Thread: New picture uploader?

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

Why don't you get yourself a photobucket account which is free and just copy a paste your image?

If you go through the forum you'll notice a ton of old threads with the images missing because people have done just this. Hosting the images right where the text is hosted has the best chance of insuring they remain together.

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

Why don't you get yourself a photobucket account which is free and just copy a paste your image?

Originally Posted by gugi

If you go through the forum you'll notice a ton of old threads with the images missing because people have done just this. Hosting the images right where the text is hosted has the best chance of insuring they remain together.

Gugi's dead-on right about this; however... I got annoyed with the automatic resizing of my SOTD photos by vBulletin, so I opted for linking to their URLs on Photobucket. I know, I know... there's probably an element of vanity in my decision making

Right now it's up to you, which resizing you like better, but in the long run external hosting is gonna hurt you.
The platform SRP uses is going to continue changing, and with those changes things will continue to get broken.
The closer you stay with the current platform the better chance that what you post will carry with the evolution of the software.

The very reason for this thread illustrates the point - vbulletin is poorly maintaned by the developers to the point that security issues are being fixed by disabling vbulletin features.

Originally Posted by gugi

Right now it's up to you, which resizing you like better, but in the long run external hosting is gonna hurt you.
The platform SRP uses is going to continue changing, and with those changes things will continue to get broken.
The closer you stay with the current platform the better chance that what you post will carry with the evolution of the software.

The very reason for this thread illustrates the point - vbulletin is poorly maintaned by the developers to the point that security issues are being fixed by disabling vbulletin features.

Although I have been responsible for SOTD photos that have "gone walkabout", it was because I had them linked from what was my own domain; when personal finances could no longer allow the $110/year, I had to forgo that particular vanity -- so, too, the linked photos; however, that was on a different shaving forum, so I don't quite feel "their" pain.

Having said that, I tend to believe that Photobucket has a greater financial stability than me, and I don't worry about my photos suddenly disappearing (of course, I have "zee negatives"). Other than as a workaround for arbitrary resizing of uploaded photos, linking a photo by URL from any external site has another advantage: if/when it becomes necessary to edit or modify a source photo, changes become immediately visible on all sites linking to it. Managing photos on vBulletin is more challenging; at least, for me.

It's not a matter of financial stability, but of interface/policy changes both with the external and with SRP. But as I said you do these at your own risk - I personally host everything on SRP.

An Element of Vanity could be a subtitle of SRP!

Originally Posted by JBHoren

Gugi's dead-on right about this; however... I got annoyed with the automatic resizing of my SOTD photos by vBulletin, so I opted for linking to their URLs on Photobucket. I know, I know... there's probably an element of vanity in my decision making