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mandala · September 9

@somik said:
I guess it's time i look into migrating back out of cloudflare, specially since this exists. I dont want a 70k or a 100k bill anytime soon!

CloudFlare doesn't charge for traffic. You will be asked to upgrade to a paid plan or get restricted.

Edit: Catbox doesn't block every VPN IP. It's more likely that I'm lucky enough to always pick banned proxies and VPNs.

Mason · September 9

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

Is there a reason people are using external?

Folks with the 'Content Writer' tag have special permissions to use that feature. Mainly to help when staging LES Talk articles so you don't have to use external sites. It's blocked for everyone else since it was being abused a bit.

vyas · September 9

RedBeard has spoken.

That explains why I could upload images before, not anymore...

Hope all well!

@Mason said:

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

Is there a reason people are using external?

Folks with the 'Content Writer' tag have special permissions to use that feature. Mainly to help when staging LES Talk articles so you don't have to use external sites. It's blocked for everyone else since it was being abused a bit.

somik · September 10

@mandala said:

@somik said:
I guess it's time i look into migrating back out of cloudflare, specially since this exists. I dont want a 70k or a 100k bill anytime soon!

CloudFlare doesn't charge for traffic. You will be asked to upgrade to a paid plan or get restricted.

Edit: Catbox doesn't block every VPN IP. It's more likely that I'm lucky enough to always pick banned proxies and VPNs.

Thanks, but i decided to move the site away form "potential" downtime and instead go with "report here" button for my own image hosting script. Hope that'll at least mitigate that issue. If not, i'll move the image hosting site to a different provider to keep it from bringing my entire server stack down...

@Mason said:

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

Is there a reason people are using external?

Folks with the 'Content Writer' tag have special permissions to use that feature. Mainly to help when staging LES Talk articles so you don't have to use external sites. It's blocked for everyone else since it was being abused a bit.

Have you considered implementing integration with a third party image hosting service like PostImages? They offer javascript only plugins that can help upload image to their site and add the "hotlink" back to the message box: https://postimages.org/plugins

The dont have one for this specific forum script, but the script itself is simple enough to be added/modified.

havoc · September 10

@Mason said:

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

Is there a reason people are using external?

Folks with the 'Content Writer' tag have special permissions to use that feature. Mainly to help when staging LES Talk articles so you don't have to use external sites. It's blocked for everyone else since it was being abused a bit.

ah got it. Right...will try to use an external host going forward then.

somik · September 12

bingobangobongo · September 15

@sh97 said:
Using Zipline and Chibisafe (with ShareX)

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

I’m currently using Zipline - which do you find better of the two??

sh97 · September 15

@bingobangobongo said:

@sh97 said:
Using Zipline and Chibisafe (with ShareX)

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

I’m currently using Zipline - which do you find better of the two??

both are good imo, but I feel Chibisafe is better organized.

tmntwitw · September 15

@somik said:

That's pretty cool. Let's say if I wanted to do the reverse, to extract the text from your image. Would you happen to know of any simple way to do it on the web browser?

somik · September 16

@tmntwitw said:

@somik said:

That's pretty cool. Let's say if I wanted to do the reverse, to extract the text from your image. Would you happen to know of any simple way to do it on the web browser?

Hmm, simple? No. OCR is never easy, but you can leverage on what other people has done and implement that in your code.

Example, using https://freeocr.ai/

You cant do it solely on frontend (browser) but you can do it with the support of a backend. Basically use javascript to "send" the image to a API (you can build your own API on your server where you can use java, python or PHP as a backend) to decode the image back to text and reply, where your javascript will receive the response.

somik · September 19

Ignore me, just testing the image retention of free image hosts i found...

Postimage:

Catbox:

Pomf:

0x0:

Imgur:

MyImg:

Imagehost.cc:

UpImg:

ImgBox:

ImgBB:

FreeImageHost:

HostImage:

PasteImg:

ImgBB.ws:

Img.in.th:

Inspirats:

FxPics:

Po*p.Pictures:

Site.Pictures:

SnappyPic:

Eikona:

mizzik · September 19

Imgur has become a real piece of crap.

somik · September 20

@mizzik said:
Imgur has become a real piece of crap.

I think they are on their way out. The API key generation dont work, cant register new apps, etc. Dunno if they ever plan to fix it either!

somik · September 20

So... i got a few more image hosts... and now am lost and got no idea what the initial idea was...

.

Host CatBox:

Host PostImages:

Host 0x0.st:

Host pomf2.lain.la:

Host UploadImgur:

Host UpImg:

Host ImgBB (API):

Host myimgs.org:

Host imghost.cc:

Host ImgPaste:

Host ImgIU:

Host FileShare.ing:

Host SnipShot.io:

Host Img.in.th:

Host PngUp:

Host Xilt.net:

Host Inspirats:

Host WindyPix:

Host FxPics.ru:

Host ImgBB.ws:

Host Poop.pictures:

Host 8upload:

Host ImgLink.io:

Host SnappyPic:

Host Site.pictures:

Host ImgBox:

Host BigByte.no:

Host PicSer.Pages.dev:

Host ImgBB:

Host ImgHive:

Host DragNdropZ:

Host ImgCDN.dev:

Host HostImage.org:

Host PasteImg:

Host AnonPic.org:

Host ImgKub:

Host ImageCC.net:

Host Image2url:

Host ImgUh:

Host ImgHit:

Host ImgTap:

Host PixelStash.co:

Host Eikona.info:

Host PixShare.de:

Host ImgShare.pl:

Host JpgJet:

Host FreeImage.host:

Host ZippyImage:

AuroraZero · September 20

@somik said:
So... i got a few more image hosts... and now am lost and got no idea what the initial idea was...

