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Post by John Farrell on Aug 7, 2023 0:13:35 GMT
I have an account at Imgur, but I rarely use it, now that most sites I use host their own images. It is simple enough to use.
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Post by peterob on Aug 7, 2023 7:17:01 GMT
What’s a decent paid site cost ? I used to pay thirty quid a year twenty years ago for good size and extra bandwidth . More than paid for by google adds but that was a lifetime ago I would have thought Flickr a suitable benchmark. In April the 12 month subscription was £59.99. It used to be a lot less but it was also said to be going bust before it was taken over. I have just over 10,000 copies of pictures on there and I've subscribed since 2009. I suppose some of that fee covers the "free" accounts since folk seem to run adblockers and ads would be the income source for those. I don't use any of the "sharing" facilities such as groups. For me it basically provides an online "album" for friends and family. I like that family specific photos can have their access restricted so I can put pictures of the family up and know that they are not public. Sharing to here by links works well. I occasionally look at fellow forum member Flickr accounts - usually after they post here (or posted on APForum) - but I don't follow anybody assiduously. |
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Post by Kath on Aug 9, 2023 11:11:10 GMT
Nobody got comments re Imgur or Postimage sites? I've never used either of them before so can't really help. I long time ago I was on a parenting forum (using Proboards funnily enough) (is 'funnily' a word? Or have I just spelled it wrong?) and used to use a similar site called something like PhotoBucket. It was great and did a good job until they went tits up and took all my images with them. Luckily I'd not used it for storage per se, just as a means of sharing images but it did mean all my images became boxes with a cross in them across the entire forum. Not saying this isn't a risk with something like Flickr but they've been around a good while now and I assume are makign enough out of the people who pay for the Pro membership that they should be here for a bit longer. Maybe? What is it you don't like about Flickr? I am not willing to pay for the Pro membership at the moment but the free version works very well I think. |
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Post by aitch on Aug 9, 2023 12:13:02 GMT
Ah, Photobucket.
I used to use them. Then they changed the rules about hot-linking - only allowed it if you had the Premium (I think) account - at $400pa. That's when I moved to Flickr.
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Post by zx9 on Aug 9, 2023 12:26:37 GMT
Ah, Photobucket. I used to use them. Then they changed the rules about hot-linking - only allowed it if you had the Premium (I think) account - at $400pa. That's when I moved to Flickr. I never used Photobucket but got irritated by the heavy watermark they applied to linked images on displayed on forums, IRRC there was a way to circumvent the total failure to display that followed as a plug in for FireFox at least. I had not realised that they had now shut up shop. |
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Post by Kath on Aug 9, 2023 15:46:10 GMT
Ah, Photobucket. I used to use them. Then they changed the rules about hot-linking - only allowed it if you had the Premium (I think) account - at $400pa. That's when I moved to Flickr. I never used Photobucket but got irritated by the heavy watermark they applied to linked images on displayed on forums, IRRC there was a way to circumvent the total failure to display that followed as a plug in for FireFox at least. I had not realised that they had now shut up shop. Well I think they still exist in some format or other but not in the same way that they used to. (I never noticed a watermark, but perhaps I was using whatever work around you are talking about? I can't remember. It was donkey's yonks ago.) |
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Post by peterob on Aug 9, 2023 16:25:02 GMT
I never used Photobucket but got irritated by the heavy watermark they applied to linked images on displayed on forums, IRRC there was a way to circumvent the total failure to display that followed as a plug in for FireFox at least. I had not realised that they had now shut up shop. Well I think they still exist in some format or other but not in the same way that they used to. (I never noticed a watermark, but perhaps I was using whatever work around you are talking about? I can't remember. It was donkey's yonks ago.) Back in the mists of time. There was one big sharing/hosting site that went bust, taking peoples photos with it. For that reason I only put (small these days) jpg copies of pictures on Flickr. If it (Flickr/Smugmug) goes bottom up then it is no loss to me. I couldn't download all my pictures anyway, my internet connection is far too slow. Putting stuff up in the cloud a bit at a time is fine but pulling it back in a hurry is another story. I guess the really big companies that are making cloud storage a proper business (Apple, Microsoft, Google) are probably OK but I'd still keep local copies of important stuff. I remember a lot of fuss about Photobucket changing their Terms and Conditions and disallowing sharing outside of their own domain. Flickr didn't used to allow it, although they turned a blind eye if Flickr were mentioned as the host, but nowadays they provide all the bulletin board code to embed images and formalise the relationship so I presume they see it as advertising. |
