Now, no doubt this is my own dumbarse fault, but I’m coming to find that relying on Imgur to preserve my pic-content across the mini-articles I write and share on the Lemmysphere is just… well, I mean it’s just so utterly hit-or-miss that it’s become completely unreliable, daggit.
For example, I happened to check on the Satania review I first posted ~10mos ago, and discovered that the Imgur page source had been deleted without notice, altho oddly, the lead full thumbnail / image still remains. Like, what…?!
Point is-- there seems to be utterly no rhyme nor reason for the image deletions, whether the content is uploaded via official acct or not, or is kid-safe vs NSFW stuff, or is new vs old stuff, or even via file-size issue (I think, not totally sure).
Anyway, yeah… it’s clearly past time to get the hell out.
So what would you recommend, mateys, and how reliable do you think that host is? (I’m completely cool with paying a monthly fee via PayPal in order for our content to last)
Note: the lead pic is just an anti-Imgur thing I randomly discovered, lol.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f886759a-e3a5-47f2-99f0-478c48e16e97
Or just commit them to a git repo. GH won’t harass you unless you have over 50mb file sizes or a repo over 1GB https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/managing-large-files/about-large-files-on-github
Or publish them to cloudflare pages, which has great file size limits and unlimited bandwidth https://mattsayar.com/why-does-cloudflare-pages-have-such-a-generous-free-tier/
The first method is risky to rely on. There is no guarantee they will keep hosting your media, especially since they had a kind of vulnerability not too long ago