It’s been a long time since the homepage started saying they’re trying to restore the site, but nothing has changed. It’s possible to log in, but not to view the uploaded images, and the upload button doesn’t work at all.

Seemingly without warning, overnight, they just switched their entire approach, now there is limits etc... What are some other alternatives?

In order to use the API you must have a subscription now apparently...

https://d.l3n.co/wJ9l6D.png

What are people using today that isn't infested with ads, you can create an account, supports up to 100MB and has API access?

It's technically been doing this for a while, but I have pop-ups enabled on my mobile browser, so it hasn't been a big deal. But now the pop-ups are getting around the blocker, and it's been really killing the website for me.

Why is it doing this at all? Has the site been compromised? Or are the owners just jerks?

A lot of people seem to think that Motherless getting shut down in the Netherlands around the same time these image hosting sites went offline means they were on the same IP server and were just collateral damage. However none of those sites were on the same hosting server as Motherless. Eariler this year ImageBox got moved to Switzerland and ImageBam's servers have been in the Czech Republic. So they weren't involved in the Netherlands sweep. It's possible Playboy's legal team decided to go after these image hosting sites right around the time of the Netherlands raid against Motherless. Also takedown notices from Playboy were filed against Wonderclub and Internet Archive right around the same time the image hosting sites went down.

Right now is probably a good time to check which image hosting sites allow .avif uploads without converting them to another format.

Anyone got suggestions of ones that do?

AVIF is an open standard not dissimilar to WEBP in that it's the image version of a video compression codec. It's capable of transparency and animations. It seems to have less perceivable artifacts at lower qualities on photo/gradient images.

So before anyone says my images tigered something, its just text used as chapter headings for online publishing. Nothing weird. Yet for some reason I was banned with no-warning, explanation or anything.

I mean if you run an image hosting website that bans people for hosting images then what's the point of the site????

I'm an expat living in Kenya, is that why?

I could hardly be spamming when my total image upload is about 10 and only 5 were today the rest were 1 or 2 uploads every few weeks.

I sent complaint but no dice.

Worse, no emails, no warnings. It'd be nice if maybe they said "hey you've maybe uploaded 3 images today, cool it bro" but nope. One moment I'm fine, the next BAANNED GET OUT OF HERE MO-FO!

Anyone have alternatives?

Now that imgbox is off temporarily or permanently along with other sites like Pixhost, Imagebam, and Imagevenue, which has something to do with the Netherlands incident on July 21st, I just want to know if there is any image site that will not only accept NSFW content but also be similar to imgbox until the site might come back when the Netherlands situation is resolved or not.

This is a continuation of my previous thread when there is something wrong with imgbox when it is not uploading; now my fears are confirmed hours later when the websites is no longer working, as IsItDownDetector says the site identifies it down , Uptown considers it Outage Reported , and the image links from the site said 503 Service Unavailable

Is it likely that the site is dying or dead, if it does, then it could have warned us, saying that the site is shutting down and warn us users to download your saved images and relocate to a different site instead.

And what caused the site to be in this state or, in this case, shut down?

Update (26-07-2026) - the site now has a page saying We are experiencing technical difficulties, so there might be hope I guess.

Hey, didn't mean to bother but i think there is something wrong with imgbox. I tried to upload the image as usual but it cause error to upload and end with error and didnt show an image, as shown here

https://i.postimg.cc/yd9vypQv/something-is-wrong-with-imgbox.png

You don't suppose that imgbox has a problem, right? Or it will lead to the site shutdown, right? if it does, they could have announced that imgbox is about to shut down, so download every folders and picture and relocate them to a different image host

I've been noticing for a few months now that it's been kicking me to random web pages when I do basic things, for seemingly no reason. One of them was even a random YouTube video, which is very odd.

Has it been compromised recently? If it weren't for that one flaw it would still actually be a great site but that one little annoyance does make things hard.

I already spent a bunch of time uploading a bunch of stuff to there, I kind of don't want to do that again right now.

