Are you images on your journal disappearing?

[sireesanwar.livejournal.com]

NOT US... TINYPIC

So you might have noticed pictures disappearing from your journal or layout. That is because TinyPic closed down and took everything you uploaded there with it. I know it sucks but think of it as an excuse to clean up a little and if you are looking for a place to put imags try Imgur. It is a little more complicated that TinyPic but they appear to be free for now. PhotoBucket costs now so I've been slowly trying to move everything off there though convienently they don't allow you to download everything you've uploaded to their site.

Imgur is more of a post area but you if you keep a post "private" you can keep adding to it. It doesn't show you the image link but if you right click and pick "Copy Image Location" you can then post your picture to LiveJournal. I've made "posts" for different things: Movies, TV, Random Posting Images, etc.

Believe me I get this is annoying because I just when through all the posts here and updated images and links and now I have to check for TInyPic images. I despise them especially since the first I heard about it was when they were closed.

Tell those who might not know:

Comments

[pknumba1.livejournal.com]

I just opened a flikr account. Are they still free?

[sireesanwar.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure they are. I think you can have only 1000 images on Flickr.

[loco-lobo.livejournal.com]

the photobucket debacle was a flustercluck... I've managed to make it about halfway thru my personal journal so far, reuploading/embedding all the images

I struggled for awhile to find somewhere photobucket-ish that I could move to, free, but private... I finally found Cloudinary, I'm happy with it (so far)

[sireesanwar.livejournal.com]

Cloudinary, has some limitations for those with lots of icons or images they are sharing but will work well if you just want to store things.

[hughville.livejournal.com]

There is also imgBB (https://imgbb.com/). It's easy to use and it's free. You can't load an image larger than 16 MB but I have over 2K images in 11 albums there and haven't experienced a problem yet. You can make your albums private or public, too.

Photobucket is a giant shit fire. I pay for it because I have over 50K photos and gifs there. But it is dying a slow, agonizing death.

[sireesanwar.livejournal.com]

Photobucket made a dumb move. I mean they could have tried something else. Imgur isn't limiting accounts.

Thanks for the heads up about ImgBB but just a heads up I don't think there is a limit for upload or size at Imgur. Should you need that.

[paradisekendra.livejournal.com]

I'm fixing the broken links on my LJ too. We love you, so don't go anywhere! :) P.S. I highly recommend www.postimages.org (https://www.postimages.org) as another alternative image hosting service. :)))

[sireesanwar.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up.

[nuriamerceditas.livejournal.com]

thanks for the advice! I use google photos

[sireesanwar.livejournal.com]

Google Photo is cool because Google likes images but they do have image limitations on megapixels and resolution which Imgur doesn't. However, if that isn't an issue for you then Google is awesome. I think I'd use them for icons and storing stuff that doesn't need to be large but when I create header images or layout stuff... I need the bigger capacity. That is why I like imgur. But thank you for the suggestion. I'm collecting them and adding them above for everyone else.

[nuriamerceditas.livejournal.com]

thanks to you, I use your layout and there is so fancy!. is google drive works to embed pictures on blogs ? I think it should be.

[mocoharuma.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the heads up. Appreciated much.

[sireesanwar.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.