Photobucket Message on Signature Picture

[Imzadi]

Is there any way to upload a picture to a DIS signature without the picture being hosted online?

No. It seems we have to host a photo elsewhere and "hotlink" to it. The way we had done at Photobucket. I think it's because having so many photos show up in so many signatures, in so many posts, would use up a tremendous amount of bandwidth on the DIS to store & host.

This is the new alternative place I have been putting my photos I want hotlinked. It works great.

I created a blog at Blogger.com.
https://www.blogger.com/

Blogger.com has been around for decades. It is now owned by Google. So, they aren't going anywhere, any time soon. If you have a Gmail or Google Docs account, you already have access to a creating a Blogger.com blog. You just use the same email address.

I set the blog to private (in Settings.) I create a blog post. Upload & post pics onto a blog post. The blog post box looks almost exactly like the box we have at the DIS to create threads & posts. It has line at the top of different formatting features. One is for Images.

Click on it, and click UPLOAD. Find the pics you want to upload from your PC or phone. You can upload more than one at a time.

Publish the post. (Don't worry, it's private. ) One can set up different blog posts to use as different "folders" for different types of photos. You don't even need to include any words or descriptions as they are in a private post that only you see.

Go to the published page of your blog. It's a link at the top left of the blog creating page, where it says: View blog. Then either highlight & copy the photo and just paste it into a DIS post OR right mouse click on the photo and get the image location URL to post it into the DIS Insert Image pop up box.


I had been slowly saving & moving all the smileys and images I have in my Photobucket account that I post a lot here, over to my Blogger.com private blog, until I could no longer access my Photobucket account. Below are two of the animated images I was able to save. There also should not be any backlinking to the the source blog as one hovers over the pic with a mouse. If it does, it only goes to the page of the actual pic and not the full blog post it's on - as it's private.






All the photos in my signature had been moved over to Blogger.com a while ago.

 

[Imzadi]

If you want to use a free service, maybe Google Photos would be a good fit for you. I use that when sharing photos from my Sims game with another board I belong to, it's pretty easy to use.

Sharing photos at Google Photos is different from the "hotlinking" Feralpeg is wanting to do. Google Photos is great for cloud storage & sharing.

Google Photos will not allow hotlinking of it's stored photos. I tried. Another member tried. I also read a blog where someone else tried it too. The photos show up in posts for a short time, and you think it works. But, within hours or days, the photos disappear off the site they are posted to. Probably Google's engine detects the hotlink, then automatically plugs up the link. I think it's either a safety feature of Google Photos. Or they don't want their bandwidth used that way for stored photos.

Blogger.com is different. Even though it's owned by Google. Different formats and usage. Published blog photos have been hotlinked from for decades. (That's why I thought of it.) It actually helps bring readers to blogs when one posts the pics of that blog elsewhere on the web and talks about the blog. That's also why I think blogs won't pull a "Photobucket" and stop allowing the photos to be hotlinked from. It would kill the traffic & advertising for blogs. As in, "Hey, I just made some yummy pancakes with this new recipe I created. The recipe is on my blog. But, I can't post pics from my blog anymore. You just have to trust me and go to my blog post for the pics and the recipe." Not happening!

 

[Meriweather]

no help on the tech board?

 

[Imzadi]

I just posted this from my desktop. I did shrink it

But, that's not in your Signature. Which is what Feralpeg was asking. How did you get the little pic of Meriweather in your siggie at the bottom? It appears to be hotlinked from Tumblr.

When I right mouse click on her image, I get this as the URL address for it:

https://78.media.tumblr.com/b4afbd0ef2bf48cd0a5f5355a78a878e/tumblr_inline_mkayywNr0i1roozkr.gif
And it shows up as this as an image here. She is "hosted" at Tumblr online. And it is "hotlinked" in your signature so she appears here too. Am I making sense? That appears to be the only way to get images into our DIS signatures.

 

[Feralpeg]

Imzadi, thank you! I will give blogger.com a try!

