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Author of the post here, figured I'd clarify some things since there seem to be some major misconceptions present. First off, I don't claim to be an expert, I find that a pretty ar…

It does indeed. DigitalOcean is kind enough to sponsor the infrastructure, and BelugaCDN provides us with CDN services. Any other costs I cover out of pocket / via carbon ads.

I wrote the old codebase ~4 years ago when I was just learning NodeJS, and didn't touch it too much after that, so it was in dire need of being replaced, in particular since it was…

This service isn't built on top of the Unsplash API, in-fact, it predates it.

Thank you for the kind words!

We switched over from our old NodeJS backend to a new Go backend recently, and gave the website an overhaul as well, things were a bit shaky during the transition.

That’s a really cool use of Picsum! The old domain will keep working, but I’d encourage you to switch to the new one. It’ll save you a redirect as well :)

DigitalOcean sponsors our infrastructure, and BelugaCDN covers our CDN costs, yep. Very happy with both services, been a customer of DO for years.

That's correct! We changed the name to avoid it being confused with unsplash.com as the sites grew in traffic

They are mostly from Unsplash's curated collections a few years ago.

This site pre-dates the Unsplash license (and before Unsplash had their own API/website even, it started when they were still a tumblr blog), the images used on it is from back whe…

There are plenty of other good options indeed. I created it in 2014 since I wanted a service that would give me nice looking pictures, rather than just coloured boxes or similar, f…

The service has actually been around since about 2014, currently, we serve about 400 million images a month, using some 6TB of bandwidth. It's pretty manageable since we use a CDN …

There's Google Analytics on the website. For the API/service, there's no user/usage information being stored, other than aggregated bandwidth/total requests for the entire service,…

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