Image hosting site

PU7E · 21 Feb 2014 at 21:37

Without running my own site what's the best image hosting site these days that doesn't have ott compression and retains exif?

I've lost my old flickr account and really don't want to register a new yahoo account with my phone number, as the last time I used it I ended up getting tons of sales calls even though they say they're not going to "share" it.

42zx · 21 Feb 2014 at 21:39

I use Flickr and I don't get any calls? Enter fake number perhaps?

PU7E · 21 Feb 2014 at 21:50

I do miss Flickr, you can't any more as they send the account registration code to your phone to stop you doing so.

42zx · 21 Feb 2014 at 21:52

You can't link it to gmail or facebook instead anymore? That sucks if so.

Theres always 500px or Tumblr?

PU7E · 21 Feb 2014 at 22:06

42zx said:
You can't link it to gmail or facebook instead anymore? That sucks if so.

Theres always 500px or Tumblr?

You can try but then it wants you to link your google account to a new yahoo account and give permission for yahoo to access your google account info.

Definitely sucks

jonneymendoza · 21 Feb 2014 at 22:27

PU7E said:
You can try but then it wants you to link your google account to a new yahoo account and give permission for yahoo to access your google account info.

Definitely sucks

create a fake google and yahoo account then?

PU7E · 22 Feb 2014 at 11:49

Can't as you need a valid phone number to authorise the yahoo new yahoo account you're required to create when logging in via google yet another reason why yahoo are heading down the creak without a paddle.

Had a look around 500px looks ok but quite limiting unless you go premium. might just have to take the plunge and register a new yahoo acc.

asim18 · 22 Feb 2014 at 20:53

Can't you regain access to your old Flickr account since you gave them your phone number?

PU7E · 22 Feb 2014 at 21:28

Was an old phone number I no longer have, I've just taken the plunge and registered a new account.

Marzipanogram · 22 Feb 2014 at 22:55

Create an account on your phone whilst standing in a phone box and give them that number

Energize · 24 Feb 2014 at 00:07

Seriously the easiest thing to do is buy your own hosting, it is really not difficult to drag and drop files onto a server, you can put any content you want onto it, use any file type, upload any file size and have no compression. Image hosting sites are so 90s.

PU7E · 24 Feb 2014 at 12:47

I've run my own colo-servers for years, hence stopping using flickr in the first place. I just don't have the time to go and maintain them at the moment leaving them offline due to degraded components

ndaar · 24 Feb 2014 at 13:07

photobucket is an other one

Energize · 24 Feb 2014 at 13:23

PU7E said:
I've run my own colo-servers for years, hence stopping using flickr in the first place. I just don't have the time to go and maintain them at the moment leaving them offline due to degraded components

Then surely just use a £15 per year hosting service like TSO rather than the nightmare of phone number registration and spam messages?

PU7E · 24 Feb 2014 at 14:13

Energize said:
Then surely just use a £15 per year hosting service like TSO rather than the nightmare of phone number registration and spam messages?

I used to run shared hosting services hence why I'd rather remove my eyes with a rusty spork before using them myself :eek:

I just found an old PAYG number and used that, did the trick