【Solved】How should an image hosting structure be planned?

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My blog only got started a few months ago, so I still have very few articles and images. There are currently fewer than 30 images in my image host, and my writing frequency is quite consistent: about one article per month, with an average of five images per article. That works out to roughly 60 images a year, so the overall scale is very small.

My image filenames are already well organized, and I have more than enough backups. I rarely need to look up old images or reuse them across articles. I keep going back and forth between a flat structure and categorizing them. On the one hand, I feel that a flat structure is completely sufficient at my current scale; on the other, I can’t help wanting to imitate the practices of major tech companies or experts and add some kind of directory structure to my image host. This contradiction has kept me stuck for a long time, unable to make a decision.

So should I use a flat structure, or some other kind of structure? The advice I got from AI didn’t seem very useful, which is why I came to ask for advice on the forum.

Supplement: This was resolved a long time ago. I decided to use one folder per year, such as 2026/xxx.webp.

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Sort by date /26/08/28/

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I only publish one article a month. Organizing them by date doesn’t really make sense, so I might as well use the Markdown filename as the folder name. But if I ever reuse an image, it would look pretty strange.

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It’s enough to make it through the month.

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Organize them by article number. For example, if Topic 10001 has four images, they should be named like 10001_1.png.

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If we do it monthly, that would amount to one article per month, which is completely unnecessary. I’m considering just organizing it by year instead.

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A few dozen a year—just keep them all in one flat directory for now. Changing the directory structure would mean having to account for old links.

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Come use my image hosting service; you don’t need to categorize anything :grinning_face:

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The tiled layout looks pretty good, to be honest.

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Let’s forget about laying it flat—it’s too messy.

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Organizing by date is enough.
For example, /img/2026/10/18/image-name