docs: imgs.sh merge into prose.sh

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+---
+title: imgs.sh merger
+description: We are merging imgs.sh and prose.sh
+date: 2024-01-29
+tags: [announcement]
+---
+
+# Summary
+
+- **2024-01-30**:
+  - imgs.sh merging with prose.sh
+  - upload images to either prose or pgs.sh
+  - all images on imgs are now available on prose
+  - removing all blog web views on imgs
+- **2024-02-05**: shutting down imgs.sh SSH server
+- **2024-07-20**: shutting down imgs.sh web server
+
+# Rationale
+
+As we are getting closer to general availability with [pgs.sh](https://pgs.sh)
+-- our static site hosting service -- we see having a separate-but-very-similar
+service like **imgs.sh** as a distraction and confusing to users. So we are
+merging imgs into [prose.sh](https://prose.sh). You were always able to upload
+images directly using prose, but now instead of returning the imgs.sh URL, we
+return a prose one. We also plan on immediately removing all web views that
+existed on imgs.sh. We may add a way on prose to see all your blog images since
+I do think that view is useful, but that's it.
+
+So users of prose can continue to host their blog images on prose and all images
+that were hosted on **imgs.sh** will be available on prose. We will have a grace
+period where we will still serve hotlinks from **imgs.sh** but we will
+completely shut down imgs.sh on **2024-07-20**.
+
+As part of this merger we bring to both prose and pgs the ability to manipulate
+their images on-the-fly. Image resizing is still supported thanks to
+[imageproxy](https://github.com/willnorris/imageproxy) and we might open up more
+of the image proxy features in the future.
+
+We hope this isn't much of an inconvenience to pico users and are happy to chat
+about it.