How to post pics

Started by Elantric, November 09, 2011, 11:41:41 AM

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whippinpost91850

I just put it on my iPhone... Will take a new rig picture when I get home and try it

Elantric

#26
All i need I need is Photobucket experience - without the annual fees

I had to stop using Photobucket a few years ago because My pics tend to get seen by thousands, and as a result they would shut down my account and hold me for ransom demanding fees for hosting them.

Hopefully Snapagogo comes back in a few days - but lately it tends to get hacked and taken down every three weeks 

This site compares them
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/photo-sharing-sites

But most "Free" web photo hosting sites have hurdles  / obstacles, requiring workarounds.


I was looking at InstaGram - but it only allow you to upload pics using a mobile phone,  - worthless for me because bulk of my pics are screen grabs from my desktop PC - for education purposes   

Most photo hosting sites seek to monetize through advertising and become a Facebook  / MySpace replacement with a high social traffic element that seeks to keep viewers on their domain - like Yahoo's Flickr or Pinterest

IMGUR has issues too - if you upload pics and get them organized and create Albums, if you want to add more pics later, you must "unpublish" your Album by deleting it. 


Elantric

#27
here's another "Free" web photo hosting site I'm trying

POSTIMAGE

https://postimage.cc/


I LIKE IT!

https://postimg.cc/gallery/2dpeo1mu6/

https://postimg.cc/gallery/pglyjd9a/4cf1b93d/


Elantric

And interface works great on my iPhone Safari browser


Elantric

#29
Still loving this photo hosting site

POSTIMAGE

https://postimage.cc/

carlb

Hmmm. They'd need some sort of user or advertizing funds - at least to keep the servers going, etc. What's their ".org" funding model?
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admin

#31
https://postimg.cc/about.php
About Postimage

Postimage.org was founded in 2004 to provide message boards with an easy way to upload images for free. Postimage is a very simple, fast and reliable free image service. It's perfect for linking to auctions, message boards, blogs and other websites. Postimage guarantees maximum uptime and performance so that your image will be here whenever you need it. There is no registration or login; all you have to do is submit your picture. With continuous upgrades and dedicated staff Postimage is the #1 solution for Free Image Hosting.

Install the Simple image upload mod today and experience the ease of uploading images right from the posting page.

Thanks

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V is for Victory
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
Thanks to your tremendous efforts and generous donations, the crisis has been averted. The victory belongs to you, our users. Your donations bought us enough time to keep our servers humming while we were figuring out what to do. Your technical expertise allowed us to cut some corners and employ clever tricks. Your connections finally allowed us to establish contact with parties that made a long-term solution affordable. Your emails kept us going on extra-long workdays, because we knew that you were counting on us. We hereby wish to thank everybody who extended their help and advice, and would especially like to mention and recommend the following parties:

AdvancedHosters for their stellar tech support and for offering great terms for their CDN service
SG.GS for their technical expertise and generous bandwidth consumption terms
Also, the following parties readily came to our aid, although our needs did not exactly match their expertise:

DaciHost for offering us a powerful dedicated server for free
Aba-Soft for designing a custom private cloud solution to help us handle the uncached load
Greta.io for offering their ingenious peer-2-peer CDN technology
A special thank you goes to every single one of the 159 people who contributed a total of over $1700 of donations via PayPal. This would not be possible without you.

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Postimage needs your help
OCTOBER 30, 2016
NB: This blog post has been updated to reflect the current situation and is slightly different from what was posted on our main page earlier this week.

It's official: Postimage.org is in danger and needs your help. Here's why:

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Who is at fault?

On October 27, 2016, CloudFlare abruptly cut us off from most of their services except DNS for abusing their system. This came as a bit of a surprise, since although we've been using one of their cheapest plans for a long time, we had reached an agreement earlier this month that we would be upgrading our account when the next billing cycle started. A couple of Skype calls later we learned the following:

CloudFlare was very unhappy that the total traffic usage of our project had surpassed a staggering figure of 1.8 petabytes in the last 30 days.
The amount of money we had to pay monthly to make them happy again grew after each Skype call as more people in CF got involved in examining our case: $200 became $1000, which in turn became $12k.
The sales team was adamant that although CloudFlare did not officially have bandwidth limits, our violation of Section 10 of their terms of service could not be remedied by serving less image traffic and more HTML traffic (although, being an image hosting company, we have no idea how we would pull this one off anyway without blatantly gaming the system), and that at the level of petabytes of data, they would never allow that on a $200/month Business plan.
We were officially screwed.
Let us make this absolutely clear: we do not hold a grudge against CloudFlare for refusing to foot our traffic bill any further. We do realize that we are costing them a ton of money, and it is solely our own fault that our current business model is not sustainable. We also recognize that the deal they offered is probably better than anything we could reasonably expect from any other CDN providers. The only thing we disagree with is that instead of publishing estimates of how much traffic customers are actually allowed to consume at each service plan, CloudFlare insists that their bandwidth is unlimited and declines to comment on the actual terms of service.

What should we do now?

A possible outcome is that Postimage.org will have to shut down, terminating nearly 140 million images embedded into some 450 thousand websites, first and foremost a number of great message boards (although a lot of online auctions, personal galleries and corporate websites will be affected as well).

However, thanks to a generous stream of donations it looks like we will make it through the next couple of weeks until we develop more permanents solutions both to cut costs and to implement a viable business model. We didn't pay enough attention to making money off Postimage, as the advertising revenue was sufficient to support ourselves and our servers. We are now rethinking what we can actually offer to our community while minimizing the harm done.

