Image hosting sites.

[russ92xmsed]

What are peeps using to host pictures on the forum now that photobucket have gone all monetary!?

I tried uploading to the forum directly and it worked yesterday, but today, not playing ball at all. Very odd.

[Dean]

I can't upload to the forum from a tablet or phone, not sure why.

i use Flickr, always have, i pay £30 ish a year for a pro account which gives me unlimited storage and some additional pointless features never had a problem. You can register for free but you only get a certain amount of storage, once you exceed that limit the oldest images and video disappear, they reappear if you delete something or upgrade to a pro account, to be honest, £30 a year is peanuts for unlimited, backed up photo storage.

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[russ92xmsed]

That isn't too bad really. Food for thought.

[Dieselman]

imgur

I keep all my images on my own storage.

[xmexclusive]

I tried to upload the three radio owners manuals as complete books earlier today.
The site accepted them and then wiped them from the post.
I suspect the site then locks out picture uploads because the file size limit per document is exceeded.
It is protecting against what it sees as an attack.
This is the way it used to behave.
It is why I have never uploaded the scans of the full set of owners manuals.
Raised with Ciaran some time ago.
He will need to do a reset.
I will give up posting that type of file until there is a fix.

John

[russ92xmsed]

I reckon that's what must have happened to mine too John.

I wondered about Imgur. I will try them out.

[jamescarruthers]

If you read imgur's TOS you will see they forbid hosting avatars and rather vaguely forbid linking from elsewhere. It's a shame but I suspect as people move to them, they will get overloaded and then they will probably be next to fuck us over like Photobucket.

[Dieselman]

If you read imgur's TOS you will see they forbid hosting avatars and rather vaguely forbid linking from elsewhere.

Form elsewhere, or 3rd party linking to elsewhere?

I suspect the former since that provide links to be used on other meduim.

I've just had a quick scan of their terms and can't see what you are referencing. Their terms say

"You can upload images anonymously and share them online with only the people you choose to share them with. If you make them publicly available, they may be featured in the gallery. If you share an image publicly with Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, etc., then it may end up in the gallery."

That seems to clearly say you may share them where you like.

I think this is the bit you mean.

"If someone else might own the copyright to it, don't upload it."

and

"Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it."

That is commercial hosting of image libraries, not personal photographs.

I'm happy for my photo's to be used as image libraries...£50-£200 each, depending on; technical content, whether it's in focus, or not, how drunk the prospective stooge (I mean buyer) is...

[White Exec]

That last quoted paragraph from Imgur's T&C is saying don't use their system as a content delivery network for your website.
In other words, don't use it to post photos to our Forum, or anyone else's.
This is exactly what Photobucket are now enforcing.

The only way to guarantee preservation/ongoing completeness of our posts is to host the images (photos, and other acceptable attachments) on our own server. We obviously have some issues with this at the moment - slow and difficult uploading with some files, very slow appearance/non-appearance of photos in existing posts - which needs addressing.

I don't think using photo-hosting sites is the way to go, except for unimportant stuff.

[Dieselman]

That last quoted paragraph from Imgur's T&C is saying don't use their system as a content delivery network for your website.
In other words, don't use it to post photos to our Forum, or anyone else's.
This is exactly what Photobucket are now enforcing.

Their tterms give express permission to link to YOUR images hosted on their servers. They conveniently provide links.

What they ban is using their servers as a commercial library. That is completely different, as it means a great number of images would be hosted and all made private, other than ones paid for to download. that goes against the spirit of "image sharing", which is what the site is for.