Trouble Posting Photos by URL

[High octane]

I followed the directions from the Ace-Garageguy using Photobucket and it works great!

 

[Greg Myers]

Not so good here. I thought I had it mastered then several hours later many of the pictures start disappearing.

[Greg Myers]

Looks like others are having the same problem : http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/105190-wip-kk-dodge-charger/

[High octane]

TEST..............................................................

[Greg Myers]

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[High octane]

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Looks like you got it this time Greg.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Not so good here. I thought I had it mastered then several hours later many of the pictures start disappearing.

If the photo is removed from Photobucket (or any other photo storage site), it will disappear here. If Photobucket (or any other photo-hosting site) goes down for any time at all, the photo will disappear here until it comes back online.

If you copy and paste a photo from another site, some of them discourage "hot-linking", and though the pic may show up for a while, it may also disappear. One way to prevent this is to "save" any photos you want on your own hard-drive, then transfer them to your own Photobucket (or other hosting site) account, and post them here as usual. That way, even if the original site goes down, the photo will remain on the hosting-site, and will remain visible here.

And too, if you copy and paste a pic from another site, if THAT site goes down, your photo here will disappear as well.

PS. Nick, I highly approve of your "test-shot" material. 

Edited November 21, 2015 by Ace-Garageguy

[Rob Hall]

I've had no success in linking from my Fotki account usiing any method since the upgrade.    I tried the approach Bob and Chris mentioned in previous posts---img tags w/ the photo URL between them.  Doesn't work for me.

 

Test:

 http://images108.fotki.com/v1221/photos/2/28153/97045/IMG_0433-vi.jpg 

Edited November 21, 2015 by Rob Hall

[MrObsessive]

Here ya go Rob......;)

[Rob Hall]

Hmmm....so what did you do that I didn't?  I put the IMG tags in brackets [] and put the URL between them...

Also tried raw html, and it doesn't work..

<img src="http://images108.fotki.com/v1221/photos/2/28153/97045/IMG_0433-vi.jpg" />

Edited November 21, 2015 by Rob Hall

[MrObsessive]

Rob, i just copied and pasted the pic here in the text box. Right click, select "copy image", and then paste it here. I've been doing this ever since the board made the change-----less crazy making for me.  

 

[Rob Hall]

Ah...thanks, it works.. pic is a resin '65 Chrysler 300 I recently got off eBay from Time Machine Resin.

 

Edited November 21, 2015 by Rob Hall

[MrObsessive]

Yup! You got it!

[Greg Myers]

from lap top,

Google Chrome,

Photobucket,

left clicked " img" box under "Share this photo" ,

typed in ,

right clicked over ,

 

 

 

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Edited November 21, 2015 by Greg Myers

[Greg Myers]

but i get " [ ] " around actual picture 

[MrObsessive]

Greg, I just right clicked and hit "copy image", pasted it in the text box on the pic you just posted here-----and here it is.

Frankly, I think this is the easiest way to get pics to show here without pulling your hair out. As Bill (Ace) mentioned though, the pic has to remain at the current URL. If it gets moved, or if the site decides to take a dump, wave goodbye to the pics showing here in the original thread.

Edited November 21, 2015 by MrObsessive

[Greg Myers]

That's it, Thanks Bill.  

[Polaco]

i still can't get anything!!!! when using all the above methods.  think one could spend more time here on learning how to load images, then actually building models.  

Edited November 26, 2015 by Polaco

[Polaco]

oh wow...finally. hope his is going to work every time!  

[Matt Bacon]

Obviously not... It looks like you're having the same problem I did: copy/pasted picture appears in the thread when you've posted it, then a while later has vanished leaving a broken picture icon. The only way I've found that reliably works is to use a photo hosting site that provides a URL for the image only (not a thumbnail hyperlink). Copy the link. Then hand type the [ IMG ] and [ /IMG ] (no spaces in the real ones) tags into the message box and "Paste and Match Style" the copied URL in between them...

