What are the rules of your service?

1. Our servers are located in Germany. Our main developers reside in Turkey, Brazil, and USA. You must conform to the laws of these nations and the laws of the country you live in.
2. Do not upload adult content (including but not limited to, pornography).
3. Do not share your uploader token with anyone or publish it anywhere. If you want to let others onto the service, encourage them to register.
4. Don't do anything that will damage the stability of the service. If you want to find exploits in the service, please run a copy of elixi.re locally to reproduce (it is open source!) or get explicit approval from developers beforehand.
5. Occasionally, we may share your data with third parties for backup, security, rule enforcement or legal reasons. By using our service, you agree to this.
6. These rules may be changed at any point, and it's your responsibility to keep track of the newest rules. By uploading a file, you agree to follow these rules.

Guarantees

Our service is provided without any warranty or guarantees, ranging from uptime to file retention. We try our best, but we cannot guarantee 100%/99% uptime.

Privacy

Our service is not based in the United States. Our developers are located in Turkey, Brazil, and the United States. We have developers located in the United States with access to production data and access to database backups (but not backups consisting exclusively of files).

All developers have access to the admin API, which allows modification, manipulation, and access to user information.

Our servers are located in Germany (Hetzner). Our services also utilize Cloudflare, a US-based company.

We are compliant with GDPR. You are allowed to request a dump of your data stored in the service.

Backups

A database backup is created every 30 minutes, and the images are backed up every 12 hours.

Both backups are uploaded to Backblaze B2 (which is US based). Database backups are encrypted with certain developers' PGP keys, while image backups are protected with a passphrase.

Takedowns

We do not have a warrant canary as they're intended for services based in the United States. (We are not based in the US.)

When a file is deleted, the file (content) is removed instantly, but the record for it persists in the database to prevent reuse of its associated shortname (to prevent URL clashes) and to count it against your uploading quota as they already used traffic and processing power.

Logging

Uploads are logged. Information includes your user ID, file size, the domain you upload to, and the time of upload. This does not include your IP address.

Analytics

There are no ads or analytics on the service other than the ones present on Cloudflare's side, which we are unable to disable. We have agreed to the GDPR Data Processing Addendum on Cloudflare on official domains on May 22, 2018.

Third Parties

We allow unofficial domains owned by third parties to be used on the service. The third parties providing these domains may not respect the data they get as well as we do, and we cannot enforce their actions.

Filenames

We use 4 letter (or more) filenames with characters 0-9 and a-z, and it's possible that someone could brute force filenames on our domains to find which images exist. To combat this, we offer a paranoid mode that increases the minimum filename length to 8 characters.

We currently allow anyone to access files on the same domain regardless of subdomain. For example, elixi.re/i/jpr.png also works on uwu.elixi.re/i/jpr.png. This might affect some of your approaches to eliminating the brute force risk. However, there's an issue on our GitLab repository addressing this problem.

How can I get uploader configurations?

Click on your username, go to My Account, click on "Generate Uploader Token", and enter your password. On the page that'll open, you can find the configuration files that are custom-generated for you.

Which uploaders do you support?

• ShareX (Windows)
• KShare (Linux)
• ElixireManager (Linux)
• Potion (macOS, advanced users only as only scripts are provided)

You can download the configuration file for each supported uploaders when you generate an uploader token in your account page.

How do I use KShare?

Get a token and on the token menu, and download the KShare config. Add it to KShare with help of this guide.

API documentation?

Feeling adventurous? We have documented our entire API (admin API included) for anyone wanting to contribute, use the API, or make an uploader here.

I can't log in!

If you have just registered, remember that we need to manually accept your account. We usually don't accept people that are not in our Discord server.

I keep getting logged out!

If you don't check "keep me logged in", we use special tokens that last 3 days to keep you safe.

How do I get a token?

Login, click on your username on the top right corner, go to My Account, click on "Generate Uploader Token", then follow the instructions.

How do I set a domain?

Click your username, go to My Account, enter your password, pick a domain from the dropdown, click save, and all future uploads will be on that domain (until you change it).

What can I upload?

Any files with the following mimetypes:

• image/png
• image/jpeg
• image/gif
• image/webp
• image/svg+xml
• audio/webm
• video/webm
• video/mp4
• application/pgp-keys
• text/x-tex

...as long as they follow the rules, which can be found in the "What are the rules of your service?" section of this page.

Which domains do you have?

You can:

• Go to homepage to see a scrolling list of domains
• Go to the My Account page to see a domain selector
• Go to https://elixi.re/api/domains for a JSON representation

Can I delete my account?

Yes, go to the "My Account" page.

Why is the source code on GitLab?

Multiple reasons:

1. GitHub does not offer free private repositories.
2. Microsoft owns GitHub.
3. I personally believe that github wastes their money a lot and doesn't treat their employees well. And I believe that it's wrong for the biggest site for open source projects to be closed source itself. (- Ave)

Moreover, a backup of the code is hosted on a couple other Git hosts. We will not provide links to avoid any false takedowns.

Public analytics

We have elstat (our custom status page software).

• elstat