Good and Easy IMAGE HOSTING websites? In urgent need!!! [SOLVED]

[Temptationist]

- SPECIAL THANKS TO FORBIDDEN FRUIT FOR FINDING AN AWESOME ALTERNATIVE <3 -
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The image hosting site I have been using for years has announced their closure.
IMGBOX will cease to exist as of June 30th, so anyone who needs to save images from their accounts on here should rush to do so!

In addition, I'm looking for other image hosting sites that would replace IMGBOX in both efficiency and quality. Although IMGBOX was a simple website, it met all of my needs.

Here are my needs:
- Must be FREE or extremely LOW COST
- Must be able to organize images by albums
- Must be able to upload images from phone/mobile and computer
- Must be able to link images directly, without linking through the website (for example, Photobucket no longer offers image linking directly, all links lead to their interface. Aka HOT LINKING)
- Must offer privacy abilities, such as setting albums to "private" or "adult" for adult/pornographic content. That being said... the site must allow pornographic content.

Websites that currently do NOT meet my criteria:
- IMGUR
- PHOTOBUCKET
- TinyPic? > question mark because when I last tried to use it I was unable to link photos directly, but someone told me they changed that. Is it true? Do they allow adult content?

ALL THE SUGGESTIONS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!​

 

[megyn]

RE: Good and Easy IMAGE HOSTING websites? In urgent need!!!

www.snag.gy You dont even need an account, but it might give exta protections and maybe an album but I just keep the URLS to the pics I put there.

You just go there and paste directly to the webpage so not even need to save to a file, just copy it to your buffer and paste into your browser window

I realize it may or may not have the organization skills you want but its really easy to use and free. When I dont want to share something anymore I just delete it . So its not perfect but ive found it way more simple than like the Yahoo photo share site whose name i forgot

 

[Temptationist]

RE: Good and Easy IMAGE HOSTING websites? In urgent need!!!

www.snag.gy You dont even need an account, but it might give exta protections and maybe an album but I just keep the URLS to the pics I put there.

You just go there and paste directly to the webpage so not even need to save to a file, just copy it to your buffer and paste into your browser window

I realize it may or may not have the organization skills you want but its really easy to use and free. When I dont want to share something anymore I just delete it . So its not perfect but ive found it way more simple than like the Yahoo photo share site whose name i forgot

Took a look - it seems like it's for screenshots?
Do URLs for other images work too?

Also can I upload files from my computer?

EDIT:
looked further into it - won't work unfortunately
The website deletes inactive "Views" on images after 6 months. Cant have that for the sort of image sharing I'm looking for! Thanks anyways!

 

[S-Freak]

RE: Good and Easy IMAGE HOSTING websites? In urgent need!!!

What is it, that imgur can't do? I use imgur and is very pleased with it This image is hosted there and you can also just view it in posts...

Is it something else, you need?

I made the switch from photobucket about half a year ago, because I got tired of all the server-problems

 

[Temptationist]

RE: Good and Easy IMAGE HOSTING websites? In urgent need!!!

What is it, that imgur can't do? I use imgur and is very pleased with it This image is hosted there and you can also just view it in posts...

Is it something else, you need?

I made the switch from photobucket about half a year ago, because I got tired of all the server-problems

I was using IMGUR before I was introduced to IMGBOX.
Imgur does meet my criteria except for the fact that I cannot upload files through mobile. At least, not into my pre-existing albums. And that's the issue I have with it. I also can't for the life of me figure out how to VIEW my photo albums in the mobile APP. Several friends of mine who use IMGUR also claim they can't find that option, and assume it does not exist.

Reason: Imgur is not an image hosting site so much as it is a social media image SHARING site. So the design and functionality lacks in some areas for pure image hosting abilities.

I originally switched to IMGBOX because IMGUR stopped functioning on my computer. I could no longer upload images. I contacted support and they worked endlessly to try and fix the issue (they found the issue but were having problems correcting - apparently I was not the only account having such corruptions).

