copied. It takes, like, five seconds.
For you lazy people:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1174/
Why not use adds? Wouldn’t generate save a few bucks? And isnt having more people know about your comic good? Just wondering dont really know how those adds work and I dont have a site of my own so there hahaha
Well, we are currently saving ads for later. I have been suggesting it for a while, but Coela is not ready for them.
Fuck, I even have a Project Wonderful account ready! Heh
Why not post the images on something like Amazon S3 or Flicker, and then post that url under the comic each week for people to hotlink?