Photobucket ?

[Oldpath05]

After 5 year's and a few dozen photo's on Photobucket, I can't seem to get to my pictures, the site keeps freezing up or don't load up and or take's 30 minutes to post one picture, today Photobucket wont even load up, I quit, out of 5, I give PB -1 star. I'm now giving flickr photo sharing site a try and see how that goes

 

[Leejohn]

I see people useing photobucket on here alot. I have always wonder why they use something like that, maybe you can tell me.

 

[k0ua]

I see people useing photobucket on here alot. I have always wonder why they use something like that, maybe you can tell me.

I started a photo bucket account when those few weeks when the native forum pix uploaded did not work. I haven't messed with it since.

 

[ovrszd]

I used Photobucket several years ago. My goal was to give all my 4 wheeling friends access to pictures I would take during events. Since I had the account I used it here as well. A member here, can't remember who, PM'd me one day and said did you know if you allow public access to your Photobucket pics that you post here that access also allows anyone to see everything you have stored in Photobucket?? I did not. He then started telling me details about the inside of my shop, family members present at shop family gatherings, etc. I stopped using it.

This website now has very good support for pics without a separate provider. It's actually better and easier than it's ever been during my tenure here.

 

[Oldpath05]

Maybe my 6 year old hp laptop is half the trouble I have Photobucket, but geez-leweez with all the flipping trouble's I had with TBN the past few months, is nothing compared to the problems I have with PB, it's now constantly freezing up or slow for me, like molasses running up hill in January.

What's the secret of people putting pic. on here that say attachment, then when I click on it, the pic blows up so I can even see the scratches on their tractor?

 

[ovrszd]

Courtesy should dictate that a member posting a picture resize it to something respectable. This is especially helpful for members with a slow connection. But what you are talking about is extremely large pics posted. It might take your computer a few seconds or more to open them. But as you said, once open you can read the brand, size, and mounting instructions printed on the side of their tires!!!!

Xfaxman recently taught me this. When posting with the intent of adding a pic, click on "Go Advanced". Then above where you type your data, and to the far left you'll see a "blue A" block, click on that. Place your cursor where you want the pic to insert. Then in the second row of icons and 3/4 across toward the right side you'll see what appears to be a picture with a square around it, if you place your cursor over it you'll see "insert image". Click on that and then follow instructions for accessing your pic using "my computer" including "upload". Your pic will appear where your cursor was sitting. It will be in a small thumbnail size. If you want it to be larger, double click on the pic. Then select whatever size you want and it will post the pic in your post in the size you chose. Pretty slick. Here's one posted in "full size". This is a pic that has been resized prior to posting so it's manageable. Do the resizing with whatever program you have in your computer. I use "Photo Gallery".

 

[dieselcrawler]

I use photo bucket, as a storage site. I have pictures I've lost when stored on my old computer. Once I got a smartphone, I started saving pictures to PB. If I post a picture, it's linked to my photo bucket account.

 

[Oldpath05]

I use photo bucket, as a storage site. I have pictures I've lost when stored on my old computer. Once I got a smartphone, I started saving pictures to PB. If I post a picture, it's linked to my photo bucket account.

"I use photo bucket, as a storage site.""< Looks like that's what my PB is gonna be, tried several times today and the site kept freezing, maybe they moved to the north pole. My kids keep telling about me to get a smart phone, I told them I would when it come's with a 15" screen, but I thought pics. could be sent directly to the forum

 

[Oldpath05]

Courtesy should dictate that a member posting a picture resize it to something respectable. This is especially helpful for members with a slow connection. But what you are talking about is extremely large pics posted. It might take your computer a few seconds or more to open them. But as you said, once open you can read the brand, size, and mounting instructions printed on the side of their tires!!!!

Xfaxman recently taught me this. When posting with the intent of adding a pic, click on "Go Advanced". Then above where you type your data, and to the far left you'll see a "blue A" block, click on that. Place your cursor where you want the pic to insert. Then in the second row of icons and 3/4 across toward the right side you'll see what appears to be a picture with a square around it, if you place your cursor over it you'll see "insert image". Click on that and then follow instructions for accessing your pic using "my computer" including "upload". Your pic will appear where your cursor was sitting. It will be in a small thumbnail size. If you want it to be larger, double click on the pic. Then select whatever size you want and it will post the pic in your post in the size you chose. Pretty slick. Here's one posted in "full size". This is a pic that has been resized prior to posting so it's manageable. Do the resizing with whatever program you have in your computer. I use "Photo Gallery".

