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Rant time.
I've been using Photobucket to host the images I use in forums for the last decade or so but I've had enough the stupid-level of advertisements; unprompted audio, screen hijacking, uses more time, bandwidth and system resource to load ads than content - on an image hosting site... takes the proverbial.
Rant over.
I'm happy to put up with a few ads for a free service, as a benchmark I can tolerate the Hexus-level of ads, what can you suggest?
Are you looking for a service to share or to store? Paid for or 'free'?
If you don't mind paying a small charge, you could do a lot worse than one of the paid for cloud services, Apple, Google or MS, and there are others.
You could also use something like Dropbox or Box.
If its a 'free' (ie paid for by advertising) I can't really suggest anything as I don't use one. Sorry :(
Just to share images, like screencaps, project blogs, classified ad photos etc.
For my occasional uploads, I can't justify a paid service.
While I am looking for a 'free' service, I can't bring myself to use sites that carry ads in the way that Photobucket does out of frustration and principle.
Flickr
I use the free WordPress.com plan for my blog. It gives me a massive chunk of free space, which I occasionally use for uploading photos for forums etc.
I just had a play and you can embed pictures from OneDrive, like this:
https://exp68g.dm2302.livefilestore....&cropmode=none
Not sure how much free space you get with OneDrive nowadays mind you...!
Just had a quick check and I'm currently getting 5GB of storage free on OneDrive. That should hold quite a few pictures if you size them appropriately for forums ;)
I'm with you on the Photobucket annoyance but I still use them (mostly through inertia) I have used a fair few other free sites occasionally though.. Imgur is probably my favourite of those.. straightforward & relatively pared down. flickr I find kind of fiddly. I can't think of a killer downside to Imgur but someone may be able to correct me if they know better.
Funny this thread came up, was trying to upload something to photobucket yesterday and was greeted with "failed to upload" many times. Had a look around and settled on imgur in the end. I only ever use anything I upload on forums etc so was perfect for what I needed it for.
Like the OP I've had enough of PhotoBucket and tried OneDrive as I have a lot of space on there but I just can get it reliably display images for some reason. Either they don't appear at all, or just the link is displayed or sometime it embeds correctly but disappears a few days later.Quote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim
If you just want a quick anonymous upload -> get link then imgur is great for that kind of thing.
I cannot recommend a service, but I would advise you investigate which are routinely blocked by Proxies. I rarely see pictures from things like drop box as these are often filtered out.
Thanks for the suggestions and advice, I'll have a play with some of the services suggested.