free and convenient svg hosting

[sobriquet]

Is there any place online similar to imgur that will host svg images in
a convenient fashion?

For instance an image like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/NewTux.svg

I can upload it to postimg, but they turn it into a png file
and I prefer the image to stay in the svg format.

http://postimg.org/image/pqi5tljv7/

The free hosting service should not require any registration for
uploading and sharing (like imgur and postimg).


Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

[android]

In article <7cfa599f-958e-41fa...@googlegroups.com>,

dropbox.com
--
teleportation kills

[sobriquet]

It seems on dropbox you can't upload things for free online sharing
without registration.

[sobriquet]

On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 3:41:48 PM UTC+2, peterN wrote:

> The world doesn't exist to serve your wants.
>
> --
> PeterN

Any other pointless remarks you'd like to contribute to the discussion?

[Sandman]

In article <ml9er...@news6.newsguy.com>, PeterN wrote:

> > > android:
> > > In article
> > > <7cfa599f-958e-41fa...@googlegroups.com>,
> >
> > > > sobriquet:

> > > > Is there any place online similar to imgur that will host svg
> > > > images in a convenient fashion?
> > >
> > > > For instance an image like this:
> > >
> > > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/NewTux.svg
> > >
> > > > I can upload it to postimg, but they turn it into a png file
> > > > and I prefer the image to stay in the svg format.
> > >
> > > > http://postimg.org/image/pqi5tljv7/
> > >
> > > > The free hosting service should not require any registration
> > > > for uploading and sharing (like imgur and postimg).
> > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
> > >

> > > android:
> > > dropbox.com -- teleportation kills
> >
> > sobriquet:

> > It seems on dropbox you can't upload things for free online
> > sharing without registration.
>

> The world doesn't exist to serve your wants.

Wow... just... wow.

--
Sandman

[sobriquet]

On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 6:06:53 PM UTC+2, android wrote:
> In article <f72ae05c-9389-4993...@googlegroups.com>,

> Any reason for you to not do a simple websearch?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_hosting_service#One-click_hosting
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_hosting_services
>
> http://www.filedropper.com/
> --
> teleportation kills


You're listing filehosting services.

I was looking for an imagehosting service similar to imgur.

So I'm not just interested in putting the file online, but also
having the file visible online, similar to how one can easily and
quickly put an image on imgur to obtain an url for the image for
easy sharing.

[Whisky-dave]

I put "imagehosting service similar to imgur" into the google search and found this.

http://webtrends.about.com/od/prof4/tp/Free-Image-Hosting-Sites-For-Photos.htm

[sobriquet]

I've tried quite a few, but haven't found one as convenient as
imgur that works with svg files.

Convenient in terms of requiring no registration, direct
linking to images being allowed and uploading directly from
weblinks.

[Whisky-dave]

Why is that such a problem ?

>direct
> linking to images being allowed and uploading directly from
> weblinks.

what do you want to do that's so differnt or special .....

[sobriquet]

Because there is no realy reason to register just to put
an image online.

>
> >direct
> > linking to images being allowed and uploading directly from
> > weblinks.
>
> what do you want to do that's so differnt or special .....

I'm just used to the convenient way imgur works, but it happens to
reject svg files.

[Mayayana]

| I'm just used to the convenient way imgur works, but it happens to
| reject svg files.

I'm curious why that matters. SVG is an extremely
limited tool, graphically. It allows making very big,
very simple images relatively small in terms of bytes.
So it might occasionally be handy for a webpage logo.
(Though there's not much sense saving a few bytes on
the size of a logo image if one is bloating the webpage
with 1.5 MB of javascript slop, which has become
increasingly common.)
If someone downloads your Tux image they're probably
going to prefer a GIF. Even if they have tools to edit SVG
code and know how to use them, why would they want to?
I can see someone editing something like their own webpage
logo, but for just about anything else SVG is a clever idea
with virtually no useful purpose. (It's no accident that
SVG usage is nearly non-existent.)

[Whisky-dave]

But if you want to put the image on line using their service you have to registar whats wrong with that, didn;t you registar to have email to have yuor home and buy your compueter and the like....

Why not set up your own server for doing it.

> > >direct
> > > linking to images being allowed and uploading directly from
> > > weblinks.
> >
> > what do you want to do that's so differnt or special .....
>
> I'm just used to the convenient way imgur works, but it happens to
> reject svg files.

I guess it's their right to accept what files they want to accept and not others, just like most things that are free.

[sobriquet]

On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 4:20:03 PM UTC+2, Mayayana wrote:
> | I'm just used to the convenient way imgur works, but it happens to
> | reject svg files.
>
> I'm curious why that matters. SVG is an extremely
> limited tool, graphically. It allows making very big,
> very simple images relatively small in terms of bytes.

I don't see what you mean very simple. It's just a suitable
format for vector images and vector images have the advantage
that they remain crisp at any viewing resolution.

Even on an ipad you can create fairly complex svg images in inkpad,
as can be witnessed from this tutorial video:
http://rletkeman.blogspot.nl/2015/02/starfish.html

> So it might occasionally be handy for a webpage logo.
> (Though there's not much sense saving a few bytes on
> the size of a logo image if one is bloating the webpage
> with 1.5 MB of javascript slop, which has become
> increasingly common.)
> If someone downloads your Tux image they're probably
> going to prefer a GIF. Even if they have tools to edit SVG
> code and know how to use them, why would they want to?
> I can see someone editing something like their own webpage
> logo, but for just about anything else SVG is a clever idea
> with virtually no useful purpose. (It's no accident that
> SVG usage is nearly non-existent.)

Because in the svg format, you don't lose any quality (since it's
a vector-based image format, while gif, jpg, png, etc.. are
pixel-based formats).

If I can store the svg file online in svg format, I can import it
easily on a different device into inkpad, so I retain the ability
to manipulate the bezier curves, gradients and outlines that make
up the image.

[sobriquet]

No, because at imgur and postimg, I don't need to register if I want to
share an image.

> Why not set up your own server for doing it.
>
>
>
> > > >direct
> > > > linking to images being allowed and uploading directly from
> > > > weblinks.
> > >
> > > what do you want to do that's so differnt or special .....
> >
> > I'm just used to the convenient way imgur works, but it happens to
> > reject svg files.
>
> I guess it's their right to accept what files they want to accept and not others, just like most things that are free.

Sure. But there might be some similar service out there somewhere that *does* accept svg files.

[PeterN]

On 6/10/2015 6:27 AM, sobriquet wrote:

[android]

In article <f72ae05c-9389-4993...@googlegroups.com>,

[sobriquet]

On Saturday, November 6, 2021 at 2:07:28 PM UTC+1, Tiago Rangel de Sousa wrote:
> Github gist is a good option

Seems you have to sign up to share things there.

I'd prefer sites like desmos or imgur where you can just share stuff without
necessarily being forced into getting an account.

I guess one option would be to use pastebin or something along those lines and
just dump svg code there, but that's not particularly convenient (people can't easily download
or view the rendered svg).

[sobriquet]

hmm, or maybe
https://www.svgviewer.dev/

That seems to work...

https://www.svgviewer.dev/s/P9Qr7OpC