photo bucket

[DGShannon_imp]

DG I don't understand the difficulty. Like with the chain adjuster pics the other day someone wanted. Grab the camera, go to garage, take 6 pics, plug camera into computer, download pics to jpeg photo file. At that point its like taking any pics & downloading them for later viewing or sharing in an email or whatever.(vacation, kids, family, christmas... Kwhatever). Click on photobucket, instruct it to download pics, choose pics you want downloaded, say done and it downloads them all at once. Click on your bucket, click on photo you want to post, click on sharing link on right, it automatically copies that link, go to thread you want to post photo in, click and hit paste. DONE! I guarantee you I can go thru the whole process from sitting in my house to posting pics in a thread in under 5 minutes.

I'm going to post a pic from photobucket here and time it with my stopwatch

[url=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/theferret111/media/CB%20trick%20pics%20001_zpsqea3g8kq.jpg.html]

Done 1 minute 3.39 seconds, including opening up the photobucket page

[url=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/theferret111/media/image.jpg1_zpsbo2edxvp.jpg.html]

Didn't say it was "difficult", for me. But, based upon the ongoing comments, it is obviously difficult to impossible for many of the users here, who just can't get it right, or give up altogether.

Compared to posting a photo off your phone, or computer, straight into a modern social tool such as Facebook, Instagram, a Google Community, etc. the process of having to push your photos out onto a 3rd party site, copy their link, return to the forum, and paste it on photo by photo, is a bit convoluted. When folks grow accustomed to easily posting a picture on a social site in 3 seconds, your timed 63 second example becomes 60 seconds too long, and several steps too many.

People used to spit photos out of their Polaroid camera, and wait about that long for them to develop right in front of them. Amazing at the time, but as technology advanced, that old 60 second process was no longer acceptable. Call me lazy, but more often than not I just skip posting a photo into the forum, rather than go through the steps.

Anyway, I don't want to be that guy that causes a locked thread, so I will bail out of this debate right now!

[veech_imp]

I know many on here are old school and don't want to bother to learn how to post pictures. If someone wants to do it bad enough however they will put in the effort to figure it out. If not, no big deal-they just won't be able to post photos. There is a small learning curve but it really is pretty simple.

I personally was too lazy to learn it for a long time myself, but had enough instances where I wished I could post that I eventually put in the 20 minutes to create a Photobucket account and figure it out. Now, it is a piece of cake.

[kennyw]

I consider the bulletin boards "old school" as far as web services go. I have seen a lot of photo hosting sites come and go over the last 15+ years using them. Bulletin board software has not evolved as fast as other social media websites in terms of photo hosting.

[Randy B]

I consider the bulletin boards "old school" as far as web services go. I have seen a lot of photo hosting sites come and go over the last 15+ years using them. Bulletin board software has not evolved as fast as other social media websites in terms of photo hosting.

And there is a reason for this. Most bulletin boards are privately run with private money and hosting pictures takes space and therefore more money.
Social media sites are run by rather LARGE companies that sell advertising space and have their own servers so they can afford to host as many pictures as they want. They probably sell information on their users to make even more money, but that is neither here nor there.

The point being it would be nice to be able to just upload pics with the click of a button, but the reality is that it's just not practical for the environment that we are communicating in.

You can always add an attachment, but that drastically limits the size of the file being uploaded and as such, in some cases, the quality of the photo. It also eats up both storage space AND monthly data usage. By hosting the photos off site you cut down on the sites data usage and it costs Guth less to operate (please correct me if I'm wrong about this) because he doesn't need to upgrade his usage with his host.

My $.02

[kennyw]

That is why I like the 3rd party tapatalk app on my phone. It wraps up all of the 3rd party hosting and forum access within one interface and makes it seamless. They also keep making changes I don't always like, but overall I have been happy with it.

The web based forum software companies could do more to integrate the 3rd party hosting sites so you don't have to leave the page to upload to and link from photobucket or similar places. The down side is they would be adding and removing them as websites fail outside of their control.

