A thread for me to test features around posting pictures.
I think none of you actually cares about this except when you want to post a picture--then you just want it to "work". But hopefully you can appreciate the complexities involved.
First, about the only real cost I have in hosting the forum is disk space. Right now, the space needed barely ever grows--just the occasional attachment. If it was easy to upload photos directly from your computer into a post--and presumably store them on the forum web server, my disk space requirements could grow rapidly.
The other "trend" that is in play is the idea that folks post the photos they care about online already--Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, Picasa, Smugmug, etc, etc. Why would they want to re-upload their photos when they can "easily" embed them in a post using that remote host as the picture source.
However, reality is for many folks--myself included--I just have a quick photo or 2 that I want to share with the forum community...and my pictures are not hosted anywhere already. It then becomes a hassle to upload them to a sharing system first and figure out the correct embed URL (which some photo systems make incredibly difficult to figure out).
There is actually a real need here for someone to develop a phpBB mod to make photo embedding dead simple. PhpBB is the most popular forum system in the world.
The developers behind AdvRider actually created Smugmug to solve this problem for their incredibly popular and custom forum system.
I think none of you actually cares about this except when you want to post a picture--then you just want it to "work". But hopefully you can appreciate the complexities involved.
First, about the only real cost I have in hosting the forum is disk space. Right now, the space needed barely ever grows--just the occasional attachment. If it was easy to upload photos directly from your computer into a post--and presumably store them on the forum web server, my disk space requirements could grow rapidly.
The other "trend" that is in play is the idea that folks post the photos they care about online already--Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, Picasa, Smugmug, etc, etc. Why would they want to re-upload their photos when they can "easily" embed them in a post using that remote host as the picture source.
However, reality is for many folks--myself included--I just have a quick photo or 2 that I want to share with the forum community...and my pictures are not hosted anywhere already. It then becomes a hassle to upload them to a sharing system first and figure out the correct embed URL (which some photo systems make incredibly difficult to figure out).
There is actually a real need here for someone to develop a phpBB mod to make photo embedding dead simple. PhpBB is the most popular forum system in the world.
The developers behind AdvRider actually created Smugmug to solve this problem for their incredibly popular and custom forum system.