Photobucket...am I doing something wrong?

dancrane said:
Is Flickr as easy to use as Photobucket was, before they stopped making their users welcome?

I'm not incapable of learning new instructions and procedures but I'd prefer a basic service that just provides a postable link for including images here, rather than a range of clever options I didn't need or ask for.
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I am not at all sure I know what I am talking about but I have always used Flickr and it has always been easy. Though, now and again, they change the format to keep you on your toes.
Uploading is simple, I never see any ads but I do have a blocker.

Just click on the photo in Flickr, hit the Share icon, select size, copy the BB code, paste it directly into your post, edit out all text that is outside the [img............img] tags.

And away you go, nice photo of Bogart and Bacall's boat:

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There is the 1000 limit now but that will keep me going for a few years.
If I want snaps off a mobile I get the OC to Email them off her smart phone.
 
Okay, now I have a Flickr account, and thank you Doug, the presentation of their website isn't nearly as unpleasant or distracting as any of their competitors.

It all looks fine, in fact...except, the link for the (only) photo I've so far put on Flickr, isn't a jpg or png, or anything else that this forum accepts as an image file.

Anybody know how to get Flickr to issue photo URLs as jpgs? Photobucket seemed to do it automatically.
 
If you want to post a snap here, just click the share arrow.

You then have four options, go for: BB Code

Choose your photo size and highlight and copy the BB Code......

......paste this Directly into your post window. (ie do not click on the photo icon)

It comes up with a lot of garbage which you have to edit out, leaving only the bits between these fings:

[img .............. img]

Click Preview in your post and the picture should be revealed.

PS
It used to be really, really easy but they modernised it.
 
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Doug, it is very kind of you to explain at length.

Once I get to grips with a process online, I can be very quick...

...but when it's unfamiliar, I am tragically slow. You said, "just click the share arrow"...

...but once I'd finally found the share arrow (on a different screen) and clicked it, the four options I got were icons for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr.

Nothing like 'BB Code', even though I've seen that before and would recognise it again.

I wonder if the settings need to be different?

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Ah ha! It was easy, even though I had to try everything, for an hour.
I just right-clicked on the open photo, and it gave me the option to copy the image address...and now it's a jpg.
That was a good lunch. Pic's a bit small though.


Hey, it does work! :D
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Now I only have to remember how I did it. Surprisingly, I didn't follow your advice Doug. Thanks anyway.
 
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First things first, I had to re-discover the long lost paper and Bic ballpoint, and make a note of how the heck I did it. :biggrin-new:

The worst thing is, I reckon every website is like that now. Even if most people only want it for one simple purpose, it'll be buzzing with options and separate screens and menus and sub-menus, all flashing and inviting the user to communicate with other users.

I went for a frustrated walk through the rain earlier, and was really wondering if it might be fun to go no-tech for a month. :rolleyes:
 
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