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sparky961:

--- Quote from: vtsteam on July 08, 2017, 06:49:17 PM ---I don't like a bunch of tiny thumbnails lumped at the end of my post.

There are many more reasons for posting links inline not the least of which is control of your own images.

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I agree on both counts, but these can be mostly resolved if the operator of a forum is able and interested in implementing the required changes.

Plenty of forums allow for the uploading of images and and inclusion inline wherever you please.  I don't know if this would be an option for Simple Machines and will leave that up to others to sort out.  Control of your images is somewhat more difficult. 

If you think that a private image hosting company gives you more control than this (or other) online platforms, we only have to look at the present situation to see the error in reasoning.  Once you put an image online, consider it irreversibly public and out of your control.  It has already been scanned, cached, scraped, and/or stored so many different places that it would still be somewhere if you deleted it five minutes after uploading and making public.  So the ability to remove a picture entirely is impossible.  Anyone could easily implement photo link caching as I've described that would prevent you from doing exactly what PhotoBucket has now done.  So I'm left wondering exactly what sort of control you're wanting to exercise, and what kind of control you think you have.  The way I look at it, I only have "control" over the files that are stored on my own computer.  And even that is tenuous when you consider some of the ransomware stuff that's going around these days.

The bigger issue (already mentioned but deserves repeating) is retaining the integrity of posts, including the images whether they're inline or not.  Forum posts lose a lot of their value and context without the images.  I get a lot of value from online forums in many disciplines, some being many years old but still relevant.  I think it's one of the few things that's still good about the Internet.  When I see posts with broken links and missing images, I think it's a shame that no one else can benefit from the information that was once there.

The problem is even bigger, I suspect, for a forum owner/operator, as their user base is related to the content on the site.  Without quality content existing users frequent the site less often and it attracts fewer new users.

vtsteam:
Sparky, I really don't feel like arguing the point any further. You are free to do what you want. I choose to host my own images from now on.

sparky961:

--- Quote from: vtsteam on July 08, 2017, 09:48:44 PM ---Sparky, I really don't feel like arguing the point any further. You are free to do what you want. I choose to host my own images from now on.

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I apologize if it seemed argumentative.  This was not my intention.

I'm sure we can at least agree that the whole thing really sucks.

vtsteam:
Plus 1 on that Sparky!  :beer:

philf:
I have just received the dreaded email from Photobucket saying that I need to upgrade for $399 for 12 months. There's absolutely no chance of me doing that!  :(

What's the latest thinking on where to host the pictures?

There is a method of generating links to photos on my Google Drive but there's no saying that this will work forever.

Once they're relocated can users be granted permission to edit the address of photos in their posts?

As yet my photos are still showing but I'm sure they'll soon disappear.

Phil.

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