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johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

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Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

Now that Imgur is inaccessible in the UK,
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=9568
we have to think about suitable alternatives to use in our built-in utilities like the "quick screenshot and upload" item in the menu. (Unless the UK issue is worked out.)

Things to consider:

1) free
2) available world-wide
3) anonymous upload possible
4) access via an api, so scripts can use it
5) no extra nasty privacy issues

Please post suggestions! (It might turn out to be impossible to satisfy all the above conditions...)

Here's a random bunch I turned up yesterday:

https://postimages.org/
https://postimages.org/plugins/fluxbb
https://imgbb.com/
https://api.imgbb.com/
https://catbox.moe/ # catbox probably blocked in many countries
https://catbox.moe/tools.php
https://gist.github.com/MineBartekSA/1d … 9b4fb06591
https://litterbox.catbox.moe/
https://hostr.co/

And a lot of people on this forum are already using:

https://imgbox.com

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PackRat

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Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

I've been using imgbox because the thumbnail image scales to show the entire image. The imgbb site is nice, but the thumbnails are cropped.

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ceeslans

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Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

+1

MarkW

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Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

I've been using imgbox because the thumbnail image scales to show the entire image. The imgbb site is nice, but the thumbnails are cropped.

This ^

brontosaurusrex

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

I've been using imgbox because the thumbnail image scales to show the entire image. The imgbb site is nice, but the thumbnails are cropped.

Looking at the imgbox.com site, there is no mention of any kind of upload API, is there one? (Sure, we can work around that, but ...)

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unklar

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From: #! BL

Registered: 2015-10-31

Posts: 2,702

Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

I only consider the following to be practical:

postimages
imgbb

and
catbox
litterbox

which I am not yet familiar with and will try out. Thanks for the links @johnraff.

Everything else is contaminated with ***gugel***.

It's not that imgur is to blame. The EU is also working on a so-called CSA regulation, and at the moment, only Germany is standing in the way of its mandatory implementation.

In the long term, the BL forum will face this problem again and again until we can forget about ‘image hosting’. 

PackRat

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Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

I've been using imgbox because the thumbnail image scales to show the entire image. The imgbb site is nice, but the thumbnails are cropped.

Looking at the imgbox.com site, there is no mention of any kind of upload API, is there one? (Sure, we can work around that, but ...)

I don't know, and have never looked for one. I don't use auto-uploading for images because I like to proof them first for personal info or flaws.

Edit - Based on your other thread, you seem to have found one.

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MarkW

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Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

Some forums have self hosting for small files like images.  But I imagine the cost of the server space needed would be prohibitive. And does this forum software even allow for such a thing anyway?

hhh

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Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

I use imgbox. I'm pissed when I forget to choose 'scale'. Especially when I don't have the delete url and I think "Great. More Internet cruft."

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Gaucho

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Re: Image hosting services suitable for BL forum users

Yeah, I'm uploading scrots to imgbox on a new carbon install, so firefox doesn't have an adblocker extension added yet. They've got pROn ads, not really the look we want?

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