.

Host CatBox:

Host PostImages:

Host 0x0.st:

Host pomf2.lain.la:

Host UploadImgur:

Host UpImg:

Host ImgBB (API):

Host myimgs.org:

Host imghost.cc:

Host ImgPaste:

Host ImgIU:

Host FileShare.ing:

Host SnipShot.io:

Host Img.in.th:

Host PngUp:

Host Xilt.net:

Host Inspirats:

Host WindyPix:

Host FxPics.ru:

Host ImgBB.ws:

Host Poop.pictures:

Host 8upload:

Host ImgLink.io:

Host SnappyPic:

Host Site.pictures:

Host ImgBox:

Host BigByte.no:

Host PicSer.Pages.dev:

Host ImgBB:

Host ImgHive:

Host DragNdropZ:

Host ImgCDN.dev:

Host HostImage.org:

Host PasteImg:

Host AnonPic.org:

Host ImgKub:

Host ImageCC.net:

Host Image2url:

Host ImgUh:

Host ImgHit:

Host ImgTap:

Host PixelStash.co:

Host Eikona.info:

Host PixShare.de:

Host ImgShare.pl:

Host JpgJet:

Host FreeImage.host:

Host ZippyImage:

Okay I know most of us have OCD but, this is kind of weird don't you think? Stop forcing your kinks on me!!!!!!

somik · September 20

@AuroraZero said:
Okay I know most of us have OCD but, this is kind of weird don't you think? Stop forcing your kinks on me!!!!!!

Ya... I need to stay away from imagehosts (and filehosts in general) for a while...

Would you be surprised to know that I also wrote custom modules for my imagehost to be able to upload image to ALL of the above image hosts and retrieve the hotlink?

Change the "Host" dropdown on: https://imageperl.com/
before uploading a image...

Anyway, if anyone needs me, I'll be hiding from imagehosts...

vyas · September 30

Imgur leaving UK market…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424888

WSS · October 1

#dicks

somik · October 1

@vyas said:
Imgur leaving UK market…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424888

Yep, saw that news...

I added external image hosts to my imagehost cause I was worried of the copyright strikes, and now laws are hitting everyone...

Oh well, it's time for AI generated crap to fill the internet!

havoc · October 1

Imgur bailed on the UK. One more site to add to my proxy redirect list...starting to get wild how fragmented the internet is becoming

somik · October 1

@havoc said:
Imgur bailed on the UK. One more site to add to my proxy redirect list...starting to get wild how fragmented the internet is becoming

It makes a lot of sense if you think about it. If all the copyright claims and new content policy are coming from country "A", just block country "A" from accessing your sites. I mean it's not good for the users, but who gives a f**k about them anyway?

somik · October 1

Btw, read the news on https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/imgur_exits_uk/

Let me get this straight...

So Imgur’s big daddy, MediaLab, is being investigated by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (whatever that is). They want to fine MediaLab for some reason, so Imgur is making the people suffer so they get their government to "not" charge MediaLab?

MediaLab can still be charged by UK's ICO for past offences.
User data is still on Imgur, not deleted by default.
And this block happened overnight.

Seems like how a certain group of people tried to ban TikTok and backed off when they got money?

AuroraZero · October 1

Hello my name is @somik and I am an image host addict.

hornet · October 2

@somik said: So... i got a few more image hosts... and now am lost and got no idea what the initial idea was...

haha

somik · October 3

@AuroraZero said:
Hello my name is @somik and I am an image host addict.

I could not find a ImageHostAddictAnonymous anywhere, so it's fine. In 2025 they still dont consider it to be a serious addiction

@hornet said:

@somik said: So... i got a few more image hosts... and now am lost and got no idea what the initial idea was...

haha

Isn't that how it always happens? You get into your project with a basic idea, then you iterate on it till you lose the objective and keep iterating on it and then stop and realize your project is no longer what you envisioned...

somik · October 13

Looks like the following hosts have removed the test images...

0x0.st
SnipShot.io
PngUp
BigByte.no
ImgCDN.dev
AnonPic.org
ImageCC.net
ImgUh

Moreover, PixShare.de & ImgShare.pl adds ugly watermarks...

eliphas · October 14

@somik said:
Looks like the following hosts have removed the test images...
5. ImgCDN.dev

Did you test ImgCDN.dev in anonymous mode or logged in? Anon has 2 weeks limit.

somik · October 15

@eliphas said:

@somik said:
Looks like the following hosts have removed the test images...
5. ImgCDN.dev

Did you test ImgCDN.dev in anonymous mode or logged in? Anon has 2 weeks limit.

Annon. All except imgBB are uploaded annon.

Did not realize ImgCDN.dev had a 2 week limit. Thanks for letting me know

rcy026 · October 15

@somik said:

Isn't that how it always happens? You get into your project with a basic idea, then you iterate on it till you lose the objective and keep iterating on it and then stop and realize your project is no longer what you envisioned...

Oh fuck, that hit me like a shovel. When I think about it, every project or business I've ever ran started out as something completely different.

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