Imgur
The fun, free image host and social sharing hot spot for viral videos and memes.
What is Imgur?
Imgur is a free and simple image hosting service with image editing feature. Signup is optional. Imgur is pronounced like image-er; imager.
The maximum non-animated file size you can upload is 20MB. Non-animated images over 1MB for anonymous uploads and 5MB for account holders will be lossily compressed. All non-animated images receive lossless compression that reduces filesize while maintaining quality. The maximum file size for animated images (like GIFs) and video is 200MB. Video uploads cannot be longer than 60 seconds. GIF and video files over 2MB will be converted to GIFVs, where the sound is removed. Large GIFs will be converted to GIFV, which shrinks file size while maintaining a high quality, perfect for our expert GIF makers.
There is an upload limit of 50 images per hour.
Images may be removed if they get no views in 6 months.
File types allowed: JPEG, GIF, PNG, APNG, TIFF, BMP, PDF, XCF (GIMP). The TIFF, BMP, PDF and XCF formats will be converted to PNG on upload.
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- image-hotlinking
- Image Hosting
- image-gallery
- share-galleries
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yeah i pretty much live off this image host thanks imgur
Pair this up with something like shareX
ShareX and you'll just imgur link everything such as
The moment my imgur.com links wither away will be a sad day for me
[Edited by Kagerjay, June 20]
There's little competition when it comes to image sharing.
And what's bonkers is that most of it is free. I have no idea how they sustain the server costs, but I can't help but be grateful.
Imgur is terrible now, it doesn't allow you to post a image via a mobile device unless you download their app, no thanks! It became instantly useless for me.
I'm rating this from the viewpoint of image hosting. Imgur used to be the simplest, easiest image host that I could find. It's still decent, but as the years go by they keep stripping features from the image hosting area and forcing me more and more towards the awful front page and social "meme-sharing" functionality they've branched out to. There is no good reason to strip out perfectly working features such as view styles and album overview other than to force users to change how they use your platform. I just want to create an album and share it, why must I go through 10 hard-to-find sub menus to get there when previously an easy overview was one dropdown away?
Imgur is still one of the best image hosts around, for now, due to their stability. They've been here this long and won't be leaving any time soon, so it's unlikely you will lose your images. That said, they seem determined to become more of a social network than a good image host and the moment a solid replacement shows up, I will be leaving.
Nothing for serious photographers - more a playground for children.
love the site. hate the new app (Android). It's good but I don't like the extra unnecessary background stuff. I guess they got to get paid somehow.
I never use Photobucket or Imageshack anymore. Too much crap on their website. I don't care about managing albums, I don't care about today's popular images, I don't care about your stupid bulk uploader. Just give me a page that I can drop screenshots onto. Imgur is great in that regard.