Imgur - no access in UK

petecossie

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Just found out this evening that Imgur is no longer accessible in UK for hosting photos. Great shame. I used to upload pics to Mcoupe Forum, looking for another site now.
Explanation in BBC article below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo
 

GazHyde

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Reminds me of the problems caused by the likes of Photobucket who people became dependant on for storing and sharing images. Then they started charging and forums across the internet are littered with broken image links. The main reason we encourage files uploaded rather than linked and make as much space available as needed for it. Lost track some time ago how much space the forum took up, but the backups were around 46GB last time I think.
 

ExMX5owner

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Reminds me of the problems caused by the likes of Photobucket who people became dependant on for storing and sharing images. Then they started charging and forums across the internet are littered with broken image links. The main reason we encourage files uploaded rather than linked and make as much space available as needed for it. Lost track some time ago how much space the forum took up, but the backups were around 46GB last time I think.
In other words, you could back up the entire forum 5 times to one of these, And before you start, I don,t mean the highlighter. Although oddly it seems appropriate.. ;). Given the Zroadster.org is my internet highlight...:thumbsup:
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Clive68

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As a keen photographer, I've used most of the photo hosting services over the years, flickr, smugmug, google photos, etc,
and the ones I've found the most useful are Zonerama , closely followed by yogile https://www.yogile.com/.

I upload my Z3 photos here: https://eu.zonerama.com/kudos/Album/10266483
And more general car pics here: https://eu.zonerama.com/kudos/1289044

Zonerama is completely free to use, and you can view the GPS location of the photo on a map, along with all of the camera settings used.

Yogile is only US$45 per year and is ideal for posting pics of family or club events, like weddings, parties, car meets, etc, where there are lots people who you want to share the photos with.

And these two links are pretty much direct replacements for imgur.
https://postimages.org/
https://imgbb.com/

Taking things a step further, if you have IT skills, and want to create a full blown website to showcase your artwork, you could try lychee, piwigo, or photo gallery.

 
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