OT - photo hosting site

[Bob Engelhardt]

Dropbox no longer supports XP users, so I need a new photo host. My
main criterion is simplicity. Both for ease-of-use and minimal
features. I just want to drop an occasional photo there, to be able
share it.

What's good?

Thanks,
Bob

[Steve Walker]

I use tinypic. Very simple. Generates tiny urls for image links.

[Bob Engelhardt]

On 9/19/2016 8:07 PM, Steve Walker wrote:

> I use tinypic. Very simple. Generates tiny urls for image links.

Thanks - I just uploaded a photo for my "Air-acetylene" post.

Bob

[doggerel]

Try http://imgur.com/

The problem with tinypic is that folk can label your images, as has
happened with yours (I'm assuming you didn't put those tags on the pic).

[Bob Engelhardt]

On 9/19/2016 9:50 PM, doggerel wrote:
> Try http://imgur.com/
>
> The problem with tinypic is that folk can label your images, as has
> happened with yours (I'm assuming you didn't put those tags on the pic).
>

I can see how the anybody-tagging might be useful when used by
reasonable people. That doesn't include the internet. What a dumb idea.

I went to imgur and was bewildered. Looked for FAQ, etc with no luck.
Not simple enough for me.

Thanks,
Bob

[doggerel]

Took me a while to figure it out - once you do its simple.

Up the top of the page click on "New Post"

Then just drag whatever images you want to post onto the browser window
and then copy the link.

It works for me but we all have our preferences.

[Leon Fisk]

Steve sold the Dropbox domain/name awhile back. I understand they made
him an offer he couldn't refuse :)

He migrated all of the old stuff to a new domain. See:

http://www.mwdropbox.com/dropbox.html

It looks like it is still working. Found stuff recently posted...

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Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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[Bob Engelhardt]

I meant "dropbox.com".

[Leon Fisk]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:11:01 -0400

Bob Engelhardt <BobEng...@comcast.net> wrote:

>On 9/20/2016 9:06 AM, Leon Fisk wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:47:08 -0400
>> Bob Engelhardt <BobEng...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>

> [...]

>>
>> Steve sold the Dropbox domain/name awhile back. I understand they made
>> him an offer he couldn't refuse :)
>>
>> He migrated all of the old stuff to a new domain. See:
>>
>> http://www.mwdropbox.com/dropbox.html
>>
>> It looks like it is still working. Found stuff recently posted...
>>
>
>I meant "dropbox.com".

Steve used to own "dropbox.com". Investors bugged him for a long time
and kept upping the ante to get him to sell the domain name...

The current dropbox I have little use for. It is a pain to download
stuff from and I'm way too cheap to pay for storage ;-)

[Phil Kangas]

"Leon Fisk" <lf...@no.spam.iserv.net> wrote in message
news:nrrc96$scr$1...@dont-email.me...

Thanks for the new link. I checked it and a locknut I
posted
6 yrs ago is still there. And I'm using XP. phil k.

[Steve W.]

I've had a flikr account for years.
Easy to upload and share from.
supports just about any OS and you have an option of uploading through
email as well as online.

--
Steve W.

[Bob Engelhardt]

On 9/19/2016 11:29 PM, doggerel wrote:
> Took me a while to figure it out - once you do its simple.
>
> Up the top of the page click on "New Post"
>
> Then just drag whatever images you want to post onto the browser window
> and then copy the link.
>
> It works for me but we all have our preferences.

Just did it for my latest reply to my torch thread. It was just as easy
as you made it sound. There was a "Copy" button that did not do the
copy-to-clipboard, but no big deal.

Thanks,
Bob

[SteamboatEd Haas]

Coming to the party a little late but I'm a BIG fan of flickr.com I've got something over 4,000 photos there, well organized and with comments enabled. Not bad for less than $10/mo.