Replace photobucket?
 

Wrong place, and I know it, and fully expect to be moved - but I figure most of the guys I know who might answer are in this sub-forum.

Photobucket spit the bit; I'm not paying $400 a year to be able to post photos on forums.

So where do you guys use for photo hosting? I have used flickr in the past, haven't used Google. I'm not really looking for some obscure site, and I'm definitely not looking for a pay site.

Can't y'all just post them on this site? I've posted a few to my profile here. I mostly use another hunting website that handles its own picture hosting these days. No sense in uploading them twice in two different locations.

IMGUR or Flickr Both are free and offer HUGE storage. I know IMGUR supports Google+ logins so no need to create a "new" account.

Google does not support direct linking that i can find. You can link an album but no simple way for pics to show up in a post....If im wrong i would love to know how.

HNI has a 60ish pic upload max and does not support direct upload attachments. Im fairly certain they could if they chose to do so but i would not hold my breath.

This is where I put mine after PB gave us the finger.
https://postimages.org/

I dumped my photobucket to Flickr for now. I fixed some of the links in some of my sub-forum posts in the gunsmithing and predator hunting sections. What a pain - too stupid of Photobucket to drop linkable access for their free accounts.

Why do people put their photos on those types of websites when you can store them right on your own computer like I do. Then there are numerous ways to back them up in case your hard drive crashes and none are expensive.

You still need a website to upload them to if you want to post pictures in a forum like this one.

Well they must be on your PC or phone before you upload so isn't that a "gimme"?

I also do all my edits and metadata removal before uploading. Then those pics are stored locally and on my NAS raid boxes. So i have at least 3 "backups" of my pics. Even if the house burns to the ground my pics are safe.

MANY forums do not support direct pic attachments so you must use a 3rd party host. The ones that do support it also limit pic size. Usually to 1meg or less and 1024x768 or less. Quite often 800x600 or less. Attachments are also often just for that forum and don't allow it to be shared to other forums. I can post a pic on a 3rd party host and share the same pic over multiple forums.

So yeah, 3rd party hosting is quite useful.

That is the problem Top, if I want to attach a picture to an e-mail I take the picture from my computer album, if I want to post a picture to a message board the picture has to be in some kind of photo hosting site. The hosting site allows you to e-mail the pictures, post them on message boards and share them on other kinds of sites like face book, not that I even have ever looked at face book nor will I. For e-mails I just hit the attach photo on my e-mail account it takes me right to my computer album where I select the photo to attach.

I only use photohosting sites to store photos I use in online forums. Not many photos, since I'm REALLY lazy about taking pictures, and almost as lazy about uploading them, but I do use forums like this quite a bit.

Oldtimr,

Lots of people went over to Imgur after the Photobucket screw-up. Imgur is free and easy to use. I migrated all of my photos over there and even created separate photo albums by category.

www.imgur.com

Thanks Butch but I already switched to postinages.org .

No sweat. I'll look at postimages.org too and see what that's like. :)

Just a heads up if you like to post high rez images. IMGUR will host them at 1600x1200 and maybe even larger. Its largest i tested.

A guy posted a huge one from postimage and it only showed up as 1024x. So if you have a need for REALLY high rez pics it may not meet your needs.

HNI scales them down so its no biggie 1,600px × 1,200px (scaled to 900px × 675px)

I use a site called hunt101. It does everything I need it to and it is free.

Preservation is why I first used photobucket. If my house burns down my pictures will still be online and I can recover them. Then when I started reading forums I used it for that as well.

My pictures are on my computer, a hard drive in my gunsafe, and now I use amazon to store them online.

As far as replacing photobucket I used Imgur for the first time last night and it seems great so far.

I have uploaded tons of pics to Imgur since the PB fiasco. Every single one uploaded without a glitch. I love that i can link a 1600x1200 pic and if the forum supports it, it shows up as a 1600x1200.

I dont need to worry about monthly bandwith limitations either.

I at one time tried to just leave the pictures on my computer, a floppy disk, then CD and now a few flash drives.
Back when and many sites require you to down size all your pictures to post them. Being a new computer user I found it a pain in the rear to try and do it.

Sony's image station was the storage site I found were I uploaded my pictures and they sized them, the stopped the picture storage, had us transfer our pictures to shutter fly. Shutter fly is nice but a lot of sites will not allow posting pictures from there. So I discovered photobucket and now with them wanting to rob us I have switched to postimage and like it just fine but still need to work it more so the picture up loaded goes to the correct album.


postimage, our 1985 Buick LaSaber Limited collectors edition.





:D Al

Nice wheels.

I MIGHT need to go a different direction from Flickr. I already had yahoo accounts, so it just took a few minutes to upload...

But...

The mobile interfaces don't work for forum linking. The browser based webpage has display issues so I can't even open my photos in the roll or albums to find a link to them, then in the app, I can't copy a link which posts the actual picture... I'll spend a little more time playing with it and reading, but I might have to give imgur a run if I can't get more functionality out of flickr's mobile interfaces. Works fine on PC, just not phone or tablet - which is the majority of my forum browsing use.