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lowdrag · Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans

I know we thought we had done this to death, and yes I opened a Flickr account when Photobucket went stupid, but now the wheel turns yet again and this morning I received an email from Flickr saying that they will now reduce the free account to 1,000 photos maximum. I guess for many people that will be fine, but not for me. Grr! Where to now?

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7120 Location: Edinburgh

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Penguin45 · Joined: 28 Jul 2014 Posts: 381 Location: Padiham

I would have thought the direction hosting is moving is pretty obvious, so pick the one you find easiest to use and pay.

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MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2473 Location: South Cheshire

I've been posting quite a lot onto Flickr, and still have fewer than 1000 images on there. For forums that support it, I've also been trying to upload photos onto that forum rather than using an external link, in the case of build threads it makes it less likely they'll disappear at some point in the future. The Photobucket "situation" made me do that.

I guess these things cost money somewhere along the line, and those who want to share a large number of photos either have to pay someone, or host themselves. I've got a web site and some hosting, so I guess I could probably do something myself.

JohnDale · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2018 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: Photobucket, Flickr et al

MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2473 Location: South Cheshire

You're right, PB is back and running and allowing usage for forum posts and the like, albeit with a big "Proudly hosted on Photobucket" watermark across each image.

Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4762 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
I suspect that people would be more likely to pay if the Hosting sites inserted watermarks and ONLY allowed downloading when a specific code generated photo owners was entered. while allowing the link system as it currently works to show without the watermark.
This could go a long way to stem the pirating of images.
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ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4105 Location: South Cheshire

I have paid PB $1.99 a month for around 10 years, and for that they have some obligations to me, which meant I wasn't affected when they limited forum access for users who went for the free service.

As I have stated before, the way FB tried to resolve its financial problems was very crude and has potentially lost the future fee paying customers, however I have some empathy with their commercial challenge; storage is a pretty predictable cost and can probably be covered by advertising revenue, however network costs per "photo" are variable, if someone posts a really popular thread on this site and there are pictures, PB will incur network costs every single time the thread is viewed, I suspect this cost can't be recovered with aggregated advertising revenue, hence the issue.

Would anyone on this forum be prepared to pay a charge each time their picture on a thread was viewed I suspect not.

Dave

MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2473 Location: South Cheshire

lowdrag · Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans

I don't want to tread on any toes here, but Pistonheads have a system using Thumbsnap where you can upload a photo direct from your computer, obviating the need for a third party. Rick, could we not use the same?

ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4105 Location: South Cheshire

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22449 Location: UK

I posted about this when the subject came up a little while ago. Putting to one side the time it'd take to incorporate something workable into the forum, you end up in territory that can potentially require the site operator to have responsibility for the type of images that users upload, which would be an overhead I simply couldn't take on. Alas I don't have the resources of Haymarket Media Group in by back office to see these ideas brought to fruition, it's just me sat here on my tod in the spare bedroom Smile

With so many workable hosting options out there, is it really such an imposition to spend a few minutes registering and getting to grips with one of them?

In an ideal world, yes there'd be an integrated photo hosting option, but as the situation is right now, it won't happen any time soon. Sorry.

RJ
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JohnDale · Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 5:38 pm Post subject:

Thumbsnap is free to join & use including posting pix to a forum. To join you need a twitter account. If you don't have one you can get one for free at twitter.
one way of getting more people on to twitter? I'm afraid I'm not on any social media sites any where. Apart from not seeing the benefit I'm far too busy & don't have the time,cheers,JD.
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