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    Join Date: Jan 2022

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    Default Difficulty posting My own photo's in Playing now

    I recently joined the forum I have a hard time posting my own photo's, I am on other forums where posting photos is a breeze most including forums relating to my other interests in the UK & USA have been updated.

    I appreciate there are problems with the absence of Marco, are there any updates/upgrades on the horizon, I will admit that I am not the most Tec savvy of members.

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    I don't post photos via the forum. I use ImgBB, which is a free third party site and very easy to use, no sign-up required.

    Here: https://imgbb.com/
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    walpurgis Thank you near neighbour, I will give it a try I lost a lot of photos when photobucket decided to try and intimidate users so have been wary of such 3rd party sites.

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    just keep a backup copy on a hhd.
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    just keep a backup copy on a hhd.
    Or a USB stick.

    You don't need to keep images on ImgBB by the way. Just use it to add photos to forum posts.
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    flikr is brilliant too at hosting pics on here
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Or a USB stick.

    You don't need to keep images on ImgBB by the way. Just use it to add photos to forum posts.
    I looked at their site and I'm not sure what it actually does?
    As far as I know, to use an image in a forum thread, or any website page, the image must either be uploaded and reside on the site you want to view it, or you have to create hot link there, to pull a representation of the image, in from a different location on the web, where it is actually stored.

    ImgBB do talk about allowing access to your social media pictures and video's and uploading images with a 32MB limit.
    When you say add photos to a forum post, where are these photos stored, if not at ImgBB?
    I'm curious as to how this differs to an image hosting site Geoff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Or a USB stick.

    You don't need to keep images on ImgBB by the way. Just use it to add photos to forum posts.
    It's just an image hosting site Geoff.
    If you delete an uploaded image, the path to that image no longer exists and it will vanish from any forum post in which it was used.
    When you upload an image to their site, it gives you a URL to use in the forum post. This URL (hot link) is just the location of your stored image on their site, the image never exists or is stored at the forum itself.
    It's no different to photobucket, flickr or any other image hosting site in this respect.

    Geee's I just noticed the date this was posted
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