I know how to add a single picture from photobucket to a forum post by copying the HTML code...

Can someone tell me how to post multiple images at the same time?...Ian

email (option): ian@wright52.plus.com

Hi Ian

Not sure you can, other than putting the HTML in for each one of the photos at a time. It's a bit slow...but works. I don't think there's a way to 'grab' a whole set of photos in one go and put them in.

The other option is to put the html code in to share a gallery or album like this. I use 'postimage' instead of photobucket, but photobucket must have something similar. For 'postimage' I open the album, and without selecting any of the photos click share and selected the option for hotlink for thumbnail for website' People can then click to view in full I think? I tried several options, in the end using '1 row' You can post the full photos in the same way but I found that took too long to load and made it very tricky to work with the post.

This looks closest to what you were asking, but the photos take a while to load. You need them in an album, so you can share the whole album...and I don't know if it works for other photo-sharing sites...

You can then edit to remove line breaks, but keep to about groups of four to avoid breaking how the website handles the post...



Then you can add comments over the groups if you like...


It takes a while so I stopped bothering...


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Cheers

Richard

email (option): dickie.bobbie@hotmail.co.uk

Unless you feel inclined to pay Photobucket $ 399/pa for a premium membership the 3rd party hosting no longer works.
What I tend to do is to make a photobucket album then put a link to the album.
A lot easier to do

email (option): bsansw1@tpg.com.au

The sooner Henk can get rid of 'PHOTOBUCKET' the better!! I F*CKING hate them! And now they seem to be deleting peoples pictures and holding them to ransom for $400. Ron

email (option): ronpier@talk21.com

Ron, you're always going to have to use some sort of photo host on a cheapo 'Braveheart' or whatever it's called message board.

People are saying that Imgur is reliable (but more complicated !)

Apart from my current query I haven't had any particular problems with Photobucket to date...

Due to that fact and the difficulty I have picking up new things on the old 'puter, personally I'd rather it didn't change ant time soon...Ian

email (option): ian@wright52.plus.com

No they are not holding you to ransom nor stealing your photos.
Everything you put there is still there and any one can access them if they go through the Photobucket portal

All they have stopped was viewing them through 3rd party portals like this one.
Simple reason.
They are storing trillions of images and that costs a lot of money.
Unless some one buys printing rights from them the only way they make money is for displaying adds to you while you are looking at the pictures.
However if you are looking at the pictures here they make nothing .
The only beef I have is the way they went about it.
An email to your registered address 3 months out would have been nice and of course the fees ar a touch on the touched up scale.

Further to that there are a lot of web hosting companies who charge you for hosting a commercial web page on a £ / Gb rate.
Then they load all of your photos & graphics into photobucket so you are paying $ 500/ yr, they are spending $ 20/ yr and photobucket are out of pocket $ 400/ yr.
We run around 20 small . org web sites in 100Gb blocks for small sporting clubs @ $ 200/pa each.
We pay $ 3000 for our 3000Gb.
All of them have well over 200Gb in total on their sites because they all link to photos held in various free hosting sites.
We do not do it but they do .
Nothing to have 300 high res photos of a netball game posted after it is over.
In reality they all should be paying for a terra bite of web hosting but few actually have the resources to do it.
So image hosting sites like photobucket are carrying the can.

email (option): bsansw1@tpg.com.au

I bow to your better knowledge of running such a company Trevor. But guys on other forums are losing all the pictures they've posted unless they cough up $400, after being told they've exceeded their free quota. But most have nowhere near even reached that quota.

Never the less I just hate the palava of posting a single picture lately, let alone multiples. I used to post far more pictures than I do now, usually in an attempt to help someone with a project or query.

Photobucket offered me a free service and I'm now waiting for them to ask me to start paying for it. I already lost all my pictures for a week or so until I complained. I for one would be more than happy to chip in for a site that enables me to post pictures directly from my own folders like the other forums I visit ...I'll just have to see what happens. Ron

email (option): ronpier@talk21.com

I don't know what business model Photofucket were following when they began but what they've done now is to turn the world of specialist forums on its head as many of us have used it exclusively for years.

Like Ron, I've posted more help than queries and have shared information and photos from my collection with the wider community. The question is, How much would I be prepared to pay in order to continue with that ? Something in single figures per month probably but certainly not US$400 per year.

I fear that this will hasten the end of decent forums and increase the flight to Arse-about-facebook where photo hosting is a click of the mouse away.

I can't put pictures on photobucket now in any case, it says I'm using the wrong sort, but they are just jpegs as specified.

It says I'm at 21% capacity and it hasn't demanded any money yet, but whatever happens I won't loose the pictures as I have them saved on my computer.

Rob

email (option): robmiller11(a)yahoo.co.uk

Me too Rob. All my Photobucket pictures are in other folders on my computer. But it's as I feared today they've deleted all the pictures I ever posted on here. Ron

email (option): ronpier@talk21.com