Comments on: Looking for a good, free, online image hosting service

Question: Looking for a good, free, online image hosting service

squidfartz — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:40:50 -0800

Can anyone suggest a good, free, online image hosting service? PhotoIsland is gone, PhotoBucket is shit and freely goes into my files and deletes images (like nude photographs of my girlfriend that did not show any nipple or genitalia and a cartoon I drew of us screwing -a cartoon!-) and their server is either really slow or just 'locks' half the time, so loading images for a post on my blog is a huge chore. I'm looking for a fast, realiable service that will not censor my PG-13 content. I understand that these are free services and I shouldn't bitch, but they need to understand that they wouldn't have advertisers without users like me. HELP!

By: jb

jb — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:53:32 -0800

Have you tried Flickr? It will put questionable content behind a warning, but not delete it (that I know of). You can have up to the most recent 200 photos accessible at one time, but if you have linked older photos to a page elsewhere, they will still be visible.

By: jb

jb — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:54:04 -0800

Also, there are some nice apps for uploading quickly (right from windows explorer).

By: randomination

randomination — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:54:39 -0800

Have you considered Flickr? You can hotlink images from there as long as you link back to the photo's page on the site. There's no bandwidth limit afaik.

By: randomination

randomination — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:55:22 -0800

Have I considered previewing? No, it doesn't look like it. Oops.

By: k8t

k8t — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:55:30 -0800

Flickr is great for me!

By: ceri richard

ceri richard — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:10:35 -0800

Still in beta but Zooomr is very good too with a free Pro account for bloggers.

By: squidfartz

squidfartz — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:15:16 -0800

These are all excellent suggestions -thank you so much.

By: JJ86

JJ86 — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:57:46 -0800

I've been using Fileanchor after hearing about it on SA and have been happy with it. It's a 20Mb filesize limit and you can upgrade it to 50Mb (visit their forums and look for posts on how to do this)

By: JJ86

JJ86 — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:58:28 -0800

BTW, Flickr doesn't allow much in the way of nude or overly sexual content.

By: echo0720

echo0720 — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:01:06 -0800

I use both flickr and Ofoto (now called Kodak Gallery). I have friends who use Snapfish and like it, too.

By: 543DoublePlay

543DoublePlay — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:17:44 -0800

Another one is Shutterfly, although I think that is more "family oriented". They do pretty good printing services.

By: jeffmik

jeffmik — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:54:53 -0800

Picasa by Google now has a web album feature in beta - you might want to check it out.

Their TOS says no pornography or obscenity - but doesn't define either.

http://picasaweb.google.com

By: convex

convex — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:39:00 -0800

http://www.yourep.com looks good, the free account is limited to 2 GB though.

By: Pasa la bola chetu

Pasa la bola chetu — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:40:38 -0800

there is also myfabrik, no upload limit during beta and 2gigs storage

By: justgary

justgary — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:51:34 -0800

People who are suggesting snapfish, kodak Gallery etc must have missed your comment about nude photos. Even with pg13 content most companies that public aren't going to want to deal with your pictures.

Why not buy cheap space on a server and host them yourself?

but they need to understand that they wouldn't have advertisers without users like me. HELP!

You're wrong. They have enough users for advertisers not to have to deal with questionable content of one person. When you use free space, you have to play by their rules, and that's what you need to understand.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:54:35 -0800

This is a relatively new host that I can guarantee will not have a problem with the dirty pics.

By: deeman

deeman — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:08:18 -0800

i'm a big fan of webshots. a free account gives you enough space for most people, but if you need more, you can either sign up for an account (relatively cheap) or just create another free account. webshots also provides software to both free and registered users to easy upload multiple pictures online. it's also spyware free. I've been using it for years now and the selling point for me was that you can share full-sized photos unline flickr which reduces the image size online.

www.webshots.com

By: phrontist

phrontist — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:13:59 -0800

Nearly Free Speech is exactly what you need.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:17:31 -0800

Plogger is an open-source PHP/MySQL web photo gallery.

Or you could use a photo gallery plugin for weblog software, like myGallery for WordPress, or Photo Gallery for Movable Type.

Photo Gallery's based on these galleries and templates by Stop Design, which describe an iPhoto-to-Movable Type-to-web site workflow.

By: sperose

sperose — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:46:54 -0800

I'm a fan of Imageshack personally. It's free (although with the free version, you can only upload one picture at a time, which can be a bitch), has the option to pay (if you're interested) and hasn't had any problems with the more risque pictures I've uploaded.

By: Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:00:56 -0800

JJ86: "BTW, Flickr doesn't allow much in the way of nude or overly sexual content."

That's absolutely not true. You can post all kinds of stuff there, just be aware that some
sites crawl flickr for those kinda pics, so be careful about making them public.

By: hatsix

hatsix — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:06:07 -0800

Flickr lets you post nudes... I have several hundred from the solstice parade I was just at... Flickr moderators are pretty open-minded about what needs to be private.

But honestly, if you're going to be posting up cartoons/pictures/artwork, DeviantArt may be a better fit. Flickr is made for photos, and isn't always friendly to non-photos. Plus if they make your stream private-only, only family/friends can view your pics... at DA, anyone that identifies as over 18 can view...

By: squidfartz

squidfartz — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:22:21 -0800

Thank you so much for all of the suggestions.

By: echo0720

echo0720 — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:22:36 -0800

People who are suggesting snapfish, kodak Gallery etc must have missed your comment about nude photos.

Nah, I just didn't realize that they checked that sort of stuff -- I don't upload too many nude pictures...

Sorry about that!

By: hatsix

hatsix — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:03:49 -0800

Don't forget to mark your answer for what you feel is the best option (even if you try them out for a couple weeks, come back and mark!), I'm sure others will find the information useful.