Update: we’re live @rimworldporn
Hello, I am the founder of /r/RimWorldporn. We would like to move away from Reddit and are looking for a good alternative. We are kind of like /r/earthporn, so we require hosting of large images. We’ve been around for about 4 1/2 years and have accumulated roughly 30GB of images. The main advantage of Reddit is that it hosts relatively high quality images, for free. Would kbin be a suitable platform for this? We could host our own instance, maybe even centralize image storing on it.
The problem with Rimworld shots of the entire base is that they’re simply huge, especially if you share them in lossless PNG. I remember trying to archive one of my old Rimworld posts here on Kbin and the site straight up refused to accept my image. Even Imgur did not work until I reencoded it as a JPG. Reddit interestingly enough allowed me to host the original large PNG.
Honestly if you want to move your sub over to Kbin just initially have your users use a third party service like Imgur/Imgchest/ImgBB/etc. to get things started. I wouldn’t recommend self-hosting initially unless you already have experience deploying and managing similar services.
They really are simply enormous. It’s like 5.5mb per image if I recall.
Reddit has an upload limit of 20MB, so that’s our standard. Reddit does decompress, sometimes, it’s hard to put a finger on how and when, but usually the endresult is somewhere ~8MB. So if we can get 20MB non-recompressed images, we’d be well pleased.