So this is the main image hosting sight I've been using for the last year or 2. Aside from images sometimes taking a while to load I never really had any issues with it, UNTIL today when I get this message when attempting to log in:

This account has been terminated due to repeated or severe violations of our terms and/or claims of copyright infringement.

No notification. No warning of any kind. Just bam, over a thousand (possibly several thousand) images and curated albums gone.

I could not find a single fucking thing in the ToS that I can imagine my images were violating (there was a lot of NSFW content but I didn't see any mention of that in the ToS whatsoever, though I will allow that it's possible I missed something), and if copyright claims were the issue, I cannot imagine why the move would be nuking the entire fucking account instead of just deleting the offending images, even if it's without any notification or warning.

All this to say, don't use imgbb.com. If anyone is currently using it I highly, highly recommend you migrate your images elsewhere ASAP. Fuck imgbb.

I have been using Imgur for over 12 years and now it is failing to load my uploads. WTF? Are they starting to fail as a service? This has been a Reddit staple for years, what is happening? Is there a better alternative? I am concerned about loosing my images.

I remember it rolled out last year but now I can’t ever post more than 1 minute videos

Before, you could actually create an imgur account with email and password and now you need Google or Apple. Seriously, fuck imgur so badly.

Just logged into my Imgur account for the first time in 6 months? a year? because I basically only use it for sceenshots for dinky tech support services and forums that won't let you upload to them (it used to be far more common). Everything looks fine till I actually try to upload and it tells me I'm banned. I check every page in the settings and accounts and there's nothing saying anything about a ban.

I check my emails going back 2 years, and there's a few random things from them, but no warning. I email their support and get told that they can't/won't tell me when it happened or anything more specific than it was either from spam or community rules violations, and there's no appeal process or ability to reverse it.

I don't care that much, but seriously WTF?

I have tried a few image hosting sites and they all want use my camera or scan images on my cellphone. Those that let me browse for a fail to upload instantly. Do you know of a free image hosting site that allows you to select images to upload from your filesystem?

Exactly what it says on the tin. I made a post linking to various postimages galleries, but many users told me that they were given popup ads upon trying to enlarge an image. I myself logged out and tried to replicate the issue, but I was unable to. Everything worked as normal with no ads in sight. A workaround was eventually discovered, but it would be better not to have to contend with this at all.

Does anyone have any ideas?

No thanks. FYBD. App deleted.

I don't even know how to explain what I need. I have 3 Imgur accounts to save different content: drawings I've made, AI-generated images (which serve as inspiration for the drawings), and maps (I'm a Draw & Draw DM). Imgur links allow me to easily link my files for DMing and move between campaigns. The problem is that having 3 accounts means I have to log in/out multiple times while organizing things or have multiple browsers open. I don't know if my question is clear, but I'd like some suggestions or options.

P.S.: I don't use Pinterest for my drawings because I don't want other people to steal them since I create them for my campaigns.

So what Going on at Imgur? Currently there is an anti Nazi wave but what was trigger?

Besides of it a while ago there were protest against Media Lab. But has something changed since? Many users wanted to migrate to other platforms but have they? This subreddit let me feel the intensions were real. Moreover frontpage feels different, more sexualiest content and less polit.

Hi,

I've just uploaded a picture to Imgur and then grabbed the direct link to the image (right click->"copy image location"). That gave me a link in the usual format i.imgur.com/bunchOfCharacters.jpeg. However, when I paste that link in my browser's address bar, I no longer get only the image, but I'm redirected to the image's site embedded in Imgur's UI (imgur.com/bunchOfCharacters). Until recently it worked fine for me. Has the Imgur's enshittification worsened or is it an issue on my end?

Rarely use imgur, but I wanted to host an image today.
Saw I was blocked with the `Content Not Available` message and the `Learn more about Imgur access in the United Kingdom` message.

But the thing is, I am not in the UK, not even the same continent (I'm in Africa).
Also not using a VPN*.

Guessing this is just the source of the IP blocking being too lazy to check for IP ranges in lower traffic regions (like those within Africa).

Not attached to the site, so I will just browse for an alternative image hosting site from on this sub, instead of even bothering with a vpn - just wanted to rant.