General Tech Image Hosting Service

Can anyone recommend a good image hosting service to hold my triumph pix for viewing on the forum?

I've been trying Imgur at CJDs suggestion. Seems to work pretty good, but not quite as slick as PB used to be.

EDIT Oops, I take that back. Imgur won't work at all from my smart phone.

Also, maybe you missed it. Basil has removed the overall limit, so we can go back to putting smaller images directly on BCF. I think it will down sample if you upload a larger file, not sure about that.

Testing the Forum upload...



Seems to work easily, though I prefer to embed (which can be done with a host) rather then use a thumbnail.

FWIW I can see your upload.

Thumbnails are nice for those on slow links. Probably less of a concern these days, but some hot spots are overloaded.

But it is nice sometimes to have the photo inline.

PS According to my phone, your full image is only 550 x 550. Does that match?

Yes, 550x550. I just grabbed something as a test.

Trying something.



After the photo appears in your post...double click on it. A window will appear where you can then select a box that says "full size"...click it then submit your reply.

I'll try that...



Didn't quite work the way you described but led me to another way. Thanks!

It's kinda sad. I've been doing a lot of searches loooking for final detail pictures on the TR2, and Many, many of the old posts come up with the PB bad luck speedo instead of a picture. Over a decade of picture data has been lost to the forums!

What irks me is if they don't allow what they call "3rd party hosting", why did they provide the IMG link for posting the image on Forums in the first place ?...They even say that's what the IMG link is for.

They do allow it, they just want to be paid for it. Someone finally noticed that their business model doesn't work (no advertising shown) when using PB as a 3rd party host. Their implementation seems like a decision that was made in haste, but I can see their point of view.

Probably should get your photos back, if you don't have local copies already. I wouldn't be surprised if this turns out to be a death throe.

CJD said:

It's kinda sad. I've been doing a lot of searches loooking for final detail pictures on the TR2, and Many, many of the old posts come up with the PB bad luck speedo instead of a picture. Over a decade of picture data has been lost to the forums!

Click to expand...

I don't know if this is helpful; but if you are desperate enough ...

Left click on the "Please update your account" image and choose "Copy Image Location" (exact title probably depends on your browser, but they should all have the function). Open a copy of Notepad or your favorite text editor, and paste the link there. You should see something like

After the first two slashes, change the 'i' to an 's'. Change "albums/cc499" (obviously the number will vary) to "user". The next field is the user's name, "Ahwahnee18" in this case. Immediately after that, insert "/library". Then delete the file name at the end. The result should look like

If you then copy that string into your browser's address bar, it should lead you to the library that contains the originally posted photo.

(Geo, I hope you don't mind being my example.)