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    Image hosting site suggestions?

    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?

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    Re: Image hosting site suggestions?

    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
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    Re: Image hosting site suggestions?

    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.

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    Re: Image hosting site suggestions?

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    Re: Image hosting site suggestions?

    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.

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    Re: Image hosting site suggestions?

    I just had a play and you can embed pictures from OneDrive, like this:



    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

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    Re: Image hosting site suggestions?

    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.
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    Re: Image hosting site suggestions?

    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.
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    Re: Image hosting site suggestions?

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    I just had a play and you can embed pictures from OneDrive, like this:



    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
    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.

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    Re: Image hosting site suggestions?

    If you just want a quick anonymous upload -> get link then imgur is great for that kind of thing.

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    Re: Image hosting site suggestions?

    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.

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    Re: Image hosting site suggestions?

    Thanks for the suggestions and advice, I'll have a play with some of the services suggested.

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