Image hosting and loss

Discussion in 'CHYOA General' started by StanS55, Jan 23, 2018.

  1. StanS55

    StanS55 Experienced

    Hi all,

    Sadly my image host shut down taking almost all my story pics with it. No local copies.

    Q 1 - Recomendations for image hosting? One that has album feature. Don't want to use Imgur.

    Q 2 - Any wondrous ideas on recovery? I tried internet archive on chyoa and image host no luck.
     
  2. gscmar64

    gscmar64 Really Experienced

    Sorry to hear that you lost all! if this makes you feel any better the understanding i have is that imgur is going PG16

    Myself I use ImgBB ( https://imgbb.com/ ) for all the images in my stories has album features I believe you're looking for.
     
  3. StanS55

    StanS55 Experienced

    Thank GS, appreciate that - however I think imgbb is another arm of the same company I just had issues with.

    I used to host on picsgonewild who locked themselves down, I moved to hushpix.com there new one and they just disappeared. imgbb I think is the same company, at least they have the exact same image hosting system, template, buttons, menus and all.
     
  4. StanS55

    StanS55 Experienced

    For those who might have same issue - I settled on img.yt for hosting. Its not as easy to use and get links from, but looks stable.
     
  5. StanS55

    StanS55 Experienced

    Aaaand Img.yt hinted they are shutting down now.. anyone else have suggestions on image host?
     
  6. dingsdongs

    dingsdongs Really Really Experienced

    Everything that i uploaded to imgur.com appears to still be online after around one year.
    But you never know, so always keep a backup.
     
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  7. StanS55

    StanS55 Experienced

    Since its so popular, I've always been worried how it might squash that stuff.

    Good news though I found one - pixxxels.org has been around for awhile and has all the features I've been looking for (Except upload via URL).

    Got my images hosted and could finally publish my [shameless plug] new story - pokegirls. Hope this post helps someone else find hosting if they need it.
     
  8. StanS55

    StanS55 Experienced

    Aaaaand it's gone. Wow, another host disappears with all the photos, which are well backed up this time. Guess I'll be using imgur private albums and hoping for the best.
     
  9. Dansak

    Dansak Really Really Experienced

    just lost my host, picsbees.

    How did you get on with imgur?

    I'm being dumb here but it says no adult content? Have you got around it some how?
     
  10. majus

    majus CHYOA Guru

    You can try 'imgbox'. I am using it, and so far (after two weeks) I don't have any problems.
     
  11. Dansak

    Dansak Really Really Experienced

    I went with imgur (Apologies Majus, I did it before I read your post above) as the weight of opinion seems to be in that direction.

    I've posted some adult pics on my chapters via imgur and so far so good. Imgur is very user friendly, I'm not tech savy at all and find it easy to use.
     
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  12. majus

    majus CHYOA Guru

    No problem, as long as it works for you.