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Decrepit Dakkanaut




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Crablezworth - honestly Photobuckets performance has been dire for years. It only kept going because of so many legacy users (like yourself). The ads policy and general slowness of the site has been an issue for ages now.

Imgur is what I'm also using for general forum hosting of stuff; whilst I use flickr for "serious" stuff

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 Azazelx wrote:
For forum hosting, I'm now using Imgur.


How do you deal with the sizing issue? Pics I post from Imgur come out huge on Dakka. Do you size them before uploading? Optimum size for Dakka?

Thanks,

T
   
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I resize my images in photoshop before uploading them to wordpress or imgur so when I post them, they're post-size friendly. Also it lets me crop the useless crap around the model

   
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I hate what Photobucket has done. It bugs the crap out of me.
   
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 Azazelx wrote:
I resize my images in photoshop before uploading them to wordpress or imgur so when I post them, they're post-size friendly. Also it lets me crop the useless crap around the model


+1 I do this as well.
Also note that resizing photos saps some of the sharpness from them; now many online hosts offer automatic resizing but their resizing software varies a lot from applying no sharpening all the way to applying way too much. So if you resize yourself you can adjust sharpening to suit rather than relying on the defaults of the online hosts.

This also helps cut down on how much you have to upload and on ow much those viewing your photos have to download - faster surfing!

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 Azazelx wrote:
I resize my images in photoshop before uploading them to wordpress or imgur so when I post them, they're post-size friendly. Also it lets me crop the useless crap around the model


What is your optimum crop size for Dakka?

T
   
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timd wrote:
 Azazelx wrote:
For forum hosting, I'm now using Imgur.


How do you deal with the sizing issue? Pics I post from Imgur come out huge on Dakka. Do you size them before uploading? Optimum size for Dakka?

Thanks,

T

My issue with imgur is that my work blocks it’s pics, so I don’t see quit a few people’s pics here on Dakka Dakka

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 Red_Five wrote:
I hate what Photobucket has done. It bugs the crap out of me.


I'm still in the process of repairing the damage to my wordpress blog. Once that's done, I'll go back the finish repairing my Dakka plog. I was trying to do both in concert initially, but it was actually more work than just staying on one thing. Given that a random post on the blog on the web is more likely to be read due to google/GIS than page 42 of my blog, Wordpress got priority.

timd wrote:
 Azazelx wrote:
I resize my images in photoshop before uploading them to wordpress or imgur so when I post them, they're post-size friendly. Also it lets me crop the useless crap around the model

What is your optimum crop size for Dakka?
T


Depends on the subject. Usually 300-450 for individual models. 400-500 for 2-shots, 500-600 for trios and fours. I rule of thumb larger models such as Ogres, Dreads, vehicles and terrain with appropriately bigger shots, but no more than 5-600 really.

800 or 1000 for larger group shots or (sometimes) terrain. I've gone up to 1200, but those are rare specific occasions such as reviews of game mats where you really want to see the details.

Check my P&M blog (in my sig) to see some examples of my usual sizing.

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timd wrote:
 Azazelx wrote:
For forum hosting, I'm now using Imgur.


How do you deal with the sizing issue? Pics I post from Imgur come out huge on Dakka. Do you size them before uploading? Optimum size for Dakka?

Thanks,

T
On Imgur, you can directly and easily edit the size of your images after you upload them, right there on the Imgur site.

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 Overread wrote:
Crablezworth - honestly Photobuckets performance has been dire for years. It only kept going because of so many legacy users (like yourself). The ads policy and general slowness of the site has been an issue for ages now.

Imgur is what I'm also using for general forum hosting of stuff; whilst I use flickr for "serious" stuff


When I initially signed up on there it was so simple and easy to use. Sure it wasn't a pretty website, but it was friggin functional...and that's what counts. Whoever was running the site destroyed it themselves...it became an immense hassle to do even simple stuff in a timely manner. Now some of my logs from nearly ten years ago are dead as dirt (especially the ones on warseer), and the work it would take to restore dozens of pages is just daunting...I don't even have the energy for it.

 
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut




UK

Yeah early photobucket was very functional. It just worked.

However something got miss-managed in it and its become a mess. My impression is that it grew too big too fast and those in charge didn't have the best mind for how to monetize it. As a result they found themselves unable to keep up performance for a continually expanding dataload and somewhere along the line tried ads. Then they took their ad-policy from spam sites it seems; overloading the site and slowing it up even more and making it less and less attractive.


One can sort of get the feeling that they almost want to make it un-usable just so that the user base flees. Get their data load down and then either sell it off or shut it down with less of a backlash.

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 Thargrim wrote:
 Overread wrote:
Crablezworth - honestly Photobuckets performance has been dire for years. It only kept going because of so many legacy users (like yourself). The ads policy and general slowness of the site has been an issue for ages now.

Imgur is what I'm also using for general forum hosting of stuff; whilst I use flickr for "serious" stuff


When I initially signed up on there it was so simple and easy to use. Sure it wasn't a pretty website, but it was friggin functional...and that's what counts. Whoever was running the site destroyed it themselves...it became an immense hassle to do even simple stuff in a timely manner. Now some of my logs from nearly ten years ago are dead as dirt (especially the ones on warseer), and the work it would take to restore dozens of pages is just daunting...I don't even have the energy for it.


Yeah. I'm still slowly plugging away at repairing years of blog. Hosting those copies of the pics on the wordpress site - and happily giving them some cash for hosting because why not. Photobucket has actually gotten progressively worse after the apocalypse - I can no longer download my own gallery folders, nor even see the full versions of many of my photos. Luckily, I have (almost) all of them backed up on my PC's HDD, so I'm able to repair my blogs via filename when necessary (which is almost all of the photos now).

