Looking for a free image hoster

[Amaris]

I guess I've outgrown free sites. But I do want a site that will hosts gifs and not shrink them. I would also like somewhere to store videos which I am willing to pay for.

In that case, Timelord's recommendation of DropBox is best. They'll let you host just about anything.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Cool.

 

[FPAlpha]

It's not hate, so much as it is dissatisfaction with how slow, and more restrictive, it has become compared to other free services. Photobucket used to be great! You could upload a multitude of pictures and get their links quickly, all in one fell swoop. Then they revamped their site, and for me it went downhill from there. Now, in the time it takes Photobucket to load so I can upload pictures, I can just toss a dozen pictures up on Postimage, and grab all the links at once, in thumbnail, direct link, or gallery format, if I want, and drop them right in a post. Ten seconds tops.

I forgot i had a Photobucket account i made years ago and logged in.

To be honest i did exactly what you described with a few mouse clicks, they even had an option to generate web links with various tags (simple links, image links and some more) which you could copy with a simple mouse click.

I found it very convenient and easy to use and will probably stick with it for the few instances that i need to post pictures.

 

[sojourner]

Yeah, wait till you try to use those generated links. 3 click throughs to get to a decent sized copy of your image. That's IF you can manage to get photobucket not to resize the image when you do the upload.

 

[Timewalker]

Photobucket?

No.

While Photobucket has dropped in quality in some ways since they "improved" the site (I used to have a really nice background for my albums), I'm still happy enough with it that I recently renewed my year's subscription. Unlike Imageshack, which deletes my pictures for no reason I can think of (I've got a paid account there, too), my Photobucket images stay exactly where I put them, and have for years. Plus, the Firefox add-on that lets you upload directly to Photobucket from any page on the 'net is quite handy.

Fotki is another option for image hosting, and you can have either free or paid accounts.