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Postby nerv bae » Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:53 pm

Imgur caused a stir on the Internet this week when they announced new Terms of Service and explained that:

Our new Terms of Service will go into effect on May 15, 2023. We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content. You will need to download/save any images that you wish to save if they no longer adhere to these Terms. Most notably, this would include explicit/pornographic content.

I use Imgur to share images here on EGF, and I can see that some other users do too. Significantly, my Imgur use is not tied to a user account, so it's possible all my images will disappear. Those of us in this boat may have to start using an account moving forward if Imgur implements this change next month.

Alternately, phpBB native image attachments might be an option. Our EGF FAQ states:

Can I post images?
Yes, images can be shown in your posts. If the administrator has allowed attachments, you may be able to upload the image to the board. Otherwise, you must link to an image stored on a publicly accessible web server, e.g. http://www.example.com/my-picture.gif. You cannot link to pictures stored on your own PC (unless it is a publicly accessible server) nor images stored behind authentication mechanisms, e.g. hotmail or yahoo mailboxes, password protected sites, etc. To display the image use the BBCode [img] tag.

I don't see an attachment option as I write this post—is this something the administrators can turn on, as an alternative to Imgur or other offsite image hosts? Or is native attachment hosting cost-prohibitive for EGF?

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Postby Blockio » Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:56 am

The imgur thing is on our radar, but it's unfortunately one of those things where we can only hope that shit doesn't break too hard; the native image hosting is something that phpBB can do, and has been brought up in the past, but we've elected to not use it because it on the one hand massively increases storage space and network traffic (one of the reasons that we're still able to run this place as is even with not a lot of technical staff present is because we have so little of it), as well as the fact that hosting the images ourselves would open all sorts of cans of worms for copyright and various state regulations for mandatory content moderation, which we unfortunately do not have the legal expertise to confidently handle.

I'm not categorically ruling out this option for a future point, we're open to reconsider this, but for the time, that is how things stand
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Postby nerv bae » Fri Apr 21, 2023 10:25 am

Thank you; I figured native image hosting might have some issues!

Okay—happy to take recommendations for alternative image hosts in this topic if anyone has strong preferences. :asuka_wink:

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Postby MsenjaKagami » Fri Apr 21, 2023 2:36 pm

It's kinda jank, but what I've been doing is posting images to a discord server I made as a makeshift image hosting method then posting the images urls here. Figured with discord being what it is, it'll probably be around for awhile, and if they haven't started charging for storage by now they probably won't anytime soon.
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Postby Blockio » Fri Apr 21, 2023 3:44 pm

Yeah, I'm doing the same; not exactly an ideal solution, but short of setting up my own image hosting server (which wouldn't actually solve anything longterm, just shift the problem somewhere else and probably be less reliable), this is the best intermediary I've got
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