Flickrs new "free account" terms...what now?

I've used Imageshack ever since the Photobucket apocalypse; no issues!

 

this is probably more complicated than it needs to be, but I use tumblr to make private posts and just copy the url. tumblr butchers the quality on photos, but only on their own site, they look fine here/elsewhere. otherwise I use imgur, though imho the ui is kind of clunky.

 

I've used pillowfort for some image hosting. It works pretty much the same as tumblr

 

Well, heck, Flickr has gone puritanical?

I hope that doesn't apply to paid accounts, but I should change over any nude shots to something else just in case. I completely deleted my PB account since the fiasco. I know I more than likely still have dead links all over DOA because of it. (Feel free to PM me any if you find them so I can fix them! )

@Anshishoku, what service did you finally decide on? I'm leaning towards Imgur, since they have a mobile app.

Ryu

 

Hey, whatever works, right? I think I'm still going to make any nude shots "links only," just in case.

Ryu

 

I decided to try out the paid account. I was close to the picture limit anyways. But I find what flickr considers to be 'restricted' baffling...my nude doll body comparisons have never been restricted but the pictures of detached hands initially were.

 

I have a subscription to Dropbox, I'll have to mess around with it to see if I can figure out how to direct post photos from there instead of transferring them to Flickr and then to DoA. I've done it before, so I know it's possible, it's just so much easier from Flickr.

 

I just looked up Imgur...and I hate the layout.

I have a paid Flickr account...and I have thousands of photos there...so it would be a major pain to start a new account from a platform that I don't know if it will last very long. I already had to move from Photobucket once.

I like that Flickr concentrates on photography.

When I had a photo restricted by them ( just a shirtless male with pants on) I complained and they changed the status. It wasn't too difficult.

While Flickr isn't perfect...it's the best I've seem so far.

 

I don't get the new ''rules'' to be honest. If they find some photos ''offensive'' or whatever they class them as, making people pay for the privilege to display the pictures only allows them to be online again. It's just an excuse to make money hiding under the mask of keeping decency.

 

I am afraid, this trend will eventually sweep away other image hosting portals. Now, we move to another one, then in 2-3 years they change their policy, so we move to the next... Megaupload, LiveJournal, Photobucket, Tumblr... they all failed or started imposing restrictions on users a way or another. I can see a pretty upsetting trend in file hosting general. Yesterday, I realized that a file hosting server I used banned me because I did not log in for 8 weeks. Not 8 months or years! Weeks. Without even a notification. And now, they ask me to pay to reactivate my account. And this is not a virus, this is their policy.

Anyway, end of story... I just wanted to underline that I can see a sad and alarming tendency I am really worried about.
Or am I overreacting?

 

Best way is and have always been to find a reasonably prized web host yourself, rather than relying on some random free host and gallery site, IMO. The big free hosts are always going to go a similar path, they offer free hosting to get attention and users, then, when the cost of hosting all those images starts to add up, they change their terms of service and you have to either pay a high fee or migrate on to the next thing.
A web host does not have to be expensive and then you have full control of your images.

 

I've used my website as a photohost for DoA, but unfortunately they quickly turn into the dreaded red X. So far, my Flickr hosted pics have stayed put on DoA. Something to consider...

 

I think it's pretty much luck which photos become the red x on DoA. It's a request queue issue with the DoA image cache. Look at your server logs and you can see that sometimes DoA won't even issue a request for your image. Or just now I had it issue the request for 3 out of 24 images 12 minutes after it requested the other 21. Annoyingly even after making the request and receiving the images I still see the red x for those images as the pages are still cached with the "no image / red x" image rendered in place of the correct images.

Sadly when I looked into it years ago there were known bugs in the XenForo image cache and DoA is running a pretty old version of XenForo at this point. I preferred it when forums didn't bother to do image caching. It mostly came about with the push to move everything to https instead of http. Images loaded offsite from http in https pages cause the entire page to be reported as insecure.

Of course at this point most image hosts are on https as well.

I understand DoA not upgrading though. It's always a hassle to upgrade forums especially when one uses custom themes or plugins like DoA. And with XenForo I'm not sure upgrades are even free.