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#51 Gary C

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Posted 19 June 2018 - 20:52

no Ray, I log in to Postimage and the only thing I can't get into is my galleries - brilliant!



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#52 Ray Bell

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Posted 21 June 2018 - 02:17

The word 'upload' should occur there somewhere, Gary...

It's always there for me, and if you see your galleries you're logged in.

#53 dolomite

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Posted 03 August 2018 - 20:39

Testing...
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#54 Ray Bell

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Posted 07 August 2018 - 03:21

Did you click on 'thumbnails for forums'?

If you carry over 'Hotlink for Forums' you get it full size.

And please, this thread is not for testing...

#55 Doug Nye

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Posted 17 September 2018 - 19:15

Testing - testing

 

https://postimg.cc/LgYdWkMc

 

DCN



#56 Vitesse2

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Posted 17 September 2018 - 20:23

Testing - testing

 

https://postimg.cc/LgYdWkMc

 

DCN

So far so good, but you need to copy the second link in the list, Doug. The one that says 'Direct link'. Not the one that just says 'Link'.

 

Then, in the reply screen, click on the green image link in the second row (if you hover the cursor over it, you'll get a tooltip that says 'image').

 

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A box saying 'image properties' will then pop up; left-click in the text area and then right-click to paste the image address that you have just copied. Click 'OK' - the picture will then appear in the reply box.

 

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If you wish you can then press 'preview post' in order to see what the whole post will look like, or simply press 'post' without using preview.

 

NOTE THAT SOMETIMES WHEN YOU PRESS 'POST' THE PICTURE WILL NOT APPEAR IMMEDIATELY. IF THIS HAPPENS - DON'T PANIC! DON'T DELETE THE POST EITHER! SIMPLY REFRESH THE PAGE IN YOUR BROWSER AND THE PICTURE WILL APPEAR. THE SAME THING CAN HAPPEN IF YOU EDIT A POST CONTAINING A PICTURE.



#57 Ray Bell

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Posted 23 September 2018 - 15:57

Surely, Speedy, it's simpler just to copy the 'Hotlink for Forums' line?

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It then becomes a one-step process, just paste it into the post and the pic appears (after that frustrating page refresh, of course)?

#58 Gary C

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Posted 12 December 2018 - 20:48

OK,  with a new account, testing.............

 

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#59 terry mcgrath

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Posted 17 January 2019 - 14:02

to keep telling how to post pictures to this wonderful forum proves what a joke it is.

A real shame that great material will never male it here and great material added in the past has been lost forever

terry



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#60 Ray Bell

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Posted 19 January 2019 - 14:09

It's not hard, Terry...

 

And it is possible to restore stuff which has been lost. If the original poster is still around and retained the pic on his computer, he can go back and edit it in after uploading it to Postimage.



#61 elansprint72

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Posted 14 March 2019 - 21:54

Yea Ray, but it's 2019 mate; compared to other places this forum's software is a bag of old shite. I post more than my fair share of photos here but it's SO SIMPLE elsewhere.   :smoking:



#62 Dave Ware

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Posted 30 May 2019 - 00:31

I am getting this error "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community." when trying to post a jpg from Postimg.cc and also another cheapie free hosting site...If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it. 

 

I don't think I'll have time to try changing the jpg to a bmp extension tonight...the real world is interfering...

 

Thanks...



#63 Vitesse2

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Posted 30 May 2019 - 07:17

That message can occur when the image extension has been incorrectly assigned by the image host. For example if the file was called 'image.jpg' or 'image.jpeg' on your computer before you uploaded it, then it might have been renamed 'image.jpg.jpg' or 'image.jpeg.jpg'. There might even be another image extension within the file name, preserved when it's been copied from elesewhere.

 

Or there may be letters or numbers after the .jpg element of the name - that again can spook the software.



#64 Alan Cox

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Posted 03 November 2019 - 18:54

It's a while since I tried posting any photographs, and there was a time when I used to post dozens which people seemed to appreciate. I have just tried posting a photo on the Keith Schellenberg thread, using a Facebook link (which is where I post all my photos nowadays because it is simplicity itself) which is something I have managed to do in the past but all I get now is the line quoted in Dave Ware's penultimate post; "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community".

