Imagehost Problems, Imagebam, Imagevenue, PimpAndHost, PixHost, ImgBox etc

[deezer]

Originally Posted by SanteeFats

Been to Imagebam to try and download my uploads. Was not successful at all. Anyone know one who is a tech maroon can redownload his uploads?

I was at imagebam and downloaded my images with the add-on for firefox: imagehost grabber
And it worked fine.

[luegowin]

Originally Posted by deezer

I was at imagebam and downloaded my images with the add-on for firefox: imagehost grabber
And it worked fine.

Imagebamlink -> Gallery and Jdownloader works too. A little bit easier as you need no plugin and jdownloader can do the work later and doesn't need a browser.

[Boatguy]

Welcome to my (and many others) someimage world, guys. Enjoy!

On a serious note, this is a fucking horror for individual posters, and our board as a whole. I made a valiant effort to re-up my lost goods when someimage shit the bed, but it was futile at best. Those of us that post regularly, and post large sets, know exactly how time consuming it can be to post (let alone re-post thousands of images) quality sets, and share them with our VEF brethren. I'd like to think there's a moneyed up mutha fucka that's going to come riding in on a shiny, white host to save the day, but I'm not going to get my hopes up. By all means, if anyone is aware of a host that allows file sizes that we're accustomed to, and isn't inundated with sketchy ads/pop-ups/java scripts, please let me, or any one of my other mod/admin bros know so we can give it a look for potential approved use here at our beloved VEF. TIA gents.

[topofthehill]

imgbox was great and served me well. rip.

of course, I don`t have back ups, so fun times ahead

I`ve been using imgagetwist on PS a long, long, time and aside from imgbox, they are the best host. I know about the forum rules (and that they are firm ), but maybe exception can be made. twist isn`t ordinary grab money & run host, just the opposite.

I hate venue, but until thing settle I`ll use them.

EDIT: no I`m not just uploaded 2 pics and... I hate those guys

[luegowin]

Originally Posted by Boatguy

By all means, if anyone is aware of a host that allows file sizes that we're accustomed to, and isn't inundated with sketchy ads/pop-ups/java scripts, please let me, or any one of my other mod/admin bros know so we can give it a look for potential approved use here at our beloved VEF. TIA gents.

As said above turboimagehost.com looks very good and allows up to 10 MB filesize per pic.

[Boatguy]

Originally Posted by topofthehill

I`ve been using imgagetwist on PS a long, long, time and aside from imgbox, they are the best host.

Sadly, topofthehill, a 5MB size limit, and 15 images per post isn't going to cut it for many of us.

As far as the gallery option is concerned, if these two hosts are in fact gone for good, and as the other options are limited, we may have to rethink our gallery position where new, potential hosts are concerned. With that said, don't let lack of a gallery option deter you from giving us some options. Methinks we may need to be open, and looking at all comers in the near future.

[Boatguy]

Originally Posted by luegowin

As said above turboimagehost.com looks very good and allows up to 10 MB filesize per pic.

Agreed, and I like the new 10MB limit luegowin. Retention time with some of these hosts that may have been "waiting in the wings" for this day to come, and their ability to handle the load that's sure to follow is a concern.

I guess it's going to be trial, and error with a lot of them, and we'll see if they can take the onslaught that's on their doorstep.

[luegowin]

Other potential option: Imgur.

They do have a "mature" flag and no filesize restrictions. No BB integration though.
They are probably to big to fail.
However they most likely don't want this kind of content. They are pretty much reddits filehoster and "mature" is only for NSFW reddit memes, not for porn.
But GIF support is actually nice.

Wouldn't trust them though. They won't close, but will probably delete all unwanted content.

[cicciobuki]

Not that it helps, but does anyone know why these filehosts are shutting down?

[chromax]

We are trapped in this endless discussion, yet I'm quite sure the admins are working to fix this f...ing problem in the meantime. Hope they may find a reliable host as good and easy to use as ImageBan.
Personally I never save my upped images and, to be honest, I really don't feel like downloading them all from IB through Firefox, this is supposed to be just an enormous waste of time to me.