Omploader

Omploader is an online file hosting service founded by Brenden Matthews. It offers free file hosting with a focus on image hosting in particular. Omploader is funded solely by donations from users and does not contain advertisements. The website's source code is available under the GNU General Public License.
History
Omploader was initially a simple PHP script with less than 100 lines of code written by David Shakaryan. In 2007, Brenden Matthews rewrote Omploader in Ruby as a hobby using basic CGI, MySQL, memcached, and various 3rd party libraries to support numerous undocumented features.
In 2010, Omploader switched from using <code>omploader.org</code> as its primary domain name to <code>ompldr.org</code>.
Features
Omploader's policy on content is laissez-faire. There is a file size limit of 1GiB, files do not expire, and there are generally no restrictions on content as long is it is neither abusive nor illegal, and as long as it does not create excessive server load.
Omploader's URLs are designed to be short and obfuscated, while allowing people to mask the original filename, or spoof the filename by simply modifying the URL. The URLs follow a pattern of <code>'/v'</code> to view, <code>'/i'</code> for info, and <code>'/t'</code> for thumbnails. The view URL can be appended with a <code>'/'</code> followed by an arbitrary string, allowing one to further obfuscate the URLs. For example, <code> http://omploader.org/vABC123/ </code> and <code> http://omploader.org/vABC123/file.jpg </code> would return the same response from the server.
Extensions
In addition to the web-based interface, third-party tools have been developed to access Omploader. There is a Firefox extension,<ref nameabout/> a Google Chrome Extension,<ref nameabout/> and a Ruby script for uploading files from the Command-line interface.<ref name=about/>
Popularity
Omploader has a statistics page that provides a brief set of usage statistics.

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