Voat is really being crippled by the death of so many image links. In addition to the demise of sli.mg and the unreliability of other hosts, it feels like imgur is cracking down and removing all images that were submitted exclusively to voat.

The problem is that we just can't trust the next image host that pops up to be the one that'll actually last this time. We've been burned too many times for that. That means that no matter what else we do, some of us have to write scraping bots to make backups of all images linked on Voat. But how to redirect the users from the old image URLs to the new ones? I think there are 3 potential solutions:

1. Make a change to Voat itself to where it automatically redirects an image host that's down to a fallback host (or shares the load between multiple fallback hosts).

2. Create a special redirect plugin for the most popular browsers that will automatically redirect an image host that's been designated down to a fallback host.

3. [Most insane solution] Create a peer to peer network that Voat users will be running that will keep some fraction of all image files on each user's computer, then have a browser extension automatically load the image corresponding to the URL from this p2p network if it's not accessible from the server.

I'm happy to start coding, but I want to hear from other people first. Do you think one of these ideas is best? Do you have your own? What do you think people would be most likely to actually use?