Ensuring Immutability: Workaround for permanent image storage when posting on Hive
I was asking around on Threads for a solution on image storage on the blockchain the other day.
The pain point is the potential disappearance of images on my post stored with the CDNs such as Hive.Blog uses. I understood that the images I upload are not going to be stored on the Hive blockchain directly. Only the text is immutable, and the images aren't.
No one can tell if that missing image might make the message incoherent on the post in the future.
Anyway, I found the Wayback Machine after some search. It is not a blockchain solution, but good enough as they seem serious in their archival work.
The image above is the archive copy stored at: https://web.archive.org/web/20230226134442/https://images.hive.blog/DQmeKcKvrUR4L47xj6CweHYECgSmWxg8mP1UdgCvdipppNx/Screenshot%202023-02-26%20at%209.41.24%20PM.png
A copy of the original when I drafted this post, whose URL is: https://images.hive.blog/DQmeKcKvrUR4L47xj6CweHYECgSmWxg8mP1UdgCvdipppNx/Screenshot%202023-02-26%20at%209.41.24%20PM.png
The usage is self-explantory. Simply by entering the original URL in the space under "Save Page Now" on the site.
You can get the URL of the image file after it is generated.
The images used on this posts are now pointed to the archive URLs. I think it might be a slightly better option if immutability of the images is a requirement.
I am not sure if there is already archival done by default whenever we use images.hive.blog. If so, my worries are indeed unfound.
But happy that I learned a new way of archiving the images I used on my Hive post through this method.
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It seems like you have found something that just might work for hive users.
Some images might need that immutability. So this approach could be useful. !PIZZA
Ive never noticed that images don't show?
Ive went way back on some stuff I posted years ago and they still show. Perhaps happens only at random🤔 but that would be a concern of mine because I would very much like to re visit some posts when I am old and frail😂
I am already old and frail! Lol !PIZZA
This has happened to me many times when I put a post and then open it, the link is showing but the image is not showing. Then I edit the post again and remove the link and re-upload it once, then the image is shown there. Now I'll try it the way you said next time and hope it doesn't come up with the problem.
Immutability of the image is not facilitated in the Hive blockchain itself. So I had to look for another solution. !PIZZA
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It's nice to have this alternative and I know that the hive system is a bit more fragile compared to the waybackmachine. I still think the images do come back eventually but it might not be up all the time.
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