Popular free image hosts and hosting scripts
For those of you who are posting images to LES/LET, what are some of the popular image hosts you guys use?
If you are hosting your own image hosts, what scripts are you guys using?
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Used to use Chevereto now just use ShareX with S3
Currently using Postimages. Looking for something similar, preferably one that can be used without logging... Something like upload, link and forget.
imgbb:
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There is a LES member who runs the im.ge prjoect- I had used it a couple of years ago...had even exchanged some DM's for a project I was (then) working on.
Nowadays almost all images are posted here- via droplr (paid), or rarely... imgbb.
Side trivia:
Default path is drop.lr/abcdefgh,which vanilla does not recognize. He "taught" me to right click on imageandcopy path(cdn-std.droplr.net/abcdefgh)
on OGF during BF sale, some host had hot linked an image from wordpress website of some municipality in a small US town, that was ... interesting.
If you really want to push this idea (#2) , set up a wordpress.com account (free) and upload/ server images from there.
Damn.. all that bike p0rn needs a login. Sigh!
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I'm just using the built in image functionality?
Is there a reason people are using external?
https://imgur.com/upload
"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Erm, which internal one?!?
Yes, another great suggestion!
There's also https://catbox.moe.
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Dude, you and I are using the same image hosts
My list includes PostImages, CatBox, ImgBB & FreeImage.host
You just paste an image directly into the comment box. Uploads and links it. Not sure how chuffed the admins are about space usage but works...path looks like this:
https://lowendspirit.com/uploads/editor/3j/ksrorwkn6tbg.png
Nope, for some reason, it doesn't work for me (firefox on windows). Probably only works on google chome...
Must be something else - I've used it on both FF/windows and FF/linux.
If you right click the LES logo top left of this page, select copy image and the ctrl V it into the comment box it doesn't work for you?
My cave and my net. That is why the disappear and reappear at random times. Kind of like the game wack a mole
The Yeti has left the building.
Tried that, and no, still doesn't work. No errors on console and i dont see any network activity being triggered for the file upload either. Disabled adblock as well, no dice. Oh well!
Wait, then how did people on the internet find pictures of your yeti family? I always see them posting it here and there as proof of your existence!
Paparazzi those guys are vultures. Can't take a shit unless I want to trip over them. Also I think @vyas has been deep faking a bunch of them as a side hustle.
The Yeti has left the building.
That explains this photo I found...
I selfhost using Chibisafe
I was selfhosting as well, but am worried about copyright claims. The country I am living in takes it a bit too seriously...
So decided to go with image hosts that do not require accounts to "share" images on public forums.
Thanks for the CatBox suggestion!
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Using ShareX with Cloudflare R2 or Bunny Storage + CDN (aff / non-aff).
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Using Zipline and Chibisafe (with ShareX)
https://github.com/chibisafe/chibisafe
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https://vgy.me/
https://s-ul.eu/files
https://www.imagebam.com/
https://imgbb.com/
https://imgcdn.dev/
https://freeimage.host/
https://im.ge/
https://zapodaj.net/
https://www.directupload.eu/
https://postimages.org/
https://pasteboard.co/
https://imgbox.com/
Damn, that's a big list to go through, and i don't know many of them!
https://vgy.me/ - No anonymous uploading
https://s-ul.eu/files - No anonymous uploading
https://www.imagebam.com/
https://imgbb.com/ - Already using
https://imgcdn.dev/ - Thanks for this!
https://freeimage.host/ - Already using
https://im.ge/ - No anonymous uploading
https://zapodaj.net/
https://www.directupload.eu/
https://postimages.org/ - Already using
https://pasteboard.co/ - Image upload works, but when accessing the link, it says image deleted on many images... weird!
https://imgbox.com/
Free image hosts
In addition to Catbox, there's a Pomf clone from lain.la allowing hotlinking: https://pomf2.lain.la/
Catbox has been blocking VPN traffic lately, Lain plays nice with everyone except Tor. Neither supports IPv6. (I got a rare ping that Lain responded)
Self-hosted
Lutim (old, inactive)
Demo
Pictshare (old, inactive, feature-rich)
Shotshare (inactive)
Uguu (reincarnated Pomf)
Slink (feature-rich)
Picsur (totally not an Imgur clone)
Demo
Thanks for the recommendation. Already aware of pomf2, but wasn't aware that catbox blocks vpn traffic. Not a good imagehost if some of the users cant even see the images...
I have my own image hosting script, but am trying to avoid using it due to possible "copyright infringement" claims. The country I am residing in takes it very seriously so want to avoid getting into legal troubles and fines as much as possible. I am already poor enough as is!
I am trying to route the traffic through cloudflare for now, hoping it'll somehow protect my server's IP, but not holding too much hope on this...
That wouldn't help as abuse reports are forwarded from CloudFlare to your host. [1]
And Cloudflare doesn't want you to serve so much non-HTML content this way, you need to use their specific paid services. [2]
I've seen people pushing hundreds GB with a media server on a free CF without getting restricted, but take it with a grain of salt.
On OGF DutchIS advertised their WAF. The ToS doesn't explicitly state what kind of content is forbidden, just don't stress their servers too much I guess.
But if your goal is to protect yourself from abuse claims, no proxies would shield you from that.