Once I've got everything backed up. I'll be deleting all of my stuff from there. Leaving them for now while I use them as reference points to rebuild my pages.


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 Overread wrote:
Yeah early photobucket was very functional. It just worked.
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One can sort of get the feeling that they almost want to make it un-usable just so that the user base flees. Get their data load down and then either sell it off or shut it down with less of a backlash.


It wouldn't take that many $500/pa customers to replace a hell of a lot of us who were using it for free hosting. Though I'd actually paid them for a few years (out of goodwill) and was actually really close to getting around to to re-upping even though I never went near the photo limit - though not the $500 plan by a long shot! Now they can go feth themselves after treating their customers with such a degree of contempt. I think that's the technical term.

having said that, they've spammed me twice in the last couple of weeks. 17th and 20th October. Trying to flog prints and a $10-off subscriptions. Ha!

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I generally use tumblr for image hosting anymore myself.

 
   
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From Malo on Yaktribe:

"Yes, from this day forward all images embedded here from 3rd party sites will be automatically downloaded and stored locally to prevent such things from happening in future."

I assume this could be done on Dakka as well, but the amount of storage needed might get out of hand.

Thank you Azazelx and ph34r for the sizing and imgur advice.

T



   
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New Orleans, LA

 Azazelx wrote:
For forum hosting, I'm now using Imgur.




Imgur is work blocked for me. That's why I can't see the stuff you post in your blog here.

Ah, well.

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 kronk wrote:
 Azazelx wrote:
For forum hosting, I'm now using Imgur.

Imgur is work blocked for me. That's why I can't see the stuff you post in your blog here.
Ah, well.


You could try the Wordpress site. It's pretty much all the same stuff as here but the pics there are hosted there instead of imgur. A bit more stuff there from time to time, in fact.
https://azazelx.com/

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Update: Photobucket has reverted their pay policy and restored most of their old 3rd party content for free. This means most of the dead threads on hobby sites such as this one can be enjoyed once again, without moderators or users doing anything.



While this is a fortunate boon to hobby forums, it should be remembered that many imagehosting sites have folded or changed beyond recognition (incl. Imageshack), while the once-default choice of Photobucket itself has proved unstable. While the large website of Imgur remains dependable for the moment being, things can change fast, as we saw with Photobucket. Digital storage is insecure and fragile, yet brilliant in its outreach.

As such, do consider these following two steps to backup hobby pictures and artworks for public view:

1. Upload your own hobby pictures into one or more Google Drive folders (or similar), set access to share, and insert a link to this folder in your hobby log(s) and showcase thread(s). That way, even if whatever imagehosting site(s) you are using folds in the future, or play 3rd party hosting rodeo, others may still be able to access your work, admire it and be inspired through this backup folder, even if you yourself have gone inactive.


2. Search out those old treasure threads which you know of, where masterclass work of conversions, sculpting, scenery making, miniature painting or artwork were created by very talented people. Save a selection of these images yourself, upload to both one or more imagehosting sites like Imgur, and to a Google Drive folder. Then you can either pool your and others' backup folders of the best of the best in some common thread, or perhaps commit thread necromancy (if this is not frowned upon on a particular forum) where you share links to these backup albums and folders in the thread in question - or send these links to an active moderator to have inserted into the first post of inactive treasure threads (if threadomancy happens to be frowned upon).


Note that this can be organized as a group endeavour, where a bunch of active members name and link the very best which their hobby site has to offer, and split salvage of these different inactive members' pictures between themselves. If this is done, then it may be advisible to avoid repetitive images, most WIP pictures that lead up to a finished result, pictures of sprues and so on: Salvage selectively, save the very best and don't maximize your voluntary burden.

Other ways of backing up images of others and sharing them publicly are possible - and please talk about them here or elsewhere - but the point to stress here is that inactive members do not save their own pictures for sharing: That is up to the active members to do, if they deem a particular hobby work or artwork worthy to save for future years to inspire themselves and others.

At the moment of writing, a majority of older wargaming hobby pictures online have likely been shared over Photobucket. We have been granted an unexpected reprieve with their reversal of the pay-to-share debacle*, meaning all those dead hobby logs are suddenly up with visible pictures again. A reprieve which we should all consider exploiting while it last: Now is your chance to salvage the true gems of others and help save the very best pictures for the future.

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* Which is why one shouldn't even consider to delete one's Photobucket account unless one have already backed up the images and re-uploaded those one wish to share. Redundancy is key.

   
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Thanks for the update although this will be too little too late for photobucket. I don't think most folks who hosted stuff there will return especially if they actually went through the unnecessarily clunky hassle to download their albums and then deleted their accounts; the folks who didn't even do that probably found other places to host and, while happy their stuff is returning, probably won't host new things there. Photobucket dug their 10ft deep grave and only when done realized they didn't have a ladder to get out; extending a hand to help them out now won't work IMO.

Edit: From this article here,

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/17/photobucket-image-hosting-plans/

It doesn't look like free 3rd party hosting is back although the cost is a more reasonable $30 a year to start instead of the ridiculous $400 they wanted last year. I'm surprised to read that they're only a 10 person company though as you'd think a previous "giant" of image hosting would be a lot bigger and it does make me a bit more sympathetic to their efforts to raise money now (although last year's move to ransom images suddenly behind a $400 payment was a pure dick move on their part).

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