Articles about events and announcements in the online image and video hosting industry.
Amazon Drive is soon to be no more. The cloud service started eleven years ago and is planned to say its goodbyes on December 31st 2023. The Amazon Drive apps for Android and iOS will be shut down sooner, on October 31st 2022. This means customers will have to look out for an alternative to …
New masonry gallery layout We’ve added a new embeddable gallery layout: Masonry. It shows images just like Pinterest: not all the same size, but based on the image dimensions. So if one image is a bit taller, it displays a taller image. Here’s an example gallery in the masonry layout: Gallery style guards We’ve also …
FotoTime was founded in 1999. It was one of the leading innovators in the world of photo and video storage, organising and hosting. Yet, if you surf to the to FotoTime.com today, you will see they have ceased operations. FotoTime has shut down. What happened? On March 10, 2021 a fire broke out at OVHcloud …
What was TinyPic? TinyPic was a free photo- and video-sharing service. Users could use TinyPic to upload, link and share images online. TinyPic was supported by advertisement next to the images and videos. The service supported the upload and hosting of JPEG (jpg), png, gif and TIFF files. Images that were larger than 1,600 pixels …
How it started… Do you remember when Flickr started asking for anyone with over 1000 photos on their platform to start paying? That was 2018. A lot of people started using Flickr’s successor Google Photos. They didn’t care too much about their photos being compressed and what’s not to like about free and unlimited storage? …
We now host gallery pages you can link to Img.vision now supports hosting your gallery page We’ve offered non-active code for embedding a small gallery on other websites, such as eBay or other auction sites for a long time. Today we add to that: unbranded hosted galleries: You can add hundreds of images into your …
Video hosting has arrived 📹 Img.vision is no longer only an image hosting platform, it is now an image and video hosting platform! If you want to embed videos elsewhere than Youtube, you need to rely on three different services: Encoding the video file into a format that can be streamed You need to find …
We’ve released a bunch of updates this week. Here’s an overview. Thumbnails are much sharper Improved thumbnails quality in the grid layout This change applies to your grid layout. We’ve increased the size of the thumbnails a bit and we no longer attempt to fill the entire thumbnail box. By trying to fill the entire …
Beginning of April we launched version 2 of Img.vision. This version supports having a lot of images in your account. That’s what what we’re allowing starting today. You can find the new plans effective today on the Img.vision pricing page. Lazy loading dashboard cuts on loading time When browsing images in your dashboard, the dashboard …
The first version of Web Galleries is finished and can be found in your Img.vision account. You can now: Add selected images or entire folders to a web gallery You can reorder the images in that image gallery There’s a preview of what the gallery looks like You can easily copy the embed code Here’s …
