Rather than hotlinking, how do you post pics from your hard drive?
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Oct. 12, 2010 10:41 a.m. Adrian_Thompson HalfDork
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Oct. 12, 2010 10:43 a.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork
Im not sure it can be done - I host to photobucket then link here. You could also upload to your garage and link to the thread. But I dont think you can link from your own hardware direct to a thread
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Oct. 12, 2010 10:44 a.m. DukeOfUndersteer SuperDork
the only way i know of is uploading your pics off your hard drive onto some sort of photo sharing website: photobucket, flickr, from there, hotlink....
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Oct. 12, 2010 10:47 a.m. mtn SuperDork
Experimental post trying to post a picture from my hard drive
FAILED
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Oct. 12, 2010 11:59 a.m. oldsaw SuperDork
Use a hosting-site.
There are plenty of free offerings available, too! Photobucket and Flickr have already received mention; Google's Picasa is another worthy alternative.
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Oct. 12, 2010 2:34 p.m. Adrian_Thompson HalfDork
oldsaw wrote:
Use a hosting-site.
There are plenty of free offerings available, too! Photobucket and Flickr have already received mention; Google's Picasa is another worthy alternative.
YEah, I've got a Picasa site and that's what I've used in my other post, I'd just rather upload photo's to stop people going back to my other pictures that's all.
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Oct. 12, 2010 4:12 p.m. oldsaw SuperDork
Adrian_Thompson wrote:
oldsaw wrote:
Use a hosting-site.
There are plenty of free offerings available, too! Photobucket and Flickr have already received mention; Google's Picasa is another worthy alternative.
YEah, I've got a Picasa site and that's what I've used in my other post, I'd just rather upload photo's to stop people going back to my other pictures that's all.
Makes one wonder why hotlinking from your own file is an issue.
You could also consider creating a separate Picasa account (using a different email address) and use it exclusivley for the photos you want observed by any and all.
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Oct. 12, 2010 4:37 p.m. Tom Heath Webmaster
Yeah, sorry it's taken me a while to post here...
The others are correct, there's no way to post directly to the board. The only exception is photos for reader's ride entries. You could put photos there, but a photobucket account makes more sense.
Photobucket allows you to set albums as private or public, so if there's stuff you'd rather not share just set those albums accordingly. You might also use a wholly separate account, but I have trouble remembering the passwords I have already.
There are big changes (like really big...biggest in the history of the site?) on the horizon, so I'm curious if the ability to locally host photos is something many users want. It strikes me as a bad use of bandwidth and server space, but I'm here to make the user experience better, so nothing is out of the question.
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Oct. 12, 2010 5:25 p.m. SVreX SuperDork
Local hosting- yes.
Big changes- Oh no!- not again...
I don't like learning curves. I've been involved on this site for 6 years, and I think there has been a major re-vamping once a year on average.
Not my favorite thing.
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Oct. 12, 2010 5:30 p.m. JoeyM Dork
Tom Heath wrote:
Yeah, sorry it's taken me a while to post here...
The others are correct, there's no way to post directly to the board. The only exception is photos for reader's ride entries. You could put photos there, but a photobucket account makes more sense.
Good clarification, Tom....I was just going to add that.
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Oct. 12, 2010 6:25 p.m. procainestart Dork
Tom Heath wrote: so I'm curious if the ability to locally host photos is something many users want.
I know of a few forums that allow image attachments. I don't think bandwidth is a big issue for them, though, as the photos seem to be automatically re-sized/compressed (even though, on some sites, you can click through to larger versions). Disk space is way cheap these days, too. If it's a concern, you could undoubtedly limit the number and/or size of the images loaded.I think it's a good idea -- sometimes you just want to post up a quick pic. I have my own website that I can link pics from, and it's reasonably fast to do so, but not nearly as quick as having you host the pic. And it solves the problem of posting pics for anyone who lacks a site or some online repository for their pics, or, if they have a site, their desire to keep other photos at least somewhat to themselves.
To view the images on these forums, you have to be logged in. Not sure if that's a meaningful detail for you, but there it is.
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Oct. 12, 2010 6:26 p.m. Capt Slow HalfDork
Picasa has several privacy related settings, that you should have properly set if you don't want people looking at the photo's you have stored there.
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Oct. 12, 2010 7:14 p.m. skruffy SuperDork
Actually, you could set up a webserver on your machine, use a dynamic dns service to point some web address at your non-static residential internet connection, and then hotlink pictures in the same way you would from photobucket. Or, you could just use a service like photobucket.
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Oct. 12, 2010 9:48 p.m. carguy123 SuperDork
YES DEFINITELY ALLOW DIRECT UPLOADING OF PICS! Absolutely necessary!!!!!!!!!!
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Oct. 13, 2010 1:47 p.m. Adrian_Thompson HalfDork
Major upgrades coming !!! Yes yes yes, oh please please please.
First off yes please add direct uploading of pics like most other sites.
Other wish list items:
1. The ability to make numbered bullet points without jumping through hoops
2. A search engine that works!
3. A real For sale section rather than just the $20XX or a link to that god awful racing Junk site, Junk being very appropriate
Edit needed as I forgot to jump through hoops with my numberd bullet points, silly me!
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Oct. 13, 2010 3:37 p.m. mtn SuperDork
My only thing with this website is having to hit enter twice for a new line. Or shift+enter. But still annoying.
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Oct. 15, 2010 8:02 p.m. JoeyM Dork
FWIW, I really like that we can check all the threads people have commented to with http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/username/comments
I use that all the time to see what responses I've gotten to stuff I've said, or to hunt down canoes. I hope the new website makes it just as easy.
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Oct. 16, 2010 9:24 a.m. Woody SuperDork
Will we finally be able to edit thread titles?
