Popular free image hosts and hosting scripts

somik

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?

sanvit

Used to use Chevereto now just use ShareX with S3

somik

Currently using Postimages. Looking for something similar, preferably one that can be used without logging... Something like upload, link and forget.

bikegremlin

imgbb:

https://bikegremlin.imgbb.com/

vyas

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.

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Side trivia:

1. Back in 2019/20, when I was less dumb than I am now... it was @uptime who showed me how to link images from droplr to LES.

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)

2. 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.

3. If you really want to push this idea (#2) , set up a wordpress.com account (free) and upload/ server images from there.

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@bikegremlin said:
imgbb:

https://bikegremlin.imgbb.com/

Damn.. all that bike p0rn needs a login. Sigh!

havoc

I'm just using the built in image functionality?

Is there a reason people are using external?

TheDP

@somik said:
Currently using Postimages. Looking for something similar, preferably one that can be used without logging... Something like upload, link and forget.

https://imgur.com/upload

somik

@havoc said:
I'm just using the built in image functionality?

Is there a reason people are using external?

Erm, which internal one?!?

@TheDP said:

@somik said:
Currently using Postimages. Looking for something similar, preferably one that can be used without logging... Something like upload, link and forget.

https://imgur.com/upload

Yes, another great suggestion!

TheDP

There's also https://catbox.moe.

somik

@TheDP said:
There's also https://catbox.moe.

Dude, you and I are using the same image hosts

My list includes PostImages, CatBox, ImgBB & FreeImage.host

havoc

@somik said:

@havoc said:
I'm just using the built in image functionality?

Is there a reason people are using external?

Erm, which internal one?!?

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

somik

Nope, for some reason, it doesn't work for me (firefox on windows). Probably only works on google chome...

havoc

@somik said:
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?

AuroraZero

My cave and my net. That is why the disappear and reappear at random times. Kind of like the game wack a mole

somik

@havoc said:

@somik said:
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?

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!

@AuroraZero said:
My cave and my net. That is why the disappear and reappear at random times. Kind of like the game wack a mole

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!

AuroraZero

@somik said:

@havoc said:

@somik said:
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?

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!

@AuroraZero said:
My cave and my net. That is why the disappear and reappear at random times. Kind of like the game wack a mole

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.

somik

@AuroraZero said:

@somik said:
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.

That explains this photo I found...

animeiscool

I selfhost using Chibisafe

somik

@animeiscool said:
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.

cpsd

Thanks for the CatBox suggestion!

vyas

@AuroraZero said:

@somik said:

@havoc said:

@somik said:
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?

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!

@AuroraZero said:
My cave and my net. That is why the disappear and reappear at random times. Kind of like the game wack a mole

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.

COLBYLICIOUS

Using ShareX with Cloudflare R2 or Bunny Storage + CDN (aff / non-aff).

sh97

Using Zipline and Chibisafe (with ShareX)

https://github.com/chibisafe/chibisafe
https://github.com/diced/zipline

hornet

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/

somik

@hornet said:
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/