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wardrich
lawl catz r lawlz
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 3137
Location: Ontario Canada
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 Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:33 pm
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I was thinking about doing up a reference sticky of image hosts... Throw up your favourite(s).
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Fumpr |
Image Shack |
Photobucket |
Fastest site I've found so far. Not sure how long the images live on this site, though. Not too sure what the size restrictions are, either. |
One of the more popular sites, fairly fast at loading, allows all common image formats. Also allows you to resize the image and pick from different thumbnails. No images bigger than 1.53mb. |
Requires a free registration to use, upload speed is quite fast. Allows you to upload multiple images at a time, allows different option limitations to suit your needs best. Best option if you plan on using images more than once, since the other sites on this list are "disposable links" meaning that if you lose them, you're going to have to upload the picture again. Photobucket also allows you to have your own image galleries, and password protection for them so that nobody else can see the whole gallery. |
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Tinypic |
Hiboox |
VuloMedia |
Tinypic allows you to host images or videos without the need to register. There is an option to register for an account if you wish, probably so you can keep track of your images. They also have a feature that allows you to add different effects to your uploaded images. |
As made obvious by the .fr domain, this site is all in french, and you do have to register for an account. That said, if you suck at deciphering foreign languages and aren't french, you should probably avoid this one. It's upload system is really nice, though. Didn't really spend much time on it, so I'm not sure what kind of restrictions it has. |
VuloMedia's interface is VERY simple. It's light weight and contains the bare essentials. That said, the site loads incredibly fast. After uploading an image, you're given the usual links and image preview, but also a "Kill Code" which is a unique hash that you can enter in at any time to remove your image off of the site. |
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xs.to |
xs.to isn't the most visually attractive site in my opinion, the layout took a bit of time to load, too. The upload went at a reasonable speed, but I have seen faster. No account needed, but registration is available if wanted. |
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wardrich
lawl catz r lawlz
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
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Location: Ontario Canada
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:36 pm
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Why do tables leave that huuuge chunk of space above them? 
This is my code for the above post...
| Code: | I was thinking about doing up a reference sticky of image hosts... Throw up your favourite(s).
<table>
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<td><a href="http://fumpr.com/"><img src="http://www.fumpr.com/fumprd/bwy1216758028h.jpg"></a></td>
<td><a href="http://imageshack.us/"><img src="http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/6823/imageshackgj6.jpg"></a></td>
<td><a href="http://photobucket.com/"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v303/wardrich/photobucket.jpg"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://fumpr.com/">Fumpr</a></td>
<td><a href="http://imageshack.us/">Image Shack</a></td>
<td><a href="http://photobucket.com/">Photobucket</a></td>
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<td>Fastest site I've found so far. Not sure how long the images live on this site, though. Not too sure what the size restrictions are, either.</td>
<td>One of the more popular sites, fairly fast at loading, allows all common image formats. Also allows you to resize the image and pick from different thumbnails. No images bigger than 1.53mb.</td>
<td>Requires a free registration to use, upload speed is quite fast. Allows you to upload multiple images at a time, allows different option limitations to suit your needs best. Best option if you plan on using images more than once, since the other sites on this list are "disposable links" meaning that if you lose them, you're going to have to upload the picture again. Photobucket also allows you to have your own image galleries, and password protection for them so that nobody else can see the whole gallery.</td>
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<td><a href="http://tinypic.com/"><img src="http://i35.tinypic.com/28uijva.jpg"></a></td>
<td><a href="http://www.hiboox.fr/"><img src="http://images4.hiboox.com/vignettes/3008/c383527854c35308ca9132166bb1e25e.jpg"></a></td>
<td><a href=""><img src="http://www.vulomedia.com/images/21099vulo.jpg">
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<td><a href="http://tinypic.com/">Tinypic</td>
<td><a href="http://www.hiboox.fr/">Hiboox</a></td>
<td><a href="http://www.vulomedia.com/">VuloMedia</td>
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<td>Tinypic allows you to host images or videos without the need to register. There is an option to register for an account if you wish, probably so you can keep track of your images. They also have a feature that allows you to add different effects to your uploaded images.</td>
<td>As made obvious by the .fr domain, this site is all in french, and you do have to register for an account. That said, if you suck at deciphering foreign languages and aren't french, you should probably avoid this one. It's upload system is really nice, though. Didn't really spend much time on it, so I'm not sure what kind of restrictions it has.</td>
<td>VuloMedia's interface is VERY simple. It's light weight and contains the bare essentials. That said, the site loads incredibly fast. After uploading an image, you're given the usual links and image preview, but also a "Kill Code" which is a unique hash that you can enter in at any time to remove your image off of the site.</td>
</tr>
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<td><a href="http://xs.to"><img src="http://xs129.xs.to/xs129/08303/xs549.jpg"></a></td>
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<td><a href="http://xs.to">xs.to</a></td>
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<td>xs.to isn't the most visually attractive site in my opinion, the layout took a bit of time to load, too. The upload went at a reasonable speed, but I have seen faster. No account needed, but registration is available if wanted.</td>
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dosraider
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Location: ROTFLMAO in Belgium.
