Is there any good alternative to imgur?
Is there any good alternative to imgur?
I mainly use imgur to upload screenshots using sharex, would appreciate being pointed in the direction of any alternative.
As someone who doesn't know, what's wrong with imgur?
Imgur announced recently they are going to be purging images that haven't been viewed for x amount of time.
They also banned porn. You know, most of the traffic.
I had heard about them deleting images uploaded without an account, and the nsfw purge stuff, but I hadn't heard about this. Thank you so much! I'll have to make extra sure that everything I've uploaded on my account over the years is for sure backed up elsewhere.
Do you know if this is already happening, or is there a date in the future that it'll start? Most of my uploads are private and I'm too busy to get all of it manually downloaded right this moment (if it's even still there!) Crud!
Thanks for the info, I really appreciate it!
They just stopped hosting porn. Dont know why OP is asking but quite a few people were scrambling for a replacement a couple of weeks ago on reddit.
Requires an account to upload these days.
I just tried it and no account required (yet?). Uploading works fine.
pixelfed might work for you.
Looks interesting and I will def be joining, but it does seem more instagramy than specifically free image hosting.
Yeah, but you can ignore that and hotlink the images, I believe.
You can upload an image when creating a post by clicking on the small thumbnail icon at the bottom right of the file input
Some instances/servers are currently not capable of uploads larger than ~100kb, so a good image CDN is desired.
I also feel like lots of people uploading images directly to an instance's servers put a lot more strain on them - especially at a time where most servers are experiencing serious growing pains and may not really have the funds to keep expanding their storage. They're not ad supported like places like Reddit are.
I think it would be courteous of us to try and spread it out a bit and use services specifically intended for and set up for image hosting.
First thing I thought of as well. I like that they allow image expiration and not just forever.
https://vgy.me/ has been pretty reliable for me
They delete your photos if they're unaccessed by the uploader after a year unfortunately. Ask me how I found out :(
Oh
If you are willing to selfhost: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#file-transfer---single-click--drag-n-drop-upload
Been considering to self-host, Imgur clearly no longer wants to be in the image hosting business and wants to focus on their "community" instead
do they have a sizable community? honestly i just assumed it was almost exclusively used for image hosting.
It's home to a very strange community unaware that their "platform" was just an image host for users of an actual social media platform. Well, at least it was before imgur recently started adding social media features and purged nsfw content.
Popular image posts from reddit would routinely get boosted (sans context) to the top of imgur's homepage, which would attract confused, angry, and often unintentionally hilarious comments from imgur users. Iirc there was a subreddit dedicated to this phenomenon.
IPFS
I found this because I was testing out nostr and suddenly had loli.net in the firewall logs (apparently a content delivery network): https://sm.ms/
I like it because it gives you markdown you can paste into lemmy :D
If you want something very cheap (though not necessarily totally free), and within your control, just get an AWS S3 bucket and put them there. Or possibly Backblaze.
Yep, I'm gradually shifting to S3 for my public direct file sharing as a bit of an exercise in learning AWS. It's not free, but 99.99% of the time it's remarkably cheap. If you're willing to put up with learning AWS (or any other general-purpose platform really, cloud or self-hosted,) there's a nice feeling that comes with having more leniency to do things your way and on your terms.
Now whether it works properly, however, let alone work at all, is an entirely different story. But that's the double-edged sword with going out on your own: it's more likely to be your fault, not someone else's.
id be pretty psyched if my video embedding starts working one of these days 👨💻
I've not looked into it fully but there is that pixelfed which is a part of the fediverse, don't know how it works for public images and whatnot though since it touts itself as a secure platform where you can choose who can see your stuff kind of deal
I'm not sure about the longevity but a lot of people use discord as CDN apparently. There's even an API for that.
I use vgy.me, it doesn't support video uploads but it does have markdown in the image page
edit: switched to catbox because i learned that vgy autoremoves after a year
I've been using my Onedrive storage that comes with my Office subscription. It's not ideal but at least I have some control over how longer the link is available.
Since you're asking for an imgur alternative, I assume that you're looking for something free. My suggestion might not be what you're looking for.
No they don't? 🤔 I'm pretty sure they did once, but right now I am able to upload images with no account. Just dragging the file into the browser window works.
imgs if you want to self host something simple.
