What’s happened? Posting pics from Photobucket.
- Thread starter Tony Lockhart
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Tony L
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Flickr is a bit of a PITA on iOS as the app is utter shit, yet you need the app to upload to Flickr. The way I use it, which clearly won’t be for everyone, is I have the app on my iPhone so I can upload (the iPhone is my main camera), but I don’t have the app installed on my iPad and I link from that using the rather better Flickr website (bent up arrow thingy, select BB Code, copy and paste the whole lot into your post, i.e. don’t use the ‘image button’ here).
The whole thing is a real pain, in some ways I’d like to host images here as I really like them, but the costs would eat hugely into what is only a fairly modest income the site generates and it would open me up to a whole world of GDPR/personal info pain. It really isn’t doable this side of making the site a highly commercial operation with paid subscriptions etc, registering as a limited company etc etc.
PS The reason the Photobucket links are not working is they are linking to a .html page or trying to embed HTML. Why sites such as Pistonheads would allow this is frankly beyond me as it is a massive security flaw (if a site allows users to embed HTML code it is basically wide open for all kinds of malware!).
The whole thing is a real pain, in some ways I’d like to host images here as I really like them, but the costs would eat hugely into what is only a fairly modest income the site generates and it would open me up to a whole world of GDPR/personal info pain. It really isn’t doable this side of making the site a highly commercial operation with paid subscriptions etc, registering as a limited company etc etc.
PS The reason the Photobucket links are not working is they are linking to a .html page or trying to embed HTML. Why sites such as Pistonheads would allow this is frankly beyond me as it is a massive security flaw (if a site allows users to embed HTML code it is basically wide open for all kinds of malware!).
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
That still leaves the weirdness of images from a few weeks ago being shown on PFM no problem.
wylton
Naim and Mana member
I moved over to Flickr some time ago and it’s fine for me. Photobucket did back-track somewhat though, because previously hosted pictures that they had blocked, in an effort to force you to subscribe, suddenly reappeared, but with ‘proudly hosted by Photobucket’ on them.
Must admit, I haven’t tried Flickr on IOS though.
Must admit, I haven’t tried Flickr on IOS though.
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
But if the only way for me to use flikr is to do the image share from an iPad or larger, it’s a non-starter.
wylton
Naim and Mana member
Yes, I did amend my post to say that I haven’t tried it on iOS; I can imagine how frustrating it must be!
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Well, it appears that size does matter. A few weeks ago the image would resize ok for PFM from photobucket. Now it seems that feature isn’t working and oversized images are shown as the red x.
I’ve posted an image into the Portrait competition, and it works with a resolution of 800 on the longest side. Must look rubbish on a 32” monitor!
I’ve posted an image into the Portrait competition, and it works with a resolution of 800 on the longest side. Must look rubbish on a 32” monitor!
eternumviti
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Tony, try imageshack.
Tony Lockhart
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As per my earlier post, all is well, if slightly different. From my perspective, PFM won’t reduce the image size as necessary like it used to.
eternumviti
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Sure, with the 800px proviso, as you say a bit small.
Tony Lockhart
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I seem to get away with 1000, maybe more.
eternumviti
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I always resize to 1024 for forums.