Best online publication solution ?

[Airy]

Purpose is to post pics with following priorities :

1st priority - being able to publish a link here on NikonGear, with preview and full size view capability
2nd priority - good quality, low (or no) extra compression, max pixels on long edge 1600(-2000), so practically < 2MB per pic should be ok
3rd priority - good neighborhood, low censorship, no "easily offended" moderators, no systematic checks by thoughtpolice
4th priority - low rates, as few adverts as possible, no spamming, pop-unders, etc.

M$ Onedrive is ruled out, because of (apparently) regular, uncontrollable changes in URLs breaking links to pics after some time.

What would you recommend ?

Thanks in advance

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Flickr is the answer. No direct costs and static addresses.

[Erik Lund]

I agree Flicker is hard to beat

[afx]

If you just want a free host, flickr is a good choice.

I use SmugMug, the power account. Gives me man ways to customize online galleries, public or private. No limits that I ever noticed. Been using it for 10 years now.
You upload a max size you like and it will provide downscaled images of various sizes.
As it is a commercial provider, you have full control....

cheers
afx

[The_Traveler]

I use zenfolio; seemingly complies with all requirements

[Andrea B.]

With Flickr, you do have to mark some images as restricted  if they are nudes, etc.

I used to use pBase. It is $23/year now. But I don't know what you get for that.

List so far:

• Flickr
• pBase
• Smugmug
• Zenfolio

[Airy]

Thanks all for your recommendations. I'll visit the four of them and make a decision (next weekend)

[Øivind Tøien]

Another vote for Zenfolio. With Zenfolio and perhaps Smugmug too you can choose different access levels, whether images are searchable or not, or visible from the front page, or even visible from you own home page (useful if you do not want to spill all your beans for a bigger image collection when posting a few). There are lots of possibilities for customization.

[afx]

SmugMug and Zenfolio offer about the same level of access control and customization, the devil is in the details.
When I started there was only SmugMug.
One thing that I like a lot is their mobile app, which can be used to have local shadow of your online images on the phone/tablet, out-synced over night.
What is utterly useless is their LR plugin, which is too stupid to have rules for derived file names.

cheers
afx

[Gary]

Smugmug.

[Ron Scubadiver]

Flickr uses additional compression.  However, it is cheap with one TB free.  Their TOS is stated one way and applied in a completely different way.  Some fully clothed shots have to be marked moderate and implied nudes are restricted.

[Airy]

Made up my mind, checked SmugMug vs. Zenfolio, result = Zenfolio. Thanks everybody for advice. I'll resume posting next week, I guess...

[Anthony]

Interesting, why did you prefer Zenfolio?

[Airy]

About the same features (I found a good, thorough comparison on the web) and lower pricing.

Decision postponed, Behance is one further possibility as I am an Adobe CC subscriber - have to check.

[Stephen T Symes]

Any opinions relative to 500px?