Image Links Broken - what are people using?

[Dante]

Hello, there are some free sites listed here: External Resources

[Kami]

Apr 30, 2024 19:19:59 GMT -8 Riley said:

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Heya,

This isn't exactly a support-needed kind of question so please feel free to redirect me to an appropriate board if this isn't it!

I'm coming back to web designing after some time away and my usual image storage platform, Discord, recently made changes to the way it formats and stores the links to the images uploaded onto it. Within a few days any image I try to embed on ProBoards goes inactive/isn't embedded anymore. I'm 99% convinced it's a Discord-side thing and not ProBoards-side. Not a huge issue, just means I need to move to something else.

I'm wondering what free image hosting platforms people are using to host their site graphics? (I use them pretty heavily in the forum wrapper sections for decor using actual URLs.) Preferably ones where they may not be open to the public since they're just site graphics, since my private Discord channels don't cut it anymore.

Thanks for any help or advice!

So, Discord is not an image host. Which, I'm pretty sure you know and were just trying to capitalise on the fact that Discord hasn't historically minded when people are using their bandwidth outside of the actual app (no judgement, honestly) due to the ease of use. However, they don't want to be a permanent CDN (content delivery network) especially when their storage was being used to spread malware, so they switched to use temporary storage instead, meaning any attachments (images, files, etc) in-app gets auto-refreshed, but any external links will be busted after a period of time.

If you are looking to host site graphics, is there any reason you don't upload your images to your theme directly? Those links are permanent, and you can upload your own if you go to your theme section. Hover over the theme you want to add images to under the "Theme Manager" page, and an "Images" button should appear on-hover. Click that, and under all the default images that you can replace should be a custom images section. Upload, then click the "link" button if you need the URL (don't worry if it starts like //storage, that's fine) OR if you are familiar with theme variables, you can go to your layout templates and select the theme you want to update + go to the template you want it to appear on + click on the right-hand side in the variable tree on "images" and find the image you want (the variable will be whatever file name you gave it, which you can change in the images section as well).

For in post images, I would recommend imgbb or imgur. Imgur in particular doesn't like being a CDN, so make sure you're only using them for in-post images and not avatars, sigs, or other theme graphics.

Hope this helps!

[Ɖσмιиιc]

servimg.com is a good one

[yogibearbull]

I use free ImgBB.com . Need to setup free a/c to use more features, but one can use w/o a/c too.