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Dogbreath
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Joined: 14 Sep 2002
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Location: In the back of a jacked-up Ford.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:24 pm
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I must express my dislike for Photobucket, mainly because it has a habit of deleting your photos after a month or two. This is a little annoying for people like me who don't constantly update their photos, but still like having photos around for a year or three. (for avatars, sigs, "show yourself" threads, etc.)
Normally when hosting photos meant solely for this forum, I just abuse graciously and wisely use dosgames.com to host them. (The relative bandwidth use is small enough to go practically unnoticed)
Wardrich seemingly is a more scrupled man than I, as his image folder only as 2 images in it. |
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Mr. Worm
Admin of Doom
Joined: 25 May 2004
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Location: Washington, DC
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:36 pm
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| I use my personal site and sometimes my school's site (I really hope they never run out of bandwidth). |
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Larry Laffer
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Location: Romania
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:26 pm
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| Dogbreath wrote: | | I must express my dislike for Photobucket, mainly because it has a habit of deleting your photos after a month or two. This is a little annoying for people like me who don't constantly update their photos, but still like having photos around for a year or three. (for avatars, sigs, "show yourself" threads, etc.). |
That's funny, I never had issues with Photobucket... And I've been using it for more than a year and a half. |
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Cmaza
Lord of Gaming
Joined: 08 Jun 2003
Posts: 208
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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| Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:46 pm
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*shrugs*
I gotta go with DB here. I've never been particularily fond of using image hosting websites for my images and etcetera at all anyhow... I almost always solely use my own hosting for that sort of thing (Zyrv). |
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wardrich
lawl catz r lawlz
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
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Location: Ontario Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:08 am
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| Dogbreath wrote: | | I must express my dislike for Photobucket, mainly because it has a habit of deleting your photos after a month or two. This is a little annoying for people like me who don't constantly update their photos, but still like having photos around for a year or three. (for avatars, sigs, "show yourself" threads, etc.) |
I've seen quite a few "this image is no longer being hosted" placeholders from photobucket, but I've never had it happen to me. I've also seen a lot of those placeholders from imageshack. We'll have to see how fumpr holds up.
For a fun tidbit, I uploaded each host image to the host it represents. It'll be neat to see which one disappears first. |
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dosraider
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Location: ROTFLMAO in Belgium.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:53 am
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| Wardrich wrote: | Fumpr
Fastest site I've found so far. Not sure how long the images live on this site, though. Not too sure what the size restrictions are, either.
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Been trying to find out, not very clear ......
But looks pretty good. |
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Ro@m
Hamachi Guardian
Joined: 29 Jun 2003
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Location: Croatia
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lakerzz8
~Lakerz~Fan~
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 739
Location: L.A., California
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:06 pm
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| I like to use googlepages for my image hosting. |
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wardrich
lawl catz r lawlz
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
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Location: Ontario Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:09 pm
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Weird, Hiboox seems to have re-sized my image.
Also: anybody else finding that Imagshack's logo takes the longest to load? |
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dosraider
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:09 am
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| Wardrich wrote: | Hiboox:
As made obvious by the .fr domain, this site is all in french, and you do have to register for an account. |
Nope, it's freely accessible.
But you can create an account to make personal albums.
Thumbnail (vignette) IMG tag:
Full IMG tag:
Direct link:
http://www.hiboox.fr/go/images/divers/testing,feda5cbd5719c9efaf21f319c622cae4.png.html
Thumb HTML:
Full HTML:
You can make a full personal album:
http://www.hiboox.fr/go/albums/divers/mm,867334b74509e166ad0e562f3043df87
Private or not, as you wish.
And for the yuppies inbed your pics directly in MSN, Yahoo, or send it via MMS....
They seem to pay the server bills by offering to print out your pics on whatever support... (even coffee mugs)
[BTW]
Wardrich: A Canadian that doesn't understand or can't read French.
LMAO. |
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Gamer_V
Gaming Demi-god
Joined: 03 Mar 2005
Posts: 1114
Location: The Netherlands
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:38 am
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That's like a Belgian who doesn't know Dutch AND French! Lol!
Oh wait... |
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Wally*Won_Kenobie
i r teh pwnage
Joined: 01 May 2003
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Location: Australia, earth, Milky way
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:17 am
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Emmzee is a good image host 
I herd he has a bunch of porn on the server somewhere..
Perhaps thats a wild rumour  |
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