Image Hosting for Forum Posts
Does anybody have a strong recommendation for an image hosting service. What I had in mind is to recommend a free service for my forum users who want to post images in their posts, but I don't want to host them. So the only real requirement would be that they allow hotlinking.
I found photobucket.com which I haven't tried but it looks absolutley fine.
Anyway, just wondering if there are other well known ones out there that anybody recommends as a good choice for my forum users.
Thanks
andy206uk posted this at 16:02 — 17th February 2005.
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I've heard http://www.flickr.com/ is quite good...
fifeclub posted this at 18:50 — 2nd March 2005.
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Completely by chance I stumbled upon another candidate site by accident.
http://imageshack.us/
I haven't fully tested any of the sites mentioned in this thread yet but this one didn't even make me register at all so I quickly jammed an image in there. Seems that they'll make a nice thumnail for you too, which links to the full image. Nice (except for the ugly dimensions text embedded in the thumbnail image).
So these guys make money because they'll put advertising on the linked page that displays the full graphic. Seems completley fair for their service. PhotoBucket doesn't link or make a thumnail. That's nice if you want to display a larger graphic in a forum but how do they make their money back? Seems like their giving away a service with no return on investment, which makes for a poor business model.
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