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harveybirdman:
I can't see it at work and it isn't on the site for posterity
yotsuya:
--- Quote from: scoodidabop on October 07, 2015, 06:11:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: harveybirdman on October 07, 2015, 05:33:22 pm ---One thing that would make me a lot less cantankerous is if you noobs would please start posting your images here at the forums instead of hot linking them from image sites.
see that link that says attachments and other options at the bottom of the Post Reply section? That's where they go. If you want to post them in the image thread then link them to your build thread that's cool too.
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Just curious - what's wrong with hot linking the images?
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Because 2-3 years down the road, when you cancel your Imgur/Instagram/Flickr account, all the photos go with you, resulting in threads with gaps and no images. It's an issue.
vwalbridge:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on October 07, 2015, 06:14:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: scoodidabop on October 07, 2015, 06:11:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: harveybirdman on October 07, 2015, 05:33:22 pm ---One thing that would make me a lot less cantankerous is if you noobs would please start posting your images here at the forums instead of hot linking them from image sites.
see that link that says attachments and other options at the bottom of the Post Reply section? That's where they go. If you want to post them in the image thread then link them to your build thread that's cool too.
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Just curious - what's wrong with hot linking the images?
--- End quote ---
Because 2-3 years down the road, when you cancel your Imgur/Instagram/Flickr account, all the photos go with you, resulting in threads with gaps and no images. It's an issue.
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I agree with this. Really sucks to visit an old thread just to have broken image links.
However, at risk of catching heat for this, I'm a habitual Photobucket image linker.
Sorry, but embedding images in this forum is cumbersome. Call me lazy, but there ain't nothing easier than mass uploading all my photos at once to Photobucket and then dropping the url in my thread.
With some users having rotated images, freakin' way over-sized images, and images all packed at the end of a post....I'll continue to use Photobucket.
***braces for impact***
scoodidabop:
Oh, right. Makes perfect sense. I'm extremely guilty of this so I'll spend some time eliminating all my hotlinks.
BadMouth:
I had two or three small project threads here before I caught on.
It really sank in when I went back to a motorcycle forum that I used to frequent. I needed to reference pics from my own threads, but they were all gone. Hadn't used the photobucket account in years or something.
Spent a slow day at work transferring BYOAC pics from flickr to here.
My one great failure is linking to ebay pics of epic fail guy's Star Wars Pachinko machine instead of downloading and attaching the photos.
Picture a random pachinko machine with pictures cut out of star wars posters glued to it and 3 or 4 star wars action figures glued to the top. Yeah, words don't do it justice. :'(
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