Alextasha:
Time travel. ;)
I think image broke there :D
Edit: ok I edited it :D
Strange.
I think I just discovered a certain quirk about Postimage.org.
Will update this post later.
Edit:
This is more for my own future reference; not sure if this info will be useful to anyone.
For that previous post of mine, you (Alextasha) saw a broken image, but on my computer, I was seeing the image just fine.
Here's what I noticed although it's not really conclusive.
Basically, it would seem that if you upload to Postimage.org an image larger than a certain file size, they won't let you hotlink it. This exact limit is unknown (not documented anywhere) but it is probably somewhere around 1 MB. So, suppose you uploaded a very large image to Postimage.org. You would notice that it did not provide you a direct link as usual, but instead, all you get is a link to a Postimage.org page where you can see the image. Now, of course, you can still get the URL of that image (e.g., right-click, then "Open Image in New Tab"). But if you now try to hotlink it (display the image on an external site), then... others may or may not see it. You the uploader would see it because maybe it's in your browser cache or maybe because they whitelisted the uploading IP address. I've gone on at least one other computer on a different network and was able to see the image. But on a mobile device on yet another network, the image was broken. So basically, the lesson is, don't try to "force hotlink" images that are past Postimage.org's hotlink limit.
I started using Postimage.org instead of Imgur for rehosting fan art because I noticed that Imgur randomly changes the file size of images. Sometimes, it's only a few bytes (for who knows what reason), but still, it's a modification of the original file. Other times, it might even change the file size quite a bit. Postimage.org mostly never ever does this, but there is the "hotlink limit" explained above which I now know. So for the most part, other than for really large image files (> 1 MB or something), Postimage.org seems like a better choice.
last edited at Jun 17, 2015 11:47PM