 

I have recently acquired the late Peter Rickitt's collection which contains a mass of high-quality photographs from the 1950s and 1960s which I would be happy to share with you on here, but can I be bothered to negotiate the tortuous maze necessary? In short. NO. 

 

Is it any wonder that photographers have deserted this forum?



#65 Alan Cox

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Posted 03 November 2019 - 18:57

It's not hard, Terry...

 

And it is possible to restore stuff which has been lost. If the original poster is still around and retained the pic on his computer, he can go back and edit it in after uploading it to Postimage.

Do we all have the time to go back to edit everything we ever posted, Ray? I think not.



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Posted 04 November 2019 - 22:12

Do we all have the time to go back to edit everything we ever posted, Ray? I think not.

Alan- all a bit of a shame really, isn't it? This used to be the "go to" place for our kind of old stuff but I suspect that the audience is a fraction of what it used to be.

Uploading photos here has always been a pain, it really has not improved since I pitched up here, despite several software changes. I'll continue to plod on with the David Beard Memorial photographers' thread, from time to time, but having to put my shots onto flickr (or some other host) first is not really what I want to do. Copyright infringements are now laughable and the more "sites" one has to go via makes it worse. 



#67 Ray Bell

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Posted 18 November 2019 - 08:01

Postimage allows you to upload a multitude of photos all at once and then you can post them all at once...

As you post, if you wish, you can go between each of the pics to put in a caption.

And I do accept that it might be hard to go back and edit stuff back in, I'm happy to do it if anyone asks, but nobody seems to ask.

If you look at my 2012 trip thread in the Paddock Club you'll see there are 700 or more photos in that thread, originally about two thirds of them were posted on Imageshack and sometimes when I go through the thread (not very often, I have to say) I find pics have disappeared and I repost them using Postimage.

Another problem which did exist with Postimage was that they changed the extension from .org to .cc, so if you used Postimage to post anything prior to that time you have to go back and just change the 'org' to 'cc' and the pic magically reappears.

I know it's more than a one-step process, but it's not the end of the world. If you want to send me those pics I'll post them for you.

And if you want to put a pic from Fecesbook on here and it has the 'image extension' message, all you do is save the file to your computer, saving it as a .jpg file, and put it up via Postimage or Flickr or whatever.

It may take your two minutes to do that, it may not. But it does answer the problem.

#68 ElectricBoogie

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Posted 31 December 2019 - 04:13

I've been trying for over half an hour, keep getting the message.
Even when manually creating a new .jpg via screenshot in Irfanview. Something seems more finicky than it maybe needs to be.



#69 Ray Bell

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Posted 21 January 2020 - 23:36

Are you using Postimage?

 

You cannot simply put the pic into the post, you have to put a link in the image codes.

 

So you upload the pic to Postimage and then select 'Hotlink for forums' and put that into your post.



#70 Giraffe

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Posted 13 February 2020 - 14:58

,,,,and so this morning as I've done on 13th Feb for several years now, I have duly paid my annual subscription of US$34 to ImageShack, essentially to keep my images (for what they are worth) here on TNF.

I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority as many valuable contributor's pics have disappeared over time. 

 

After all this time, do the powers that be still consider this to be absolutely necessary? Maybe a swift re-consultation with the lawyers might be in order?



#71 Rob Ryder

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Posted 13 February 2020 - 18:43

Ditto... my renewal is due on the 17th February and I will renew. The only glitch was when they had a server problem and lost a 100 or so images a few years ago.

$34 well spent for all of the forums I use (and a useful backup).

Rob



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Posted 13 April 2020 - 12:53

Hello

 

I'm just trying to post to a forum for the first time and want to add pitcures to the cutaway drawings thred. I've followed your advice about using Postimage and tried to create direct links to the following (using the image command):

 

 
These appeared fine in the draft post but when I tried to submit them I got an error box saying that "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community". What am I doing wrong?


