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awemawson:
"I think the best solution is to promote images storage with the forum itself."

Well said that man - Here here !

AdeV:

--- Quote from: awemawson on July 08, 2017, 12:26:31 PM ---"I think the best solution is to promote images storage with the forum itself."

Well said that man - Here here !

--- End quote ---

Whilst that is, indeed, the best option for guaranteeing that photos stay with their posts in any given forum, we should recognise that there ARE many people (including me, sometimes, if I can be bothered) who host elsewhere and link in. e.g. people who post the same photos on multiple forums; those who want an easy way to put their pictures "in line" with text, and those who wish to retain control of who can/cannot see their pictures (e.g. Bogs, and whilst we may be unhappy that all his old posts are now pictureless, there's SFA we can do about it too...

ANYWAY... what I'm getting around to is this: We shouldn't abandon PB users who wish to migrate, simply because we prefer pictures to be hosted on the forum... There's no reason why we can't do what VTSteam (apologies, I forget your real name just now) suggests AS WELL as encouraging people to store pics in the forum.

From a tech POV it's pretty easy too, just a SQL query on the database. I could write a stored proc to do the job from the command line. It wouldn't surprise me, though, if someone isn't already writing a plug-in for SMF to do the job!

vtsteam:
Andrew, I for one am not going to do that, okay? What's "best" for you isn't best for everybody.

Besides, for those who want to migrate their photos to forum storage from Photobucket, the same script/SQL query could be written to do that as well, so, lets not make the script suggestion into a problem. Choice is a good thing.

Adev, sounds great, if that's a solution that Eric wants to use to resolve the issue on MM.

Incidentally, my photo links were just dropped by Photobucket too. I had downloaded my albums already, and now I'm in the process of removing all of my content from Photobucket and deleting my membership account there.

My lathe building thread has one final remaining photo visible -- it was a test to see if my own hosting would work for this forum and it does.

BTW, Sparky, as I mentioned earlier, when downloading albums from PhotoBucket I noticed the download originated from a Google server, not Photobucket. That says something to me about their involvement in this debacle.

It will be very interesting to see if Google's purchase, Youtube, goes the same way some day in the future. Do we plan on locally storing and serving videos on the forum, too?

ps. Ironic ......Photobucket still provides a hot link for any photo you upload so you can paste it inline somewhere else. Yet doing that "breaks your user agreement". Linking images was encouraged from the start.

Ya know if PB had said something reasonable -- like a $30/yr fee, maybe people could understand, but nearly $400/yr and shutting down all links, with a payment message? Let's coin a new term for that behavior: ransom linking.



 

awemawson:
I keep the original of my photos at whatever resolution the camera takes them, on my local drives, but upload a reduced resolution version (640 x 480 pixels)  to whatever forum I am contributing.

I don't see any problem with others putting their photos wherever they choose - photobucket or any other hosting site - but if they want to ensure the integrity of the threads they participate in for the future, then having the photo on the specific forum is really the only way.

I suppose posting a link is marginally faster than uploading a picture, and if one is on a very slow 'wet string' connection then this may be significant, but now-a-days this is probably fairly unusual as faster links become more common.

vtsteam:
I post images large enough to show the details I want, in line often with the text explaining them, and separating them. They become part of an exposition, just like in a book or magazine.

I don't like a bunch of tiny thumbnails lumped at the end of my post. More often than not I don't even bother to open those in other people's threads if I judge there is nothing specifically in the detail I need to see. With my connection there is signifigant download time for every one. And because half the time I open thumbnails because I can't even make out in the thumbnail what it is. Often times it wasn't worth it, which is frustrating.

There are many more reasons for posting links inline not the least of which is control of your own images. It's not just a matter of saving uploading time to a forum.

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