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I wouldn't trust imgur either. There are two hosts I'd use for images on this forum, lfgss.com (yeah, attach the bloody things, if the image host falls over that probably means the forum is gone too) and my own web site. Anything else and you're at the mercy of some random idiot over whom you have absolutely no control.
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I wouldn't trust imgur either.
Trust them with your data or trust their image hosting capabilities?
At this point Imgur has proven (to me at least) they're pretty damn reliable. But I agree; hosting your own images would be ideal (but costs money/time). imgur however is by far the most easy and useful (third party) image hoster I know.
Tijs
Indeed. How some people haven't (yet) discovered the power of imgur is beyond me.
To be fair: I too am sometimes too lazy to rehost images for the off chance the original image stops working.
Using Pedalroom links can cause funny situations also sometimes, since the urls of the pictures stay the same regardless of what the user uploaded.