These google image links, are they permanent or do they expire after a while? I seem to remember that they used to stop working after a while.
Looking through my goog.gl links most of the older ones seem to be broken – I’m sure I shared them properly in the first place (I can’t have got it wrong for all of those, I know what I’m supposed to do!) Indeed when I check my shared images they’re still in the list – I can even see the image in an incognito window if I go via my shared images list, so I can only assume it’s the direct link to the images which expires rather than the share.
So hotlinking from google seems probably to be a bad idea even if you can be bothered to jump through the hoops – I’ll try not to do it again.
OMG it does work from Google Photos! No more faffing about with Flickr! Hoorah, nice one n0b0dy0ftheg0at.
i discovered this in one of the previous threads on posting images. thought we’d got a workaround for it which seemed to be successful, but the photo always disappeared after a while. sometimes hours, sometimes days, but they never lasted.
now just use imgur for posting images, nothing else as it doesnt seem very user friendly for proper personal storage. easy-peasy for stw/forum pics tho.