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Monica ([personal profile] cellio) wrote2013-12-17 09:28 pm
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image hosting?

Dear LazyWeb, please guide me gently into the 21st century.

As part of another blog project, I need to be able to host a handful of images (for use in <img> tags in posts) in a way that's not clearly tied to my identity. (This blog is separate.) I'm doing the blog on Dreamwidth, which doesn't offer image hosting. I don't really trust LJ's long-term reliability, so setting up another account here just to use the scrapbook doesn't seem ideal. G+ is tied to my name, as is my personal web space. I don't do Facebook.

What I don't want is "photo albums" and "browse all our hosted images" and stuff like that. It looks like Flickr really wants to be a browsable photo album. I just want a place to stick a few images in an otherwise-ignored corner of the internet, for deep-linking in some blog posts. They're not secret or anything; they're just uninteresting to most people.

Where do I do that these days?

[identity profile] tangerinpenguin.livejournal.com 2013-12-18 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
imgur.com appears to be the 800-pound gorilla in this space based on how often I've seen it used elsewhere, but I have no personal experience with it myself.

[identity profile] eub.livejournal.com 2013-12-18 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
Another vote for imgur being a thing that seems to do this, not that I've used it. Imageshack is another one I've seen used (but uh the reason I know their name is that I've been served a placeholder image of text saying some limit was exceeded).

[identity profile] alienor.livejournal.com 2013-12-18 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
with imgur you can upload pictures anonymously as well (but you can't delete them later).
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[personal profile] ironangel 2013-12-19 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
You can delete them later; in the final stage of uploading, in the bottom right-hand corner, you get a deletion link (and an option to mail it to yourself). It only appears that one time, so you have to save it or email it.

I used imgur for images for a bra-fitting reddit :)