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Why do we use photobucket

Mickey
Mickey Posts: 19,768
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
Do not understand why we have to use photobucket (or like) to post a photo. If I can just copy one to my email, why not to our forum?
Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Just given a Mini to add to the herd. 

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  • Bacchus
    Bacchus Posts: 6,019
    Pretty sure most all forums utilize an img code system rather than the actual pic file. Space is probably part of it......
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  • Fidel
    Fidel Posts: 10,172
    Because the forum servers don't have the storage space to hold all the photos. That is why we have to upload them to a site designed to hold that kind of volume and then our posts link to the image.

    The image is rendered by the forum servers but the data is permanently stored elsewhere. Saves the forum team from having to maintain the hard drive space.
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  • milesofsmiles
    milesofsmiles Posts: 1,377
    Can I use Kodak, or is Photobucket best??? Thanks Ronnie :)
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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,768
    Bacchus and Fidel: Sirs thank you very much. I see what you are saying and for once in computer speak - understand.....
    Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Just given a Mini to add to the herd. 

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  • vidalia1
    vidalia1 Posts: 7,092
    Ronnie,

    Try using Polaroids and taping the picture directly to your computer screen and then post. That could possibly work....

    :whistle: :S :pinch: :blink: :);)B):lol: :woohoo:
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  • milesofsmiles
    milesofsmiles Posts: 1,377
    Yea, Dattle do it. :laugh:
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  • milesofsmiles
    milesofsmiles Posts: 1,377
    Tweeve-tip. You gotta understand, I'am computer stupid. I would rather use a hand held map ilo map quest, that sorta lets you know where I'am at in the computer world. Thanks :):):)
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  • jeffinsgf
    jeffinsgf Posts: 1,259
    You can use any storage space you want. It doesn't have to be photobucket or anything else.

    Things change, but most ISP's provide a significant amount of storage space with your account. The images just have to be uploaded to that space and have a URL (web address).
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  • Grandpas Grub
    Grandpas Grub Posts: 14,226
     
    The forum servers have a finite amount of storage space. If I have say 200 images of various sizes that takes up that much space on the hard drives. Now multiply my 200 by however many members post pictures. That would require huge amounts of drive space. To that it takes a lot of band width to display those pictures.

    With picture hosting sites they plan for those huge sizes and numbers of pictures.

    So our forum servers just point to where the picture is. When your browser looks at a post the text shows from the this forum and the pictures are downloaded to "your" (each of our computers). All that storage is gathered from the picture hosting sites and stored again on our machines.

    The advantage, in most cases, is when we re-look at a post the picture is now pulled from our individual temporary file locations. The web, this forum and the particular picture hosting site doesn't have to take up bandwidth or resend the picture.

    Picture hosting sites make money by the number of people sorting pictures, looking at pictures and thus garner advertising from companies like eBay and others. Hence the more advertising we see on our picture hosting sites. The photo sites also offer prints of the people's pictures.

    Folks use the same idea with their web sites and blog sites. If one can garner enough interest and clicks then it is possible to garner advertising money. Sites we are familiar with are like the Naked Whiz. His site hits very high in google hits and I would think the site is generating some amount of income. The more pouplar the more money.

    Some lady out west here, I think it is, was in bad financial shape, depressed with the stress of her life, husband and kids. She opened a blog and it caught on. She talks about anything from depression to cooking to what ever. Here life is now completely open to the world and her husband at times gets surprised about some of the topics discussed in public.

    Her blog is so popular and is getting so many visits it is making a HUGE amount of money monthly from paid advertisers and companies are asking her for advertising space. If I recall, Hewlett Packard approached her as did one of the national soup companies as well as many others. Here blog now is a huge money making machine. Her & her husband spend full time blogging and at the time I read the article she was hiring others to help her out.

    On a bigger scale look at facebook. Folks get on there to share their lives read about others. It is a big gathering center doing the same thing as a blog would do.

    However, facebook is the one with all the visits and offers the space to users for free. Money is generated by facebook and not the individual people 'blogging'.

    Twitter is most likely somewhat the same.

    Kent
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  • deepsouth
    deepsouth Posts: 1,796
    regarding photobucket and storage space..... i hit my max number of views, bandwidth i guess, on photobucket in under three months... from what i gather, for a few hours, my photos were not viewable. i had to upgrade my account to sort that out.

    i'm sure there are tons of better places, but for the next year at least, i'm using photobucket.
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  • BBQMaven
    BBQMaven Posts: 1,041
    I've never been able to get my Picasa images to show up.. I'm sure there is a simple trick - but I have trouble powering up my computer - It took me weeks to understand i had to change IMG to img on photobucket...
    Kent Madison MS
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  • milesofsmiles
    milesofsmiles Posts: 1,377
    OMG, More puter lingo. I am *crewed. I'll ponder this for a few more Cold ones. Later. :):):)
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  • Grandpas Grub
    Grandpas Grub Posts: 14,226
     
    Interesting you hit the max on photobucket. Too many pictures or too many hits or a combination?

