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Posts with pic8 links work like this:

If I tap on the icon to open it within poal, it only gives a spinning icon on a slightly larger post preview. Nothing else. If I just go on to the next post and try that one, I get another spinning icon. Usually, if I get five or six going at once, then eventually (30-90 seconds) they will all open at once. Trying to directly open the picture in a new tab usually will time out, although if I go through the process of opening five or six and waiting, then eventually new tabs will open the pictures. Mostly I've started skipping pic 8 posts entirely if I am paying attention.

The times I've tried posting pictures there, all I ever get is a green bar and a message that says "uploading picture." Never anything else. I've tried uploading multiple images, thinking that it behaves the same way - 5 or 6 at once to wake up their server and get the hard drive spinning, but I don't think I've ever succeeded. (Quick check in my history... turns out I succeeded twice 3 months ago.)

Browsers: Brave, Opera, Chrome, Edge

Platforms: Windows 10, Ubuntu 20.04, a couple of Android phones and tablets, and just for kicks a raspberry pi running raspbian and whatever the default browser that uses.

Hard wired, wifi, cell data, at home or work or anywhere else.

Any thoughts on a better hosting service?

Posts with pic8 links work like this: If I tap on the icon to open it within poal, it only gives a spinning icon on a slightly larger post preview. Nothing else. If I just go on to the next post and try that one, I get another spinning icon. Usually, if I get five or six going at once, then eventually (30-90 seconds) they will all open at once. Trying to directly open the picture in a new tab usually will time out, although if I go through the process of opening five or six and waiting, then eventually new tabs will open the pictures. Mostly I've started skipping pic 8 posts entirely if I am paying attention. The times I've tried posting pictures there, all I ever get is a green bar and a message that says "uploading picture." Never anything else. I've tried uploading multiple images, thinking that it behaves the same way - 5 or 6 at once to wake up their server and get the hard drive spinning, but I don't think I've ever succeeded. (Quick check in my history... turns out I succeeded twice 3 months ago.) Browsers: Brave, Opera, Chrome, Edge Platforms: Windows 10, Ubuntu 20.04, a couple of Android phones and tablets, and just for kicks a raspberry pi running raspbian and whatever the default browser that uses. Hard wired, wifi, cell data, at home or work or anywhere else. Any thoughts on a better hosting service?

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt 3y

My only problem with pic8 is that my AV sometimes flags it as dangerous site and denies connection.

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You ever ask yourself if "protecting you from viruses" is sometimes actually just censorship?

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt 3y

I have asked myself this on the occasion when my antivirus flagged a pic8 link, but I can almost always see what the blocked image is in the thumbnail and a lot of other stuff isn't blocked at all. The main problem with idea that it's censorship is that there's no consistency in what's blocked for me. Many times the blocked image was harmless fluff while the most antijew wrongthink posts just sailed right through the antivirus for me to see.