After discord makes hosting impossible, i need a way to get my own
link to images
reddit / selfhosted

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DrBitterBlossom · 2023-09-28 08:11

Hello, i've been using Discord to host images for over 4 years now,
and it decided that while they -have- to still host images, they wont
give you a link anymore and whatever link you get it will expire after
24 hours.

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This is a terrible thing for my job.

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Is there a way where i can host my own images? i dont need anything
complex just... a way to get my own link from my own machine perhaps.
Any help?

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Slendy_Milky · 2023-09-28 09:00

Xbackbone ?

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DrBitterBlossom · 2023-09-28 09:18

Is it safe? i need to send these links to strangers online.

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Slendy_Milky · 2023-09-28 09:30

It depend on you and your setup

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phein4242 · 2023-09-28 10:14

Store the image in base64 format in redis with a TTL and slap on some
api to set the correct headers+mime types

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NikStalwart · 2023-09-28 11:02

Imgur + sharex.

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DrBitterBlossom · 2023-09-28 12:39

Is imgur ethernal or do image get deleted from time to time.

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Mrtheboyfull · 2023-09-28 16:55

I played around with Zipline. Work's pretty well with ShareX and has
GUI.

You can just host it on a cheap cloud VPS.

https://github.com/diced/zipline

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superglue_chute115 · 2023-09-28 17:32

Nextcloud does this, but it may be too much for your use case

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adamshand · 2023-09-29 02:12

You don't really give enough information about what you're trying to
achieve to offer specific advice, but here are some thoughts.

- You can use any webserver to serve images.  Setup Caddy, copy images
into the document root and then give people the URL to the image.
- There are image servers like pict-rs and thumbor
- I've been using PocketBase for serving images.  It's basically a
front end around sqlite but you can upload images and then get a url
to share them (with automatic cropping and tokens for expiry if you
want).