There was some gnashing of teeth and frustration at the unusability of Imgur for Brits.
People have used a few different alternatives. Photobucket was one and recently Thep has trialled Amazon photo.
Ideally a new vehicle is recommended and us not very technical types can just adopt the new vehicle.
So do those with competence on this matter have recommendations for a replacement for Imgur?
This may be a stupid question, but when we do reviews, we can just upload an image (for the album etc). Can’t something similar be done for normal posts ?
My guess would be that the review image is hosted on this site (as are our ‘avatars’) but that hosting every image used would have various issues; bandwidth, cost, copyright, images being uploaded and posted elsewhere?
Flickr?
I had no idea Flickr was still a thing. And the image has embedded too, which is more than I ever managed to get Imgur to do.
Huzzah got it to work.
Didn’t you used to have a beard?
Only in the mating season.
You look better in the first picture. Friendlier and less threatening.
I have no problem seeing or posting images using a VPN, but I guess if you don’t use one then you get the ‘content not viewable’ image…
Well, blow me! My old account still works!
Ok boffins. It’s time for “this acme photo post it works, its free,its reliable, here’s the link just use this from now on. ,
Are those sweat stains?
I believe so. Not my shirt, I hasten to add.
I can’t find anything that’s usable for me. I took a look at Flickr but I couldn’t figure out how to upload previously taken photos to it so I uninstalled it. Never mind no biggy.
It’s just the cloud icon with the up arrow, next to the notifications bell, and two to the left of your profile icon at the top right.
Diolch.
Fingers crossed…
Huzzah and lovely to see.
I can see how to upload an image to Flickr, but I have no idea where you subsequently get the link that lets you post summat which will display correctly, as Peter has done above… any clues for the clueless?
I thought I’d try it again as practice makes perfect and to refresh my memory. I’m using the Android app on a Samsung tablet.
It goes like this…
Select the camera icon and click on the previously stored image thumbnail that appears bottom left of the screen. That takes you to the various galleries of photos you have stored on the device. From there you can select and upload your chosen image. Click on the image and select upload irl which gets stored into the clipboard. Easy peasy.
I couldn’t see how to load a picture on the app so I had to download it to the Flickr Web page then I could find it in the app and copy the URL. How do you download to the app @pencilsqueezer? Using the Android app on a Samsung tablet.
I had to download both images from cloud storage into the internal storage on my tablet before Flickr could see them after that as I described above.
Android….app…Samsung…tablet… you what?
Thanks for the instructions but all of the words above have little meaning for me – I’m on a Windows PC and I still have no idea how, once I’ve uploaded a photo to Flickr, I can get hold of a link that I can put in a post on here that will display the actual photo.
Sorry I’m obviously using the wrong tech. Perhaps you could try accessing Flickr’s FAQs.
I’m currently stuck in a loop with imgur, trying to download the images I’d put there. I filled in the form for UK users to request their images.
Their guide to downloading your images if you’re in the UK says to log in to your account. Which I can’t. And they won’t send you a copy of all the images.
Think I need a one-time VPN…
Hmm, well they are no use at all. Have installed the free version of Proton VPN…
Which works admirably. Everywhere bar imgur, which returns a gnomic
{“data”:{“error”:”Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later.”},”success”:false,”status”:403}
every time.
Amazon photo is only free if you’re a Prime person, otherwise there’s a sliding scale of charges starting at AUD20/GBP10 a year. Unlike Imgur, as far as I can see sharing gives you a link which doesn’t turn into a pic at the destination so you have to click out.