Photo sharing website ?

[gbb]

I'm sick to death of Photobucket, today i'm struggling like heck to log in then it chucks me out almost straight away. Ive had it years, usually its ok but does throw a frustrating wobbly every now and then.

Whatcha using ? I'm not a heavy user, mostly use it for inserting photos in threads (which isn't very often anyway)

TIA.

 

[ColinJ]

You don't need to link to photos on external sites - just upload them directly from your computer/tablet/phone using the 'Upload a file' button next to 'Post Reply', like THIS ...

 

[PhilDawson8270]

imgur.com is all I use for uploading images for sticking on forums etc

flickr is good for more serious photo stuff.

 

[I like Skol]

I have a PB account too and find it increasingly carp. Just bogs down with adverts and junk to the point of being almost unusable.

Cyclechat is pretty good, I can just snip and paste images straight into a post as I type, like this....

But lots of forums don't allow this and insist on offsite image hosting. I suppose Shaun must have a mahoosive server in his spare room.

A good, free alternative to Photobucket would be great if such a beast exists?

 

[PhilDawson8270]

A good, free alternative to Photobucket would be great if such a beast exists?

imgur

 

[mjr]

Whatcha using ? I'm not a heavy user, mostly use it for inserting photos in threads (which isn't very often anyway)

I use forum own's systems for that, but otherwise I use nextcloud/owncloud or occasionally imgur.

 

[Tim Hall]

Google photos seems ok. I used to use Picasa web albums but Google closed that and merged it with Google Photos. If you have a Google account you'll have access to Google Photos included.

 

[marknotgeorge]

I use Flickr. You get 1TB of space, which is a metric f-ton of photos. I have an app on my phone that automatically uploads them when it's charging and connected to WiFi. They're private by default, so I can choose what to do with them when they're uploaded.

 

[Pale Rider]

I was doing a bit more messing around with images a few years ago and liked this site:

http://www.23hq.com/

 

[mjr]

I use Flickr. You get 1TB of space, which is a metric f-ton of photos.

Shame that it doesn't work on low power devices. Oh well, at least it's not the Googgopoly.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Try sites.google.com , which has a 100MB limit per site, but you can create multiple sites (I have 3 so far).

 

[Tim Hall]

Shame that it doesn't work on low power devices. Oh well, at least it's not the Googgopoly.

What do you mean by not working on "low power devices"?

 

[mjr]

What do you mean by not working on "low power devices"?

Last I checked, Flickr was so overburdened with scripting that it displays black rectangles for ages (and sometimes forever) and eats batteries. It's displaying a picture gallery: how much whizzy web browser programming should that take?

 

[Tin Pot]

Still using photobucket

 

[marknotgeorge]

Last I checked, Flickr was so overburdened with scripting that it displays black rectangles for ages (and sometimes forever) and eats batteries. It's displaying a picture gallery: how much whizzy web browser programming should that take?

Seems fine to me on my Lumia 950 using Edge. Get yourself a decent phone!