[Closed] Where's better than Photobucket for hosting pics?

Flickr?

Been using it since 2005...

I use both Flickr & Photobucket.
I'm in the same situation as the OP
Photobucket was great for linking photo's to here but in recent times it's started filling the screen with far to many pop up adds so I'm also looking for another site.
I find Flickr great for hosting images but a PITA for linking stuff.
Where next?..

Imgur is simple to use and provides a direct URL for forums etc.

Flickr is better if you are running the desktop app but they've made it hard to get the URL from a phone app.

I've used both flickr and photobucket since Google Photos lost the capability to show images on forums. Flickr is fine but some forums don't like their IMG urls- I've had one come up with a 403 Forbidden Error when posting on various devices. Post the same think without the flickr links and it's fine.

I use an ad blocker in Chrome for Photobucket (ahem, I'd never use it on STW, since that doesn't suffer from lag or pop ups...) and it makes it behave like a normal site. I'd try that first.

just testing

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nhpT3KZBD80XzDgXYpIo50XsBuH9YR6dyg

[img] https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nhpT3KZBD80XzDgXYpIo50XsBuH9YR6dyg [/img]

[s][i]Imgur is simple to use and provides a direct URL for forums etc[/i]
Do they use Java or Flash for copying the links?[/s]

Java is blocked here, so I can't get photobucket links, so thinking of changing as well as for the reasons mentioned.

Ignore that - just had a try and Imgur works 🙂

Ok, I've gotten down with Ad-Rock but never used an ad-block.

Simpleton friendly? Please advise.

I've switched to imgur for hosting pics for posting on here. No irritating popups, both desktop and mobile apps work well and simple to link to pics for posting.

I like Flickr ,used it for years,never have any bother with it.
I am sure for some folk it can be a bit slow,but I don't operate at instagram speed 🙂

slimjim78- do you know which browser you are using for the internet? If you google ad block for that browser something will come up that you can install that blocks all the adverts and pop ups, so you can use Photobucket just like a normal website.

[quote=DezB ]Do they use Java or Flash for copying the links?

Doesn't seem to - I just copied and pasted this:

[img] [/img]

Photobucket works well, I stopped using Flickr as I couldn't get the required links for posting here on mobile devices after they changed the interface.

There are solutions for annoying ads on mobile and desktop devices.

[i]Doesn't seem to - I just copied and pasted this[/i]

Yep, works for me too, though the site has no ads, navigation is a bit naff. Good for the one-off image postings though.

I use Flickr.
Linking an image is a pita, I can't work out how on the app but if you access it via your browser then;

Click your image open, click 'view and edit info about this photo'
Then click 'view all sizes'
Then press and hold the image and select 'open image in New tab'. Then copy the image address from the address bar and paste it into image tags on here... 🙄
Hassle but there you go...

[img] [/img]

If you are using Flickr in the browser it's much easier than that.

With the image on screen you should have a little arrow icon at the bottom right. Click on it.

Select the BBCode tab (will be preselected if you always use it).

CTRL-C to copy the link

Switch to the STW window

CTRL-V to paste it (no IMG tags required)

[url= https://c8.staticflickr.com/6/5785/30230795943_879026d00b_b.jp g" target="_blank">https://c8.staticflickr.com/6/5785/30230795943_879026d00b_b.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://flic.kr/p/N4oJpH ]20161108_122538[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/druidh2000/ ]Colin Cadden[/url], on Flickr

I'm just not sure why it's worth bothering with flickr - all my pics are automatically backed up to google, if I want to post something on here it's so simple to use imgur. Simpler than with photobucket even if it wasn't for all the irritating ads etc. on there - even with filtering on it's still a pain, which is why like the OP I stopped using it for new pics (though I still have my old pics on there).

scotroutes - Member
If you are using Flickr in the browser it's much easier than that.
With the image on screen you should have a little arrow icon at the bottom right. Click on it.

Not sure that works on mobile. I don't get the arrow.

[quote=kayak23 ]

scotroutes - Member
If you are using Flickr in the browser it's much easier than that.
With the image on screen you should have a little arrow icon at the bottom right. Click on it.

For random crap, imgur. Easy to use and forum friendly if you can get to the bit where they have the BBcode to copy.

I still use Flickr for hosting my own photos I want to share.

Near impossible to get the links to share Google photos now on forums.

