Stop using PhotoBucket! ... please?

[MishkaL1138]

Stop using Photobucket, please! Never have I seen such a bad image hosting website, it's pretty hard to link images directly from there, and it sends you to some crappy lightroom place. Here's a list of websites you can use to upload your pictures:

• FruBar - doesn't require you to register, but in exchange EVERYONE can see your pictures
• Imgur - requires an account, can create albums
• Flickr - requires an account, can create albums
• DropBox - requires an account, not only for pictures
• Drive - service by Google, like Dropbox, but also offers editing tools for documents

If you have any others, list them here if you'd like.

[Illysia]

What do you mean? it's just a click to link pictures and all you have to do is save the UV map I linked from the picture in the thread. It wasn't even resized. 

[MishkaL1138]

What do you mean? it's just a click to link pictures and all you have to do is save the UV map I linked from the picture in the thread. It wasn't even resized. 

Photoshop isn't letting me edit the file because it says it's not a supported format...

[Illysia]

Does your version of photoshop work with .png? I just saved the picture from the thread, opened it in photoshop, and drew all over it with no problem. The problem isn't Photobucket. You may need me to save it as a jpg. Maya saved the UV map as a png and I didn't bother to convert that.

[Izzabella]

Thanks for the ideas and options of other sites to use, I've never been a huge fan of Photobucket because of all the adds and it's SO slow. But I used it years ago, I think so many did and it what I was introduced to and knew how to use so I just used that. But it seems more of a pain now.  I'll look into some of these you've mentioned if I decide I have any pictures worth posting.

[Rigwyn]

Just curious - I've been using imgur for a while now and never bothered to set up an account. Is there some advantage to having an account?

Also, Have you tried google drive? I used to use google sites and services ( free web hosting ) for storing images, but that service was phased out.

[steuben]

i've used it both ways. i think the only real advantage to an imgur account is that you don't lose the links to your images after you close the browser window.

[Dilihin]

Best solution would be, ofcourse make your own image host... 

[LigH]

Illysia, believe it or not ... I see no image in your post. For some reason, when this board software tries to retrieve an image from PhotoBucket, instead, it gets a HTML page in return (which does not match the requirements of the "IMG" bbTag). The reason may be that I do not use Firefox as primary web browser, and my browser may handle referrers a little differently ... I don't know.

What I do know is: PhotoBucket is among a few image hosters which redirect URLs to present you a selection of ads around the image you want to see. I always have to "Quote" such a post and copy&paste the URL of the  image one wanted to present inline, to see it at all. After I have seen it, and it is in my browser cache, it appears in the post, though.

[Rigwyn]

Out of curiosity, what does her post translate to in HTML for your browser?
I tried with Firefox 45.5.0 ESR and Konqueror 4.14.25 and it worked for both.
How does this show up in your browser in html?

This is how it shows up for me:

Firefox 45.5.0 ESR

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<div class="post">
<div class="inner" id="msg_481452">Here you go. the UV map and my original texture side by side.<br /><br />
<img src="http://i1370.photobucket.com/albums/ag248/Illysia/Planeshift/UVs%20for%20Textures_zpshihdpelb.png" alt="" class="bbc_img" />
<img src="http://i1370.photobucket.com/albums/ag248/Illysia/Planeshift/OjaPlateTexture1_zpsjekfp2in.png" alt="" class="bbc_img" />
</div>
</div>

Konqueror 4.14.25

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<div class="post">
<div class="inner" id="msg_481452">Here you go. the UV map and my original texture side by side.<br><br>
<img src="http://i1370.photobucket.com/albums/ag248/Illysia/Planeshift/UVs%20for%20Textures_zpshihdpelb.png" alt="" class="bbc_img">
<img src="http://i1370.photobucket.com/albums/ag248/Illysia/Planeshift/OjaPlateTexture1_zpsjekfp2in.png" alt="" class="bbc_img">
</div>
</div>


[LigH]

The issue is that a direct URL like http://i1370.photobucket.com/albums/ag248/Illysia/Planeshift/OjaPlateTexture1_zpsjekfp2in.png does not return a PNG image, but a HTML page; and HTML does not render as "image".

PhotoBucket should be able to recognize whether a HTTP request comes "from inside a post" where the image is deep-linked, or it is meant to load in a new browser tab/window, usually by evaluating a referrer field in the HTTP request (which is usually empty when you open a new tab and paste the URL into the address bar). Not all browsers seem to send referrers with requests for inline images, apparently (or in an unexpected format?); for those, PhotoBucket returns an ad-bloated website instead, which cannot be displayed as image. Some other image hosters, instead, always return a deep-linked image as pure image, and have a separate URL for the case you want to link it as presenting web page or album.

[Illysia]

Strange, that link returns a direct image when I click on it. What browsers are you and Mishka using?

[LigH]

Opera 12; OK, yes, a bit outdated, maybe ... but still the only wholesome internet suite I like. Seamonkey is a bit ... different. And Vivaldi is still only a web browser.

[MishkaL1138]

Firefox. And I see the image displayed, but when I "right click - see picture" on it, redirects me to photobucket

[Migg]

My market posts all use photobucket. I never had a problem seeing embedded images, but yes clicking the link redirects to photobucket. But then so do other services.