The only thing I can think (before anyone pops up with a snide PEBKAC comment, I've been building web sites and phone apps since 1994, so I do have _some_ idea how to use a computer) is that there are significant differences between the ways different browsers handle the copy/paste, and the scripts in the forum systems that handle them haven't been tested to work against all of them. That's the only way I can account for the differences in "what works for me" between different forum users.

bestest,

M.

Edited November 26, 2015 by Matt Bacon

[Greg Myers]

Just shouldn't be this hard for everybody. Even after I thought I had it figured out and successfully run several pictures I still have trouble. Didn't used to be like this. Somethings wrong. 

Edited November 26, 2015 by Greg Myers

[MrObsessive]

OK, I'm going to run a little test here. All of the pics you're seeing are by the copy and paste method. I'll identify them by which picture host is carrying them.

First these pics are from my Photobucket album...................

Now from one of my Fotki albums....................

ALL of these pics were loaded using the copy and paste method as I've described. The only difference, and this may be what's happening to PB users is my PB account is free, and the Fotki one is a paid account. Time will tell if the PB pics stay up, but I do know that the Fotki ones are still active, as I've checked on recent threads I've created using Fotki, and the pics are still there.

Now, if you're copying and pasting pics from another site, keep in mind that the pic is loaded on two servers-------here and theirs. It may be that the original picture from where it was obtained, the owner of that site may not have their pics linked or used but for so long on another site. Costs them bandwidth usage just the same whether the pic is there, or being linked to another site.

Just my 2¢ worth.............I could later be all wet on this.

EDIT: I wish to add that if you want to use pics from another site to use here, it might be best to save that pic to your hard disc, and then upload the pic to a pic host site such as PB or Fotki. Keep in mind though that if you (or they) move the pic which changes the URL, the pic will be lost here.

Hope this helps you all!

Edited November 26, 2015 by MrObsessive

[Ace-Garageguy]

ONE thing that MAY be happening to Photobucket users...and Bill Geary's comment above made me think of it...

IF YOU EXCEED YOUR MONTHLY FREE "BANDWIDTH" ALLOTMENT, YOUR PHOTOS WILL DISAPPEAR UNTIL P'BUCKET RESETS FOR THE NEXT MONTH.

"Bandwidth" and "storage space" are TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THINGS.

"Storage space" is about how many photos you can park digital copies of on the photo-hosting server's memory. "Bandwidth", as used here, means how much TRAFFIC there is between those photos and people on the web looking at them. It's kinda like your bank charging you extra if you write a lot of checks every month.

You can be well under your maximum free "storage space" on Photobucket and STILL run out of "bandwidth" every month IF you post on multiple sites and / or a lot of people are looking at your photos. 

This is the reason that I signed up for the minimum paid account on P'bucket a while back. I had nowhere near my free storage full, but I was posting a lot and getting a lot of views. My photos started disappearing mysteriously, only to pop up again later.

Then I figured out what was happening. 

[MrObsessive]

That makes sense Ace as I kinda figured that may be what's going on. It's one of the reasons I switched from a free account on Fotki, to a paid one. Fotki had sent out notices a while back that they would no longer be offering the free account. Your pics would remain, but you would be limited on how often you could link them and whatnot.

Times are tight, and these photo hosting sites are trying to keep their heads above water just like everyone else.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Bill, I've been thinking one reason the photo-hosting sites may be charging now, or charging a little more, is that people (like me) who run ad-blockers seriously interfere with the advertising revenue stream that is generated by the crapp that I used to have to sit through as my photos loaded.

If the ads are blocked, they aren't getting watched, and the pay-per-view income streams to the photo-hosts that many advertising schemes work on dry up.

There's no free anything. If photo-hosting sites are going to survive, they HAVE to generate income somehow...and I think some people forget this particular economic necessity.

Edited November 26, 2015 by Ace-Garageguy