I used Imgur a lot to post pictures to reddit and since I replaced reddit with lemmy already I thought it would be nice to replace Imgur as well.
Features of Imgur that I need:
- uploading images (usually small so having size limits is not a problem)
- being able to combine different images into albums
- being able to get links to images without them being pushed for public view on the entire platform, that is only people with the full link see them (this is very useful when writing guides containing screenshots, those screenshots have no place in being published outside of the guide using them).
Server storage & server bandwidth, maybe.
It should be a negligible effect on the database. It’s not like the image gets dumped directly into the SQL database – it just gets uploaded to a folder.
I’m not even totally sure there’s a discrete reference to the image in the database, outside of the public URL freetexted into whatever comment it’s in. Because once it’s there, I can’t delete the image as a user. (Maybe the admins can delete it via some database reference though?)