Imagevenue going to shit - Looking for a new image host

Seems Imagevenue is starting to increase the number of times your opening a picture takes you to an advertisement popup - sometimes even multiple popups. Well... when it came to those popups locking up my browser and crashing it, I decided enough was enough - time to shop for a new host.
So, rather than pick one at random, I'm asking the people who use them most what their favorites are - maybe with a few reasons why they're so good...

Totally agree,sooo annoying.

I like 'imagebam' these days,easy to use,you don't need to register if you don't want to,so far haven't had any problems with it.

Please always remember you can upload files direct to the forumophilia server!!!

Just choose browse option when making a post and locate the file on your computer! I guarantee you no spam or pop ups will occur!!!

Esteban wrote:

A nice heads up - but I'm on several forums, one of which uses Imagebam for their internal host - one of the most unreliable hosts if ever there was one. So I'm definitely looking for a decent replacement here.

Well we don't cater for other forum's lack of service... but... click here to see a list we have drawn up of the other good external hosters https://www.forumophilia.com/topic59584.html please add your comments here they are always welcome as we keep external hosts under review all the time for ease of use issues... please don't hold back... let it all out!!! Also If you know of any other good ones you think we should add then we are all ears!

RagingBuddhist wrote:


Even that, IV is my preferred hoster ... I don't know of any other free hoster that has been able to maintain pictures for several years ... or maintain themselves in business that long ...

My advice: use any of the various bulk downloaders to get the pics hosted at IV, and in the case of individual pics you want to open, make a first try ... if you see the countdown at top left of the screen, close immediately and reopen again ... you will see the pic without the annoying popup.

Esteban wrote:

For this forum the best option

andylo wrote:

Yeah - I figured that out too - but I guess I'm looking for something a little less "labor intensive".

That is true. Imagevenue is on the dark side now. All these ads and stuff. Imagebam is much better.

shaq141 wrote:
Agree , you even get popups when you're trying to maximize the image nowadays - very annoying!

Yeah, imagevenue changed the sides and is on the dark side.

There is a discussion in the mods section to ban imagevenue, so it would be fine if you could use one of the other image hosting sites from the list in future:

Permitted File Hosts, Image Hosts and Link Protectors

Monkey D. Ruffy

WHAT...i damm don't understand your don't like imagevenue.
I know that u have to become a member, but been that for years
and never got trouble, mails, popup with them.
It's fast and store my pix as i want..(and it's an tool, my beerbrain gets).
Don't banne that, but open for some more..Still..imagevenue is maybe an "oldtimer" but popup and other crap is on almost every els..

In todays world hosting is so cheap that they should give very unobstructive ads. But greed is something that everyone has.

Agreed, every time I visit it's a 5 second wait and when I click to resize the image I get a pop up. First RS pulls their garbage, now IV is acting up. These guys are making sharing vids real work.

Ads around the picture is one thing, but popups when you want to enlarge the pic is the pest. But that's not the only reason i don't use IV anymore. Even newer pics took up to 10 seconds to load or failed at all.
I then tried pucturedumper but they use an agecheck and sometimes have popups too.
I like Imagebam cause the thumbs are a bit larger than on IV and i never had to wait to see the pics. But that may depend on the country you click from.

RagingBuddhist wrote:

So what you mean with "unreliable", RagingBuddhist? Do you have problems with imagebam. It works fine for me in Germany, but it should work fine for other countries too, otherwise it's useless.