Photobucket - New terms of service

[IanMelb]

Looks like photobucket have changed their Terms of Service with respect to free hosting of embedded images.

You may want to use imgur instead but be wary of their TOS which states: "Don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it."

I don't think that uploads of photos showing your work or issues to a forum count as hosting image libraries, I think that means that if Tony were to host all his images for the rest of the Pavingexpert site then they wouldn't be chuffed.

[lutonlagerlout]

photobucket have melted down for me ,way too many ads
I wouldnt mind paying a tenner a month for something reliable and easy to use
any ideas Ian?
cheers LLL

[Tony McC]

All the images used on pavingexpert are stored on a top-notch server with loads of redundancy so the content can't be lost. Almost as importantly, the images are delivered to the relevant pages at whizz-bang speed so there's usually no waiting for them to load.

Ihave tens of thousands of other images that I keep as a library, for my own amusement, for possible future content on the website, or as a historical record of the materials that were used years ago. Until last September these were on a hard drive....but that died and I lost 54,000+ images that hadn't been backed-up onto a secondary or tertiary hard drive. That really, REALLY pissed me off!

Since then, I've been storing ALL my images in a DropBox business standard cloud server - in fact, there are still 30,000+ in line waiting to be uploaded - just in case my own copies on yet another HDD decide to go awol.

I'm not 100% sure if you can call individual images from a DropBox account, but maybe it's worth investigating.

Even if it's not possible, you can get good cloud hosting for under a tenner per month. You don't get unlimited space or whizz-bang speeds for that tenner, but it should be adequate for posting the occasional photie to the Brew Cabin and similar (inferior) websites.

[IanMelb]

Edited By IanMelb on 1502286928

[IanMelb]

There should be a way using a publicly shared album in Google photos, grab the URL of the photo you want to show, add -tmp.jpg to the end of the URL and then sandwich it between the tags. However, for some reason, the Brewcabin software corrupts the URL

I'm trying to use

https:// lh3.googleusercontent.com/y2twBzsSZjLj7KKcmizopNE2rxn_vLXoI4JtJnZlrItZ4vMTB8-MCqE-Bs8wIftualok0nXES1NpiSNg6TQmPkX1lb
Wz6jo6ubqmu_fArr4ivY2Va2P_mIcDo0x8Ve0MofkdBEyPKAmO39JCgScAkRq6qoGoy2xHhyO6OeI6ZN9-2ZBtgZDx
uagKtPppzXSAL1Umm1rmcATuCakOr62M9TCTjlymE37cazOjzdLHBMsjFym7XPyU4VHH98Ed_yaziXfibBY9aXAYWV
Vc2drpfzzRqp7DnBUiJ8dDkO2afw_r4tPnxgrAz9wl1T-DelB1KWjL0sUe7Z4-9t7WxobhowXUASHMPlwRhQOftwmQ
tYPD4ibkgPDQMcUGzAovmQJ6vCU6RFyABeCG1a4va9zkxaN-CCU00Qrj4CPgWfYIcMv3bCxIpczJZfcAMJR2VB1C0y
dIfgeqm766WtA-tuxwDo3CuemXstPem-1f0y11nRoTL7PUWXhZUe9vnGGLCEINobZPMJvmYLdoeseBW3WWXIeMxDgH
SuNGeef5vBds9nuyRtkJkO6Pz6zAn5GMRsCOLlL15IQUxutS0tKUKeK5SOqFAEXAheKQiSNqmeRKqYB2-zff3MsPXI
esnw=w433-h769-no-tmp.jpg



but it gets saved as

https:// lh3.googleusercontent.com/y2twBzsSZjLj7KKcmizopNE2rxn_vLXoI4JtJnZlrItZ4vMTB8-MCqE-Bs8wIftualok0nXES1NpiSNg6TQmPkX1lb


%3Cbr%3EWz6jo6ubqmu_fArr4ivY2Va2P_mIcDo0x8Ve0MofkdBEyPKAmO39JCgScAkRq6qoGoy2xHhyO6OeI6ZN9-2ZBtgZ


Dx%3Cbr%3EuagKtPppzXSAL1Umm1rmcATuCakOr62M9TCTjlymE37cazOjzdLHBMsjFym7XPyU4VHH98Ed_yaziXfibBY9aXAY


WV%3Cbr%3EVc2drpfzzRqp7DnBUiJ8dDkO2afw_r4tPnxgrAz9wl1T-DelB1KWjL0sUe7Z4-9t7WxobhowXUASHMPlwRhQOftw


mQ%3Cbr%3EtYPD4ibkgPDQMcUGzAovmQJ6vCU6RFyABeCG1a4va9zkxaN-CCU00Qrj4CPgWfYIcMv3bCxIpczJZfcAMJR2VB1C


0y%3Cbr%3EdIfgeqm766WtA-tuxwDo3CuemXstPem-1f0y11nRoTL7PUWXhZUe9vnGGLCEINobZPMJvmYLdoeseBW3WWXIeMxD


gH%3Cbr%3ESuNGeef5vBds9nuyRtkJkO6Pz6zAn5GMRsCOLlL15IQUxutS0tKUKeK5SOqFAEXAheKQiSNqmeRKqYB2-zff3MsP


XI%3Cbr%3Eesnw=w433-h769-no-tmp.jpg]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/y2twBzs....tmp.jpg

With extra %% codes added ...



Edited By IanMelb on 1502340326

[IanMelb]

I suspect the forum code is adding in line breaks to make things easier to read, but those line breaks are screwing over the URLs

[lutonlagerlout]

I think links to dropbox which is a handy little programme work

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fxelq38m4e293df/IMG_7213%5B1%5D.JPG?raw=1



Edited By IanMelb on 1502340567

[IanMelb]

Changing the dl=0 at the end of the URL takes you directly to the image but I don't know if we can embed them (should have copied your URL from source but hit submit modified post, sorry)

[IanMelb]

Edited By IanMelb on 1502341157

[IanMelb]

Ikonboard won't let you post URLs with a ? in them as images nor will it let you embed images without one of the regular image extensions at the end (.jpg .gif, etc). I tried to remove the ? part from your URL but Dropbox won't serve it.

[Tony McC]

Could you use, say a goo.gl or bit.ly shortened url to overcome the idiosyncrasies of the ancient and creaking Brew Cabin software?

[IanMelb]

Sadly not, the software demands a file extension (.gif,.jpg etc) - it can be modified to take different extensions but there must be one present. A shorter does not often provide a URL with an extension

[IanMelb]

[IanMelb]

By which I mean, if you get a free Google blogger account then you can create a blog post, upload your images to it, grab their URLs from the post you made (right click, open in new tab or copy image location) and then sandwich the URL between the IMG tags .

You could create a separate Google account solely for this purpose if you wanted to use your regular Gmail account for real blogging



Edited By IanMelb on 1502383068

[lutonlagerlout]

that sounds like a plan!
cheers Ian

LLL