    Kent
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  • Grandpas Grub
    Grandpas Grub Posts: 14,226
     
    Ohhhh that's mean :laugh:

    Kent
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  • Grandpas Grub
    Grandpas Grub Posts: 14,226
     
    Are you really changing the caps IMG to lower case img with your photo's?

    Kent
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  • Grandpas Grub
    Grandpas Grub Posts: 14,226
     
    It is all easy. If you want some hand holding let me know. It would take only a short while over the phone.

    Kent
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  • Petunia
    Petunia Posts: 110
    When you have the image up in Picasa that you want to post click on link to photo on the right hand side. Then check 'image only', pick your size, copy the 'embedded image' [make sure you get it all], and then paste it like you would from any other site.
    CIMG2653.JPG
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  • BBQMaven
    BBQMaven Posts: 1,041
    when "preview" the post with the IMG it just shows the link, when I change them to img and preview the pics show up... do I not have to do that?
    Kent Madison MS
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  • BBQMaven
    BBQMaven Posts: 1,041
    http://lh6.ggpht.com/_rPvw8DJU93o/TGgw1fxA1RI/AAAAAAAAZDM/5C3C8hkqExY/s400/DSC_0978.JPG
    Kent Madison MS
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  • BBQMaven
    BBQMaven Posts: 1,041
    Petunia
    As you can see by the post above, I still can't figure out how to make the pic show up... not your fault, I just am slow...
    Kent Madison MS
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  • BBQMaven
    BBQMaven Posts: 1,041
    As stated earlier, this is confusing... in my post where the picture location is - there is no img anything... where does it come from?
    Kent Madison MS
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    From wherever your pic has been uploaded, copy this, JUST this...

    http: //lh6.ggpht.com/_rPvw8DJU93o/TGgw1fxA1RI/AAAAAAAAZDM/5C3C8hkqExY/s400/DSC_0978.JPG

    Then, in your post, at the top of the text box where you are typing, there is a row of green boxes. Place your cursor in the text box where you want the image to appear. Then click the green box labeled Img. Now, paste the URL (the http thing) and click Img again. No spaces anywhere.

    Click the Preview button at the bottom of your post. If you see the pic in the preview, ya done good.

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • BBQMaven
    BBQMaven Posts: 1,041
    DSC_0978.JPG

    Carolina Q
    You my friend, know how to speak "non-tech" language and are my new hero!!
    Kent Madison MS
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    :laugh: Ahh, it's good to be a hero!

    Too bad we have to do it this way. This is the only forum I've ever been involved with where pics have to be uploaded to a photo hosting site. Somehow, all the other sites seem to be able to manage without this nonsense. It's ridiculous.

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker
    Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker Posts: 3,743
    no kidding. this beggar agrees.

    WMK (or maybe WPB) had mentioned that there might be a day when registered members (a moot point now) could store photos on the forum servers. this place costs the millers money to run, and although the rumor mill says BGE throws them some ca$h once in a while, none of us are privy to what it amounts to. not really ourbusiness.

    but the bandwidth used here is likely significant just from the traffic, yet there is no advertising. if they started hosting pic data, imagine what the impact could be.

    it takes about two seconds to upload a pic to a hosting site and copy a link to it, pasting it into a post here.

    small price to pay.
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    If you say so. I used to participate on another forum that was run by a guy out of his house (owner and sole admin). His only source of income was from his day job as a delivery truck driver. No advertising revenue from the site. Software was vBulletin (far superior to whatever we use here) and he hosted the pics. Only about 5K members, but quite active. We have 20K members, but relatively few actually post with any regularity.

    Whatever. Don't get me wrong - I appreciate the site and the community. And free is free. Just sayin'................

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker
    Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker Posts: 3,743
    these guys are hampered by the fact that they started it as a labor of love, but now it is an asset (for them and BGE). and i don't think they are getting quite the help they could, and they are probably too polite to demand anything. that;s just my not-privy-to-anything guess.

    discreet ads, products, a tip jar...
    wouldn't bother me at all, personally
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  • deepsouth
    deepsouth Posts: 1,796
    Grandpas Grub wrote:
     
    Interesting you hit the max on photobucket. Too many pictures or too many hits or a combination?

    Kent

    about 400 hundred pictures with 7100 views..... not sure.
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  • Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker
    Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker Posts: 3,743
    hahahaha AdBlock+, mang.

    i tried to visit the luddite's website, but i couldn't find it.
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  • Cpt'n Cook
    Cpt'n Cook Posts: 1,917
    Great Idea!

    Does it have to be a Polaroid or will a regular print work? Should the image be facing towered the screen or be facing out? Should I use transparent tape or is masking tape OK? What about Super8 movies? I have some old laser disks too and what about sound files, I have some 8Tracks as well
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