#73 Vitesse2

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Posted 13 April 2020 - 13:14

I can't see any obvious reason. I've just copied one of your links, which seems fine. Maybe try posting them one at a time? If there's something in one of the image addresses that the board software doesn't like that could help identify it.IMG-3434.jpg



#74 Ray Bell

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Posted 29 April 2020 - 12:19

Originally posted by JonsAutomobilia
Hello
 
I'm just trying to post to a forum for the first time and want to add pitcures to the cutaway drawings thred. I've followed your advice about using Postimage and tried to create direct links to the following (using the image command):
 
IMG-3434.jpg
IMG-3435.jpg
IMG-3438.jpg
IMG-3439.jpg
IMG-3440.jpg
 
These appeared fine in the draft post but when I tried to submit them I got an error box saying that "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community". What am I doing wrong?


Let's see how they look this way...

 

I gather you didn't click on 'hotlink for forums', right?

 

 

 

 

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Edited by Ray Bell, 29 April 2020 - 12:21.


#75 jj2728

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Posted 16 June 2020 - 01:45

Why on earth is it still so excruciatingly difficult to post an image here? Can one not just add an attachment? No Photobucket, no Postimage, no Imageshack. I refuse to pay for any hosting service and wouldn't use one even if it were free....just a simple jpeg attachment or am I missing something?



#76 Vitesse2

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Posted 16 June 2020 - 08:29

The reasoning goes back to the very early days of Atlas F1, when it was run on the proverbial shoestring. There was simply no money available to host photos on the server. Some of us have been around here long enough to have been 'Atlas Gold Members' which - after 1000 posts(!) - gave us a magnificent 1Mb of free storage on Atlas. Gold Members' photos were hosted on a separate server which - IIRC - was an old one 'donated' by one of the members when his company upgraded its systems. That was how I first started posting photos here. Eventually that server died and Gold Membership disappeared.

 

When Haymarket bought Atlas, they continued the policy. As an international media company - with copyright rules different in different countries and copyright theft rife - they could have found themselves on the end of multiple 'cease and desist' requests and/or sued if they were to host unauthorised copyright images on their own servers. The site's current owners, Motorsport.com, have continued that policy.

 

Also, if you read the small print in the T&Cs, you will find that Autosport claims copyright on any items you upload to their website. Therefore, if you uploaded your own photos, you could theoretically lose control of the copyright on them. By using remote hosting you retain control, since they are not on Autosport's servers. See Section 4 here, particularly paragraphs 4.1 and 4.1.1: https://www.autospor...-and-conditions

 

And before you ask - yes, we do get requests to remove copyright images from the forums. With which we always comply.

 

PostImage, btw, is entirely free and you can even use it without creating an account.

 

ETA: And yes, we are also aware that other forums like Autodiva allow attachments. However, in order to view the Autodiva forums you need to be logged in. They are not therefore visible to non-members or web crawlers and so are essentially private. The Autosport forums are free and - apart from Paddock Club - can be viewed without being logged in.



#77 jj2728

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Posted 16 June 2020 - 11:48

Thanks for the clarification. Much appreciated. I'll see what I can do with Postimage.



#78 GreenMachine

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Posted 16 June 2020 - 13:04

I never cease to be amazed at the rigmarole that people here go to post images.  My image host is smugmug, and I don't have any problems, don't think I ever have except for once when smugmug did a big site upgrade.  Furthermore, unlike postimage, and (all? some? most?) other such sites, you do not give away any copyright to smugmug.

 

As Vitesse has pointed out, Autosport likewise makes no claims of copyright over my images, so I feel free to post decent images for you lot!  I have taken a different approach elsewhere as that site does make copyright claims on the images posted there - so you have given away copyright to the site AND probably your image host - certainly that is the case for Postimage, because I just looked.  The images I post there are degraded, and of no intrinsic value, or they simply don't get posted.  I now check every new site that I plan on posting images for their copyright policy, and anyone who doesn't do the same simply doesn't value their images - which is fine, that is their choice. 

 

Smugmug costs, which is clearly an issue for some.  Last time I looked I had around 20+gig and I don't know how many thousand images there, only part of which is in my uploads folder.  Point being I know what to expect when someone offers me something for nothing, and I feel that I get value from my modest subscription, and that is before considering that I retain undiminished copyright in my images.  :)



#79 68targa

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Posted 16 June 2020 - 14:16

That is really interesting info and good advice. I must admit I have not come acrosss Smumug before but just scanning through their website it seems to offer a lot of options. What is that old saying ... you get what you pay for.



