Image Hosting

A cross between File sharing and Photo sharing. Wanting to be able to have an inline image in a HTML page (from a dynamic webapp) (esp when that webapp doesn't want to do the hosting itself).

Some file/photo sharing services (DropBox, FlickR) have supported this in the past, but made it harder over time, to avoid a large bandwidth cost without ad revenue.

I sometimes use Twitter for this (I'll tweet the image, then use the embed-file-url in the webpage). But that's probably pretty fragile, it's easy to imaging Twitter changing their img url....

• embedding the whole tweet is probably less fragile, though you get more schmutz (though maybe that's a feature not a bug? See an example at 2021-07-11-ChinProductValidationFrameworksAreUselessWithoutTaste)

GooglePhotos actually works ok once I (a) share the photo, then (b) right-click to view-image-in-new-window and get the URL (it doesn't even matter that it doesn't have a jpg extension):
But you can't upload an image to it.

• update: not true, it's just tricky to find

How about GoogleDrive?

• Not inline.
• But embed? A little noisy but not horrible (share, view, open-in-new-window, get embed snippet).
  • tweak the embed tag: make it width="80%" and remove the height
  • an annoyance: the URL is the google-assigned hash/UUID, not the nice "filename" you give it. So if you move to another service later....

GitHub? Amazon S3? Even more hassle for most people.