List of Approved Image hosts.

[t.]

A fair few other sites out there have a list of image hosts that are allowed to be used. I would like to put this forward for here.

 

My reason for this is recently while browsing the mod shop I have noticed a lot of images being hosted on sites full of spam, pop ups and god knows what else. A few of the hosts being used are also using those stupid traffic holders, where by you have to click an image about four times before it takes you to the page you want rather than some page of adverts. You can of course right click and copy image URL then remove the offending section but this is tedious. I'm not going to point out any one thread as an example as there are multiple "offenders" and I wouldn't want to make an example of any one of them.

 

I am mainly referring to (but not exclusively) the Russian image hosts as they seem to be some of the worst for this kind of thing. I noticed recently in a thread that others too said they were un-trusting of certain links posted.

 

Sites like Tinypic, Imageshack, Photobucket etc are all decent clean sites without any pay per click nonsense or OTT advertising.

 

Anyway, I'll shut up now.

[Baldy]

I agree and think it should be something that implement :) But of course we need many more opinions first. So come on guys and girls (And Diablo) speak up!

[And3rs]

*speaks down*

Heheheheh :twisted:

 

I agree, i hate some of the sites used here. Russian ones xD

I think tinypic and PhotoBucket are fine.

[Andreas¹]

I've noticed it aswell, many times. I agree with tWm that the Russian sites seem to be the worst. I think that a list like this would be a good idea, but to be very honest, I think that Mods would be very busy removing links and pointing people to the approved sites as I don't know how many would actually read it. (Or be bothered to change, as some sites (like Photobucket) requires registration) Just my two cents. ;)

[Camel]

Good idea. Also some image hosting sites don't show up the filesize of the image when you right click properties it.

[The Queen]

Finally a good idea for something on here. Amen to that!

[KoenigseggBG]

Good idea indeed, some of the Russian and German sites are quite annoying.

TinyPic, ImageShack, PhotoBucket, Flickr for the win. :)

[StrickenHAWK?]

Agreed!

[Tool831]

I agree with this.. :) I always use imageshack or photobucket. And started recently to use Tinypic.

 

I clicked on a image link for a mod once ages back just to look at the mod and just had porn banners etc.

[Who]

perhaps if people use the report function when they see a bad image then the domain of the offending site could be added to the swear filter, hence breaking links?

[Loz]

I use FinalGears image host Phyrefile. It has no advertisments :)

[Brazzucca]

I use ImageShack, it's a bit bad that "Multi Images Upload" that "forgets" to upload some images of that you selected... but have some good features... I prefer to use only one tool to not get confused...

[KoenigseggBG]

So will there be such limits for using filehosts. If yes, I would like us to make a list of the most common hosts we use, to make Diablo's/Baldred's job easier. ;)

 

PhotoBucket

Flickr

ImageShack

TinyPic

IMG Boot

MediaFire

FileFront

Any others that have no ads in them? :)

[Fridge Magnet Rabbit]

not an image host but also approved file hosters? there are other russian file hosters with porn banners as well and if we do have file host limits, i'd like to suggest 3

Filefront - Very good, popular, no wait

Mediafire - Very good, not as popular as Filefront, no wait

Rapidshare - Average - Wait before download, popular

[EmptySoul]

I Use Saved.IM

 

Very good and quick Image Host, but sadly only in german Language

 

http://www.saved.im/

[t.]

I don't mind so much if it is only available in German, after all I'm only looking at the images not reading the text around them. Provided the site doesn't have any of what was mentioned earlier I don't mind it being used.

[KoenigseggBG]

not an image host but also approved file hosters? there are other russian file hosters with porn banners as well and if we do have file host limits, i'd like to suggest 3

Filefront - Very good, popular, no wait

Mediafire - Very good, not as popular as Filefront, no wait

Rapidshare - Average - Wait before download, popular

First and second one are good but can you direclty host images on Rapidshare, I mean can you directly view the image from there or do you have to download it first?

 

I don't mind so much if it is only available in German, after all I'm only looking at the images not reading the text around them. Provided the site doesn't have any of what was mentioned earlier I don't mind it being used.

Gotta agree with you here. :)

[Fridge Magnet Rabbit]

First and second one are good but can you direclty host images on Rapidshare, I mean can you directly view the image from there or do you have to download it first?

read again, i said FILE host, not IMAGE host, you know to host the mod files instead of images for the mod, too many of the foreign modders(not naming any) post their mods on sites which are only avaliable in russian or other foreign languages which most forum users dont understand but i know that Mediafire, Rapidshare and Filefront have language choices

[KoenigseggBG]

read again, i said FILE host, not IMAGE host, you know to host the mod files instead of images for the mod, too many of the foreign modders(not naming any) post their mods on sites which are only avaliable in russian or other foreign languages which most forum users dont understand but i know that Mediafire, Rapidshare and Filefront have language choices

But the thread is about sites that host images, so please give other suggestions. ;)

[Guest MaXCoDeR38]

İmageuplaod Site Germany

http://www.abload.de/

[KoenigseggBG]

İmageuplaod Site Germany

http://www.abload.de/

Added. ;)

 

I need an admin to give the final word on wheter there should be such a list or not. As I see it, most of the members are for the idea, so we need decision from above. :p

[Andreas¹]

abload.de has got ads on it ;)

[KoenigseggBG]

I triеd opening some images from the vehicle mods threads. None of the pictures I clicked brought me to a screen with ads on it. Can you capture where you see ads on Abload? ;)

[Andreas¹]

http://i33.tinypic.com/33l2ujo.jpg as the image is way too big

[KoenigseggBG]

Oh, okay then. Fair enough. :) Any other suggestions?