Re: How to post links and photos
 

So what am I missing? Went with Flickr to continue to post pictures on here but they don't show up when I paste the link.

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I was just looking at Photobucket and I have a plus account and that is why it is still working(for now). Do you guys that are having problems not have a plus account? I'm just curious. It says the all users with a plus account in good standing as of June 1st will have 3rd party sharing until Dec 31 2018 so long as your subscription is paid. Who knows though...

Re: How to post links and photos
 

I had a free account since when I joined PB buying a plus account just gave you unlimited or greater storage. I was only using .9 out of 10 GB, Only put pictures on it that I posted here.

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I see. My free account was only good for 2 GB so I had to upgrade a long time ago. At the time they had an offer for a 20GB plus account and I got a free GB for signing up. I have 23GB of storage on there, 90+% of which is used and all posted here. 3299 pictures! Bad Photobucket!

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HI All

All my pics gone across many fourms this int not good.
Don't mind paying but 39 dollars a month seams a bit steep and if I moved them how the **** would I fix all my posts.
Would it be possible to pay for the storage with the people who host this site if you want to post high res images there is a sensible cost to cover the bandwidth charges don't know it this would work what does anyone think.

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The ice age is coming.......

Re: How to post links and photos
 

Imageshack seems a viable alternative. They offer a plan for $38 per year which allows embedding images in other sites. Has anyone tried this? Of course it's great until they change their pricing structure like photobucket, and then all of your threads go blank with no photos!
Paul

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Flicker

Right side below pic, share arrow
Box pops up, hit Bbcode at top
Pick a size from dropdown ** Medium **
Copy the script
Paste it here
Remove everything not between {img} tags or it posts link to your flikr account and your name

More

On flicker, request desktop page, computer version, or whatever the NOT 'Mobile' option is called in your browser. Then it should give the row of stuff below pic on right, find the goofy looking arrow. 

Here I broke the script for an image. bbcode, select all, copy, paste to board

{url=https://flic.kr/p/WLyL7k]{img]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4364/35947583263_048461b9b1_z.jpg[/img][/url]{url=https://flic.kr/p/WLyL7k]Brass Track Pins[/url] by {url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/154116633@N07/] rv jim d [/url], on Flickr

Out of all that, you only need
{Img]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4364/35947583263_048461b9b1_z.jpg[/img]

Now it does NOT say your name, or link us to the rest of your account. It's just a picture.

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Imgur

*** APPARENTLY THIS IS OUTDATED INFO AS OF JULY 2020 ***

Lower right side has a URL, copy that.
Or if doing several uploads, right click or long hold image, 'copy link location'

We get something like
http://i.imgur.com/Xnei8BG.jpg

Come here, hit sun & mountain button, paste url into pop up.
Should look like
{Img]http://i.imgur.com/Xnei8BG.jpg[/img]
DO NOT POST THAT! It will be gigantic and makes the board unreadable!

Add either a lower case L or H at end right of file, before _.jpg
{Img]http://i.imgur.com/Xnei8BGh.jpg[/img]

Now the file is ending with ...Gh.jpg so life is good. Post it.

The letter means
s = Small Square (90

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For the gents having trouble posting pictures on here I put this little tutorial together using the free easy to use service www.postimages.org

Select the Choose Images button
https://s7.postimg.org/axhhd1asb/581..._A80_A9_F5.jpg


Choose which picture you want to upload by clicking on it and then press the button Done
https://s7.postimg.org/d4qbec2rv/C25...45817_AEF0.png
https://s7.postimg.org/3wy2xulhn/F90..._A78_A4279.png


Click the button with the red arrow next to it. It will automatically copy the link when you click it
https://s7.postimg.org/pjd3f023f/260...79_AFEB1_F.jpg


Then you type in [img] before the link
https://s7.postimg.org/tr3a9ygp7/09_...BCC313_A83.png


Paste the link you just copied directly after the [img]
https://s7.postimg.org/z2i6uqfnf/914...2_F82_F3_D.png
https://s7.postimg.org/k6jnn6m97/6_C...501_CC4_DB.png


Type [/img] after the link you just pasted. And that’s it your done! You can always preview your message before posting to see if your image shows up properly :cool:
https://s7.postimg.org/nq5ld4u5n/87_...356_E8_CC8.png

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Photobucket

Atleast for now, some functionality can be put back with adding ' ~original ' after the url

So it ends up like
Www.photobutt.com/user/9.jpg~original

But realistically that's just a patch and they'll keep changing it up to keep your stuff being held for for ransom.

Get away from photobucket.

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Google

Upload to Google Drive
Right-click the file(s), select 'Get Shareable Link', which will be in the format of*
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uN...rjC2LrDfsrJpgv

Substitute
'https://drive.google.com/open?id='
with
'http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id='
Now you can use this URL to insert link into the img tags

Please test, send me a PM and i'll update this post as required until we get something working

Re: How to post links and photos
 

After trying to insert image links and reading the forum, do you have to subscribe to Photobucket in order to allow the image links to show up properly in your post? How is everyone else posting pics now?

Re: How to post links and photos
 

I use imgur. To get appropriate image links I do this:
Click username, go to images.
Above your images are 4 drop down menus. The rightmost one says view image info. Click that to drop down the menu and select Generate image links.
You can now select the images you want to post and click Done.
A window should pop up.
Select Linked BBcode(message boards) and Large thumbnails. Copy the links.

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Thanks!

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I switched to postimage long before photobucket decided to hold everyone's photos hostage because of other issues I was having with them. postimage has been great but this is the only forum that I am on that still requires third-party hosting. The other forums now let you post directly from your computer or phone which makes it much simpler. Also I wish people here would post full size so you don't have to click on each thumbnail to see details.

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I use Google photos, apparently it comes with my gmail account, and I've got 17GB of storage available. I have finally figured out how to embed the image in a post. It's actually fairly simple and I don't know whaat took so lang for me to get it figured out. Musta' been a brain-fart or brain-freeze of something like that.

I don't know if it makes any difference, but my browser is Google Chrome, If you use something different YMMV.

I'm going to assume that you've got Chrome for a browser and that you've already loaded your pictures into Google photos.
1) Sign in to your Google photos account and select the picture you want to embed. It's best to have 2 tabs open in the browser, one to this site and the other to Google photos.
2) Right click on the picture you want to embed. A drop down menu will appear. One of the options will be "Copy image address", click on this option.
3) Come back to this site and the post that you want to embed an image in. Place the cursor where you want the image to be and select the "Insert Image" icon at the top of the Message window.
4) A dialog box will pop up asking for the URL of your image, hit Ctrl+V. This will inset the image adddress that you copied in step 2. Now click the OK button on the dialog box.

If it works the same for you as it does me, you just embedded an image in your post. You can verify this by clicking on the Advance button at the bottom of the Message window and selecting Preview Post.

Edit - Let me know if you have trouble loading photos to your Google photos account and I'll try to walk you through that too.

Edit again - Be sure that whatever album the pictures are in is set up as a "Shared" album. Otherwise, you'll see the pictures every time, but NOBODY else will be able to see them. DAMHIK

Don