Did you check out pic8? It's poal's official image hosting proxy, and is the owner.
Oh yes, I've seen it. It doesn't have the features I want and I don't want to upload to other sites - I want this one to be reliable.
I want people to be able to have accounts and, from there, maybe let them make galleries and even tag stuff for searching and shit like that. Ideally, it'd support private uploads and all that jazz.
What I want is a reliable single point for image hosting that respects free speech. I've used the pic8 before, by the way. I use it when I have high res images and imgoat chokes on them.
It's still very much in the idea phase, as I'm super busy for a couple of weeks. I'm not sure where it'll go from here, but we will see. I've also just tendered an offer to the owner of imgoat. I'll take over all the expenses and shit, just pass over the keys to the kingdom.
I'm pretty damned positive I've demonstrated my conviction to free speech. I'm also pretty damned positive that a single point site could be beneficial. So, I'm hoping their admin control panel and server isn't a hot mess. If it's not, I'll go ahead and take it. I'll even throw them a few extra bucks for their trouble.
What I want is a reliable single point for image hosting that respects free speech.
Well that's what pic8 does for free by using a large list of hosts, your pics will always be available, the only downside is that you can't have private upload.
They also don't have accounts. Saving a bunch of URLs is a pain in the ass and it's needlessly wasteful to have to upload images more than once. That's why pic8 is pretty much useless to me.
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