Seeking Image Host Recs

[soc_puppet]

Let's face it: I love Dreamwidth, but it's going to be a long time before it has image hosting interface that a lot of former Tumblr users, or new web users in general, are going to find intuitive. I've got a tutorial for it on my to-do list, but in the mean time, we have another problem:

Free accounts only get 500 MB of storage; regular paid accounts get 1.5 GB, and premium paid accounts get 3 GB, but there are artists out there who will absolutely blow right through that amount of storage in short order. On top of that, it doesn't allow hotlinking of images anywhere.

Dreamwidth happily hosts and defends NSFW content, and has a history of stability to boot, but for a lot of artists out there, that's not enough to go on.

So what are the other options out there? tesscodes goes over some in a fair amount of detail here, and elyusion summarizes some not in the previous post here; meanwhile, a Tumblr user suggested Amazon's s3 as a hosting option, pointing out that, since a lot of businesses use it for legal stuff, it's unlikely to be scraped for AI, but, like Google Docs, doesn't really do hotlinking. (Separately, I'm also going to add that Neocities allows hotlinking with a paid account, but doesn't encourage it.)

Do you know of any others? Can you recommend one in particular, either from the posts linked above or that you know of otherwise? Please share in the comments so we can get some solid recommendations!

Comments

[veronyxk84]

I have used imgbb for a while, but then I had to abandon it because most of my hotlinked images had started to be replaced by blue squares that read “image unavailable”.
Even going into my imgbb account, I saw that square replacing many images I had uploaded.
With some searches I found a reddit entry (I believe) explaining that it happened with low-traffic images, or something like that. I don't know if it's reliable info, but I got fed up with having to refresh my pages endless times for the images to show up again (sometimes it worked, sometimes not), so I said goodbye to the service, permanently.

I deleted all my images from imgbb and reuploaded them to SquidgeImage (mentioned in elyusion's list and in the comment above) because 99% of my images are fandom related anyway so it seemed like the best option for me.

(note: if you're selling your art and need img hosting to show your work to potential buyers, SquidgeImage is most likely NOT the service for you. Check the FAQ carefully.)

Then I went through a time-consuming task of replacing all my old imgbb links with SquidgeImage links.

So far I'm satisfied with the service and I hope it stays like this because if I have to replace all my links all over again, I swear I will cry.

Also, ditto on the observation made by aflatmirror above regarding the background image welcoming you to SquidgeImage.
https://images.squidge.org/