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Free (and Safe) Image (Non-archive) Storage
« on: October 20, 2018, 05:06:56 PM »
A few years ago, I often uploaded images to Photobucket so I could to an link the image here at TS. This was helpful when TS had a rather meager web space. And it allowed me to share an image in other forums or an email. Unfortunately, as with most "free" things, Photobucket canceled free "hot-linking", it now requires $40 (per yr?).

There are now lots of "free" image storage sites. Many have a file size limit. Some have a limited storage space. Most limit file formats to the standard .gif, .jpeg and .png. Since they are free, I would not recommend any of them for "archiving" your photographic work; you might not get any notice when they "close up the shop" and you could easily lose all your images!

However, I'm wondering if anyone here has any experience with any of the following sites (alphabetical order only)? :Thinking:
  • buddyimage.com, 8MB max size, YACF*
  • cubeupload.com, 5MB max size, never compressed
  • imagebam.com, 10MB max size, creates thumbnails (max dimensions: 350 x 350 pixels), up to 30 images at once, 10 years old
  • imagehosting.biz, YACF*
  • imgBB, links to your image at this site displays in a window when the forum software includes an API
  • imgbox, 10 MB max size
  • imgonly.com, 10MB (or 2MB!?) max size, YACF*
  • ImgSafe, 20MB Max size
  • Irista.com, owned by Canon, 15GB free space
  • nickpic.host, YACF*
  • picijo, 10MB max size if registered
  • pixelfed.social, Open source, but unknown info!
  • Snaggy, great for screenshots, must view your images every 6 months to avoid their deletion
  • tinypic, lots of adds/popups, will re-size to 6 preset dimensions
  • tinypix, 10MB max size, YACF*)
  • thumbsnap, 2MB max size, requires Twitter Acct for multiple uploading
  • uploadhouse.com, 2MB max size, up to 20 files at once

I did not include any sites that do not have a free plan. Nor did I include iCloud, Google Cloud/Drive, DropBox, etc., none of which have free, unlimited space.

*YACF=Yet Another Chereveto Framework, The "framework" most favored by many sites seems to be Chereveto.
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Re: Free (and Safe) Image (Non-archive) Storage
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2018, 05:34:09 PM »
I've never used any of those... (generally use Dropbox and Google Drive - recently upgraded to a paid DB account because I use it extensively with clients, and some of them were sharing huge amounts of data with me - far beyond what my free account could handle)

And you forgot https://www.flickr.com - probably the best, if you ask me. 1TB, free. They have a paid plan too, which is ad-free etc.

Review and some info here: https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2324482,00.asp

Google Photos also offers 1TB of free photo storage, as long as you don't mind being the product. (data collection so they can target ads better...etc.)

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Re: Free (and Safe) Image (Non-archive) Storage
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2018, 10:22:18 PM »
Maybe I left it out but the other key requirement is "hot-linking". I don't think Dropbox allows that. Not sure about Google's options, but they already 'borrow' too much data, anyway. 1TB is probably more than I need, but, as I mentioned, I left out sites that don't have unlimited and free space. On second though, I may not have checked that space allowance carefully enough... I was getting lazy toward the end of the post, especially after losing the first draft within a few words of completion! :wallbash: Second time around I kept a TextEdit copy open! :laughhard:

I also left out all the "fremium" sites, ads are bad enough without having 'guilt trips' because you're using their free services. :rolleyes: :laughhard:
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Re: Free (and Safe) Image (Non-archive) Storage
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2018, 01:41:20 PM »
Flicker losing the "free 1TB" limit! Except they are doing it by limiting the free accounts to simply "1,000 images". :rolleyes: Of course, you might be able to create some absolutely humongous images and exceed the original 1TB. All you need is 1,000 images with a size of ~1050GB each (assuming my math is close to correct). How and where you create those images is left as an exercise for the reader...
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