[David Paule]

I have been using Imagebam.com to back up my images in my RV-3B blog, with Tinypic.com as the main host. I figured that with two sites, I'd have a chance of having at least one remain active.

Today I saw this message on Imagebam.com:

"We?d like to inform you that we will be shutting down services on June 30th, 2017. Please download and backup your files before this date."

On a personal basis this won't have any impact - I store all my images on my computer and they are only referenced as back-ups in the blog.

Does anyone know of an additional reliable, easy-to-use photo hosting site that facilitates easy uploading to VAF?

Dave

 

[DanH]

Does anyone know of an additional reliable, easy-to-use photo hosting site that facilitates easy uploading to VAF?

I've been using the minimum paid level on Photobucket.

 

[BillL]

I use google photo, formally Picassa.

 

[Ivan Kristensen]

Photo site shut down

I recently found myself in the same position as I was informed by my image host Phanfare that it would be shut down. They recommended that I transfer all my images to SmugMug.com which I subsequently did.

After some early "growing pains" learning the new site I have become quite familiar and now like it, I also found it fairly easy to upload photos to this forum.

Scott Schmidt has a thread here on VAF on how to use SmugMug to upload images to VAF.
http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?p=286734

 

[Auburntsts]

When Picasa (free) shutdown I switched to Flickr (also free). However, the only reason I use it is so I can post pics to Forums like this one.

 

[rv6ejguy]

Photobucket, although the free service is plastered with ads and popups making it very slow to accomplish your task. You get what you pay for...

 

[tomkk]

I've been using the minimum paid level on Photobucket.

Same here but the free one ...

 

[Raymo]

IMGUR is free and AFAIK, no popup ads. It also provides for different size photos with a direct link to pop into the forum image tool.

 

[jcarne]

I switched to flickr after I realized tinypic was unreliable. It is a little less intuitive at first but once set up it is a breeze.

 

[scard]

I decided to just pay up. I'm now using an AWS S3 bucket with scripts that make it silly easy.

 

[Brantel]

Sure is frustrating to go back and find post you have made now have the pics missing. I can't imagine how frustrating that is to the new guys on the forum...

Tinypic is now deleting pics that do not see much traffic. I have been using it for years so many of mine are being deleted.

Bummer!

[ed. It seems another of the thousands of ‘free’ image hosting sites has decided to close shop. Most ‘free’ things eventually do.

Every time this happens, a few folks wonder why I don’t host images on this site. I’ve discussed this in great detail at:
http://www.vansairforce.net/articles/ImagesInForums/images.htm . Maybe it would be a good idea to read that page if you haven’t.

Summarizing: A) I don’t have the money to do it and B) even if I did, I don’t want to be responsible for the pictures of over 23,000 people.
I’m going to go ahead and close this thread.

v/r,
dr

PS: I pay $4/mo for a SmugMug account. I also keep copies on my home computer just in case. ]

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