While we are definitely bothered that the project on which our modest livelihood depends is shutting down, this latter circumstance bothers us much more. We would hopefully find other jobs, but a huge historical layer spanning more than a decade of some of the Internet's most vibrant communities would be obliterated forever. Thus, at this point failure is not an option; we must fight tooth and nail to keep Postimage.org running and to correct the consequences of our earlier mistakes.

Where's the money?

Historically, advertising revenue has been our main source of income [approximately a 50/50 split between AdSense and content recommendation systems]. While we've recently decided to experiment with header bidding platforms, we have yet to collect a single dollar from these experiments, so we don't really know if this will work.

We are also considering the option of running a crowdfunding effort a la Reddit Gold or a donation system. Our main website is seeing 8 million unique users per month, and if just 0.125% of our user base sent us $1 every month, that would be enough to cover our bandwidth bills.

Finally, there is an option to try a different role in the digital marketing industry, perhaps even become a DMP data source as well as a publisher (our recent measurements indicate that we're serving over 28 million unique daily users over our whole network of 450k websites). However, we have to first answer a couple of important questions such as if this data is actually worth anything, and if such a privacy-impairing trade-off would be acceptable for our users if that's what it took to keep their images online.

We realize that there is a certain probability that neither these nor any other options we have will be able to cover our costs. Still, we intend to fight hard to save this project and all the amazing websites it has become an integral part of. Because some things are just worth fighting for.

P.S. If you have any suggestions or bright ideas, please contact us at admin@postimage.org.


whippinpost91850

#32


Just checking out sending photo from my phone with "postimage" man it is simple and works great.

Majiken

I'm going to try that, been wanting to post pics through Snapagogo, got 3 at least uploaded yesterday, then it froze :-(( I give up on that!

As soon as I get going, I'll post the status on my ATG/GK implant into my Electra MPC, with the Freeway 3x3 switch- it looks at this point like everything can fly :-D.
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whippinpost91850

Yes please do. I'm getting ready to do something similar If not the same.

vtgearhead

Quote from: whippinpost91850 on December 28, 2016, 11:56:28 AM


Just checking out sending photo from my phone with "postimage" man it is simple and works great.

Oooo...  Nice!

whippinpost91850

#36
Thanks GR55 is in the drawer below the Kemper. Live I only use the control pedal and expression pedal on the GR55

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GuitarBuilder

#37
Elantric - any chance you could add the Postimage plugin to the forum?

https://postimages.org/plugins
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Elantric

#38
Quote from: Elantric on November 03, 2016, 02:45:12 PM
here's another "Free" web photo hosting site I'm trying

POSTIMAGE

https://postimage.org/


I LIKE IT!

https://postimg.cc/gallery/2dpeo1mu6/

https://postimg.cc/gallery/pglyjd9a/4cf1b93d/





and FWIW  Snapagogo has returned   -after being dead for past year.
https://www.snapagogo.com/

sixeight

I just noticed all postimage pics have disappeared from the forum. The url to the images must be changed from postimage.org to postimage.cc to fix it.

Any chance one of the moderators could update all the postimage links through search and replace?

admin

Quote from: sixeight on May 16, 2018, 01:24:59 AM
I just noticed all postimage pics have disappeared from the forum. The url to the images must be changed from postimage.org to postimage.cc to fix it.

Any chance one of the moderators could update all the postimage links through search and replace?

Already been doing that in spare time for 2 months - but we have hundreds of pics

shawnb

I'll look into an automated solution to the postimage problem.
Address the process rather than the outcome.  Then, the outcome becomes more likely.   - Fripp

shawnb

#42
FYI - all of the old postimg.org links have been fixed. 

Very popular - there were EXACTLY 1000 that needed updating.
Address the process rather than the outcome.  Then, the outcome becomes more likely.   - Fripp

admin

#43
Quote from: shawnb on May 19, 2018, 10:28:01 AM
FYI - all of the old postimg.org links have been fixed. 

Very popular - there EXACTLY 1000 that needed updating.

Checked - Good Job!
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=19048.0

Now remaining battle is changing the URL of all the old snapagogo pics as that completely changed in the past 6 months.
been trying to move those pics manually to postimage but it takes time and it's not a simple script file that can make those changes

Example
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=15397.0

sixeight

Quote from: shawnb on May 19, 2018, 10:28:01 AM
FYI - all of the old postimg.org links have been fixed. 

Very popular - there were EXACTLY 1000 that needed updating.

Fantastic job. Thanks a million.

shawnb

Quote from: admsustainiac on May 19, 2018, 10:38:32 AM
Checked - Good Job!
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=19048.0

Now remaining battle is changing the URL of all the old snapagogo pics as that completely changed in the past 6 months.
been trying to move those pics manually to postimage but it takes time and it's not a simple script file that can make those changes

Example
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=15397.0

Those snapagogo links are flat out broken on that page...  Those pictures doesn't exist anymore on snapagogo. 

If they have the same name on the new site, we might be able to work something out. 
Address the process rather than the outcome.  Then, the outcome becomes more likely.   - Fripp

sixeight

Quote from: shawnb on May 19, 2018, 11:03:29 AM
Those snapagogo links are flat out broken on that page...  Those pictures doesn't exist anymore on snapagogo. 

If they have the same name on the new site, we might be able to work something out.

Snapagogo and Postimage are completely unrelated. So pictures that are on one site are not on the other, unless the owner has moved them.

I recovered my account on Snapagogo, but all my pictures are gone.

marzar

When I came looking for advice on posting pics, I see no one has replied on this sticky in a while.

In case it helps anyone I'll just add that postimg.cc still looks like a viable solution for posting pics in late 2021.  Just used it to add images on a reply here, was easy and quick.  Didn't even need to sign up for an account there.

Elantric