If the attack is still going on in a few days, I'll consider measures like these:
- If there are any image hosts run by trustworthy companies where the privacy policy says that they don't keep logs, these could be exempted from the proxy. If you know of any, let me know.
I don't know how trustworthy such a privacy policy would be so that would require some level of trust.
- Maybe bitcointalk.org could pay TalkImg a monthly fee for a contractual guarantee that they won't keep logs. TalkImg could then be exempted from the proxy, and furthermore they would have more resources to function well.
- Bitcointalk.org could add support for uploading images directly.
My main concern over image hosting is that as mentioned over in the wall observer thread, we are losing some of the images as time goes on. Sites die, accounts get deleted (all of Risto Pietila's google-based images are gone since he died and presumably his account was deactivated). It would be nice to have something more integrated with bitcointalk so it persisted with the site. I also like talkimg. I wonder if it could be integrated into bitcointalk somehow (and share hosting, perhaps) and maintenance contracted to the current owner with the option that it remains the property of bitcointalk if the current owner abandons it. I have seen other SMF sites with integrated media hosting too. So, not sure.