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Best place to host screenshots and pictures so I can refer to them on forums?
BlindZenDriver
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Not all forums has a function that stores images and from time to time I find it useful to be able to use a picture or a screenshot of mine when I post on a forum. In the past I have used a webhotel I had a small website on to also hold images I refereed to, but I don't have a website anymore so I would like to find something more for the specific purpose.
Now I know there are sites specific for sharing collections of photos and such, but I'd like some place where I can link directly to an image just like I'm doing with this '?':
I don't mind if what I upload is made available for other to use and I don't expect to have hundreds of pictures, but being able to hold say 4K screenshots in good quality is a must.
Now I know there are sites specific for sharing collections of photos and such, but I'd like some place where I can link directly to an image just like I'm doing with this '?':
I don't mind if what I upload is made available for other to use and I don't expect to have hundreds of pictures, but being able to hold say 4K screenshots in good quality is a must.
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I checked your suggestions out and went with imgur which sort of work only it does compress the pictures a bit.
I wasn't keen on having to install an app so that meant Dropbox was a no go and Photobucket has a rule where new users are limited to 1024x768 in their uploads.
For reference here are a couple of shots I have put up on imgur. The first is a quick snap I did with my phone(3552x2000 original):
i.imgur.com/oh9yPa7.jpg
Some of the blur is thus from the phones handling of the image, but on top goes the compression that imgur seems to do.
Here is a screenshot as taken by the game for comparison - the blur here is only by imgur. The original is 3840x2160 :
i.imgur.com/cQROAYx.jpg
And finally the screenshot as uploaded to PA instead of hosted on imgur or rather that was my intention, but PA has a max. size of aprox. 2 MB so that was a no go.
I think? Or is that D&D only? I guess it isn't in the main rules list.
You can get infracted and banned! You should cut those and repost smaller.
(The limit is actually stated as 2 MB exactly and not approximately as I suggested earlier)
This is serious!
Thx for clearing it up. Also btw. the images in this thread are all linked.
He meant don't use [ img] tags so they show as just hyperlinks. The idea is so when I open the page I don't download a couple megs of images.
A full page of big images could murder an innocent data plan.
Now I get it. I guess one gets sloppy when surfing without constraints.
I have updated my post so the images are now hyperlinks.
Seconding Photobucket, had one going over a decade and it's still fine.
Yeah, this. You can get the app to make it easier, but most folk just use the website FTP system to move files. I prefer it to imgur or photobucket because I have more options for how public my files are, folders, and the ability to upload and move files as well as images. You can also easily crunch your links down like a tinyurl through dropbox, which is frequently handy.