Everyone should just use postimages.org instead. No muss, no fuss.
Holy shit, it's way better than Imgur. Look at this in the FAQ:
Images uploaded by both anonymous uploads and free accounts are limited to 24Mb and 10k x 10k pixels.
Now, I'm a bit unclear on whether that's mega
bytes or mega
bits. If it's megabytes, it's exactly as I'd interpret it. Megabits, and it's actually 3 megabytes. I just tested it out, and it is indeed at least 16 megabytes, so the upload limit is actually 24 megabytes, which is absurd to me. I tried uploading a file larger than that, and it specified "24 MiB", mebibytes. I'm gonna have a field day with this.
It doesn't seem to specify what formats it works with. It appears that it supports a lot of formats.
However, all images that aren't JPEG, PNG, or GIF are automatically converted to JPEG/PNG. Of the formats I've tested:
WebP -> PNG
HEIC/HEIF -> JPEG
TIFF (uncompressed) -> PNG
PDF -> PNG
SVG -> scaled to raster, resolution determined by nominal resolution -> PNG
There are some more obscure/intermediary formats it doesn't recognize, though.
JPEG XR (Mostly dead by now)
AVIF (
Very new; first specification released in 2019)
TGA (obscure format for a true-color graphics adapter first released in 1987)
PSD (Why would it?)
RAW, headerless raw image data [Other camera-specific formats also called "RAW" may be supported]
Still, the fact that it's converting them means that my quality-obsessed ass will convert photos to JPEG/PNG beforehand (you never know how much compression they do to these things), but it's nice that it doesn't reject other formats outright. I'm a bit salty that WebP isn't directly supported, but I get it. MacOS and iOS didn't get support for that format until last year with Big Sur and iOS 14. Oh, I so want an image host that supports it, but then I'd leave out users with older Apple devices that don't get updates.