[345218435]

alright, i‘ll make an exception and ask for constructive „criticism“:

what better alternatives are out there?

[capableweb]

Anywhere where you can directly link to a image without the hoster doing any funky redirects.

Usually, the image hosts starts being like ^ while then slowly transitioning to more and more user-hostile patterns.

Only way I found to avoid this is to setup my own Hetzner box (unlimited traffic) running nginx to serve images. Use `scp` to upload them.

[csande17]

> Usually, the image hosts starts being like ^ while then slowly transitioning to more and more user-hostile patterns.

Hilariously, Imgur itself followed this trajectory: it started out as a super-simple image hosting site whose creator was fed up with all the nonsense that other image-hosting sites did[1]. Now, though, Imgur has become the website everyone complains about!

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090227183112/http://www.reddit...

[345218435]

obviously. got my own server as well. but i‘d like to know some side-project kind of thing. those are hard to find for me - in the age of seo-ridden search results trying to sell you everything and their mother.

[miki123211]

Somebody should set up a service that links with a GitHub account, makes you a repo, and publishes the images you upload as a Github page. This could even be easy enough to work for non-devs. That would mean absolutely no lock in, no pages, redirects, ads or other marketing campaigns. You would literally download the image, nothing else.

Nowadays, using Keybases cloud might work, as it lets you set up direct links with no intervening pages.

[random42]

>... i‘ll make an exception and ask for constructive criticism

Tangential, do you not usually do that? why?

[faissaloo]

Server side rendering

[345218435]

well, my wording. i’m asking for alternative services.