Adios Attachments... find an image hosting service (UPDATED 8/8)

[requiem]

Member's have gone ape with uploading large photos to our servers and it's caused hell with our bandwidth allotments.

There are many fine image hosting services (imggur, google, etc.) please used one of those in the future to post pictures here.

Sorry for having to disable this, but... the amount of bandwidth we're burning on pictures is astounding.

Thanks for the cooperation.

UPDATED 8/8 - Changes have been made on the server end. Forum Supporters now have the ability to post attachments for now. ~TitanNV

 

[Fogie]

At least I can still buy on the Trading Post.

 

[requiem]

At least I can still buy on the Trading Post.

yes, you have been spared. not everyone was so lucky.

 

[mbogo]

Are you going to give us a chance to edit our ads to insert hot-links in lieu of attachments?

 

[titanNV]

Please do! Like, ASAP!

Hoping to come up with another solution but for now we are chewing up too much bandwidth.

 

[mbogo]

I'm done.

You could limit the size of the attachments to say, 80kilobytes but you'll still have some bandwidth consumption.

 

[titanNV]

Of course. But the attachments are what the host says has increased our bandwidth - and this was a mid June to Mid July slow month. We know we have more ads in the Trading Post now, and the ads have to have pics. We had them limited to 4MB which is too much.

We'll see what we can do, but for now, it is adios attachments unless/until we come up with a better plan. Believe me, the 3rd party hosting is a pain in the ass for those of us who are not tech savvy - like me for example!

 

[Fogie]

Of course. But the attachments are what the host says has increased our bandwidth - and this was a mid June to Mid July slow month. We know we have more ads in the Trading Post now, and the ads have to have pics. We had them limited to 4MB which is too much.

We'll see what we can do, but for now, it is adios attachments unless/until we come up with a better plan. Believe me, the 3rd party hosting is a pain in the ass for those of us who are not tech savvy - like me for example!

I had figured out the bucket with help from my boy...Haven't been able to work another and I've tried.

 

[mbogo]

imgur.com is one of the simplest hosting sites to use.

 

[Fogie]

imgur.com is one of the simplest hosting sites to use.

Not for me..Tried and bailed on that one.

 

[requiem]

Are you going to give us a chance to edit our ads to insert hot-links in lieu of attachments?

we're not deleting existing attachments, just not allowing new ones.

 

[St8kout]

I was using attachments to post pics but then I saw the "Insert Image" icon. It resulted in a HUGE OVERSIZED pic. Didn't mean for that to happen. I've since gone back to attachments as they are smaller.

I think you there's a way to limit the size using the "Image" icon as I've been on plenty of other forums using this type of setup and the pics come out nicely without being so large, but I have no idea how to do it.

 

[AngryRed]

Check out TinyPic. Free, easy to use image hosting site but the upload is only good for 90 days. Not good if you want permanent image upload but great for the Trading Post or something that is only temporary.

 

[Fogie]

http://tinypic.com/m/k9wh3k/4

So, I figured this out. Should work for The Post, eh?
Still trying to manage to show in comments..Possible?

 

[titanNV]

Click the photo button, Paste url for the JPG, PNG or other photo file
Pretty much like the old site

 

[Fogie]

Boom! This is in your backyard, titanNV

 

[titanNV]

Well done!

 

[Nuckles]

Can't post any pics. I was easy at first but you changed something. Not everyone's a whiz at computer stuff.

 

[Dusty]

Can't post any pics. I was easy at first but you changed something. Not everyone's a whiz at computer stuff.

The pic posting capability has been turned off for now. Admin shut it off because all of the pics were sucking up to much band width. once they figure out a solution they will turn it back on.

 

[Nuckles]

If the above is the case. let us post with out pics until it's figured out, pics on request. that's pretty easy.