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I'll try to remember those instructions, think I got it I'm the kind of guy who has to read something 15 times then do it 15 times. But that's one nice looking tractor, I'd like to be able see the tire size on that, then you have it sitting in a creak bed with some snow, nice be worthy of a calendar picture. Since you have this pic, got anymore of that tractor from another angle?
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[Looking4new]

I use PB because for years the only way to put pics on a site was to us a photo sharing platform. I couldn't do it directly from my 'puter. I keep nothing in my PB account that I wouldn't want my mother to see.

 

[Jimbrown]

If you are using IE or Microsoft Edge you will probably have problems. Chrome works for me.

The reason to use it is there are many sites that will not allow you to post pictures directly from you computer, They do not want to waste their storage memory storing you pictures. By forcing you to use PB they only have to store the URL.

 

[ovrszd]

I use PB because for years the only way to put pics on a site was to us a photo sharing platform. I couldn't do it directly from my 'puter. I keep nothing in my PB account that I wouldn't want my mother to see.

It's not your Mother you have to worry about.

 

[Looking4new]

It's not your Mother you have to worry about.

My point is that there is no 'X' rated stuff in my PB account nor on my 'puter.

 

[TractorGuy]

I use Photobucket because I always have. Old habits die hard. It is bloated with adware and you get that dang popup page but it usually works okay after it loads. I try not to put anything up I'm afraid for someone to see but I like having the option to delete files or folders later if I want to.

One thing about uploading photos here is they don't allow you to edit or remove anything after a 24 hour period. If I decide later I don't want the photo up I can't take it down.

I did not know you could get a photo uploaded here and make it actual size instead of the thumbnail. Will have to try that sometime. It is quicker and easier than uploading to PB and then linking to it.

As has already been said you should resize your pictures before uploading. This creates a lot of extra stuff on your hard drive but it's the best thing to do. I name most all my photos folders by date and inside the folders I want to upload pictures from I create a resized folder. I use irfanview for that and it works pretty good. I can do single or batch file resizing and usually set my long side to 1024 pixels and lat the program decide the other side when kept in original proportion. If you set the photo to 1024 on the long side and compress it to 95% you retain most if the quality and the file size will be manageable for people to download or view.

 

[ovrszd]

My point is that there is no 'X' rated stuff in my PB account nor on my 'puter.

There's none in mine either. Not sure where you got the idea that anyone posting on here had **** on their Photobucket account?

 

[Oldpath05]

"I keep nothing in my PB account that I wouldn't want my mother to see."
Amen to that......

 

[Oldpath05]

If you are using IE or Microsoft Edge you will probably have problems. Chrome works for me.

The reason to use it is there are many sites that will not allow you to post pictures directly from you computer, They do not want to waste their storage memory storing you pictures. By forcing you to use PB they only have to store the URL.

I have Chrome on my HP, but lately when I try to go on PB, this keeps popping up on top of the page for a split sec.>>>>a plugin shockwave flash isn't responding, I tried to re-install that, but no help. But most of my pics. are on my Gmail, so there not lock up where I cant see them. I'll give flickr a try, see what happens there. Maybe photobucket put me on their ignore list because I wouldn't/wont vote for Hillary dillary............

 

[Xfaxman]

I'll try to remember those instructions, think I got it I'm the kind of guy who has to read something 15 times then do it 15 times. --------------------------

Here are the instructions, with screenshots: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/photos/107314-photo-posting-how-3.html?highlight=#post3967120

PM me with any questions or concerns.

 

[aczlan]

One thing about uploading photos here is they don't allow you to edit or remove anything after a 24 hour period. If I decide later I don't want the photo up I can't take it down.

You can take a picture down, just not edit it.
Go to http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/profile.php?do=editattachments and it will let you remove them. Just be aware that it will may leave your posts looking odd with the pictures missing.

Aaron Z

 

[ovrszd]

You can take a picture down, just not edit it.
Go to http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/profile.php?do=editattachments and it will let you remove them. Just be aware that it will may leave your posts looking odd with the pictures missing.

Aaron Z

Good stuff. Did not know that. But, so far I've not had the need to remove a pic later.