[the Ferret]

DG we are a long way from locking this thread and it's not so much a debate as a discussion ( at least for me..it's how I learn. I have had site ask me if I wanted to use tapatalk but have no idea what it actually is). For me personally with my rotary cell phone, pictures are the quality of cave paintings and literally the size of a postage stamp on my screen. haven't had the desire to put a computer in my pocket (smart phone) as I have a PC, and an Ipad that covers all those functions. So my phone won't communicate with anything but another persons phone if I call or text them. I can't internet or anything from my phone, so for me, my Ipad or PC and photobucket is how things are done.

Btw Although digital photo taking is great I miss getting pics developed and holding them in my hand. I know I could send them in and get them developed, but for some weird reason I don't. I guess its because I used to wait until a roll was full and have them developed all at once, whereas now I take lots of pics and download them every day. I know someday my computer or I pad will crash and I will lose tens of thousands of pics.

[redbirds_imp]

DG we are a long way from locking this thread and it's not so much a debate as a discussion ( at least for me..it's how I learn. I have had site ask me if I wanted to use tapatalk but have no idea what it actually is). For me personally with my rotary cell phone, pictures are the quality of cave paintings and literally the size of a postage stamp on my screen. haven't had the desire to put a computer in my pocket (smart phone) as I have a PC, and an Ipad that covers all those functions. So my phone won't communicate with anything but another persons phone if I call or text them. I can't internet or anything from my phone, so for me, my Ipad or PC and photobucket is how things are done.

Btw Although digital photo taking is great I miss getting pics developed and holding them in my hand. I know I could send them in and get them developed, but for some weird reason I don't. I guess its because I used to wait until a roll was full and have them developed all at once, whereas now I take lots of pics and download them every day. I know someday my computer or I pad will crash and I will lose tens of thousands of pics.

I sometimes miss that too ferret. I use to shoot Kodachrome 25 almost exclusively. I kept Kodak mailers on me and would send off film rolls as I finished them. It was cool coming home from a trip and some of your pics waiting for you in the mail box. I had all my old slides put on CD and do the same with my digital pics. Just in case.

[DGShannon_imp]

DG we are a long way from locking this thread and it's not so much a debate as a discussion ( at least for me..it's how I learn. I have had site ask me if I wanted to use tapatalk but have no idea what it actually is). For me personally with my rotary cell phone, pictures are the quality of cave paintings and literally the size of a postage stamp on my screen. haven't had the desire to put a computer in my pocket (smart phone) as I have a PC, and an Ipad that covers all those functions. So my phone won't communicate with anything but another persons phone if I call or text them. I can't internet or anything from my phone, so for me, my Ipad or PC and photobucket is how things are done.

Btw Although digital photo taking is great I miss getting pics developed and holding them in my hand. I know I could send them in and get them developed, but for some weird reason I don't. I guess its because I used to wait until a roll was full and have them developed all at once, whereas now I take lots of pics and download them every day. I know someday my computer or I pad will crash and I will lose tens of thousands of pics.

Good deal. My primary objective was to toss out the idea (to Guth & you) that there was an easy way to kill two birds with one stone. Shifting the site to a social space, such as a Google Community is free, relieving Guth of all expense associated with the current site, and you some of the frustration of managing it. Gravy on top was the drop-dead simple picture attachment, without need for 3rd party hosting.

But, the suggestion appears to be a moot point...

By the way, the issue involving large image dimensions has been resolved for the most part. The only images that break the formatting now are large images that are small in file size that are posted as attachments. i'm still searching for a solution to that problem.

Basically, the photo thing is what it is. If this is too painful for some, there are other options out there (like the CB1100 groups on Facebook for example). I personally don't really care for the format of Facebook or the Google Community example that was provided, but that's just me. There are obviously plenty of others who feel differently.

In other words, move along if you don't like it.

