Imageshack is pissing me off!!!!

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My first image hosting site was Imageshack, and they still have some advantages over others. Compared to Photoshop and Picasaweb, I can host an image that's fairly large, and post it that way.

Its initial setup was pretty clumsy, with no album organization, just page after page after page of thumbnails, which is how mine are still set up.

Once in a while for no good reason, an image would disappear, showing a blank placeholder.

I went on today looking for a pic from 3 or 4 years ago, and found pages that were more than half gone.

Right now, out of 531 images I've uploaded, 117 are gone. Obviously I have the original files locally, but whatever sites those images have been posted to are not seeing them. No explanation, no reason that I can find, they're just gone. The empty placeholder has the filename, but I have no idea what posts I've made that may link to those images, if I wanted to go back and repair those links.

It's not age-related, some of the missing images are only weeks old, and I've got some there that have been there 5 or 6 years.

My point: find somebody not Imageshack to host your images. They apparently cannot be relied on to keep them online for you.
 
Ive used photobucket with quite some succes now for a while... Nobody seems to use that one much... :)
 
I used to use Photobucket until that maxed out. I'm now on their underling, tinypic, but that has lately started to irritate me with the fact that they spoil the quality of .jpegs within a few days (if not hours). And then there was that ending of service thing they wanted to do...
 
I wish people would stop using Imageshack.

Too many ads and random pop-ups even though I have it disabled in Chrome.
It's really slow, as well.

I used to use pici.se, but I host all my pictures on my friends FTP now. More freedom. :)
 
Imageshack appears to be having issues right now - many forums are reporting images being temporarily gone.
 
I've used imagecrap since I can remember, but lately I've also been seriously thinking of changing host, especially for posting photography stuff. Mostly because of what wfooshee complains in his post, word by word.

I might continue to use imagecrap, but just for funny pics, emoticons and whatnot, nothing more important than that.

How does flickr behave in terms of loss of image quality due to compression?
 
Beerz
How does flickr behave in terms of loss of image quality due to compression?
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I think they are very good in this area. You almost won't notice any loss in quality.
You can also later get your original full-sized photos if you go "Pro" (but that's probably the same in many other places).

They do tend to over-sharpen the resized images they create, but that's another matter.

For free internet photography sharing, I think it's the best thing out there.
 
Duke
Imageshack appears to be having issues right now - many forums are reporting images being temporarily gone.
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I've never seen an image temporarily gone. They've never reappeared.

But I've never seen 30 or 40 of them disappear at once, either, and that's what I found today. A page holds 42 thumbnails, and I had 2 pages with 30 images missing. One of those missing is the one I was looking for, of course.

I've pretty much stopped using them, but they're the only free host I've found that doesn't limit image size unreasonably.
 
EDIT: nevermind, if you're looking for a alternative I've been using imgur and tinypic for some time now.
 
Clicking on a google image to be taken to a photobucket or IMGshack page is one of the most annoying things on the internet.
 
Alex.
Clicking on a google image to be taken to a photobucket or IMGshack page is one of the most annoying things on the internet.
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It can easily be avoided if people actually copy the image location (right click) and add THAT url to the post. I agree its so damn slow and annoying being taken to those 'halfway there' pages which are slow and buggy.
 
Well, the best to me is hosting through Picasa/Picasaweb - You can host the picture at it's original size and (changing the link a bit) you can share it's full size. The only drawback is to have a maximum of 1GB of uploaded images.

Imageshack was the first one I used and it has a pretty simple interface and it's one of the easiest and simple ones to use (i.e. grab the direct link is quick and easy), but it has the problem wfooshee mentions. Images just disappear for no apparent reason.

Photobucket was the next one in line, great at beginning, but a huge disappointment in the end. The introduction of bandwidth limit, and the fact that if you are a long time user (apparently, what happen to me) they compress all your images, like you'd save a .jpg in it's worst quality, were a huge let down to me.

Flickr - I've been using it from time to time, I'ts not that easy to grab the direct link has the previous mentioned hosts, but doesn't delete or compress it's images. The only thing is, that you can only see and display the 200 most recent photos, older photos cannot be seen, only if you upgrade your account.

wfooshee
My first image hosting site was Imageshack, and they still have some advantages over others. Compared to Photoshop and Picasaweb, I can host an image that's fairly large, and post it that way.
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How do you host images with Photoshop?
 
I'm currently using Picasa. It's easy to use, fast to upload and also can upload real large amount of pictures at once. The only cons of it is every picture you uploaded will be automatically resized to 800px. Though as said by nicknamealguem, it can be back to full size if you tweak the link a bit but I actually don't know how :p
 
InvincibleM5
I'm currently using Picasa. It's easy to use, fast to upload and also can upload real large amount of pictures at once. The only cons of it is every picture you uploaded will be automatically resized to 800px. Though as said by nicknamealguem, it can be back to full size if you tweak the link a bit but I actually don't know how :p
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Sorry, but Picasa is a pain to upload, if you don't have the software installed... It makes no sense to have to upload only one photo at a time.

