Photo-hosting - who do you use - what's good - what's bad

[bstardchild]

Hi All

As a stuck in the mud Photo-bucket user who has dabbled with Flikr I'm interested in what other providers people use (it cropped up in another thread)

Can you post up what you use and any pros or cons with the service you get?

If the answer you'd like to give isn't in the poll - Again post in the thread and I'll add it to the poll so you can vote - Please don't Vote for "OTHER"

I only set the poll up with single vote format - if you use multiple hosts pick the one you use most - by all means post in the thread if others you used haven't been mentioned

[BenzBoy]

I use Imgur, after jumping from the sinking Photobucket ship. I think it's since improved, but Imgur is really straightforward and fairly simple. It isn't perfect - I find the interface a bit confusing sometimes, but that might be me being a bit thick.

[collector]

IMGUR
imgur.com/

[bstardchild]

Well I'll have to think about how I deal with adding/amending polls as I thought I could but I can't......

Great plans!!!

[HoTWire]

imgur all the way .. it is what I'll be recommending using when I manage to get round to updating your how to post pictures tutorial into an actual help page on the site


Pros : it is free, no limits AFAIK, easy to use (drag and drop, or upload from file, or pull from Url), is super stable.
Cons : not as album friendly and organisation friendly as Flickr


I use Flickr for my Photography (capital P), such as it is. I use Imgur to share pictures, either individual or not car stuff or whatever.

[The Doctor]

I have my own webspace.
Yes it costs me money every year, but it's simple (i upload single files or complete folders with an FTP program), 99.99% reliable and no adverts.
All worth it for me.

[dbizzle]

Flickr, all day long. I used to use Photobucket but found its rubbishness really annoying. I started paying for premium Flickr a couple of years ago, but now I just use the free one since it offers more storage than you could ever use...

[bstardchild]

Jan 2, 2015 20:27:10 GMT dbizzle said:

Flickr, all day long. I used to use Photobucket but found its rubbishness really annoying. I started paying for premium Flickr a couple of years ago, but now I just use the free one since it offers more storage than you could ever use...

You surprised me there, so I assume when you say storage you mean just that rather than bandwidth?

I had several "free" photobucket accounts, a photobox account and a Flickr account and I maxed them all out bandwidth wise so I picked the one I liked best and paid for pro, it seemed a small price to pay for the additional on line backup as well as no more bandwidth issues every month.

Two forums I use this one and pistonheads absolutely hammer you bandwidth in my experience, all the other forums I use put together don't even come close to either of them.

[WillCarter]

Yeah imgur all the way for me, no social media curse word, no weird interface, just straight forward hosting.

[fred]

imgur for me too
Dumped PB got far too fanny some

[mjphotography2016]

used to use imageshack but was never comfortable with it, have tried flickr and imgur with no success so i use photobucket although i do pay monthly for it ive never really had any problems, currently got 22gb plan 38% full with 6,493 photo's

[MiataMark]

Flickr for images I want to share with the wider world and my own website/space for images just for RR posts, so I don't clutter up my Flickr account too much.

The Flickr uploader is easy to use (although not as easy as it was) and there are lots of options. Easy to grab the BBcode for insertion into posts as well.

Mark

[grifterkid]

I use Photobucket and it seems to work ok for me in terms of usability... Maybe I should investigate other options?!

[goldnrust]

I stuck with photobucket.

Like many I was getting annoyed with it when they started changing the site design about, and more and more adds seemed to be appearing, to top it off I reached the bandwidth limit and all my photos disappeared.

The solution for me was to start paying for it, mainly because I had over 1,000 photos spread across a number of forums in threads going back years. I didn't want to have to re-upload all those photos and re-link them, it would have taken days. I know I could have just left the links broken but it seems a shame, as I know how many times I've found myself looking at threads that are years old and being annoyed that the photo links have gone.

Since starting to pay for photobucket, which isn't overly expensive, I've got used to the new site and I think it's improved a bit anyway, I also see no adverts and it's been very smooth and simple.

[gn3dr]

I use flickr but find it reallyawkward to grab links from it. Especially when using a tablet.

[MiataMark]

Jan 3, 2015 10:12:27 GMT gn3dr said:

I use flickr but find it reallyawkward to grab links from it. Especially when using a tablet.

Grabbing individual links is a pain, but then it's not really set up for that, grabbing code so it shows the image and the Flickr link is easy (on a PC/Laptop, no experience of a tablet). I do pay for Flickr, and have done for a long time, paying gets you more organisation.

[rapidyellow]

if its for putting pics up to post on a forum I always use postimage.org , its easy to upload and copy the image links

you can get an account with them for free which you can set albums etc, not sure on the storage limits, I make all of my images for forum use at 800px wide so the image file sizes are quite small anyway.

[Clamity]

Imgur for me too. No limits, no nonsense, anonymous, really easy to use. As their tagline used to say, 'Image hosting that doesn't suck.'

I tried several others, but they've all fallen by the wayside over the years. Looking back on various forums, my posts from more than 5 years ago tend to have lost their pictures now.

[TurboDieselWeasel]

I use my own, payed, webspace... Bonus: I have 100% control, I have a domain and my own, very personal e-mailadress (I could make a LOT of adresses actually) and a little blog, my own corner in the interwebz. And for all that it's rather cheap, a few euros per month... It's realy not expensive anymore nowadays. also has unlimited bandwith & some gigs of storage. Been using it for some years now and can't recall a single downtime.

[gurnersimps1963]

Photobucket for me too,I do get problems but to be honest its more my own doing,I was thinking of changing to something else but it took me bloody ages to work photobucket and I don't want to go through that again. :=)