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TinyPic is shutting down in 2019
TinyPic is shutting down its image hosting service because we can no longer support a free service that derives 100% of its revenue from ever declining on-site ad revenues.
While you may continue to host images from our site until further notice, we encourage you to consider selecting one of the premium plans offered by our sister site, Photobucket.
Thanks for using TinyPic for your hosting needs over the years. We apologize that we can no longer continue providing this service, but Photobucket is a great option going forward.
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Grab your photos while you can. Photobucket? I don't think so.


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"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
-Bomber Harris
 
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imgur.com




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Posts: 39494 | Location: SC Lowcountry/Cape Cod | Registered: November 22, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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^ ^ ^ ^ Agreed. Imgur is da bomb. Photobucket sucks.



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Free image hosting is dying altogether. Hosting images is bandwidth-intensive, and such high bandwidth websites can no longer support themselves solely off ad revenue, especially now with the proliferation of ad blockers.

Photobucket in 2017 was the first and most obvious death knell. Tinypic is just another death spasm. It's only a matter of time before all free image hosting is extinct.

Moving your photos from Tinypic to something like Imgur is only delaying the inevitable. You'll have to move them again at some point in the near future.

Get your images out of a free host while you can. Then find a reasonably priced pay service you like, or pay the nominal fee to set up your own domain and host your own.
 
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I've been using imgBB and it's easy to use and free.

I was a 99 cents a month adfree paying member of photobucket before they made the foolish decision to charge $300 a year for their service. My service has continued uninterrupted still at the 99 cents per month. I guess they figure a little bit of something is better than a whole lot of nothing.


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Imgur is very easy and I have no issues with it.


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I just share them from a folder on my Microsoft OneDrive.


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or pay the nominal fee to set up your own domain and host your own.


Yup
 
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imgur.com

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Honestly, I don't think I would consider a free image host. ImageShack is worth each and every dime. Dynamic resizing by link drop-down is worth the price alone.




 
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When photobucket lost their mind ($400 / year which was $388 too much), I moved everything to postimage. Worked great and still works great with the exception that they changed their position on avatar hosting (way more traffic than hosting regular image so they blocked their use as avatars).

Guess where I moved my Sigforum avatars? Yep, tinypic.com



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I've been paying $24.95/yr for FotoTime, at least 15 years. Never a hitch, easy to use, password protected. I use tags and it's amazing how much I've sold off there without paying a dime extra.


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Free and works great:

https://image.ibb.co


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ImageShack is worth each and every dime. Dynamic resizing by link drop-down is worth the price alone.


Agreed. That's what I use. I pay ~$18 per year.
 
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I've been a paid subscriber to Flickr for 12 years, and at $49.99/year I think it's a great deal. I have 45,000 photos hosted there, they are viewable by the public (unless I want to restrict them), and they're stored at full size. Sharing them resized in web fora and e-mails is easy. The hierarchical structure possible makes it nice, too, because it simplifies the task of others wanting to see specific places.

I used to use some of the free hosts for putting photos in fora, but decided that since I was already paying for Flickr I'd just create an Album used only for that purpose. It works.

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Originally posted by r0gue:
ImageShack is worth each and every dime. Dynamic resizing by link drop-down is worth the price alone.


Agreed. That's what I use. I pay ~$18 per year.

Me too. The service has near 100% up time. And yes, ~$18 per year for unlimited storage. And avatar hosting is allowed. See r0gue’s and mine. Just press and hold on an avatar for a couple of seconds to get an offer to copy the avatar URL.



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I just share them from a folder on my Microsoft OneDrive.

I asked the forum’s advice about using iCloud for photo hosting. Was advised that it would be a poor choice, so I decided to stick with ImageShack.

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...990056854#9990056854

Don’t know if Microsoft OneDrive is a better choice.



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I've been happy here, too, as far as using a browser. I haven't yet figured out if it's possible using the iPhone app to save, edit, and generate links to images using the mobile app.
 
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I moved over from photobucket to tinypic also. This is a bummer.

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Originally posted by aguilar64:
Free and works great:

https://image.ibb.co


I signed up there, but for the life of me, can't get an avatar to work. What code are you guys using? I was trying to use the direct link code, but the forum keeps saying the link is inaccessible.

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