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Discussion on: What are you using to host your blog images ? I don't want to bloat up my blog repo with images.

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Gareth Gillman

Lots of options, depends on how big they are, how many and what you want to pay.

  • file hosts such as dropbox, google drive or box
  • your own image cdn using a DO droplet
  • Facebook (not technically allowed)
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Kapil Gorve

I am not sure about google drive, box or dropbox. I added an image and couldn't get a public url ti include in markdown. Am I missing something ?

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Gareth Gillman

Dropbox made it harder to do but still quite simple, go to the website and view the image, right click on the image and select "copy image location". That will give you the full url to include in Markdown. Dropbox don't want you hosting images for websites etc, so they made it harder to do.