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03 Oct 2013, 10:16

Why do people use imgur.com to host images posted in forum posts when those images may not be there 6 months from now?

From their wiki page If an image submitted by a user with a free account is not accessed at least once during a six-month period, it will be deleted

Why not use dropbox?
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Re: imgur

03 Oct 2013, 10:19

Oh! I was not aware of this. Thanks for the info.
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03 Oct 2013, 12:09

Yes! You make very good point there! I guess it is simply because of the user's ignorance of these special rules... ;)
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03 Oct 2013, 23:23

This is scary ... I have all my images on imgur.

To view stats like how many times an image has been viewed -
change the link like http://i.imgur.com/9qYhqQ1.jpg
to OR
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03 Oct 2013, 23:29

well from now on... im using Pancake.io with dropbox. ;)
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05 Oct 2013, 14:06

Or just make a script to view all your images every now and then. Voilá! :)
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05 Oct 2013, 14:53

sumon wrote:Or just make a script to view all your images every now and then. Voilá! :)
I was thinking more about viewing old posts and see the image gone and the original author of the post no longer active in the forum. Too bad there isn't a way the forum could host the picture.
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05 Oct 2013, 15:57

its called attachments! :D
Check user settings on this forum ;)
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05 Oct 2013, 17:03

Like this:

Edit: where is the attachment?
Can you see it? :D
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05 Oct 2013, 17:10

joedf wrote:its called attachments! :D
Check user settings on this forum ;)
Thanks very much, I had not explored attachments to forum messages before. This really should be the preferred method of attaching images.

Edit..add picture
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63.jpg (3.36 KiB) Viewed 12365 times
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06 Oct 2013, 10:52

Thank you for telling me, I'll be hosting them at Copy.
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06 Oct 2013, 12:14

I think a main reason is that imgur is easy, minimal ads, direct links and they have a wide support of countries (if not all). Other services restrict to just the UK or US or Europe+US and nowhere else.
Things like Dropbox, afaik, require your pc to be on at all times for others to access and view the files.
There are also permanent hosts (some free, some not) like http://www.solidfiles.com/ that are a good alternative, but not as simple as a free, no signup "forever unless inactive" host.
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06 Oct 2013, 14:24

I use dropbox and the files are hosted on their servers with no need for my PC to stay on. They say as long as your account is active the files will be there. Attaching files to the post seems the best.
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06 Oct 2013, 15:25

DataLife wrote:I use dropbox and the files are hosted on their servers with no need for my PC to stay on. They say as long as your account is active the files will be there. Attaching files to the post seems the best.
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23 Oct 2013, 23:28

DataLife wrote:Why not use dropbox?
What about Copy (referral link) ? Offers more space than Dropbox (easy 20 gb) and supports direct linking (a tricky one though) .
joedf wrote:well from now on... im using Pancake.io with dropbox. ;)
Pancake.io looks to be the easiest website creation tool currently ! What do you think about how Google responds to Pancake sites ?
Blogger really sucks :x
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23 Oct 2013, 23:39

Pancakes!!! :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDU0CTDMk2g
Avi wrote:What do you think about how Google responds to Pancake sites ?
You mean google sites?
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24 Oct 2013, 00:01

joedf wrote:Pancakes!!! :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDU0CTDMk2g
Avi wrote:What do you think about how Google responds to Pancake sites ?
You mean google sites?
No but the Google Index ranking of a Pancake site , how effectively that site can be searched in Google .
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24 Oct 2013, 00:14

Dont know but, should be fine..
i searched: https://www.google.ca/search?q=joedf.pancakeapps.com
still i dont know how googles sees it... but im sure that it's better than a blogger site :P
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24 Oct 2013, 00:21

joedf wrote:Dont know but, should be fine..
I too believe it should be OK, pancake is a new service and will take time to pick up.
joedf wrote:but im sure that it's better than a blogger site :P
Yup, I have seen many articles pointing towards the fact that wordpress site has better google reach than their own Blogger.
Besides, using services like blogger and wordpress keeps you away from the some of the coolest parts of HTML , the relative-linking, realtime-updating webpages, <head> tags and many else.
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24 Oct 2013, 00:25

Avi wrote:Yup, I have seen many articles pointing towards the fact that wordpress site has better google reach than their own Blogger.
Besides, using services like blogger and wordpress keeps you away from the some of the coolest parts of HTML , the relative-linking, realtime-updating webpages, <head> tags and many else.
Yup! and that's why i use pancake: you can use markdown syntax or just use your own custom html. sadly, no php :(
but for that i just host it on a free service.. like 3owl.com or SourceForge.net ;)
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