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Thanks for the feedback! Yes, you have a choice. You can use Imgur, fighting off their user-hostile UI, pay for IMGZ or pay and set up a VPS yourself. For me, the best option was #2, but it didn't exist, so I made it.

And yeah, the UI is trash. Buy the big plan so I can afford a designer!

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> And yeah, the UI is trash. Buy the big plan so I can afford a designer.

I don't know, I just tried it quickly on my mobile and everything was smooth. If you hire a designer be sure to get a good one so they don't ruin the simple use case experience.

It's smooth and quick because I bought a $10 theme and removed all the Javascript, it just looks like crap because I suck at design. I'm glad it worked well for you, though, since the reality is I'll probably never afford a designer from the $30/mo this is going to bring in.

I think it looks perfectly fine. I prefer simple 'lean' designs anyways tho.

I do like his "buy a key" approach. He's basically asking for an IMGZ giftcard he can buy without setting up an account.

(Not as the primary model of course, just as an additional payment option)

That's like a free child pornography host pass, I'd rather not.

So is btc... You will need to be much more proactive about that. I can easily get a burner phone i cash, register gmail with it, buy btc , buy vpn with btc and upload to your site. There are better ways to manage and police fraud and crime (ML can very easily detect age and human body -- require human review if ML flags it before hosting it). Or better yet ban all nsfw like tumblr

Yeah, if I get any illegal images from BTC payers I'll take BTC down. Hopefully I won't have to.

Are you going to shut down credit card payments when someone used a stolen card to upload illegal images?

Yes.

I think the grandparent comment was asking if you'd disable credit card payments for everyone, i.e. for your entire site.

Yes! Cash-in-alley only!

I dislike a lot of things about imgur, you can't even save a gif on mobile. I would rather use an alternative. I might pay if the service meets my needs. But I have to use btc, which many don't realize can cost 4-5x more than what you charge. For example $10 for me means I have to get btc for $50 to avoid using creditcard(they charge many times more to use cash,etc.... Than using creditcard on an exchange which also asks for ID.)

You should buy $100 of BTC or so and keep it for stuff like this, I like paying with it. The experience is pretty good and you own your money.

I do that for other services but it does not change how I have to spend more,which is fine but more is more and I will spend only if it really solves my needs.

You should use Bisq, it's slow but quite nice.

> You can use Imgur, fighting off their user-hostile UI

What's so bad about the Imgur UI?

I find it extremely pleasing, all I need to do is go to imgur.com and simply drag an image onto the page and there's a publicly avaible link basically available forever... for free

Also, they're original slogan shows how much they cared about improving the experience.... "Imgur: The image sharer that doesn't suck!"

There's no upload link anywhere, just "Get app":

https://imgz.org/ierYBdLi/

> You can use Imgur, fighting off their user-hostile UI

> And yeah, the UI is trash

Uh, so what exactly is the argument in favor of your service again?

It's not user-hostile? I mean, I thought that was obvious.

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