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.
Not exactly an answer to your question, but if it's helpful, I've basically been using Pixelfed as my image hosting. Not sure how correct this is but my thought was that they're expecting heavy image use and are thus probably more equipped for it? Then I just use the direct link to the image in the link field of my post, and it shows up the same as if I'd uploaded here instead of as a link. Presumably you know that part though since you've been Imgur'ing, sorry.