[yawnxyz]

I remember there was another article about image uploads and content moderation (here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28684250), essentially saying that if you create a open uploading service, you WILL start getting lots of spammy images / abuse.

CF Images always seems like a LOT more $$ than other image hosting tools out there. What other service did you end up going with?

[arecurrence]

I often use Bunny CDN where it's $10 a month for UNLIMITED image alterations. They charge half a cent per gigabyte on traffic of the post processed image (in their bulk tier) along with 1 cent per gigabyte for storage.

The nearest competitor is likely over 10x more (Caveat: For the workloads I've applied this on).

[Viruptc]

We went with https://bunny.net/optimizer/transform-api

[jjkmk]

How does imgur stay alive, out of curiosity.

[Twirrim]

Ad and analytics money, https://www.thestockdork.com/how-does-imgur-make-money/

[yawnxyz]

they also removed the private images part, and pivoted towards becoming a "social network" (several years too late). Honestly no idea how they stay alive.

Also honestly no idea why they never jumped on the NFT bandwagon.

Oh, they're also apparently a tiny team (<50) too, so that probably helps