Photobucket and Missing Pictures

[Mike Phillips]

Photobucket and Missing Pictures

I clicked on a thread to read this morning and instead of pictures of the cars I found these,





Photobucket is a great resources but just remember, if you share your pictures hosted on Photobucket on ANY forum or website, and then later delete the pictures in your Photobucket account, in your pictures place will either be a red x or a graphic like you see above.

See this thread for more information...

How do you add pics to a thread?

[Bunky]

One advantage of using a host is that there is no limits on uploading limits set by the discussion board and images can appear inline easier.

[Deep Gloss Auto Salon]

One advantage of using a host is that there is no limits on uploading limits set by the discussion board and images can appear inline easier.

Agreed.....

Not sure if the AG recomended method offers bulk uploads but that is also a great feature offered by photobucket... uploading 1 pic at a time is like watching paint dry

I have a pro photobucket account to avoid the "red x of doom"

[Matt]

Agreed Mike!

This kind of thing really annoys me, I'm glad you bought it up.

Almost every forum has the opportunity to host photos on it free of charge, yet people still feel the need to host it on Photobucket.

And you know what.... When I saw that little Photobucket picture missing box, my heart dropped until I realized that was what I was supposed to be seeing.

[ziggo99]

I think people host on PhotoBucket because then they can go to different forums they belong to and only have one image code to deal with instead of having to upload the same pictures multiple times. Unless you can unload at one place and post them on different forums, but I assume that isn't allowed.

[Matt]

I thought it would be allowed, well at least if you were to use the photos hosted on that forum, in a thread on that forum, then also share them on another forum.

So say the photos that I uploaded here of the Pinnacle Black Onyx Tire Gel, I used them in a thread here asking about Wolfgang and Pinnacle tire gels, I would assume that I would be allowed to post them on Club Lexus thread as well.

[Mike Phillips]

One advantage of using a host is that there is no limits on uploading limits set by the discussion board and images can appear inline easier.

I don't know about that since I don't use PhotoPost.

I own my own website with my own PhotoPost Gallery with a full fledged vBulletin discussion forum on a full service web-hosting company, (Hostgater.com), and so I can upload all the pictures I want with no limits as long as I pay my server bill each month.

www.showcargarage.com

I don't use it anything except hosting my own photos as the forum is closed to the public.

I recently joined the TwoGuysGarage Forum and they have a 5 picture limit per message which really kills a guy like me. After coming to AG Jason and Meghan upped the picture limit for a single message to 30 images, this includes Smilies but I abuse this limit almost daily.

Jason just increased the character limit from 30,000 characters to I think 40,000 characters for text as I tend and trend towards hitting the limit for characters once in a while.




So I'm not sure if you're right about the "no limit" to uploading to messages on forums if it's hosted at Photobucket or anywhere else as all the photos I've posted to Two Guys Garage forum were hosted on SCG and the 5 picture limit still worked.

Agreed.....

Not sure if the AG recommended method offers bulk uploads but that is also a great feature offered by Photobucket... uploading 1 pic at a time is like watching paint dry

I have a pro photobucket account to avoid the "red x of doom"

With the AG Photo Gallery you can upload 20 pictures at a time.

The biggest thing about uploading your photos to a place like AG or MOL or even Autopia is to be a "Good Steward" of their resources, this means resizing your photos to about 800 pixels wide which also acts to shrink their file size. Uploading GARGANTUAN Photos because that's what your camera can take without resizing is poor use of someone else's resources and poor Netiquette.

Inserting a GARGANTUAN photo in a thread is also poor Netiquette because as cool as you might think your picture is NO ONE can see the entire photo so what's the point and what's the value?

I think people host on Photobucket because then they can go to different forums they belong to and only have one image code to deal with instead of having to upload the same pictures multiple times. Unless you can unload at one place and post them on different forums, but I assume that isn't allowed.

Once you have a photo uploaded to anyone's galley, as long as you have access to the URL Address you should be able to post it anywhere. Every time someone loads the message that contains your photos that draws BANDWIDTH from the site where your photo is hosted and someone has to pay for that bandwidth but it should still work. The only downside is if the gallery you post your photos to inserts a WATERMARK then that can be seen as a form of advertising and some websites might not appreciate that or allow that on their forum if the watermark competes against them or in not in good taste.

I thought it would be allowed, well at least if you were to use the photos hosted on that forum, in a thread on that forum, then also share them on another forum.

So say the photos that I uploaded here of the Pinnacle Black Onyx Tire Gel, I used them in a thread here asking about Wolfgang and Pinnacle tire gels, I would assume that I would be allowed to post them on Club Lexus thread as well.

You betcha!

[Shade Tree]

Agreed.....

Not sure if the AG recomended method offers bulk uploads but that is also a great feature offered by photobucket... uploading 1 pic at a time is like watching paint dry

I have a pro photobucket account to avoid the "red x of doom"

+1

[Mike Phillips]

I joined Photobucket so I could go to the next screen to find out what it costs to have Pro Account... here's some screen shots, and the pictures are loaded into the AG Photogallery...

Here's what it costs






If you click on the "Next" button it shows you what it costs to have a Pro account.







The 2 year option looks like the way to go...

My hosting plan for SCG is about 200.00 a year, so $40.00 is pretty cheap to have a place to keep your stuff in Cyberspace.

[Bunky]

I use Flickr because it is free and I can post on image and use in multiple forums.

AG has a 500 kb size limit but I know some will say you do not need a mucher bigger limit. Other forums have lower limits for attachments.