Photo hosting sites - Flickr and alternatives

kdemas said:
FYI- You can set your Flickr permissions so that no one can comment and you can disable sharing as well. As mentioned above you can also make them private so nobody can see them, though you can still post them inline in forums.
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Yep that is basically what I'm after. Photobucket sounded appealing from that perspective too.
 
I don't like the big square thumbnails with the title, it looks awkward, overall I find there's an overdose of extra information around the pictures.
 
I'm very happy with Ipernity. The upload limit is 200 MB per month, far more than I need. The interface is great, especially the uploading apps.
 
Lauffray said:
I don't like the big square thumbnails with the title, it looks awkward, overall I find there's an overdose of extra information around the pictures.
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Right, I feel the same way about many photo hosting sites. I just want to see the photo featured as the only element other than navigation controls.

That wouldn't matter if I used a site that I could set the folders private just so I could link to them from elsewhere, since the photo site wouldn't be used for viewing in that case.
 
Peter^ said:
I'm very happy with Ipernity. The upload limit is 200 MB per month, far more than I need. The interface is great, especially the uploading apps.
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Supports videos too, it looks like. It could be a candidate for me too if I can make folders private and there aren't copyright or privacy concerns.

Oh, another thing that just occurred to me is that some sites might have restrictive TOS policies that prohibit certain types of photographs, such as nudes. I don't photograph many nudes, but I don't care much for content restrictions on content that is otherwise legal.
 
I'm very satisfied with ipernity. It seems to have all the features, and then some. The upload limit is 200 MB per month, which is plenty for me. The interface is easy to use, especially the uploading app.
 
Lauffray said:
That's only been happening lately though, it's gotten really weird.
I never really caught on to 500px, I don't like the interface
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What you said.
I tried 500px.
It offers nothing new (other than the modern layout) compared to flickr.

As for flickr degrading picture quality, I don't experience that myself, so I don't know.
 
Well for a long time they used to compress the uploads, but the image would still be of relatively good quality. Now they've gone and tweaked the look a bit, and the images look terrible, you have to upload an image at least 1600px wide, of high jpg quality not to notice it. It bugs me really
 
Brian Puccio said:
www.imgur.com

Free to use anonymously with unlimited uploads that can be up to 10 MB in size, but will be resized down to 1 MB. Embedding is no problem at all.

http://imgur.com/register/upgrade

Pay $20/yr and get unlimited images up to 5 MB each.
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The big thing there seems to be community, sharing, popularity ratings (voting), and stealing other people's pictures to photoshop them with weird stuff. At least, I found a number of such examples. The crowd seems juvenile. Not sure I like that much, although if imgur allows private folders and clearly addresses privacy and copyright matters, then maybe not so bad.
 
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