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If you want to publish photos from an online storage, please do not put them on photobucket.com.

This service is a great nuisance.

Every time you find a photo on FPN not accessible any more, it is from photobucket.

 

The easiest solution: register a GMAIL account just for the photos and publish them on Google Photos.

Or make a blogger account and publish them there.

Or Microsoft OneDrive or Dropbox

 

 

 

 

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Photobucket WAS a pretty good option until a few months ago. They changed things up. Now it is $40/mo for services previously o n the free account.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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If you want to publish photos from an online storage, please do not put them on photobucket.com.

This service is a great nuisance.

Every time you find a photo on FPN not accessible any more, it is from photobucket.

 

The easiest solution: register a GMAIL account just for the photos and publish them on Google Photos.

Or make a blogger account and publish them there.

Or Microsoft OneDrive or Dropbox

 

Thank you! I wholeheartedly agree. There have been so many interesting past posts that I have tried to look at but have not been able to see the images of because the photos are not available and were uploaded on Photobucket, several just this weekend.

 

FPN folks: please stop using Photobucket for your photos.

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Too late. Photobucket ruined a decade of Internet.

 

And who can tell how long GMAIL will last. Best thing is to get your own webspace and domain.

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Too late. Photobucket ruined a decade of Internet.

 

And who can tell how long GMAIL will last. Best thing is to get your own webspace and domain.

 

+1 for getting your own space and domain. I spend less on hosting each month than I do on ink.

I've been doing this for the last 10-12 years and it makes things easy.

Plus, you aren't sharing/ giving up the rights to your photos when you upload them.

greg

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Don't feel bad. I'm old; I'm meh about most things.

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If you have Internet access you probably have space on one of your ISPs servers for a website or whatever. I do not find the FPN servers very friendly and if you post a lot on the default one you will run out of space and have to learn the other one. Or delete pictures but then your old posts will have holes in them. For myself I rent space on a server for my email, website, and blog, with room leftover for some photos.

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If you have Internet access you probably have space on one of your ISPs servers for a website or whatever.

Yet you will lose that if you change your ISP. With your own registered domain you can always redirect to your new webspace. No links broken.

 

As websites aren't very popular these days and most traffic on my sites is just spam I think I will create my own picture server for posting purposes. Haven't done that in the past for traffic and anonymity reasons. Here you can only register a domain with full name, adress and contact data openly available for everyone.

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I agree. All my stuff is on a UNIX server and I access it via SSH and maintain it with Emacs. But most people will not want to do that, or pay for that. I was just suggesting a fairly simple solution for non-techies.

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The Upload function here is great, with one big exception, you can't rename a photo once it's up. That is a real pain. But otherwise it's free, it works well, gives you the right link, and will be here as long as FPN is here.

 

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The Upload function here is great, with one big exception, you can't rename a photo once it's up. That is a real pain. But otherwise it's free, it works well, gives you the right link, and will be here as long as FPN is here.

Does that method involve uploading photos from your own hard drive?

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Does that method involve uploading photos from your own hard drive?

 

I've uploaded images from my hard drive, from my iPad and iPhone. I have only three problems with Upload.

1. You can't rename your images

2. You can't search on your image names (which would only really be useful if you could rename)

3. You can't select and copy the URL for your photo from within iOS devices. Or at least I can't figure out how to.

 

Otherwise, it's free, unlimited storage of photos perfect for storing FPN pics.

 

“When the historians of education do equal and exact justice to all who have contributed toward educational progress, they will devote several pages to those revolutionists who invented steel pens and blackboards.” V.T. Thayer, 1928

Check out my Steel Pen Blog. 

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Oh and two other issues with the Upload function, besides what AAAndrew said -- there's a size limit per image (which for me is not a problem, because I want to crop the images most of the time, and then maybe also resize them); and you can't remove stuff. I accidentally double uploaded a photo and there's no way for me to remove it....

Otherwise, "Upload" is dead easy. You just follow the instructions. Trust me -- if *I* can do it, anyone can....

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It's a real shame that so many wonderful reviews are now bereft of their images. :(

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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Are there any issues with retaining the rights to your photos if you upload them here?

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