Image Hosting?

Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by Rick James, Jul 14, 2014.

  1. Rick James

    Rick James Grizzled Veteran

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    Just curious what others are using for general image and photo hosting. I've been using Photobucket for around 10 years now and I can't say I remember a single pleasant experience using them. It's polluted with ads, the site is slow and locks up frequently, etc. Just today I setup a private album to share with some friends and I couldn't even view it myself plus every third pic or so would produce an entire page ad that would slow things down drastically.

    What are you using? Is there anything better than photobucket?
     
  2. MGH_PA

    MGH_PA Moderator

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    Flickr for quality and price (free and lots of storage).

    Google +/Picasa for sharing outside of forums and backing up my mobile photos.
     
  3. Justin

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    I was a big Google Picasa user until they ruined it by converting everything to Google+. IMO they screwed up a good thing by trying to force everyone to use their horrible social media platform that nobody wants to use in the first place. I'm on the lookout for a new alternative but haven't found anything I'm super thrilled with just yet.

    For simply sharing photos a tool like Dropbox or Google Drive seems to work pretty well. The trouble is those solutions aren't good for hosting photos that you want to embed elsewhere (like these Forums).

    I may have to give Flikr a shot.
     
  4. MGH_PA

    MGH_PA Moderator

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    Google+ auto backup on my phone is awesome. I do agree that Google+ is terrible, though.

    Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S4.
     
  5. BJE80

    BJE80 Legendary Woodsman

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    Flicker works good. But it is blocked at work so I am forced to use PhotoBucket.
     
  6. patinthehat

    patinthehat Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Photobucket all the way. I also have the app on my phone so I can pull up my trail cam pics that I've uploaded really quick that way.
     
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    ChuckC Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Photbucket guy myself....super easy for sharing on the forums.
     
  8. Skywalker

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    I'm using photobucket also. It seems decent, even though I don't really care for their newest format.
     

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