Preferable to upload images directly to Mander's servers, or use an image host?
(Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere and I missed it!)
Open question for our mod and anyone else who would like to weigh in!
I tend to post photos and art, and over time the size of these things can pile up. In my most recent post I linked to an imgur upload instead, and while it works fine, it does require the viewer/user to click-through (and be subjected to iMgUr AdS) (see the edit below) rather than simply view the thing here on Mander.
So right now I prefer the ease of directly uploading and find that it looks nicer, but boy I get self-conscious about literally taking up space. Am I making a mountain out of a molehill?
EDIT: Solved this particular problem! See Salamander's response for the fix.
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Thank you for being so mindful ☺️
You should be able to post images from imgur by right-clicking and copying the direct link to the image file itself, which usually ends jpg or png!
That said, don't worry too much. I try to be mindful myself when the image is heavy - my camera outputs jpgs of like 25 MB, so I resize them before posting them, or use imgur.
I appreciate it if someone uses an external method to share their images, but I don't expect that, and I don't mind if they don't. My hope is to soon move the instance to different hardware with significantly more memory, and then it will take a lot of effort to fill it up 😁
Well look at that! I've become so skeptical of large sites/services that I figured they would have disabled this somehow. Thank you for the tip- I've edited my imgur post to fix the issue, and think I'll go with this method from now on.
And thank you, also, for the kind response. I just can't shake my formative memories of the early 2000's when file size was such a real problem every which way. 😆