UPDATE!!! Posting Pics on OUR SERVERS

I have changed the 'Subject' (Hopefully) from
"Flickr to REPLACE Photo Bucket"
to
Posting Pics on OUR SERVERS
to get more people involved and up to date.
We MIGHT need some pledges from members to accomplish this, so will YOU HELP??!!??

Just saw Armand's thread on his mower and him telling about Flickr.
Anyone have experience with Flickr?
We're all sick of Photo Bucket and all the problems we've had with it.
ANY help is greatly appreciated by ALL the users on here.


Edited by Ted J - 30 Oct 2017 at 7:18am

I have a lot of pictures on Flickr also and like the AC group over there, Ross does a great job.  I haven't figured out how to get the pictures to show up over here, every time I try it, it just comes up as a link.  Time for Google!

Wow, sure am sorry about the Flickr deal with you. I hope you have those pictures somewhere else, you sure have a bunch of good ones. I noticed when I submitted some pictures a while back it took a couple weeks to add them to the group but I figured you were traveling.

This is a problem for me too. I tend to post a lot of pictures. Was used to photobucket and how it works. I have not been locked out yet but it may be coming.
 I tried Flicker last night, set it up loaded some pictures and loaded them to another tractor site as a test. I could only get the link no picture. Since I am new to it that may be I just don't know the moves yet. If you clicked the link/s it took you to the picture. Not sure how Armand loaded his picture?
Not sure how I would ever go back to replace all my pictures in threads on here??
I have all my pictures on a separate hard drive. only copies on photobucket.
Even on Flicker I seen something about $39.99 for some sharing feature???
I think they are going to try to hold these ransom. Big money out there. I have 4000+ pictures on Photobucket.
Regards,
 Chris

JW in MO wrote: I noticed when I submitted some pictures a while back it took a couple weeks to add them to the group but I figured you were traveling.

So the AC group is still functioning on Flickr ? I wonder who is doing the moderating now as the other two were gone a long time before me.
I'm guessing you're AC TRACTORMAN ?

Interesting!
I know it cost money to keep all this stuff up and going. I tend to not be a contributor ($) to most of the ones I am on.
The lack of photos is going to make these types of forums pretty boring!
I believe there is a "dropbox" picture storage system too. Not sure how easy it is to use?
I would like to just be able to add pictures direct from your computer! Some forums like this used to allow that! Was way easier! things have gotten too complicated.
Regards,
 Chris

Dennis, I don't know how you're getting away with it, but so many of us have lost all use of PB and I am trying to get my pics off their site but it is a tedious battle.

I sent Darin a PM and asked him to look into how much it would cost to get additional servers and software so that we could post on here with no problems.
I promised him that there were enough of us that would chip in to pay for this and to help others who might have problems putting pics on here.  I'm not a tech or anything, but I am self taught and learn rather fast, especially watching others or finding out how something works, so I can again write up a "how to".
Is everyone (or at least most of us) on board with such an idea??  Might cost us each a few $$$ originally.  And of course, the semi annual gift giving that a lot of us do to keep this site rolling.
Will you help?

Help me out Guys, I posted a few pictures last week by just resizing them on my PC using paint and downloading or uploading (what ever) to my post. Back some time ago I posted a few pictures using PB and found it very hard and very slow. I am very new to this so there must be something I am missing, is it the volume of photos that drive you to PB?

albatros_3 wrote: If you just need to host photos online, you can try imgur.com

It isn't just that, it is getting the photos ONTO our pages.  We'd rather see the actual photo than just a link to it.  PB used to let us do that, but then held us all up for ransom to be able to see pics on the site.  I don't know about others, but they want $399.33 per year from me and that just ain't gonna happen.
According to their site, THEY OWN the pics after you upload them.  It's outrageous what they are doing.  HOW do you prove that YOU OWN the pics?  Wanna go to court and spend MORE $$$$ ??

I'm just trying to post a shot from PB if you see it please say so.

It’s there Don

This is my attempt straight from my computer

Here is my two cents, probably only worth one.

Uploading pictures direct to here involves, resizing, naming, and uploading. When you run out of space, you delete the old ones, and your threads, I think, are ruined.

So I found Photobucket. I take a picture with my phone, and upload it to Photobucket. It is automatically resized and super easy to paste into my threads. MUCH faster and easier.

Then they ads got outrageous, and one day, my pictures were no longer available.

So, I slid over to vgy.me. I now take a picture with my phone, hook my phone to the laptop, and transfer them to a flash drive. That way I always have a copy from now on. Resize them with Paint, upload them to vgy.me, and paste them in my post. A little more work, but manageable.

I have also been downloading my pictures back from Photobucket and putting on the flash drive. I have fixed a few posts, and plan on fixing more over the winter.

I fully agree with Ted, especially with that knowledge based section, but all topics in general, the pictures make the story. This hobby is disappearing fast, not too many people are interested in this old stuff anymore. For those of us that are, we need all the help and information we can get, cause let's face it, as old timers pass on, so goes there knowledge, unless it's chronicled somewhere. Like here.

That last part was rather morbid, but also the truth.

At any rate, what I'm trying to say, is I would gladly kick in a little if we had an easy safe way to upload, resize, and store pictures on here.

exSW wrote: Let me get this straight. In order to keep costs and server space down all photos on this site are hosted off site. There is no uploading photos straight from your computer or device straight to the forum?

Pictures are a pain on here now, I used to post all the time, but it is not worth the hassle now. I use Facebook, quick and easy, or YTMag is also much easier....sure would like to see something like they have, here.