#feel free to reblog or w/e but anybody being smug about the discord hotlinking situation will be blasted on sight

[insecateur]

hey just so you know discord hotlinking finally officially ended so if you had pictures hosted on discord somewhere (like in a fanfic or whatever) you should switch to another host asap

all discord image links in the older format (i.e. without the little temporary url ending bit) will no longer work, even if the images were posted on discord prior to the change. we were warned about this months ago but a lot of people had been wondering whether older images would be grandfathered; the answer is evidently no.

there are a few free hosting options that allow hotlinking around; be aware that imgur, neocities, and dreamwidth prohibit it (you can technically hotlink if you have a paid neocities account but they still discourage doing it.) if you're looking to host nsfw stuff the options are even fewer; personally i've been using squidge, but it's run by one guy which means that if the guy's server goes down, everything goes down, which makes it so that sometimes, pictures will be gone for a few hours to a couple of days. (this isn't a criticism, btw; i think offering free hosting to people in fandom like this is an incredible gesture. i'm just giving a warning for people who are used to online services that never go down.)

i don't have a list of hosts handy unfortunately, tho i know there are some floating around, i just wanted to post about it and kept forgetting. i've been knees-deep in replacing all my links these last few days, thankfully i had the foresight to rehost everything 4 months ago when the announcement first came out and had just been too lazy to switch links around so it wasn't too much of a hassle.