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#80 Michael Ferner

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Posted 17 June 2020 - 09:56

The site's current owners, Motorsport.com, have continued that policy.


What? Motorsport.com now owns Atlas? Is that new? When I click on "Home", I still get an Autosport page!

#81 Vitesse2

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Posted 17 June 2020 - 10:06

What? Motorsport.com now owns Atlas? Is that new? When I click on "Home", I still get an Autosport page!

Do pay attention at the back!

 

https://www.motorspo...-835263/835263/



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Posted 17 June 2020 - 10:07

Knock yourself out, Michael: https://www.motorspo...k.com/#about-us

 

Link taken from the Autosport.com front page.

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(I use Imgur for photohosting, btw)

 

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Damn you, Vitesse  :rotfl:

 

 

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#83 Jack-the-Lad

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Posted 21 June 2020 - 15:07

This is the only forum in which I participate for which it is still necessary to post images by using a third party platform. I don’t claim to know much about how the internet works, but it seems a rather outmoded process.

I do sincerely appreciate the contribution of all those who do post images here.

Edited by Jack-the-Lad, 22 June 2020 - 04:04.


#84 Yakstarrr

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Posted 16 November 2020 - 18:39

I’m so sorry I’m technically challenged; I’m having trouble sharing pictures, I have been to post image & copied link but can’t work out how to share in forums just reply with text

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Posted 16 November 2020 - 19:04

The best Postimage link to copy is ‘Hotlink for forums’. Then you can just paste it directly into your post and, with luck, it’ll appear. If this doesn’t work, I’d be happy to post your photos for you.

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Posted 21 January 2021 - 16:19

This is the only forum in which I participate for which it is still necessary to post images by using a third party platform. I don’t claim to know much about how the internet works, but it seems a rather outmoded process.

I do sincerely appreciate the contribution of all those who do post images here.

 

February is approaching and once again I shall be paying my annual fee to Imageshack, primarily so that TNFers & beyond can access my pics on my posts. There are probably better hosts out there, but changing is not worth the hassle. 

Surely the potential copyright infringement fears must have diluted as the internet has evolved, as TNF is the only forum I use that necessitates this facility? :rolleyes:



#87 Yakstarrr

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Posted 22 January 2021 - 21:42

I’m so sorry but I’m still having troubles uploading following these instructions (I don’t have a laptop just iPhone or iPad). When I coped the direct link it came up in my reply as a link to the picture in Postimage but you don’t see the picture. I’m so sorry but I have such great pics to share

#88 ReWind

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Posted 23 January 2021 - 15:03

You must copy the address of the jpg.file, then click on "Image" (from the menu) and insert the copied address.

The result is this:

5-B5544-DA-C1-DF-466-B-BB81-B408-EA29-F2



#89 kartman24

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Posted 15 February 2021 - 17:58

Any chance in 2021 we could post pictures straight from our devices?



#90 Rob Ryder

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Posted 15 February 2021 - 18:36

Two chances... very slim and none at all :p  :p



#91 Ray Bell

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Posted 21 February 2021 - 11:27

Originally posted by Yakstarrr
I’m so sorry but I’m still having troubles uploading following these instructions (I don’t have a laptop just iPhone or iPad). When I coped the direct link it came up in my reply as a link to the picture in Postimage but you don’t see the picture. I’m so sorry but I have such great pics to share


You do not copy the 'direct link', you copy the line marked 'hotlink for forums'.

That's all you have to do, no need to worry about clicking on 'image' or anything else. Just pasted the 'hotlink for forums' line in and the job's done.

I thought we went through this previously?

#92 RS2000

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Posted 21 February 2021 - 16:02

I wasted a large slice of my life yesterday that I will never get back. I got my photo on to the Postimage site, clicked on hotlink for forums, tried copying and pasting the link but nothing happened (nothing pasted on to here).

The readers of Grand Prix the Out Takes are still denied a rather fetching photo of their favourite lady.



