MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
We will be in touch
If so that is very annoying 🙁
Was expecting it. But yes that's annoying. Will have to work out any easy alternative way of embedding images in threads from Google photos as unfortunately the stw forum software can't handle Google image addresses
Yes and yes. I've failed to find how to replicate key functionality with Google photos so have moved to Flickr. I used cloudsfer to migrate.
Balls 🙁 Need to find another way to embed photos now.
Doesn't appear to be any simple way to do this, I've tried a few workarounds and nothing has worked.
Imgur
Imgur is what I also use for photos on here - decided eventually that it was less hassle simply uploading to that than all the workarounds involving picasa. Still hoping Google might add easy hotlinking to Google photos
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i too have taken the advice on here and use imgur. useless for hosting my albums ive found (that could just be me tho), but easypeasy for taking a photo and getting it on here.
Imgur is fine for disposable hosting. But you never want to use it for proper storage/management.
Am experimenting with new Google service that replaced Picasa. Let's try thid:
So that address is too long for stw. Is this an stw issue? Or bb issue? Can it be tweaked by stw?
So as before, using url shortener goo.gl works. Just need to streamline the shortening. Must be a phone app for that
The goo.gl url shortener app with the Greenland logo on Google play works fine and speeds up the process.
You might be able to see the pics, but I can't. (on an iPhone)
I see no images, Stoner.
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Really?
Bugger, that doesn't work then
Oh, hang on, I think I know why
I can see pics of sunset
I can see the images, so it is the url is too long then is it? Do you also have to use a shareable link? I tried taking the URL and shoving ?.jpg on as it was suggested that'd work... but didn't.
I can see 3 pics
From the image in photo archive (the new Picasa) rhc or press hold and "open image in new tab" or copy image address. Paste into a url shortener and use the shorter url in the img tags in stw.
If someone tweaked the field character limit in bb press we shouldn't need to do the enshortening
So I think it might be get be your end bongo
The show stopper for me is you can no longer just give a link to all your galleries. You have to share individual ones via Google photos. Bizarre decision by Google.
Progress apparently 🙁
I shall be checking out imgur. Now wondering if all my old links to Picasa hosted images still work?
Weird. Works on desktop, chrome/safari/firefox, but not on iOS, chrome/safari.
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^^^ That one shows up tho.
Which one, that has been posted 3 or 4 times now!
I shall be checking out imgur. Now wondering if all my old links to Picasa hosted images still work?
I think so as I think they were links to the permanent storage address, as per what Stoner is now posting but via a URL shorterner as they appear to have changed something on the URLs too.
Now wondering if all my old links to Picasa hosted images still work?
If your username is in the link, no. If your user Id number is in the link, yes.
Edit: just checked and mine are OK (the above may be more for gallery links than images).
Which one, that has been posted 3 or 4 times now!
It's linked to the comment. Click it 🙂
Only the final one worked for me too on iOS.
Stoner you images not showing on Chromebook.
I'm using Imgur
Looks like he's removed them now.
Nope not removed. I think session shares look a bit flaky and maintaining permissions. I was lining from images in the auto back up folder which may be why permissions aren't right. If I use a "shared" album I expect it works more reliably.
Here is an image, not previously shared or hotlinked that I moved to a sharing permission album
[img] https://goo.gl/l1MUnj [/img]
that one shows, but it's upside down
none of the others were visible
Android and chrome. The only image I can see in this thread is the last map one from stoner
On iOS-Safari/Chrome, the upside down map, which I can see on Chrome/OSX, isn't visible.
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Quick test from me, my skinny bike.
I can see Stoner's map image on my Nexus.
Only one I can see is hosted on imgur.
Weird. And annoying. Since all my photos are taken on my phone and automatically uploaded to Google photos, I want to be able to use it as a host. Need to find some reliable work round
Android and chrome. The only image I can see in this thread is the last map one from stoner
Same here, but can see them all. I am logged into my Google account which might explain it.
Can't see n0b0dy0ftheg0at's though.
Edit: can't see any using Firefox. I'm going to bet that you need to be logged into a Google account.
Weird. And annoying. Since all my photos are taken on my phone and automatically uploaded to Google photos, I want to be able to use it as a host. Need to find some reliable work round
Flickr will do that for you.
That might be it elefant
I am logged into my Google account in Chrome on iOS FWIW.
Let's try this, it's imgur
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[s]It's supposed to be upside down BTW[/s] no it isn't, different pic
So I think from now on I shall upload images to imgur for sharing. Bit of a pain having to add the step but it looks like Google have completely given up on public image hosting
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[quote=Stoner ]So I think from now on I shall upload images to imgur for sharing. Bit of a pain having to add the step but it looks like Google have completely given up on public image hosting
Its still less hassle than it used to be using Google/Picasa even when that worked though - far more steps added with Google. In fact it's barely more hassle than using Google would be even if it worked properly. Personally I went that way ages ago.
My pics are all still automatically uploaded to Google for archiving rather than relying on Imgur for that - I only use Imgur for hotlinking.
Aye. That's the plan.
I've just been vacillating. Old dog, abracadabra etc etc
Still confused as to what is going on with Google Photos and getting them to show in forums.
If you right-click the image box in my earlier post, from when I was out and about on my Nexus7 and click "open image in new tab," for me it then shows the shared folder containing just my skinny Wazoo.
That last pic of the map hosted on Imgur is the only one that's shown up on my pad with the latest version of iOS 9.
[img] https://goo.gl/6iEYvO [/img]
Anyone see this?
I think you have to have any image you want to share in a Public album
A map of the Cairngorms? No, I can't see it.
Damn!
Scotroutes - I am on a Chromebook and can see a map of the Cairngorms.
I have been using Picasa for years and am mightly pissed off with what Google have done with this - they've stripped functionality from what was an excellent service.
I generally use https://postimage.org for posting images here.
Quick and simple to use. No login required (unless you want to keep control of the image).
I just used to tinyurl the Google photo url, doesn't that work anymore?
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Seems to
Rugby!!
I think it only works if it comes from an Album marked as Public (and I don't think you can create one of those now)
I see... ok, new album created (with difficulty, it's a very un-user friendly site now. I've got my mate from Google on facebook.. I'll ask him to get it fixed!
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Can ye see the spidder?
Official word is Google Photos is replacing Picasa (which is getting shut down). They haven't got all the functionality in place yet.
[quote=DezB ]Official word is Google Photos is replacing Picasa (which is getting shut down). They haven't got all the functionality in place yet.
That process has been under way for some time.
Months...
But can you see the spideR?
Yes (on chrome and Firefox).
Yep
Oh, cool. Google Photos works the same as it did before then.
Don't know why I'm concerned, I use photobucket anyway 🙂
I can see the spider too, but not most of the other images posted.
BTW the easy way to check if other people can see your pic (at least if they're using the same browser, though I don't think it's often browser specific) is to try opening the page in incognito mode if your browser has one of those.