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?
Edit: Thanks for the info guys.
Imgur announced recently they are going to be purging images that haven’t been viewed for x amount of time.
Haven’t they always, though? Pretty sure since the beginning it purged anything that hasn’t been viewed for something like 6 months or so. That’s why you got a lot of dead links in old Reddit (or others) posts
If you’re just shitposting dank memes, having the pictures deleted after a while shouldn’t be a big problem. If you’re posting something a bit more valuable, consider keeping the pictures on flickr or even pixelfed.
Is pixelfed really a good way to prevent dead links? I don’t know much about it other than that it’s part of the fediverse, so I’d assume any pictures hosted there last only as long as the instance they’re posted to.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing, as long as you aren’t using it for archival purposes. I would prefer not everything I post live forever.
While I’d agree for identifying pictures, image hosting that suddenly doesn’t one day becomes a huge problem for a lot of old tutorial-based content. Look at any old car forum for examples.
pixelfed might work for you.
Looks interesting and I will def be joining, but it does seem more instagramy than specifically free image hosting.
Sure, but most (all?) pixelfed instances are run by volunteers. If someone’s using their instance just to hotlink images elsewhere, an admin might decide it’s not worth it.
Of course, that’s true for just using a pixelfed instance for its documented purpose, but at least then you’re probably privy to what’s being discussed on the instance in terms of server costs, etc.
You can upload an image when creating a post by clicking on the small thumbnail icon at the bottom right of the file input
you can also copy and image and paste it straight into the text box, it will upload and embed the image:
This is straight from greenshot.
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.
If you are willing to selfhost: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#file-transfer---single-click--drag-n-drop-upload
