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> So now when you paste an image link into the link post field it will automatically upload it to pic8's multiple hosts and your image will be preserved forever!

(AOU, 2020, from the link above.)

And what happened earlier this year? **Epic fail.** Pic8 shut down with no warning, taking redirects to over a hundred thousand pictures with it. Memes, funny screenshots, all inaccessible. Its operator Picman stopped responding to inquiries and disappeared.

This is what [inevitably happens](https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/) with no **decentralized backups**. And given that pic8 only stored URLs, not the actual files, it would not have been difficult to mirror it.

The idea behind Pic8 was a noble one: mirroring uploaded images to multiple image hosts so the image remains if one image host went down. Image hosts like imgtc - remember that one? From the 2017-2019 Voat days? Garbage.

Pic8 did not actually host uploaded images, it just redirected to the various image hosts, so the promise was that it would be able to operate indefinitely given the low costs. While Pic8 was mainly associated with poal.co, some Voat users used Pic8 back in 2020.

But this did not protect against the fact that pic8 itself can shut down. Cracks were already showing early. Pic8.co had frequent downtimes, so it was never reliable to begin with.

AOU also took down poal.co/s/pic8 and poal.co/s/picinfinity, the discussion forums used for pic8. Looks like he accepted the fate that pic8 will not come back and that relying on this garbage was a foolish idea.

Catbox isn't much better. They have purged most of the stuff from the Voat days. So don't overrely on it either. Also, the name catbox sounds quite furry. Save anything that matters locally.

I release this post into the public domain under CC0 1.0, excluding quotes. You can copy and paste it wherever you wish.

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> Pic8 is now fully integrated to Poal

>Since Pic8.co (a fantastic image proxy solution to keep your images online) has been around with poal for almost 2 years (in the side bar), we've decided with the benediction of its creator, @picman, to integrate it in the submit link page.
>So now when you paste an image link into the link post field it will automatically upload it to pic8's multiple hosts and your image will be preserved forever! However should you not want to use pic8.co then there is a checkbox to disable this function.
>There's also a new upload image button for images you want to upload from your devices. They will also be uploaded through pic8 service.
>Please note that pic8 protects your privacy by stripping off all metadata from the pics you will upload.
>Enjoy everyone!
>Sincerely
>Poal Team.
>PS: pic8 will remain in the sidebar for those who want to upload and grab a short link to post in text posts or comments.


Aged like milk.

This is a piece of lost media from the original Voat.

In 2020, someone posted this to the original Voat:

> [WE DID IT, WE GOT COALFAX.ME ON FOX NEWS!!!](https://archive.today/2020.06.05-182724/https://voat.co/v/whatever/3858138)

Over 300 upvotes and 1500 views.

The video clip was uploaded to CatBox, at files.catbox.moe/odv4op.mp4, but has sadly been deleted since, but given its popularity, there is a chance someone here has saved it.

If you have a file named *odv4op.mp4* stored somewhere, please consider uploading it to a catbox alternative such as: https://pomf.lain.la/

By the way, I have some videos from the Voat days. Just give me the file name of any lost media you are looking for, and if I have it, I will be happy to provide it!

On some pages such as "Create a new post" page, inbox, and user profiles, the page title is just the generic Upgoat - *"what's upgoat!"*. My suggestion would be to add more descriptive page titles to those. This would make it easier to find them in the tab list.