I have yet to try again to see if I can upload once more, but I suppose I will have to.

EDIT: They never found a correction for the issue. They apologized profusely and basically told me "if we figure it out, we will email you" but they never did. So that's why I left IMGUR.

 

[S-Freak]

RE: Good and Easy IMAGE HOSTING websites? In urgent need!!!

I was using IMGUR before I was introduced to IMGBOX.
Imgur does meet my criteria except for the fact that I cannot upload files through mobile. At least, not into my pre-existing albums. And that's the issue I have with it. I also can't for the life of me figure out how to VIEW my photo albums in the mobile APP. Several friends of mine who use IMGUR also claim they can't find that option, and assume it does not exist.

Reason: Imgur is not an image hosting site so much as it is a social media image SHARING site. So the design and functionality lacks in some areas for pure image hosting abilities.

I originally switched to IMGBOX because IMGUR stopped functioning on my computer. I could no longer upload images. I contacted support and they worked endlessly to try and fix the issue (they found the issue but were having problems correcting - apparently I was not the only account having such corruptions).

I have yet to try again to see if I can upload once more, but I suppose I will have to.

EDIT: They never found a correction for the issue. They apologized profusely and basically told me "if we figure it out, we will email you" but they never did. So that's why I left IMGUR.

Fair enough I hope, you find a solution

 

[Fruit]

RE: Good and Easy IMAGE HOSTING websites? In urgent need!!!

Hi Temptationist!

I've been meaning to reply to this thread for a while but I keep getting distracted, lol sorry.

Here are two sites I think fit all your criteria:

http://pixxxels.org/
https://imgbb.com/

I have an account on both websites. They both support uploading from a phone, allow adult content (I'm only 80% sure imgbb supports those), and support hot linking images. Signing up for an account is free and will allow you to sort your images into albums. For pixxxels.org they will give you a password to use when you first sign up but you can go to the settings and change it to whatever you want.

I hope that helps!

 

[Nekrosilisk88]

RE: Good and Easy IMAGE HOSTING websites? In urgent need!!!

I'm confused as to what you mean by photobucket not being able to link images directly. I'm still able to get my direct link urls to embed photos without them having to be website links back to photobucket.

 

[Fruit]

RE: Good and Easy IMAGE HOSTING websites? In urgent need!!!

I'm confused as to what you mean by photobucket not being able to link images directly. I'm still able to get my direct link urls to embed photos without them having to be website links back to photobucket.

You can embed images from Photobucket by using a direct link, true, but you can't directly link the image without the link redirecting you to the cluttery webpage.

 

[Vyce]

RE: Good and Easy IMAGE HOSTING websites? In urgent need!!!

I've been using the site Vidble for a while; would that be a suitable substitute for you?

 

[Temptationist]

RE: Good and Easy IMAGE HOSTING websites? In urgent need!!!

Hi Temptationist!

I've been meaning to reply to this thread for a while but I keep getting distracted, lol sorry.

Here are two sites I think fit all your criteria:

http://pixxxels.org/
https://imgbb.com/

I have an account on both websites. They both support uploading from a phone, allow adult content (I'm only 80% sure imgbb supports those), and support hot linking images. Signing up for an account is free and will allow you to sort your images into albums. For pixxxels.org they will give you a password to use when you first sign up but you can go to the settings and change it to whatever you want.

I hope that helps!

HOT LINKING! Thank you!
That's the term I couldn't remember.

@ Nekrosilis - Photobucket does not allow hot linking so when you link an image, you are redirected to their website and must look at the image on their interface.

 

[Temptationist]

RE: Good and Easy IMAGE HOSTING websites? In urgent need!!!

Hi Temptationist!

https://imgbb.com/

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

IMGBB IS PERFECT

Exactly what I'm looking for and similar set up at IMGBOX.
Life saver!