catgirl.host

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Links, ads and more...

Hello everyone!

I know this may upset some people, but I tried to implement this change in such a way that it wouldn’t impact the usage of catgirl.host at all. Let me get straight to the point, I have decided to put ads on catgirl.host. Because catgirl.host is used by a fair share of people, hosting it is not free. That’s why ads and the Patreon are a necessity. Please know that Patreon is still absolutely needed to secure that I have enough to pay for the server and I’m still extremely thankful for everyone who donates their own money to catgirl.host! <3 The ads are small and appear at the bottom of the page. If a user clicks on the image, it takes them directly to the direct image that can be used on websites or forums. Non-direct links, or links returned by ShareX, are still automatically embedded on services like Discord and Twitter. No configuration is required by our users.

Existing links (u.catgirl.host) always redirect to the direct link. This was done so that websites that use our service as their image host will not break, nor will images already embedded on forums break.

Again, I’m sorry if this change upset you, and I really hope you will keep using catgirl.host. If you have any concerns, please, please e-mail them to [email protected]. Thank you!

- Marijn

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Subdomains

Hello all!

I’m happy to announce that catgirl.host now supports custom subdomains, completely for free. All files will be accessible from all subdomains. Internally, example.catgirl.host is handled exactly the same as elpmaxe.catgirl.host.

A detailed guide on how to set up ShareX to automatically return the correct subdomain is now available at https://catgirl.host/use

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What are you? The NSA?!

Hi!

I’ve updated the way we log files yet again. When, and only when you upload a file directly the server will now also log the browser you are using (using  $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']). Uploading a file directly using Google Chrome 63.0.3239.132 will result in the following being logged in the database:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them via the Discord!

[catgirlhost]

Data logging and privacy

Hi everyone,

I have updated the way catgirl.host logs data. In the past, the server didn’t log anything at all (besides Apache’s access.log). This proved to be a problem since we were unable to block users abusing our service (uploading illegal explicit material, spam etc.). To combat this issue we created a very simple logging system that only logged the IP and file uploaded. Example:

127.0.0.1 uploaded 1337a.png (ShareX)

Today that system was updated. We now automatically get some publicly available information using an API query. For example, if 62.45.157.194 uploaded something using our direct uploader the server would send a query to freegeoip.net and would write the following to the log file:

20180122 13:37:00 62.45.157.194,NL,Netherlands,,,,,Europe/Amsterdam,52.3824,4.8995,0 uploaded file.png (direct)

This data is only collected when someone uploads a file, not when someone accesses the website.

We will only share this data under very specific circumstances, as noted in our ToS. We will never sell this data to anyone.

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Subdirectory vs. subdomain

Hello!

All files uploaded to catgirl.host will now also be available via u.catgirl.host/filename. This is now the standard URL that will be returned when you use our direct uploader or upload using ShareX. Already existing screenshots can also be accessed via this subdomain.

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Migration to catgirl.host

Hi all!

Today we migrated from screenshot.pizza to catgirl.host. All existing screenshots will still be available on the old domain and screenshots can still be uploaded to the old domain using ShareX. The site itself (and thus the direct upload) can’t be accessed anymore.

If you want to use our new domain (we highly recommend it!) go to your ShareX, then click on “Destinations”, on the bottom of the menu, click “Destination settings”. Then, scroll all the way down and click on “Custom uploaders”. You’ll be presented with a rather complicated looking screen. In the middle column you should see a row called “Request URL”, change that to “https://catgirl.host/upload”. That’s it!

We highly recommend going over to the new domain. The old domain will no longer receive weekly backups and is not supported by us anymore.