Fotki and picture posting

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TomR2

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Im not a big forums participating guy, though did participate in one, on another subject, for many years. That one had a more stringent requirement for permission to post pics and I never got there. I started posting pictures here, a first for me, thanks to Phillip and David, who helped with the Techno/Runt story a few weeks back. I opened a Fotki account, as it is what the Forge uses, knowing Id never need the more sophisticated services these folks offer for a premium, (or above), account. Today I was notified my account has been closed and they no longer offer a "free" account do to changes in their ability to place ads. For them it is upgrade or out.

Has anyone else run into this? Do I have the whole story? What alternatives do folks prefer?

Thanks

Tom
 
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I use a free flickr.com account. 1TB of photo storage.

I've also used Photobucket in the past.

Both make it really easy to post pics to the forums with their img tag links.
 
I use photobucket and haven't had a problem. I think the storage for their free account is less than 1 TB though.
 
I'm surprised that imgur.com is so rarely mentioned when people discuss photo uploading. Not only is it completely free but you don't even need to create an account. Just go to imgur.com and click upload photos.
 
I use Imgur. I just think the interface is easy. They're all about the same though.
 
I use smug mug. Good apps that interface with what I use and although a little pricy; I've got some faith that it will be around for a while.
 
There are lots of free pic hosting sites Tom. I stopped using photobucket because of some customer service flaw that like the one you are now experiencing w fotki. I pay for our fotki subscription so that our pictures are always active in older threads. The free accounts host the picture for a few days then it goes dark in the thread...
 
Anyone else have constant trouble with photobucket sucking the life out of their computer while trying to upload photos? I'm ready for a new service and had the same pay/upgrade issue with fotki.
 
Andy, thats what Im hoping to guard against. I like to peruse old posts, there's some particularly good ones here about your knives, and its frustrating to see text referring to a picture thats no longer there.

Is it true then, that all the "free" services have this limited posted picture life? Do some enable longer than the others?
 
Of the services I've used, here's the limits:

Flickr doesn't have a limit other than size, and at 1TB I use just a fraction of that.

Photobucket free accounts have a 2GB limit. So you might fill that up eventually. They also have a bandwidth limit. If you post a pic that's downloaded a lot, it might disappear until the next month when the limit is reset.

I personally switched from Photobucket to Flickr not for those reasons (I have a paid photobucket account so didn't have the limits) but because they made it harder and harder to tag photos and find them and started bombarding me with ads to buy calendars and mugs and all sorts of crap. bye bye Photobucket.
 
Photobucket runs very poorly for me, I have not used Flickr but I've not heard too many poor things about it.

The one I use is Imgur, not only is it free but you get a lot of space and good usability just by making an account. Access to plenty of types links for each uploaded photo including the BBCode pre-formatted kinds, and also how big you wanna display the image (thumbnail or full image and many inbetween).

It also has apps for phones that are generally pretty easy to use. I have yet to have a problem with it so far.
 
TomR2 said:
Andy, thats what Im hoping to guard against. I like to peruse old posts, there's some particularly good ones here about your knives, and its frustrating to see text referring to a picture thats no longer there.

Is it true then, that all the "free" services have this limited posted picture life? Do some enable longer than the others?
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That I don't know. I switched to fotki and never shopped around again.

One more thing about photobucket. It is more often than the others to be blocked by your company firewall I've found.
 
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