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Photo Hosting

Post by CHR15E » Fri Jun 30, 2017 7:17 pm

In light of Photobucket no longer being of use.

Do we have any way of hosting photos for the forum ourselves? I appreciate it won't be free but I'm sure we'd be prepared to chip in a few quid each if it means we have permanent reliable hosting of photos for the future of the forum.
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Re: Photo Hosting

Post by guru » Fri Jun 30, 2017 8:47 pm

Hi, yep we can probably do this. I've actually left the IT game to focus on building houses so most of the other sites that shared this hosting platform have now been moved elsewhere which means there's quite a bit of space free. I'll have a look into what will integrate well with the forum software.
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Re: Photo Hosting

Post by CHR15E » Fri Jun 30, 2017 9:48 pm

That would be great, thanks.
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Re: Photo Hosting

Post by traineefarmer » Sat Jul 01, 2017 7:50 am

Why are some people still using PB (like me) without issue and some people are having problems?

I've seem this on other forums too, with a split between people being unable to link while others can. Is it down to usage levels?
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Re: Photo Hosting

Post by SJG » Sat Jul 01, 2017 8:10 am

I've had issues with Photobucket too. Some work and some don't, which is annoying. I hope we can find a better solution as I feel the forum will get more usage if the image hosting worked better.
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Re: Photo Hosting

Post by CHR15E » Sat Jul 01, 2017 10:04 am

traineefarmer wrote:Why are some people still using PB (like me) without issue and some people are having problems?

I've seem this on other forums too, with a split between people being unable to link while others can. Is it down to usage levels?
No clue. How many photos do you have stored?
SJG wrote:I've had issues with Photobucket too. Some work and some don't, which is annoying. I hope we can find a better solution as I feel the forum will get more usage if the image hosting worked better.
Agreed. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise?
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Re: Photo Hosting

Post by BlueRover » Sat Jul 01, 2017 11:14 am

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Still works for me and has done forever.
I'm still on the free quota so perhaps this is the issue.
If I ever needed to store more pictures I'd delete the old ones, after all, I don't use external sites to store any more than I need to to share.
All my pictures are on hard drives or CD/DVD media.
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Re: Photo Hosting

Post by mercedade » Sat Jul 01, 2017 11:59 am

Photobucket is such a revolting website to use as well - it used to be fine, but the intrusiveness of the ads is unbelievable. Using the app is a much better way to interact with it.

As I said on the other thread, I'm currently trying out Flickr which seems to be decent and again has a really simple interface, massive online storage and crucially doesn't make it a massive pain to use their website.
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Re: Photo Hosting

Post by guru » Sat Jul 01, 2017 12:04 pm

Well I'm currently trying out a few options on the development version of this site, if they work we should have photo hosting by the end of the weekend!
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Re: Photo Hosting

Post by mercedade » Sat Jul 01, 2017 8:04 pm

Excellent news! Thanks James
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Re: Photo Hosting

Post by scoobyh123 » Sat Jul 01, 2017 10:15 pm

Sounds good James - will it be in a form that even us "software morons" can use and understand? :shock: :?
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Re: Photo Hosting

Post by Manalishi » Sun Jul 02, 2017 6:42 am

Following this with interest. I use Photobucket but it is a really tedious process, and I would post a lot more pics if it was easier, like a upload directly into the site.
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Re: Photo Hosting

Post by Nuts4my827 » Mon Jul 03, 2017 7:32 am

Photobucket has really gone downhill.
I logged in recently and was more than a little peeved at the ads, and 20 or more pop ups that appeared, even with a decent add blocker and McAfee.
Does seem to work on the Android App though!.
Cant remember if it was Instagram or Flicker that I went to sign up to that wanted a Yahoo email address. Got 3 aol, and a Gmail. Do I really need another??!!!
I need to download some of the pictures I have on there as its the only place they are following a hard drive failure a few years back. (My participation in the BBC Bikes Ident).
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Re: Photo Hosting

Post by guru » Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:48 am

I've got a couple of options at the moment, both will be fully integrated so you should just be able to click on the upload button when creating a post to then select the image to upload. The first method just integrates the photo hosting into the current forum software, the second is a more radical move to something more up-to-date and would greatly affect (and hopefully improve!) the forum.

I ran a test over the weekend which took around 8 hours to import all of the forum data! I'll try to make progress in the evenings but realistically it will probably be a couple of weeks before I'm ready to roll anything out as I want to test it first. Please be aware the over the next week or so there might be times when the forum is unavailable and / or slow which I manipulate the databases.
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Re: Photo Hosting

Post by scoobyh123 » Mon Jul 03, 2017 2:07 pm

I think Flickr is owned by Yahoo Phil so they probably want you to have Yahoo Mail so they "gain" a subscriber - more advertising victims in other words!
That said AdBlockPlus gets rid of a lot of it and speeds loading the page considerably! :wink: :D
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