Proposal: Replace Pixabay with Openverse (an opensource community driven alternative)

[Colin]

Thanks @Archit. Openverse is a good call and indeed one that we have already high on our list of ones to look at. Others include Unsplash and Imgur. You brought up Image search before, but this detailed suggestion is appreciated. For convenience, I’ll post my reply to your previous more general query here:

@Colin

Image Search: The current image search uses the Pixabay API and was put in as quick win
sometime ago. The lack of images meant that we put Bing as an alternative. We certainly don’t want to put Bing as the default for everybody. We get quite a lot of people pointing out that perhaps we should avoid using Bing;it’s a view which clearly resonates with us. So it’s something we would like to move away from but we need to do significant work to do that, and have an impact. This has been considered but it not yet a time planned project.