Image hosting alternatives?

I didn't like Flickr either. I ended up making a neo cities for this. It's a website host with a generous amount of space for free accounts. I think all my images hosted from neocities are still visible in the forum... At least the ones I've checked.

 

I've used Postimages and ImgBB. Both are easy, have enough free space, and I've had no problems with them deleting or censoring anything. Postimages had some server issues some time ago so I made the switch to imgBB but otherwise they're both pretty okay.

Neocities offers 1gb of free storage which may or may not be enough in the long run, I think it used to be more in the past?

 

I run a little Neocities site and hotlink the images. It's not as convenient as Imgur or others, since I have to resize the images manually to 800px before uploading, but I don't care. Technically it's against their policy to get their storage just to use it for this kind of purpose, so without a website you might get taken down. There's a bandwidth quota but DOA activity uses so little I doubt I'll ever run out.

 

What's your trick for posting with Neocities? I've tried to do it in the past and the images didn't want to post correctly.

 

when I save my images after editing I make sure the maximum size on either side was 800 pixels, I read somewhere on the forum that that was the ideal or best size for here but I can't remember where. Then I just plopped the url into the image embed thingy

For whatever it's worth I did end up starting a little website too just as an archive, which I've worked on on and off, using a free layout, even with web pages I haven't made a dent in the storage limit, because of the file resizing I imagine.

 

If you have a supporter account, you can technically hotlink images from neocities, but you shouldn't. It seems to work even for free accounts, but even so, it's against the server owner's wishes. This is really similar to the reason you aren't allowed to hotlink images from company sites here. There's nothing in netiquette against sharing a link to an image though.

 

Well, I guess I'm done sharing images online then unless there's some good alternatives i had used postimgs once for sales and I had to reupload stuff which was annoying. Imgur is unreliable and Flickr is too complicated. Is there nowhere as simple as this anymore?

Edit to add I just checked out imgbb, it is serving me some weird nsfw ads, I guess we're all adults here, but that's not really my jam

 

I honestly don't think anyone will mind too much about clicking a link if they want to see your image. You wouldn't even need to resize it (but it would be appreciated). The free image hosts these days are really bad, but there's not a huge need for them anymore since the internet population has moved to social media and off forums.

I don't think github has any issues with hotlinking images since resources are hotlinked from there frequently. This isn't going to be a pain free simple solution but it could be an option. I'll look a little further into it. Also, I use mogrify to resize my images and I highly recommend it. It's extremely fast.

Update: a github repo with pages enabled seems to be working for me!

 

I am pretty familiar with github but I never thought of using as an image host, great idea!

 

@nyaaain Aw dammit. I did read a different disclaimer way back when I had an older account, which made me think the key point was just not abusing Neocities as a file host, but this seems more clear about hotlinking. I guess I'll just link until I decide to move. Github seems like a great idea.