Discussion Post - Topic: Image Hosting for Fan-Artists

[goss]

This is a Discussion post for a topic many Fan-Artists are currently concerned with: Image Hosting. (thanks to mekare for highlighting the issue)

Poll #18579 Free Image Hosting

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 19

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Are you satisfied with your current Free Image Hosting Service?

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Yes
6 (33.3%)

No
3 (16.7%)

Somewhat satisfied, but on the lookout for a better Free Image Hosting Service
7 (38.9%)

Photobucket SUCKS
10 (55.6%)

Which Free Image Hosting Service(s) do you use? Tick all that apply.

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Livejournal
2 (11.8%)

Dreamwidth
8 (47.1%)

Photobucket
6 (35.3%)

Imgur
7 (41.2%)

Flickr
2 (11.8%)

PostImage.org
0 (0.0%)

Google Photos
0 (0.0%)

500px
0 (0.0%)

Dropbox
0 (0.0%)

FreeImageHosting.net
0 (0.0%)

TinyPic.com
2 (11.8%)

ImageShack.us
0 (0.0%)

ImageVenue
0 (0.0%)

Other free image hosting service, which I will tell you about below...
7 (41.2%)

If you selected Other, please tell us about it here:

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...and then feel free to use the comments sections to elaborate on your choices, post questions, suggestions, advice, and any other discussion dealing with the topic.

Comments

[syntheid]

Also in the not-free camp, I use smugmug half the time? It's definitely pricier than mediafire and some private hosting options with the cheapest plan being around 47USD/year or 6/month.

But it allows you to choose whether you want to hide or show your username in album links and either unlist or password-lock albums, so I can post both vacation albums to share with family with password locks and unlisted fandom things that don't show up for anybody as being linked to same account which I really wanted so I didn't have to manage multiple accounts. And it's easy to grab links in varying sizes, and since it's meant to be for professional photographers to use as a portfolio they're explicit that you retain copyright of your images. I'm not sure I love everything about it, but it seems to work better for me than other options I'd tried. I was going to use Dreamwidth more for DW-related usages, except the space is pretty limited, so I don't want to fill it up.

[mekare]

That sounds pretty good. I hadn't heard of them before, I'll check it out. I guess the servers are US-based? How long have you been using them?