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What is a mapbed?

The picture bed is, upload your own pictures to the network (server), directly use the URL link to access the pictures, a lot of pictures on the network in one place, take the name called picture bed.

Figure bed to realize get the link can access the picture, do not need local storage can access the picture, the advantage is:

Solve the problem of how to transfer images

Solve Markdown's image pain point

take up almost no file size (only the size of the link is saved, not the size of the image itself)

What the graph bed can do

Picture bed, you can realize to use Markdown syntax format to insert pictures, and share with others, free from the pain point of picture transmission. All you need is an internet connection and a link to the image, then you can access it.

Of course, in addition to writing Markdown documents, as long as you can open the link, you can use it. For example, when commenting on a social networking site, you can use the image link in the image bed.

How to use the image bed

To use a graph bed, you need to solve three problems: a server for uploading images to the web, an application for uploading images quickly, and an editor to support the graph bed service.

Server for uploading images

To use the picture bed, the first thing to be solved is the picture should be uploaded to where, at present (2024) there are a number of free public service picture bed service, which is not the first choice of the novice beginner picture bed, after all, who do not want to whore. However, the free public welfare picture bed, stability and sustainability is very uncertain, it is very likely that one day in the future, the service stops, the consequences of which will result in once uploaded to this picture bed service pictures all invalid.

So there is no relatively more stable image bed program? Of course there is, that is the ability to pay money, not bad is the paid image bed service, about the paid image bed, there are many programs, the mainstream has a major cloud service vendors to provide OSS object storage services, VPS self-built image bed servers and so on.

This blog post is written in 2024, in order to facilitate the introduction to the graph bed, using free public service graph bed service, at present, relatively stable free public service graph bed service has:

smms: https: //smms.app/

Shell beds: https: //imgkr.com/

Passing map bed: https: //imgse.com/

Aggregate image bed: https: //www.superbed.cn/

Applications for fast image uploading

With a server for uploading images, i.e., a picture bed, then you can't open the upload server website to upload an image every time you want to upload an image, such a tedious and repetitive operation, you need to have an app that can dock the upload server and the local images. That's why we need a quick upload app. Commonly used apps for uploading images are PicGo, iPic, Picsee, uPic and so on.

Since the blogger's main use of Apple ecological hardware and software, so the use of uPic. uPic for Mac support is very good, directly in the App Store to download, not only the Mac side of the APP, but also the iOS side of the APP.

The editor supports graph bed service

Having a bed server and a quick upload app is theoretically good enough, but it would be great if editors could optimize their bed services.

Typora, which is commonly used by bloggers, supports one-click uploading of local images to the image bed server via the quick upload app, and automatically replaces local images with links to web images.

Drawbacks of image beds

As good as it is, there is still a drawback, even if it is something you can't accept. The downside of graphical beds is summarized in three words - stability. Of course this drawback can be solved by the ability of money.

The picture will be uploaded to the network, the need for network servers, then there are two ways to choose, one is the public welfare of the bed, the second is to pay the bed.

If you choose the public welfare picture bed, even if it is stable and run for a long time public welfare picture bed, public welfare, no income, only the expenditure of the cloud service, the risk of running a great deal, once the road, then previously written articles pictures, will be all lost, at this time to restore, can only be replaced one by one link to write a script batch is not good enough to achieve, one by one to change... ... very dissuasive.

If you choose to pay for the bed, a ten face a wide range of cloud service vendors to launch the service, the choice of space is large, the choice of cost is also large, at the same time, even if it is a well-known cloud service vendors, there is a future closure of the cloud services provided and the risk of closure, even if the risk of relative public interest in the bed of a small, but can not be denied that it exists. Of course, to pursue the ultimate zero risk, is impossible, this point is sort of in the controllable range can be ignored. Second, the cost, I just save a picture, to spend so much money, it is really heartbreaking ah, according to the normal writing blog posts and notes to calculate, with the cloud service provider's OSS storage roughly 50 ¥ per year, and with the increase in storage space, the annual cost will also increase, this growth trend, the later costs will be very scary, once paid to discontinue, it can not be used again, which is really embarrassing.

My experience with graph beds

The above blogger explored what graph beds are, what they can do, how to use them, and the drawbacks. Next, the blogger is going to share his own tips on using graph beds, from which you can harvest, how the blogger maximizes the advantages of graph beds and avoids the disadvantages of graph beds. This set of tips can be read together with the blogger's note-taking system article, there will be a different harvest.

The most important reason for bloggers to use graph bed is that after writing Markdown documents locally, they need to migrate further to the blog, and the transfer of images becomes a big problem. And sometimes, bloggers will directly share md files to others, at this time the transmission of images also becomes a big problem, and bloggers will cloud synchronization notes and blog posts, synchronization APP can preview the file, at this time if the local picture will not be displayed. In order to solve the above 3 pain points, the blogger pointed the finger at Tupelo.

Before the blogger really started to use Tupelo, there are 3 requirements, firstly, the blogger's MacBook must use local pictures; secondly, the blogger only uploads pictures to Tupelo when needed; thirdly, the blogger's Tupelo needs are divided into short-term and long-term.

Blogger's requirement one is to make sure that the pictures will be left behind without relying on the graph bed server (this point can be learned through the blogger's note system to understand why the blogger's note storage and synchronization logic experience). Requirement two is also to require a service that uploads images only when they need to be shared, and uses local images when they don't, which not only saves the resources of the image bed server, but also greatly improves the efficiency of image access. Requirement three is to circumvent the stability of the image bed, the need for long-term storage of images uploaded to the paid relatively stable image bed, and only need to share and use short-term will be uploaded to the free public service image bed, anyway, the back will not be used, invalidated, but also do not know.

Looking to the future (2024 Perspective)

When I was writing this blog post, I accidentally found a new solution to the Markdown image transfer problem. This program is the md file and picture packaged into a new file format TextBundle, through this program transmission, does solve the Markdown picture pain points, the defect is that it takes up the file volume, and Word and other formats, the same as the picture is packaged together. Of course, as of now, the biggest flaw is - not popularized. Mainstream editors rarely support this format, basically support md file format. However, this solution is a good picture solution, it can not replace the picture bed, but in solving the problem of Markdown pictures, but in the local and file transfer, as well as stability is better than the picture bed.

Finally, perfect stability does not exist, the blogger's point of view, the pursuit of 5 years, 10 years or less stability can be, the future is not known, who will know the next 10 years, there will be no new solutions, or your notes blog post is out of date, the picture is just a reminder of the need to update, don't be out of date.

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