With nearly 3,000 views on the topic about Photobucket I think it is time to open the discussion about what the members of this community want and are willing to do so that users can easily include pictures in their posts and for the pictures to remain viewable at a later time.
Briefly, Photobucket is now charging for users to include pictures hosted Photobucket but posted on other websites, referred to as "third party posting". Many of the members here used Photobucket services prior to their new policy and thousands of photos were posted but they are no longer viewable unless the Photobucket account owner pays a fee, which from what I hear is rather expensive. Because being able to post and see the pictures posted by others is vital to the success of this community we need another solution.
Maybe not known or understood by everyone, duckboats.net has its own picture upload capability. There is a 100 kb limit on each image to cut down on server space needed by this website, which in turn saves money in ISP fees, and prevents people from uploading HUGE pictures that overwhelm page formatting and make it difficult for readers to read a thread. However, there seems to be an inherent problem with the duckboats.net image upload feature in that people either don't understand how to use it, or don't have the ability to resize images. Lastly, and this is a big one, there doesn't seem to be a way to upload pictures from one's smartphone using this feature. With so many people using their smartphones to store and post images to social media we have fallen behind the technology curve in not having this capability.
Given the above I have contacted our ISP and enquired about modifications to the site. I have been given a quote of $1500 to add the ability to upload pictures from one's phone. On top of that I think we need the added feature of pictures being automatically resized since so many people struggle or resist doing that step themselves.
So I ask you, specifically what features do you want and are you willing to cover the several thousands of dollars in upgrades it will require?
Eric
See updates to this post here http://www.duckboats.net/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=297339#297339
Briefly, Photobucket is now charging for users to include pictures hosted Photobucket but posted on other websites, referred to as "third party posting". Many of the members here used Photobucket services prior to their new policy and thousands of photos were posted but they are no longer viewable unless the Photobucket account owner pays a fee, which from what I hear is rather expensive. Because being able to post and see the pictures posted by others is vital to the success of this community we need another solution.
Maybe not known or understood by everyone, duckboats.net has its own picture upload capability. There is a 100 kb limit on each image to cut down on server space needed by this website, which in turn saves money in ISP fees, and prevents people from uploading HUGE pictures that overwhelm page formatting and make it difficult for readers to read a thread. However, there seems to be an inherent problem with the duckboats.net image upload feature in that people either don't understand how to use it, or don't have the ability to resize images. Lastly, and this is a big one, there doesn't seem to be a way to upload pictures from one's smartphone using this feature. With so many people using their smartphones to store and post images to social media we have fallen behind the technology curve in not having this capability.
Given the above I have contacted our ISP and enquired about modifications to the site. I have been given a quote of $1500 to add the ability to upload pictures from one's phone. On top of that I think we need the added feature of pictures being automatically resized since so many people struggle or resist doing that step themselves.
So I ask you, specifically what features do you want and are you willing to cover the several thousands of dollars in upgrades it will require?
Eric
See updates to this post here http://www.duckboats.net/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=297339#297339
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