Photobucket

[Bowie69]

I know it takes time, but it is a really good reason to embed the photos directly on the forum you are posting on, rather than rely on a third party host, which can change their T&Cs at a breath...

I too can see a free option, but not sure how much storage or linking that gives...

[Greg_S]

500px probably a good bet, dropbox, maybe even onedrive. I agree Flickr isnt that easy to grab urls for images though.

[BLAMM0]

Dropbox is a PITA currently, because they've moved from Public dirs this year.

[Greg_S]

Another option could be to host your own S3 bucket on Amazon or serve via cloudflare CDN

[david1980]

Well I managed to delete my account and selected the "I am unhappy with the services that Photobucket provides" option as the reason and added the following comment:

"The invasive adverts are out of control and now all the links to photos I've put up on many forum posts that have taken a great deal of time and energy have been cut and you're asking for a great deal of money to reinstate them. This is nothing short of extortion and I will not submit to it."

C*nts!! :corey::corey::corey::corey::corey::corey:

You're much nicer than I was, I added a few more choice words on the two accounts I closed.

They must know they pretty much killed their own site, the only thing I can think of is they are running out of storage space and expecting this to happen so they would get some space back with all the people deleting the accounts and if two or three people are dumb enough to pay the fee's they might be able to get some more space.

[M_GORDON]

Hi
Sometimes I used the Facebook pics to put on some forums.

I'm thinking to create a personal and private album and put there mi pics. But regrettably on FB I can't put all my gifs...

[Henkjan]

..... but it is a really good reason to embed the photos directly on the forum you are posting on...

this is exactly what I reccommend people to do on another forum I run, we kept loosing threads due to pic hosts changing etc. somewhat higher hosting costs though, but worth it imho

@admins: do we have enough space to host all pics on the forum server? In case hosting costs go up, I am happy to make a donation to enable this

[BLAMM0]

Hi
Sometimes I used the Facebook pics to put on some forums.

I'm thinking to create a personal and private album and put there mi pics. But regrettably on FB I can't put all my gifs...

AFAIK fb links tend to become inactive after some time.

[Greg_S]

this is exactly what I reccommend people to do on another forum I run, we kept loosing threads due to pic hosts changing etc. somewhat higher hosting costs though, but worth it imho

@admins: do we have enough space to host all pics on the forum server? In case hosting costs go up, I am happy to make a donation to enable this

We have plenty of space for hosting. We have the upgrade to do that Sonic and I have been slow at getting down and once down should be even better

[cardcrash]

Well after a little bit of messing around with Google Photos, 500px and imgur I have found imgur to be the best solution, so far... just be sure when you get the share links you use the BBCode(Forums) link, which adds the [img] prefix and suffix so you don't need to press the add image button when writing your post... you'll see what I mean! When I simply hovered over the picture and copied the link that came up it didn't work as it's slightly different, again, you'll see what I mean... It's really not complicated!

[Bowie69]

While that will work, it is still more future proof if you upload direct to the forum.

[cardcrash]

True, I suppose...

Just going to put a couple of random pictures up to see how much hassle it is...






...well that was a bit of grief but I suppose when you're 'in the zone' it's not that much more trouble...

[saltinot]

I just deleted my account also. I quit using them years ago anyway and hosted everything on the forum. Keeping post and images in the same place seemed like a better idea. I'm slowly fixing the handful of images on RS2 America now.

[Sonic]

We have plenty of space for hosting. We have the upgrade to do that Sonic and I have been slow at getting down and once down should be even better

Actually space is a serious premium as it's all enterprise grade SSD's in RAID which cost a small fortune! The kit the forum is running on is designed for out and out performance, not so much bulk file storage, but we're not exactly going to run out very soon unless we start uploading 10s of GB quickly.

Also the forum upgrade will migrate all attachments currently on the filesystem into the database by the looks of it, so we should see if there's a way to get a forum S3 bucket and have attachments saved there behind the scenes.

S2 powered by S3... what can go wrong?

[Henkjan]

on "my" diy audioforum, the attachments currently take up 50GB, and we have a lot of pix there (forum.zelfbouwaudio.nl) this can be reduced significantly if you use a auto resizer (as I think this forum does), but during a recent upgrade we lost that (high on the todo list now). if the attachments are stored in a separate location, a less costly drive could be used for that, as long as the thumbs are on the fast disk.