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Lysmata Debelius

What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
« on: October 19, 2018, 10:37:45 PM »
I used to use dropbox public folder to upload images for forum posts, but that doesn't seem to work anymore.
Is there a way to use GDrive? Or something else convenient?
 

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Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2018, 10:40:11 PM »
You can attach to the bottom of posts.

Unfortunately, the mod which allows for putting attached images in specific places in a post, had undesirable side effects and had to be removed.

So limited to putting attachments on the end of the post.
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Lysmata Debelius

Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2018, 10:42:47 PM »
OK Thanks, I tried that now and it works. Image gets resized a bit - but I don't suppose there's any way to avoid that.
 

Mark Gardner

Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2018, 10:44:43 PM »
Personally, I upload them to my website, but you can upload them to twitter or instagram. I suggest setting up a free wordpress site even if you don't plan to blog. They have some great image tools.
 
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Lysmata Debelius

Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2018, 10:53:15 PM »
Personally, I upload them to my website, but you can upload them to twitter or instagram. I suggest setting up a free wordpress site even if you don't plan to blog. They have some great image tools.

I've actually been uploading them to my website as well, but I wondered if there was a better solution :)  I could use my wordpress blog, that's a good idea.
 

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Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2018, 11:06:01 PM »
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Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2018, 11:32:29 PM »
I use my Wordpress dot com site.
 

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Becca Mills

Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2018, 06:38:57 AM »
I use Facebook. Post the image with the audience set to "Only me." Open it, right-click on the image, choose "Open image in new tab." Use the new tab's URL.
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Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2018, 07:05:42 AM »
I use Facebook. Post the image with the audience set to "Only me." Open it, right-click on the image, choose "Open image in new tab." Use the new tab's URL.

Nice trick! I put something on twitter today to show here and just told twitter people to ignore it. I like your solution a lot more - although I will probably set up an IG account or imgur
 
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Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2018, 09:00:10 PM »
I use Postimage.org. It's free, can re-size images and has a variety of links for websites, forums, etc.
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Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2018, 01:40:16 AM »
TinyPic. Or imgur. I gave up on Photobucket because it was slow and I wasn't going to pay to put up a random picture every now and again. TinyPic is owned by them, but so far works better uploading and no issues otherwise.
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Re: What do you use for image hosting for forum posts?
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2018, 04:17:00 AM »
I use Postimage.org. It's free, can re-size images and has a variety of links for websites, forums, etc.

I've also started using this.

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