 

[Imzadi]

Imzadi, thank you! I will give blogger.com a try!

Let me know if you need help.

 

[Meriweather]

But, that's not in your Signature. Which is what Feralpeg was asking. How did you get the little pic of Meriweather in your siggie at the bottom? It appears to be hotlinked from Tumblr.

When I right mouse click on her image, I get this as the URL address for it:

https://78.media.tumblr.com/b4afbd0ef2bf48cd0a5f5355a78a878e/tumblr_inline_mkayywNr0i1roozkr.gif
And it shows up as this as an image here. She is "hosted" at Tumblr online. And it is "hotlinked" in your signature so she appears here too. Am I making sense? That appears to be the only way to get images into our DIS signatures.

Sorry.....as for the merryweather
copied and pasted it

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Sharing photos at Google Photos is different from the "hotlinking" Feralpeg is wanting to do. Google Photos is great for cloud storage & sharing.

Google Photos will not allow hotlinking of it's stored photos. I tried. Another member tried. I also read a blog where someone else tried it too. The photos show up in posts for a short time, and you think it works. But, within hours or days, the photos disappear off the site they are posted to. Probably Google's engine detects the hotlink, then automatically plugs up the link. I think it's either a safety feature of Google Photos. Or they don't want their bandwidth used that way for stored photos.

Ah, I see. My bad. I realize now that what I was sharing were the links to the albums.

 

[mrodgers]

They thought they should, which is why I have the amount of images stored that there that I do. They can charge for if they want but don't make it so difficult for people to get their images off of their storage system.

It's a photo sharing site, not a storage system. There should be no reason to have the need to download your images from there as you should have your photos stored on your computer.

Now they absolutely should allow one to remove their images if one chooses to no longer use the service. I could be wrong, but I don't think you can do that now.

 

[Feralpeg]

Imzadi! It worked! Thank you!!!!

 

[usnuzuloose]

Yep, me too. I have dozens of smilies there. It won't even let me in to download my own pics off their site so I can move them and store them elsewhere.

I've been wanting to move all my Pinterest photos too. As I'm sure one day, they will also want money for all the pics I've pinned and the personal notes I wrote on pins.

Last I read they wanted 400 a yr

 

[Imzadi]

It's a photo sharing site, not a storage system. There should be no reason to have the need to download your images from there as you should have your photos stored on your computer.

It was easy to leave pics on the site and forget to download them to my computer. Most of my stuff is smilies & animated pics. It used to be we could copy pics from each other directly into our own folders. So when I found someone else who had compiled great smilies, I'd just copy them to my own folder. Since they'd always be used online, it never occurred to me to copy them to my PC, or that I'd need to move them to elsewhere to use.

I also have quite a few pics of cookies for my DIS Cookies from Cake Mix thread on our Cooking Board. I also compiled them and the recipes from other places on the web, just input the URL into Photobucket's, "Upload photos from elsewhere on the web via pasting the URL," and it would again just go to a folder in my account.

Also, all my laptops had small hard drives. So, I never had room, until this last PC, to store "excess" photos & smilies.

<--(rescued & saved to Blogger.com private blog & hotlinked. )

 

[Dan Murphy]

Last I read they wanted 400 a yr

https://smg.photobucket.com/plans/

 

[Imzadi]

Imzadi! It worked! Thank you!!!!

You're very welcome.

If you need the pic to be larger, go back to the blog creation page, right mouse click on the photo. A box will show up, stating you can change the size from Small, Medium, Large. After you choose a new size, Click "UPDATE" at the top of the page and Publish again. I think the right size will automatically show up on the DIS without you having to do anything in your signature settings.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

DISBoards hosts its own pictures now. Just copy and paste.

 

[declansdad]

It's a photo sharing site, not a storage system. There should be no reason to have the need to download your images from there as you should have your photos stored on your computer.

Now they absolutely should allow one to remove their images if one chooses to no longer use the service. I could be wrong, but I don't think you can do that now.

It is an image hosting site and by definition a hosting site stores images.

Download - remove....same thing.