Thread: Photobucket

Yeah, but the app doesn't support bbcode and I can't work out how to use the URL to make the pic appear - it comes up as an invalid file.

Back to the drawing board - I wouldn't have thought it would be this hard to be honest. Not very user friendly.

Despite Photobucket being dicks, at least it was easy to copy the code - pretty much impossible with Flickr - there are a lot of help thread in Flickr about this exact problem going back over 2 years and there is still no fix for it (or no will to have things work properly from a mobile device)

Originally Posted by grey_ghost

Colin,

I worked it out today and from memory in Flikr there are share options, I used BBcode (the far right option), then insert image from url, untick the download from my pc...

Many thanks,
Tried that earlier but when I 'previewed' the picture didn't appear.....now it does ? Must have changed something somewhere.


Colin

Originally Posted by Bytemrk

Gav, for less money than Photobucket are asking, I can:

• Buy my domain
• Host the domain to build my photo site with 100gig or storage and 1000GB/mth of traffic
• Subscribe to Adobe Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC to edit my images

And still have close to A$200 unspent........ that makes Photobucket look very very greedy.


As Dave said, Flickr Pro is a great deal for a buy it off the shelf solution.

All well and good, but can someone help me to make it work? Seems to be borderline impossible to use on a mobile device - even with the app, which rules it out unless I'm missing something.

See if this works...

Well it does, but it's not easy to do - takes a couple of minutes to get it to copy, then to edit out the junk in the code when pasted.

Will look at other options, this one isn't for me I don't think.

I'm off to bed, it's been a ****ty day and this isn't helping....

Gav i just opened an account with postimage

Postimage.org — free image hosting / image upload

Haven't tried to import an image to the forum yet but its another option for you to investigate

Cheers

Dan

Originally Posted by Disco-tastic

Gav i just opened an account with postimage

Postimage.org — free image hosting / image upload

Haven't tried to import an image to the forum yet but its another option for you to investigate

Cheers

Dan

It's loading images but I can't create albums. It also says it's sending me a password but no password arrives. I'm not sure if I am even logged on.

One reason I stopped hot-linking photos and preferred to upload them to this (and other) site(s) is because a change in the hosting site makes all the links invalid.

I'd like to go back and replace all those earlier hot-linked images but it's not practical for several reasons, e.g., one often can't edit old posts and even finding those old posts containing images would be a monumental task (unless there is software that can do that for me).

The disadvantage of uploaded images is that they can only be seen by registered members of a forum. How often have you wanted to check something out on a forum without joining but you can't see the images? I have - quite a lot.