Photo bucket hosting.

I clicked the upload image icon, it says select image, open the Dropbox folder and select one then click ok. This is on my tablet, I am doing the same thing at the same time on my computer but the procedure is completely different. What are you doing it on? The image doesn't show up while typing the message but it shows up once it is posted.

Makes sense now, I told you I wasn't sure how this works and that explains why there were 2 copies of every picture. That's just the way I always did it.

Thought I'd put this up here, may help someone.
www.thebalance.com/top-free-image-hosting-websites-1357014

Tell us how you really feel.

I have no idea how to delete my pics and close my Photobucket account. 

OK gents, I have some questions for you. I'm a web/database developer and I might be able to build a solution or two.

First, the questions to the general user base:
Would you rather host your pictures in your user space here on theCJ2Apage or on an internet server that would be built for the specific purpose of hosting third-party images?

If you opted for a server other than here (so you could use pictures in other places as well), there are other questions:

What features would you expect from the picture hosting service (see below* for some initial ideas I have)?

No one likes ads, but that's how many internet servers pay the bills. There are a couple ways I could do this, and unfortunately it's similar to what Photobucket is doing:

Option 1) Some small bit of 'free' storage with ads on the page. No ads for subscription users, and how much the subscription costs is dependent on how much space you use.

Option 2) Everyone pays based on how much space they use.

If you opted for hosting here at the CJ2A page:
Would you be willing to chip in on operational costs, whether on a one-time basis or periodically, as needed/determined by RussNJ?


Second, questions specifically for RussNJ:
Is it possible for you to host a crap-ton of images? I know there are other hurdles, but I assume adding storage for everyone's pictures won't be cheap.
Umm. Never mind. I think you already addressed that:
You gave us 500MB of storage with a max file size of 10MB. That's 50 maximum sized pictures. I think most of us are uploading files much smaller than that.
My largest is about 800Kb, averaging about 300Kb, so I could drop about 1700 pictures in that space. I don't think we'll need more.

what are your thoughts on adding a file manager if there is one or I can build one? I'm hoping that this is a 'modular' forum software package.

Current Ideas/specifications for either solution:
* Non-CJ2A hosted service:

• Be able to organize pictures into 'collections' based on the forums you belong to.
• Each collection could be configured for the maximum limits of the forum it's meant for - Maximum width, height, and image type (jpg, png, gif, etc.)
• By default, picture links for each collection would be automatically resized and saved as the appropriate type, with the option to customize if you wanted it smaller than the max allowed.
• You would be able to add the same picture to multiple collections.
• You could download all or part of your picture library at any time as a zip file (or whatever other compressed file type) with the pictures still meeting the specifications for each 'collection'.

Picture Storage right here at theCJ2Apage:

I can look into how this forum software stores files and see if there is either

a) a file manager plugin that will let you sort files

or

b) see if I can develop a plugin that will allow managing files in a way that makes sense.

The most difficult part of either solution will be figuring out if/how we can manage to create a solution that will automatically replace image links so that everyone that moves pictures doesn't have to edit every post they've ever posted a picture in. Making this possible will be far harder than developing either of the above solutions. I promise.

(EDIT)

There may be a way to create a 'file manager' that gives the user the appearance of putting them in folders or tying them to threads, but does not change the actual location of the file. This would result in the user seeing the files in a manageable order, but would not break picture links to any CJ2A hosted images already used in posts.

Edited by LesBerg - 20 Aug. 2017 at 11:27pm