Awesome... That's what I get for not reading the TOS
Thanks for highlighting this. And yes, I am somewhat worried about cloudflare traffic, since I am on their free tier. The move from cloudflare back to my DNS provider doesn't seem that fast either, let alone dealing with their SSL lock...
And since it is a business, I doubt they'll care much about free users, opting to either overcharge me the first chance they get or kick me off...
Lucky people... for my website, the traffic currently is sitting around 200 MB per day, which equates to around 6 GB per month, but I dont think it'll stay low as it is now.
There is always the option of a reverse proxy to shield my website completely, but then it's best to host my site on that server hosting the reverse proxy instead. Oh well, it was a good attempt!
I guess it's time i look into migrating back out of cloudflare, specially since this exists. I dont want a 70k or a 100k bill anytime soon!
There is a setting in CF to rate limit things...forgot details but it's available even on free tier...i recall toying with it a year or so back
I've been looking at bunny.net for this purpose more though...their packages are basically prepaid so no real risk of surprises and much of the CF functionality is there
CloudFlare doesn't charge for traffic. You will be asked to upgrade to a paid plan or get restricted.
Edit: Catbox doesn't block every VPN IP. It's more likely that I'm lucky enough to always pick banned proxies and VPNs.
Folks with the 'Content Writer' tag have special permissions to use that feature. Mainly to help when staging LES Talk articles so you don't have to use external sites. It's blocked for everyone else since it was being abused a bit.
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RedBeard has spoken.
That explains why I could upload images before, not anymore...
Hope all well!
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Thanks, but i decided to move the site away form "potential" downtime and instead go with "report here" button for my own image hosting script. Hope that'll at least mitigate that issue. If not, i'll move the image hosting site to a different provider to keep it from bringing my entire server stack down...
Have you considered implementing integration with a third party image hosting service like PostImages? They offer javascript only plugins that can help upload image to their site and add the "hotlink" back to the message box: https://postimages.org/plugins
The dont have one for this specific forum script, but the script itself is simple enough to be added/modified.
ah got it. Right...will try to use an external host going forward then.
I’m currently using Zipline - which do you find better of the two??
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both are good imo, but I feel Chibisafe is better organized.
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That's pretty cool. Let's say if I wanted to do the reverse, to extract the text from your image. Would you happen to know of any simple way to do it on the web browser?
Hmm, simple? No. OCR is never easy, but you can leverage on what other people has done and implement that in your code.
Example, using https://freeocr.ai/
You cant do it solely on frontend (browser) but you can do it with the support of a backend. Basically use javascript to "send" the image to a API (you can build your own API on your server where you can use java, python or PHP as a backend) to decode the image back to text and reply, where your javascript will receive the response.
Ignore me, just testing the image retention of free image hosts i found...
Postimage:
Catbox:
Pomf:
0x0:
Imgur:
MyImg:
Imagehost.cc:
UpImg:
ImgBox:
ImgBB:
FreeImageHost:
HostImage:
PasteImg:
ImgBB.ws:
Img.in.th:
Inspirats:
FxPics:
Po*p.Pictures:
Site.Pictures:
SnappyPic:
Eikona:
Imgur has become a real piece of crap.
apt mooI think they are on their way out. The API key generation dont work, cant register new apps, etc. Dunno if they ever plan to fix it either!
So... i got a few more image hosts... and now am lost and got no idea what the initial idea was...
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Host CatBox:
Host PostImages:
Host 0x0.st:
Host pomf2.lain.la:
Host UploadImgur:
Host UpImg:
Host ImgBB (API):
Host myimgs.org:
Host imghost.cc:
Host ImgPaste:
Host ImgIU:
Host FileShare.ing:
Host SnipShot.io:
Host Img.in.th:
Host PngUp:
Host Xilt.net:
Host Inspirats:
Host WindyPix:
Host FxPics.ru:
Host ImgBB.ws:
Host Poop.pictures:
Host 8upload:
Host ImgLink.io:
Host SnappyPic:
Host Site.pictures:
Host ImgBox:
Host BigByte.no:
Host PicSer.Pages.dev:
Host ImgBB:
Host ImgHive:
Host DragNdropZ:
Host ImgCDN.dev:
Host HostImage.org:
Host PasteImg:
Host AnonPic.org:
Host ImgKub:
Host ImageCC.net:
Host Image2url:
Host ImgUh:
Host ImgHit:
Host ImgTap:
Host PixelStash.co:
Host Eikona.info:
Host PixShare.de:
Host ImgShare.pl:
Host JpgJet:
Host FreeImage.host:
Host ZippyImage:
Okay I know most of us have OCD but, this is kind of weird don't you think? Stop forcing your kinks on me!!!!!!
The Yeti has left the building.
Ya... I need to stay away from imagehosts (and filehosts in general) for a while...
Would you be surprised to know that I also wrote custom modules for my imagehost to be able to upload image to ALL of the above image hosts and retrieve the hotlink?
Change the "Host" dropdown on: https://imageperl.com/
before uploading a image...
Anyway, if anyone needs me, I'll be hiding from imagehosts...
Imgur leaving UK market…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424888
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#dicks
"It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington
Yep, saw that news...
I added external image hosts to my imagehost cause I was worried of the copyright strikes, and now laws are hitting everyone...
Oh well, it's time for AI generated crap to fill the internet!
Imgur bailed on the UK. One more site to add to my proxy redirect list...starting to get wild how fragmented the internet is becoming