WARNING: Tinypic will PERMANENTLY shut down on September 9th. All images will be taken with it. Download anything you want to keep.

According to a notification on their website, TinyPic is shutting down their website at some point in 2019, and they say that the reason they are shutting it down is because the ever-dwindling ad revenue is no longer enough to support a free image host.

If you have images on Tinypic, I implore you to move the images to a different image host, the best alternative currently being CubeUpload since it is free, but it does require an account.

This would be a good opportunity for me to plug Xomf.com, since similar to Tinypic, it's a simple image sharing website that doesn't require an account (you can't even make an account) and is totally free without any intrusive advertising. I really hope the Scratch Team approves it as an SF image host, preferably before Tinypic bites the dust and takes all of its images with it.

Oh boy, there should be a forum announcement on this matter. Luckily for me, I've always used CubeUpload. xD
Hopefully people will see this.

just use scratch project thumbnails

game_pr0grammer wrote:

just use scratch project thumbnails

Nah sorry I don't want all my images in a 4:3 aspect ratio.

CatsUnited wrote:

game_pr0grammer wrote:

just use scratch project thumbnails

Nah sorry I don't want all my images in a 4:3 aspect ratio.

Or you just use World_Languages's thumbnail tutorial thingy with that. It's what I do.

LegoManiac04 wrote:

CatsUnited wrote:

game_pr0grammer wrote:

just use scratch project thumbnails

Nah sorry I don't want all my images in a 4:3 aspect ratio.

Or you just use World_Languages's thumbnail tutorial thingy with that. It's what I do.

Or just host your images on cubeupload..? It's not that hard to make an account :P Also, wouldn't it be tiresome to make a whole studio just for one image?

Noo! It was the only site I can see it's photos! I can't see cubeupload, imageshack and imgur images and photobucket photos are just filled with watermark and “photo not found” text! This is very bad
Now I can just see Scratch Wiki photos

Troyer_Kem wrote:

Noo! It was the only site I can see it's photos! I can't see cubeupload, imageshack and imgur images and photobucket photos are just filled with watermark and “photo not found” text! This is very bad
Now I can just see Scratch Wiki photos

get a VPN

Troyer_Kem wrote:

Noo! It was the only site I can see it's photos! I can't see cubeupload, imageshack and imgur images and photobucket photos are just filled with watermark and “photo not found” text! This is very bad
Now I can just see Scratch Wiki photos

Nevermind actually I never use photos in forums lol

CatsUnited wrote:

get a VPN

How will I do that

YAY!!!! TINYPIC IS A BIG PROBLEM!!!! IT'S A THORN IN THE SPINE OF GOOD IMAGE HOSTS!!!!

PrincessFlowerTV wrote:

Oh boy, there should be a forum announcement on this matter. Luckily for me, I've always used CubeUpload. xD
Hopefully people will see this.

Same with me, I've always used Cubeupload. People that use Tinypic should see this topic.

Anyways, too bad Tinypic is shutting down. But there are lots of other image hosters…

EDIT: Wait, will using the wayback machine technically allow Tinypic to still be usable?

(Cubeupload shuts down) NOOOOOOOOOOOO

LuckyLucky7 wrote:

PrincessFlowerTV wrote:

Oh boy, there should be a forum announcement on this matter. Luckily for me, I've always used CubeUpload. xD
Hopefully people will see this.

Same with me, I've always used Cubeupload. People that use Tinypic should see this topic.

Anyways, too bad Tinypic is shutting down. But there are lots of other image hosters…

EDIT: Wait, will using the wayback machine technically allow Tinypic to still be usable?

(Cubeupload shuts down) NOOOOOOOOOOOO

I don’t know exactly how it works, but I assume even if you could get the url (which I don’t see how you could from the wayback) I would think it wouldn’t work anymore once the site shut down

Troyer_Kem wrote:

CatsUnited wrote:

get a VPN

How will I do that

Your country has probably blocked all those sites. It's called government censorship. I might be wrong.

A VPN pretty much reroutes your Internet connection to a different location, so you can get around censorship.

—–

I refuse to press the button, but it's strange to see an image host shutting down.

is this a question about Scratch? It's not.

NilsTheBest wrote:

LegoManiac04 wrote:

CatsUnited wrote:

game_pr0grammer wrote:

just use scratch project thumbnails

Nah sorry I don't want all my images in a 4:3 aspect ratio.

Or you just use World_Languages's thumbnail tutorial thingy with that. It's what I do.

Or just host your images on cubeupload..? It's not that hard to make an account :P Also, wouldn't it be tiresome to make a whole studio just for one image?

No not studios, projects.

I tried to Google search:
“Some alternative image hosting sites that work in turkey”
Careful of insecure websites!

And I also found an article:
Best Free Image Hosting Sites Guide For 2019 - Make A Website Hub

D-ScratchNinja wrote:

-snip-

Please keep in mind that we don't allow all image-hosting websites on Scratch. Below are a set of whitelisted image hosts which we allow (aside from tinypic):

• cubeupload.com
  
  
• imageshack.com
  
  
• imageshack.us
  
  
• photobucket.com (but it costs money)
  
  
• scratch-dach.info
  
  
• scratch.mit.edu
  
  
• scratchr.org
  
  
• wikimedia.org
  
  
• wikipedia.org
  
  
• wiki.scratch.mit.edu
  

Source: https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Image_Hosting

Xomf.com is added to this list when?

Troyer_Kem wrote:

Troyer_Kem wrote:

Noo! It was the only site I can see it's photos! I can't see cubeupload, imageshack and imgur images and photobucket photos are just filled with watermark and “photo not found” text! This is very bad
Now I can just see Scratch Wiki photos

Nevermind actually I never use photos in forums lol

CatsUnited wrote:

get a VPN

How will I do that

tunnelbear is a guud one

LegoManiac04 wrote:

NilsTheBest wrote:

LegoManiac04 wrote:

CatsUnited wrote:

game_pr0grammer wrote:

just use scratch project thumbnails

Nah sorry I don't want all my images in a 4:3 aspect ratio.

Or you just use World_Languages's thumbnail tutorial thingy with that. It's what I do.

Or just host your images on cubeupload..? It's not that hard to make an account :P Also, wouldn't it be tiresome to make a whole studio just for one image?

No not studios, projects.

Oh whoops my bad. But still, that doesn't change the fact that making a whole nother project just for that can get annoying and tiresome. Plus, I'm sure that simply uploading an image to cubeupload is faster than making a project, uploading the image, make it the thumbnail, get the link to the thumbnail image, etc.

NilsTheBest wrote:

LegoManiac04 wrote:

NilsTheBest wrote:

LegoManiac04 wrote:

CatsUnited wrote:

game_pr0grammer wrote:

just use scratch project thumbnails

Nah sorry I don't want all my images in a 4:3 aspect ratio.

Or you just use World_Languages's thumbnail tutorial thingy with that. It's what I do.

Or just host your images on cubeupload..? It's not that hard to make an account :P Also, wouldn't it be tiresome to make a whole studio just for one image?

No not studios, projects.

Oh whoops my bad. But still, that doesn't change the fact that making a whole nother project just for that can get annoying and tiresome. Plus, I'm sure that simply uploading an image to cubeupload is faster than making a project, uploading the image, make it the thumbnail, get the link to the thumbnail image, etc.

Yeah, and the image size would be reduced to 360x480, and if you want your image to be larger, you'd have to make it in vector which is impossible to export as a .jpg or .png.

Plus, cubeupload is unbelievably easy to sign up to, and if you don't have an email address, you can always use 10-minute mail. It's easy and secure to use, and you can get another 10 minutes if you wish.