The Plunge. I will be taking it.

[miss_s_b]

My paid LJ account runs out on the 8th of August. I will not be renewing. I will also be reverting to a non-sponsored account because I detest advertising. This are meaning several things:

1. My LJ account, to which DW posts get imported, will no longer have paid account features - extry icons, etc.


2. I will no longer have image hosting at my LJ

It shouldn't affect anything content-wise, as far as I am aware. So why does this matter to you? Well, I want you to rec me an image hosting provider. I have a few criteria:

1. I need to be able to use it to post images here


2. It must be free. I can't afford to spend money on internetty things right now.


3. I should preferably be able to easily port images over from the LJ Scrapbook, so that I can sort out the storage I will need before Scrapbook goes down


4. Uploading and labelling and things like that should be easy, for I am lazy

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Comments

[miss_s_b]

According to the LJ FAQ:

# ScrapBook: Your ScrapBook images and galleries will have increasing restrictions over the next 30 days:

* Days 0 - 3: All of your images and galleries are still available, but you can't upload any other images.
* Days 4 - 10: Your images and galleries become private so that only you can see them.
* Days 11 - 30: Your galleries are disabled and full-size images are unavailable, but the data is still stored.
* Days 30+: Images and galleries are subject to deletion.

[cesy]

Hmm. And I think (from memory, so this may be wrong), Dreamwidth have two reasons for not importing Scrapbook - 1) they don't like the implementation and 2) Scrapbook is part of the non-open-source bit of LJ, so they can't do it easily. Which presumably means it would be hard for anyone else to import from Scrapbook, either. Is it worth a suggestion or something at LJ to ask if Scrapbook can be made open source, or if not why not?

[miss_s_b]

Yeah, scrapbook is a bit rubbish. It's all a bit moot, anyway, because I suspect DW won't be having image hosting in the next week, and I need a solution in that timeframe.

[matgb]

Fotobilder (the Scrapbook engine) is open source, but it's also very very crap, from botha frontend and backend perspective.

Exproting from it would be doable somehow, but I've no clue where to start--might ask foxfirefey if she's ever done any work on it, she was workign on a full export capability at one point.