So-- I would love nothing better than to host every image on Imgur and call it a day, except that Imgur is just *lol* with that business. I.e., in some cases, I have stuff that's been there for ~10yrs with no issue, and then there's a bunch of other stuff that routinely gets deleted after 3-4mos or so.
Not trying to ramble here, but my concern is that I don't want to weigh down our host, and instead want to find the 'right pocket,' i.e. a good-size image file that let's me show off our image content, but isn't a burden upon our host.
Plus of course, sometimes showing off a certain series requires ~10 images or so, meaning the image-serving requirements are 10x the nominal requirement.
In cases like that, I have no problem uploading such content to Imgur, even if it's not going to last long, but... I kinda want to figure out how I should handle these things, if that makes sense...
Thank you for any and all advice.
I appreciate the care you're showing here.
If you upload something with a width or height greater than 2000 pixels it will get resized to be within that limit. That stops the most egregious wastage.
It depends on the content, a bit:
Quality stuff like https://piefed.social/c/artporn will be kept online 'forever' but I've set things up so that quite a lot of communities automatically delete posts after 6 - 12 months. Spam as many memes as you want I don't care they're going away after a while anyway.
Both a late reply and an 'oops' on my part: what I meant about 'Image size' was not image dimensions, but file size. So far I've kept it very low when posting here, but just now I made a post with a ~411k uploaded JPG. Sound good, or should I aim for either more or less?
Also, based on your comments, I understand that since my community is on the flagship instance, I can expect such images to last as long as PieFed.Social does. Please correct if that's wrong, and thank you for what you do(!)
Having a quick look at https://piefed.social/communities/local , are those settings applied to any local community?
No, all local communities are set to Forever.
I've been meaning to show the retention policy in the UI for ages, might do it today.
Thank you for confirming!