If people have any suggestions for how to deal with this, especially with older images and threads and inactive users, please let us know.... would it be possible to have the forum's DB systematically scanned for all links pointing to Imgur, to get an idea how much storage space we'd need to have for a while-the-clock-still-ticks backup?
Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network.
Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network.
And to be honest, are the alternative hosting platforms more trustworthy?
I am massively concerned about this, from the 'stuff not to do' section:Well, yes, it does. Already (i.e., already in their current ToS).QuoteAlso, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network.Does that not explicitly ban all the images we host there for use on here?
And to be honest, are the alternative hosting platforms more trustworthy?https://www.quora.com/Who-originally-suggested-that-if-youre-not-paying-for-the-product-you-are-the-product
On the one hand, I don't know how they'd be able to determine that the images on Imgur from our users are being posted elsewhereLooking at the Referer: header of an HTTP(S) request to see whether it's your website including the actual image is trivial, not to mention more modern methods (https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/marketing/eloqua-user/Help/Microsites/Tasks/PreventEmbedding.htm). Circumventing such mechanisms is trivial in theory, but it does require a fair bit of infrastructure (setting up a web proxy, or using an altered browser).
don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network
... would it be possible to have the forum's DB systematically scanned for all links pointing to Imgur, to get an idea how much storage space we'd need to have for a while-the-clock-still-ticks backup?If storage space is a problem and it is not so much a problem it is relatively slow and downtime can happen I could offer some space (a bit more than a TB is free here).