Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now

• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Catbox is basically what Imgur used to be before it went to absolute shit. You upload images, you can link to them. That’s it. You don’t need to create an account, but if you do, you can see everything you’ve uploaded. It’s free. Not really sure what more you can ask for in an image host.

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  • Anomnomnomaly@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can you just browse other peoples uploads on there looking for funny pics and memes?

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    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nope! It’s an image host, not a social media platform, which in my opinion is the best thing about it.

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      • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This brought back memories. We used to have a local image host and there was a hidden /recents page that I discovered. It listed all the recent uploads by users. I don’t think it was meant to be public, because the shit I could find there was both too personal and NSFW

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    • TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Asking the important questions. I need the shitposting, not just the image hosting.

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  • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Catbox is also nonfunctional on some VPNs.

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    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Didn’t know that! I use an always-on VPN and I’ve never had issues with Catbox (but imgur blocks me), for what it’s worth.

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  • aeiou@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Catbox doesn’t work properly on some US mobile carriers, returns a DNS error

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I just loaded it through a Comcast connection, so it’s definitely not an IP block or route issue. I don’t use Comcast’s dns though and I’m completely unwilling to do so even for test purposes so you could still be right.

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• Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just upload directly to the instance, at least that’s what I think I’m doing. My app lets me do that (Boost).

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  • hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m on boost too. Let’s find out, here’s a picture uploaded using the built in function. Image

    Well I’ll be darned, I thought it was using imgur, but I guess it’s straight to the instance. Neat.

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• gigachad@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wdym? Can’t you see this image I am just embedding on the fly rn?

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  • jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can see it, But in PieFed I can’t upload one.

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    • gigachad@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Interesting, I am using the voyager mobile app. Does that mean the functionality is there but the PieFed frontend hasn’t integrated it?

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      • jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That is interesting, I just checked and your image is indeed hosted by PieFed itself and not by any external service like I assumed that the 3rd party apps would implement as a workaround.

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• REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m using Boost for Lemmy and I never questioned how it works, but I can just add images here straight from my gallery.

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  • jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You are on Lemmy, I’m on PieFed

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    • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It doesn’t matter, it’s a clone with same functionality. There are users below uploading the same way I did and it uploads on their instance (piefed).

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      • jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        To me it does matter because I can’t upload pictures to comments.

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