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I assumed that was because of changes in Skitch. Everyone I know used to take screenshots with Skitch, upload them and Skitch would copy the URL into your clipboard and you could post into Github. But since Evernote bought them they closed things down and they're basically useless now, so I figured that was why Github was motivated to add this feature.

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I know that so much. Skitch is so crippled now. It was my favorite fast and simple "here let me point it out and show you" tool for everything. I annotated everything with it. With evernote killing the ease of "let me show" half, whats the point of annotating things and taking screen shots?

If there was ever an opportunity for a disruptive simple startup idea it would be to replicate what skitch did before evernote bought it and broke the original use case.

Check out this monosnap.com thing that piranha posted in the next comment. It seems to do the basic stuff that I needed from Skitch.

I agree, and apparently so do the developers because they still have a download link to the old Skitch on their site: http://evernote.com/skitch/

I've still been using the old version of Skitch, but without the instant upload and copy to clipboard it was a lot less useful.

Then I found these this week:

Skitch to S3 upload (through webdav) — http://brad.me/skitchs3

Skitch to CloudApp upload — http://brad.me/skitchcloud

If you are a CloudApp user (http://getcloudapp.com/) the second one is super slick. Pretty much duplicates the old Skitch functionality and returns a short URL that you can use to post. You can also use a custom domain with CloudApp if you use the paid service.

Totally made Skitch useful again.

Re: Skitch, there is a nice app I switched to lately: http://monosnap.com/

Cool, thanks for the suggestion. I had a little trouble creating an account, but I finally got it working. Installed the app and looked around it. Seems slightly less polished than Skitch, but it seems to do everything I need it to do. I'm using it, and just sent the link to my company's devteam.

You can change one setting and it will copy the direct link to the image into your clipboard - Perfect! That's exactly what I want it to do. :)

Thanks again, you made my day!

No Windows support :(

Yes there is - first link in the "Other Platforms" bar under the main image.

You can still download the old version (the real skitch) right there from evernote: http://evernote.com/skitch/ (small link at the bottom, "previous version").

Skitch supports FTP-upload, so if they turn off sharing in the future you can just switch to your own webspace.

No need to mess with lesser tools (or the evernote-garbage) while Skitch still works!

yep this is what i did. But free FTP services online are hard-ish to come by =(

i wish there is a plugin or kernel extension that modified skitch so that you could upload it to say dropbox. The other method is to point skitch to the local machine and use dropbox to sync, but i think you lose the clipboard thingy.

May be i will just switch to monosnap. But it looks so ugly compared to skitch!

You are right, free was an euphemism. However, you could use a cheap webhoster, those can be had for as low as $0.50/mo and usually come with FTP.

I'm definitely sticking with skitch as long as it works and until a suitable replacement appears.

Try cloudapp

A thread about this recently popped up on /r/gamedev over on Reddit. Some recommendations were:

Puush, Greenshot, ShareX, HyperDesktop, Snag.gy, as well as some smaller apps written by users.

Maybe one will be useful for people sad about Skitch!

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