[Guth_imp]

DG we are a long way from locking this thread and it's not so much a debate as a discussion ( at least for me..it's how I learn. I have had site ask me if I wanted to use tapatalk but have no idea what it actually is). For me personally with my rotary cell phone, pictures are the quality of cave paintings and literally the size of a postage stamp on my screen. haven't had the desire to put a computer in my pocket (smart phone) as I have a PC, and an Ipad that covers all those functions. So my phone won't communicate with anything but another persons phone if I call or text them. I can't internet or anything from my phone, so for me, my Ipad or PC and photobucket is how things are done.

Btw Although digital photo taking is great I miss getting pics developed and holding them in my hand. I know I could send them in and get them developed, but for some weird reason I don't. I guess its because I used to wait until a roll was full and have them developed all at once, whereas now I take lots of pics and download them every day. I know someday my computer or I pad will crash and I will lose tens of thousands of pics.

Good deal. My primary objective was to toss out the idea (to Guth & you) that there was an easy way to kill two birds with one stone. Shifting the site to a social space, such as a Google Community is free, relieving Guth of all expense associated with the current site, and you some of the frustration of managing it. Gravy on top was the drop-dead simple picture attachment, without need for 3rd party hosting.

But, the suggestion appears to be a moot point...

By the way, the issue involving large image dimensions has been resolved for the most part. The only images that break the formatting now are large images that are small in file size that are posted as attachments. i'm still searching for a solution to that problem.

Basically, the photo thing is what it is. If this is too painful for some, there are other options out there (like the CB1100 groups on Facebook for example). I personally don't really care for the format of Facebook or the Google Community example that was provided, but that's just me. There are obviously plenty of others who feel differently.

In other words, move along if you don't like it.

Well not exactly. More like: I'm stuck here and you're welcome to hang around if you'd like, lol.

Moving this site is not really an option that I'd care to ponder. Even if it were possible, doing something with Google would more than likely involve Google Groups not Google Community. I don't even want to entertain the thought of trying to migrate the database behind this site to a new server unless I'm forced to do so, let alone trying to migrate and convert to a new platform (a forum based platform that is). Without the database, it's really just starting over, which has no appeal to me. The images are no doubt nice to have, but the value in this place is mostly in the knowledge shared. I'd rather not toss all of that away.

As some have pointed out, the online forums such as this one are now considered "old school" — kind of like the CB1100. I'm actually good with that. Despite the shortcomings (i.e. the image posting process), I still find this my preferred way to communicate with others on a large scale.

Your point regarding quality of content is well taken. However, I'm referring to things that I see on a regular basis on the social sites where people post pictures of almost anything at any time just because they can easily do so. Not my thing.

There is no doubt that trying to accommodate members' requests has revealed some shortcomings with the forum software and the hosting that I'm using. But I still have far more flexibility than I would with a canned solution from the likes of Google and others. (I briefly experimented with Google Groups a few years ago.)

[Hiram E. Varona_imp]

Gentlemen, I should have never written those comments here. The fact that I am unable to post pictures in this Forum is entirely my fault. My career in aviation, would have lasted longer if I would have been able to "adapt" to computer technology. I chose early retirement to having to go to school just to learn "trouble shooting" from a lap top that was part of the furnished equipment in modern cockpits. It was both embarrassing and frustrating trying to "keep up" with kids raised using these things. I worked all my life working on aircraft or training others on the work they had to be able to do in them. Computers were never a priority, nor something I cared to involve myself with. Then all of a sudden my airline went out of business and all at once computer technology became something I would not care to overcome. I retired and every once in a while someone would call me when no computer was required, now it's all computers, and no one calls anymore. The fact that I cannot post pictures is solely my fault. When I weigh the trouble, frustration, and often the humiliation involved in learning the process, I opt for not posting the pictures. But who knows, one day I just might see a ray of light from some unknown source, and the whole thing will open up for me. I have my old twin lens Rolliflex for what pictures I still take, and as long as they make the film I will still take those pictures. When one of my grandkids visit they will use the Nikon toy. Again I thank all that kindly tried to instruct me in this matter, and I do promise never to bring it up again.