Maybe I’m overthinking this. I want something with a drag and drop interface that then gives me a link to paste into discord or a forum to show the image directly, as Imgur does.
I could just use a bare web server but I’d have to scp the images over every time.
I find ShotShare really nice. Have used it for maybe a year now and it works wonders for especially forums. Seems to be abandoned now though.
The problem with this kind of stuff is that it HAS to be internet facing, and you want it to be stable so you don’t cause dead links.
You don’t want to be hosting software that’s not getting security updates, especially while linking to it randomly over the internet.
Since imgur was blocked in the UK I was searching for an alternative way to occasuonally share photos on a Usenet group I’m in. (Text group, not binary, of course.)
I ended up just settling on a Hugo static site. It’s not quite drag and drop, but close enough for me - I just drag the photos into a content directory, run a build script and push the repo - argo deploys it.
Because it’s just plain old httpd serving static files, in a container, it’s about as safe/stable as I can make it.