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Post by Kath on Aug 9, 2023 17:14:42 GMT
Well I think they still exist in some format or other but not in the same way that they used to. (I never noticed a watermark, but perhaps I was using whatever work around you are talking about? I can't remember. It was donkey's yonks ago.) Back in the mists of time. There was one big sharing/hosting site that went bust, taking peoples photos with it. For that reason I only put (small these days) jpg copies of pictures on Flickr. If it (Flickr/Smugmug) goes bottom up then it is no loss to me. I couldn't download all my pictures anyway, my internet connection is far too slow. Putting stuff up in the cloud a bit at a time is fine but pulling it back in a hurry is another story. I guess the really big companies that are making cloud storage a proper business (Apple, Microsoft, Google) are probably OK but I'd still keep local copies of important stuff. I remember a lot of fuss about Photobucket changing their Terms and Conditions and disallowing sharing outside of their own domain. Flickr didn't used to allow it, although they turned a blind eye if Flickr were mentioned as the host, but nowadays they provide all the bulletin board code to embed images and formalise the relationship so I presume they see it as advertising. I don't use any of them to store images either. I have portable hard drives and copies of the same for that purpose. I only ever use Flickr to host copies of files that I want to share somewhere. We *may* decide to fork out for Pro so we can use it as a shared family album at some point. Right now there's a limit to the number of 'private' images they'll host on a free account (50? I think?) I know my husband would like to see our holiday photographs some time. I mean we haven't been on holiday since about 2014 and he still hasn't seen half the shots. Oops. |
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Post by zx9 on Aug 9, 2023 19:11:34 GMT
Agreeing with Kath, I have a lot of photos on Flickr and enjoy the Flickr groups, going on photowalks with Flickr London and Explore but don't really tart for likes. I have a few private albums, mostly family event which are good to invite others to and yes Steph and myself use it as a family album but in no way is it a back up. My photographs live on the office PC and are backed up to an external drive which in turn is backed up to Amazon Prime Photo which cost me a couple of quid a month on top of prime because of the video content which is not included in a Prime account. I really don't want to get all of my photos and video back from Amazon but if I have need to I can, this was brought home to me when a burst pipe flooded down through the office, the PC and external drive were only saved because they were under the office desk and missed the torrent of water. At the time I had no off site storage for anything other than my business records, that changed originally to Drop box then Amazon when Drop box got expensive. |
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Post by JohnY on Aug 9, 2023 19:24:05 GMT
I don't mind paying for hosting provided it is easy.
I feel guilty of using this forum for free. Not only posting occasional photos but just participating.
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Post by zou on Aug 9, 2023 19:56:53 GMT
I don't mind paying for hosting provided it is easy. I feel guilty of using this forum for free. Not only posting occasional photos but just participating. I can direct message you an account for contributions pal.  |
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Post by MJB on Aug 9, 2023 20:48:08 GMT
I don't mind paying for hosting provided it is easy. I feel guilty of using this forum for free. Not only posting occasional photos but just participating. I can direct message you an account for contributions pal. |
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Post by spinno on Aug 9, 2023 20:52:05 GMT
AS John Lennon once said Power to the people right on! |
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Post by Kath on Aug 10, 2023 7:40:08 GMT
AS John Lennon once said Power to the people right on! |
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