Allowing other image hosting sites incase CubeUpload shuts down

Xzillox

I need this so much…. I mainly use my school chromebook for scratch so cubeupload and whatever other image hosts scratch allows (if there are any others) are all blocked. And now I can't use my own projects to host images either.

mumu245

A really simple host I would like to use is https://postimages.org/. You just drop an image and get the link.

mumu245

Also, I would like to use github as an image host.

o97doge

#664

mumu245 wrote:
A really simple host I would like to use is https://postimages.org/. You just drop an image and get the link.

Support for postimages. We need more than cubeupload.

Last edited by o97doge (Dec. 1, 2023 08:11:10)

unmissable

CST1229 wrote:
Big bump - with the forums recently coming back, assets.scratch.mit.edu images can no longer be posted.

(This is the first image I've uploaded to cubeupload in probably quite a while.)
This means many forumers' primary image host (including mine) is now gone. With all the others being unsuitable for personal image hosting (Wikipedia, Scratch Wiki etc), being paid (photobucket, imageshack) or cubeupload not having the best uptime and requiring an account, we no longer have any reliable (and excellent) options for image hosting.
We now need this suggestion more than ever.

Well, I guess that explains a bit of why they shut down

CST1229

unmissable wrote:
(#666)
Well, I guess that explains a bit of why they shut down

cheddargirl explained it all:

cheddargirl wrote:
(#6)
7salad3salad wrote:
I received a comment on my profile asking me if the forums were shutting down. What's the deal with this?
What everyone said above is true to some degree, but pieces of a bigger story. So, to put the pieces together:

The forums was capable of being a nasty lag monster, and one of the monster-transformation triggers is the forum moderation tools becoming unwieldy due to the forum's large size and age (it's been around for about a decade now). So yeah, there was a forum troll, a mod was trying to clean the forum space up as normal, and forums got turned into a lag monster.

The filter change stuff was kind of a last-minute spur of the moment thing (our engineers took advantage of the longer-than-usual forum maintenance period). Since it was a rush thing put together over Thanksgiving, it isn't perfect, so it definitely would help us to see what you guys report in the Bugs and Glitches section.

Basically, the forums' moderation tools were causing the site to lag, so they took down the forum to fix this once and for all. The mainsite filter being added was kind of a bonus thing they did during the long downtime.

unmissable

CST1229 wrote:
unmissable wrote:
(#666)
Well, I guess that explains a bit of why they shut down
-snip-

Oh thanks! That was useful

o97doge

Bump.

kleemiya_the_furball

Bump this needs to get noticed

josueart

mumu245 wrote:
Also, I would like to use github as an image host.

Although I would also like GitHub as an image host, the ST won't add it because GitHub doesn't actually moderate the things that are uploaded there.

mumu245

josueart wrote:
(#671)
mumu245 wrote:
Also, I would like to use github as an image host.

Although I would also like GitHub as an image host, the ST won't add it because GitHub doesn't actually moderate the things that are uploaded there.

It does

josueart

mumu245 wrote:
josueart wrote:
(#671)
mumu245 wrote:
Also, I would like to use github as an image host.

Although I would also like GitHub as an image host, the ST won't add it because GitHub doesn't actually moderate the things that are uploaded there.
It does

It doesn't. I've seen some pages that contain *ehhh images that are not ok for children* hosted on GitHub. They only moderate the images if they contain extreme things that I cannot name here.

CST1229

Bump

PaperMarioFan2022

CST1229 wrote:
(#674)
Bump

Bump

TheEpikGamer211

Za-Chary wrote:
How about imageshack? That's a whitelisted image host that we allow, and you can sign up for a free account there.

quoting an old post but: what about a platform schools unblock?

scratchcode1_2_3

CST1229 wrote:
(#667)
The mainsite filter being added was kind of a bonus thing they did during the long downtime.

this is offtopic but how did they even manage to add a newer site filter to an ancient forum engine, they are really good

Anyways I also support since I used to post images with assets but I'm not going to again ever since it was blocked but I'm also not signing up for a website that looks like it was last updated in 2007 (no offense and while I'm a fan of old computer nostalgia it doesn't seem very safe.)

EDawg2011

Support. What if CubeUpload goes down for a while and we have no way to share images quickly?

EDawg2011

Xzillox wrote:
I need this so much…. I mainly use my school chromebook for scratch so cubeupload and whatever other image hosts scratch allows (if there are any others) are all blocked. And now I can't use my own projects to host images either.

I feel bad for you. I feel like the ST doesn't care about these people.

Last edited by EDawg2011 (Jan. 9, 2024 22:59:58)

Xzillox

EDawg2011 wrote:
Xzillox wrote:
I need this so much…. I mainly use my school chromebook for scratch so cubeupload and whatever other image hosts scratch allows (if there are any others) are all blocked. And now I can't use my own projects to host images either.
I feel bad for you. I feel like the ST doesn't care about these people.

The ST always seems like they care and want to make Scratch a better place, so I wouldn't say that. It's more of an issue with school filters being dramatic ngl (on the block page it categorized cubeupload as super inappropriate but scratch allows it so that's impossible) and the limitations of the Terms of Use/Community Guidelines.

Zydrolic

EDawg2011 wrote:
I feel bad for you. I feel like the ST doesn't care about these people.

Assets & Uploads were never made to be used an image host. Assets was for the editor's sprite/costume hosting and uploads is just for thumbnails and profile images, nothing else.

Plus they said it's being misused anyways (Sure, we have to take their word for it - But atleast that's less of a pain on their back than they already have)
Call me careless if you want by going defense, however I do not see that as careless.

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