imgur is good for this. we have a script on the insert credit forums that automatically uploads an image to imgur for you and then links it - it's pretty neat! not that I suggest you do that here.

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Posted by exodus on August 13, 2020 at 13:57:33 EST in reply to Ohh I see, you needed a place to host it! Yeah I don't have that. I used to have a Photobucket account myself but it ended up getting weird and I think they ultimately shut down. So now I just upload pics for myself via ftp to a "junk" folder on my server in the monkey board directory...but I'm not about to set up a public ftp for that, and yeah a login-required image upload feature would be a bit too retro, not to mention against the basic design principle of this no-login board! *waves lighter* from Paleface.

imgur is good for this. we have a script on the insert credit forums that automatically uploads an image to imgur for you and then links it - it's pretty neat! not that I suggest you do that here.

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Am I the only one left who still pays $15 a month to never have this issue? I mean, why does it HAVE to be a shitty free service that you know won’t last? And doesn’t that constantly worry you? Like, one day all the images on your forum are going to be gone ruining half the threads. You could just have all those images in a folder somewhere. Wouldn’t that (usually) be way better? If anyone wants to do the work I have space. I’ll give someone the passwords.

(SignOfZeta)

(19:20:56 08/26/20 EST)

Having your own site is definitely the way to go. : D When I was working on an MMO for SOE (:P) I would upload about 42 screenshots from the previous day's live player event to my ImageShack account, because of course SOE wasn't about to give me server access for that--and it wouldn't have been this handy anyway because I was able to make a script to do it and generate the HTML for me to hotlink the all onto our game forum. In the end I had 24,500 of these game screenshots on my ImageShack account. ; ) After I left the company, ImageShack got weird and eventually I just let the account lapse, so there went those hotlinked event posts. I did have them backed up though and now they're generously hosted on a player's server. : )

(Paleface)

(18:05:14 08/28/20 EST)

Why pay for permanence when transience can be had for free?

(Being and Nothingness)

(16:31:50 08/30/20 EST)

That is pretty cool, and it also explains why I still see imgur being used these days--I'd forgotten about them.

(Paleface)

(18:06:20 08/28/20 EST)

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