About the tweaking, you have to alter the "s800" part when grabbing the link.
 
DiabolicalMask
Sorry, but Picasa is a pain to upload, if you don't have the software installed... It makes no sense to have to upload only one photo at a time.

About the tweaking, you have to alter the "s800" part when grabbing the link.
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I'm using the web-based Picasa, not a software. I think I've never installed any software from Google except for the Earth. I've noticed since yesterday they have changed the upload thing from 5 pictures at once to multiple at once. They never let me down after 2 years of using it ;)
 
InvincibleM5
I've noticed since yesterday they have changed the upload thing from 5 pictures at once to multiple at once. They never let me down after 2 years of using it ;)
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Whoa, they really did! :dunce: 👍

Still, we should be able to use "Shift" or "Ctrl" for selecting multiple files in one go... It would make it a lot easier.
 
Centura
I think you can share photos on http://www.photoshop.com/.
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Hmm, will have to investigate that. From what they say, it's possible to upload picture to Photoshop.com and manage them as a online library. Don't know if we are able to share them like any other host. If so, it would be fantastic, as the interface looks lovely from the pictures.


Pupik
We have image hosting at this site, but it's only readable at GTPlanet.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/all_albums.php
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Thing is, the compression is awful and from past usage (don't know if it's still that way) it doesn't allow big pictures - they get resized.

wfooshee
Um, oops?

I meant Photobucket. Typing angry. :ouch:

(I wonder if Amber Heard will help me with that?) :drool:
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:lol: For a moment I thought there was an uploader inside Photoshop or from Adobe Bridge.

InvincibleM5
I'm currently using Picasa. It's easy to use, fast to upload and also can upload real large amount of pictures at once. The only cons of it is every picture you uploaded will be automatically resized to 800px. Though as said by nicknamealguem, it can be back to full size if you tweak the link a bit but I actually don't know how :p
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It's easy, as DiabolicalMask said, you just have to change the "sXXX" bit of it. You can have a great amount of sizes just for changing that bit in the image direct link, with the plus that you won't need to upload an image more than one time (helpful for the Photomode Competitions). To have it in full size, just use s000, like in the link below:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_oosMMJjr2Hg/TWEPt9SYSTI/AAAAAAAACJo/1JW2o_GvRFA/s000/wk12.jpg

DiabolicalMask
Sorry, but Picasa is a pain to upload, if you don't have the software installed... It makes no sense to have to upload only one photo at a time.

About the tweaking, you have to alter the "s800" part when grabbing the link.
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You are right, the software makes it allot easier to upload.
 
I never had any problem uploading Picasa. I'm talking picasaweb.google.com, not the Picasa software on the PC.

I hit the Upload pics button, either select an existing album or create a new one, then I get a standard Windows file dialog within which I can selct as many as I want, shift-click or ctrl-click.

Nice to hear about the link "hack."

Their max is a gigabyte for a free account, where Photobucket was half that, and I've never heard of a bandwidth limit on picasaweb.

Posting from them is more difficult, because you have to remember to click the "image only" button, pick the size, then remember which link windo to copy from, and then you have to add your own [ img ] [/ img ] tags. All that typing!

On Photobucket, you just click the 4th code line under the thumbnail, and you have the correctly formatted [ img ] tags and link on your clipboard.
 
Imageshack isn't working properly for me either.



OFF TOPIC: Do older images disappear after you reach the 200-photo limit on flickr, or are they just unviewable? I have an account and I'm about 20 photos before 200. I just don't want to lose any stuff. :nervous: :indiff:
 
Just checked, and the 50-some images that were gone yesterday are back, but the other single missing images here and there, which have been missing for a while, are of course still gone.
 
wfooshee
then I get a standard Windows file dialog within which I can selct as many as I want, shift-click or ctrl-click.
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For the life of me, I can't do this. Ever.

As soon as I shift/ctrl-click another file, the previous unselects...
 
DiabolicalMask
For the life of me, I can't do this. Ever.

As soon as I shift/ctrl-click another file, the previous unselects...
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You can only do one of those operations at a time; hold Control while choosing non-contiguous items.
 
Pupik
You can only do one of those operations at a time; hold Control while choosing non-contiguous items.
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Thanks for the laugh. :)

When I wrote "shift/ctrl" I meant shift or ctrl. That much I know. ;)

Thanks anyway. 👍



EDIT: Is it possible that it has something to do with the browser one's using...?
 
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I'm almost thinking up upgrading my webhosting plan (for more space) and then installing a photo uploading programme thing so i can use something thats reliable enough and doesn't ruin the quality of photos.

Photobucket is good enough at the mo though, even though my account is maxed out.
 

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