#93 john aston

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Posted 22 February 2021 - 07:23

The fact there are 91 replies on how to post a picture has put me off even trying to do it here . I regularly post pictures on other websites and it's child's play . 



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Posted 22 February 2021 - 08:32

The fact there are 91 replies on how to post a picture has put me off even trying to do it here . I regularly post pictures on other websites and it's child's play . 

Indeed.  And how many posts are there discussing pictures that are no longer there!  



#95 Ray Bell

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Posted 23 February 2021 - 05:20

Come on, blokes...

 

It's easy!

 

Show us where you, that is YOU, went wrong.



#96 john aston

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Posted 23 February 2021 - 08:16

Ray - until there's a little icon saying 'image' which I can click, select and upload picture I'm out . I haven't a clue what the instructions actually mean, let alone follow them  and it looks like I am not alone  



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Posted 23 February 2021 - 09:40

There are several image hosting sites this is just one of them  -  https://postimages.org

 

1 ) This is what appears. You can vary the image size - 800x600 is a reasonable. There are also choices as to whether to delete the image after a certain time etc. Click on Choose Images box

 

         ___________________________________________________________________

Untitled-1.jpg

2) Choose image from your PC/laptop whatever and it appears as a thumbnail in the window on left.  Click on the blue box next to the Direct Link line ( this copies the URL for you)

 

 

 

Untitled-2.jpg

 

 

In your TNF (or other) Post click on the small green window box (red arrow) - up pops another window right click and select PASTE in the URL that was copied above is entered, click OK and that's it.

 

Untitled-4.jpg



#98 Ray Bell

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Posted 23 February 2021 - 13:04

One step too many there... there's no need to complicate it...
 
The same thing applies to ReWind's post.
 
Instead of clicking on the 'direct link' you click on 'Hotlink for forums' and then paste that directly to the post.
 
This eliminates the 'image' icon on the posting window altogether.

 

 

 

 

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#99 Ray Bell

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Posted 23 February 2021 - 13:30

Originally posted by RS2000
.....I got my photo on to the Postimage site, clicked on hotlink for forums, tried copying and pasting the link but nothing happened (nothing pasted on to here).....


I'm not real sure, but I think you took a step or two too many...

Just clicking on 'Hotlink for forums' is the copying act...

0221posting.jpg

No further copying required, it actually tells you when you click on the icon at the end of the line that it's copied.

So all you do after that is paste it to your post.

Where have you gone wrong?

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#100 Ray Bell

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Posted 23 February 2021 - 14:19

Originally posted by jtremlett
.....And how many posts are there discussing pictures that are no longer there!


That is something of a problem, or has been...

We've been through a lot of systems in the time I've been posting here. Personally I started posting photos via Geocities, which didn't actually allow it so they stopped them. Then through the Atlas F1 free webspace, but that was abandoned by the management, then I had my own webspace as a part of my deal with my internet provider, but they changed names and that was lost until I changed them all, then they changed names again and simply lost all my uploaded pics.

Then came Imageshack, which did in fact work fairly well. Some photos did get 'lost' by Imageshack, but it really wasn't as bad as it might be. Better, for instance, than Tinypic, which tended to lose every pic after about a month. But Imageshack started charging for their service and as I had about 3,500 pics uploaded I felt I had to pay. And I did. Then on my last trip to America the direct annual billing for this hit PayPal at a time when the credit card details needed updating and no amount of trying to contact either party would fix that, so my Imageshack 'Premium' account went down the drain.

However... an awful lot of my Imageshack pics are still appearing. I did a thread about my first US trip and all the pics were uploaded to Imageshack until the last stretch of the trip. That was about 550 pics and I've only had to re-post about ten of those. Otherwise all the photos remain.

I have been using Postimage since September, 2014. A very small number of pics have disappeared and I have over 7,000 images uploaded with them.

What is almost worse than pics disappearing is the appearance of 'Photobucket' watermarks across them.

Anyway, the main thrust of what I'm saying is that early problems which created a lot of missing pictures should really be over now, Postimage has been reliable for seven years, I notice that 404KF2 uses imgbb and seems to have no problem with them.