All my master photos are on Onedrive. I can share from that too but I move things around in it a lot which would break links. I use a share folder and stick copies of stuff in there to share. Mainly use it for document sharing. Pics I'll still use Flickr and imgur

I've found it OK to use Google Photos, if a bit convoluted.

You need a Public Album.
Put any photo you want to share in there.
Get the long google URL.
Put it into goo.gl to shorten it.
And then post it between IMG tags.

But mostly this..

aracer - Member - Block User - Quote
I'm just not sure why it's worth bothering with flickr - all my pics are automatically backed up to google, if I want to post something on here it's so simple to use imgur. Simpler than with photobucket even if it wasn't for all the irritating ads etc. on there - even with filtering on it's still a pain, which is why like the OP I stopped using it for new pics (though I still have my old pics on there).

For posting throwaway stuff on here I just use https://postimage.org/

Free and no account or login required. Just upload pic and it gives you the URL.

aracer - Member - Block User - Quote
I'm just not sure why it's worth bothering with flickr - all my pics are automatically backed up to google, if I want to post something on here it's so simple to use imgur.

If your posting a throwaway image yeah, but most pics posted are people sharing something, so why not share the rest of your pics about it too? Bike albums, trips, events. That's why its worth using Flickr. Its not (just) for backing up your pics.

I've found it OK to use Google Photos, if a bit convoluted.

You need a Public Album.
Put any photo you want to share in there.
Get the long google URL.
Put it into goo.gl to shorten it.
And then post it between IMG tags.

[img] http://goo.gl/z7UBzl [/img]

Exactly. Google have broken it.

Google Photos seems to work, but then the photos disappear a few days later. Or they are visible to some people, but not everyone. I don't think there's any way to make it work reliably.

And yet if I right that photo box and open it in a new tab, I see my skinny fatbike. 😕

[quote=STATO ]If your posting a throwaway image yeah, but most pics posted are people sharing something, so why not share the rest of your pics about it too? Bike albums, trips, events. That's why its worth using Flickr. Its not (just) for backing up your pics.

So you make an album on imgur http://imgur.com/a/uFxrx

I could of course also just shove the pics in an album on google to share, but imgur also automatically gives you easy share links. Either seems easier than flickr.

I'm using this thread as an excuse to attempt to upload my own personal photo for the first time using imgur......
[img] [/img]

Yay it worked! (that's my super clean new shiny bike squeezing in to the back of a Fiat Bravo back in Feb - I've since worked out how to do it with only the front wheel off)

[quote=pocpoc ]Yay it worked! (that's my super clean new shiny bike squeezing in to the back of a Fiat Bravo back in Feb - I've since worked out how to do it with only the front wheel off)

Is it trickier posting pics with only the front wheel off?

How is your German? I have been using www.picr.de for a number of years now. Very simple, and it works.

@scot if you look in that link you've posted you onky need the bits between [ img ] ... and [ /img ]

That way you don't get the Flickr or your name / link to your account ... or you may not care

Thing I don't like about flickr is that it often sticks your user id (name generally) under every photo.

Adblocker for photobucket and you just get one camera pop up thing and then the site is useable.

[url= https://s17.postimg.org/an5stqbh7/DSCN0751.jp g" target="_blank">https://s17.postimg.org/an5stqbh7/DSCN0751.jp g"/> [/img][/url]
Ahhh, first time for everything... 🙂

https://postimg.org/image/xgklpjyy9/
Better size hopefully.... 🙂

I think I'll have to move away from photobucket, it's just a spam fest now.

The mobile app seems fine, but trying to log in via a browser, it's just malware city.

How do you make the picture bigger in Post Image.... 🙁

Orangeman: use the one that says "Direct Link" - that gives you the URL of the full sized image you uploaded.
Then on here you just hit the IMG button and paste in that URL.

[img] https://s15.postimg.org/5bw9kfyyz/DSCN0751.jp g" target="_blank">https://s15.postimg.org/5bw9kfyyz/DSCN0751.jp g"/> [/img]

you've got the "http" in twice -

del the underlined bit

for
[img] [/img]

[img] [/img]

[img] [/img]
At long last, thank you for your help Graham and Dez... 🙂

Photobucket + adblockers for me. Though flikr seems to be back in one of its good phases, after that mental period a couple of years back when they were obsessed with stopping people from logging on.