Introducing Pictars.com - Another free picture hosting service

Beau

Lifer
Jun 25, 2001
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www.beauscott.com
Was gonna do this a few days ago, but I figured I'd better wait till I had more features working on it.


Happy holidays! Unlimited bandwidth and disk space until the end of January, '05!


Introducing PicTars (http://www.pictars.com) :D

What's so special about Pictars? Well here's the main differences:

Multiple Image Uploads
Graphical Monthly Statistics - Displays hits and bandwidth used on the image level and for your entire account
Referring Host Logging - See where people are viewing your images from
Ability to mark an image as "Private" - making it invisible to the site's search and top-image pages
Image Descriptions - give the story behind the picture.
Searchable Image Base - Search by user, description, filename, and date posted.
20MB Disk Space (free account)
200MB Bandwidth (free account)
Ability to mark images as Not Safe For Work - makes it so you can browse/search the image base without worries of offending your co-workers. Added 11/30.
Referral Link Backs - generates more exposure for your auctions and discussions.


A note about sign-ups: I've noticed Hotmail has been classifying the confirmation emails as Spam. If you don't recieve your confirmation signup email, send me a message and I'll manually authorize your account. You may want to add the domain of priceyoursite.com as an approved sender domain just in case.

Coming soon:

[*]FireFox Direct Upload extension
[*]Multi-Tiered Account Plans - Done, but just waiting for some higher traffic demands before I start using them.
[*]Image Categorizing and Photo Albums - on hold until I figure out if it's really in scope.


It's still a work in progress, but as soon as I finish the "coming soon" features, I'll be putting the code up on sourceforge :)

Anyway, have fun with it. Feel free to PM or email me with any comments or suggestions on it.

Updates:
11/30 Added NSFW image tagging so you can browse the image base safely from work :)

12/1 Added the referral link back feature to increase your auctions and discussions exposure :)

12/13

Happy holidays! Unlimited bandwidth and disk space until the end of January, '05!


1/15/05 - Domain name changed to Pictars.com. No need to update your links, they'll start auto-redirecting as soon as the domain has propogated.

I know I've been slacking on the features, but they're all still coming.


1/29/05 100,000 images served to date!
 

DeviousTrap

Diamond Member
Jul 19, 2002
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:) looks good.

If you ever need hosting for it let me know, as I seem to be making a habbit of hosting AT pics sites for free. But, since you seem to run a hosting company I'd say you don't need me.
 

Beau

Lifer
Jun 25, 2001
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www.beauscott.com
Originally posted by: Stark
what's up with the hand pics? bleh!

Those belong to my little brother. Someone in his troop got a puncture wound and didn't get it treated for a month. Then one day it just decided to "blow".
 

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
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just post your wife's pics and be done with it. ;)

BTW, those are some real nasty pics I caught thumbnails of....
 

ivol07

Golden Member
Jun 25, 2002
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Originally posted by: rh71
just post your wife's pics and be done with it. ;)

BTW, those are some real nasty pics I caught thumbnails of....

Yeah, what's the story with the hand?
 

Brutuskend

Lifer
Apr 2, 2001
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Originally posted by: Beau
Was gonna do this a few days ago, but I figured I'd better wait till I had more features working on it.


Introducing PicTars :D

What's so special about Pictars? Well here's the main differences:

Multiple Image Uploads
Graphical Monthly Statistics - Displays hits and bandwidth used on the image level and for your entire account
Referring Host Logging - See where people are viewing your images from
Ability to mark an image as "Private" - making it invisible to the site's search and top-image pages<--- meaning we can post the PORN if we wanna?
Image Descriptions - give the story behind the picture.
Searchable Image Base - Search by user, description, filename, and date posted.
20MB Disk Space (free account)
200MB Bandwidth (free account)


Coming soon:
Viewer Ratings
Multi-Tiered Account Plans
Image Categorizing and Photo Albums

It's still a work in progress, but as soon as I finish the "coming soon" features, I'll be putting the code up on sourceforge :)

Anyway, have fun with it. Feel free to PM or email me with any comments or suggestions on it.

Sign me UP dude!
 

Actaeon

Diamond Member
Dec 28, 2000
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Awesome. 20mb for a free account is great!

I still love my PBase 200mb account, uber fast, and I love the galleries... $23 for a year though. See sig for uh... sample galleries ;).
 

jpeyton

Moderator in SFF, Notebooks, Pre-Built/Barebones
Moderator
Aug 23, 2003
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Do any of the other pics services have Referring Host Logging?

I love hosting my eBay pics and seeing if anyone is stealing them for their own auctions, so I can change them to something nasty...like TubGirl.
 

Beau

Lifer
Jun 25, 2001
17,730
0
76
www.beauscott.com
Originally posted by: jpeyton
Do any of the other pics services have Referring Host Logging?

I love hosting my eBay pics and seeing if anyone is stealing them for their own auctions, so I can change them to something nasty...like TubGirl.


Not that I'm aware of. :)