What Free Third Party Picture Hosting Site Are You Using?

justaboutretired wrote:
I use Flickr. Put our cross country trip photos up on Flickr while traveling and the kids were able to see t'hem while we were enjoying the sights.

Bill

Flickr, many years.. Free. only photo's I wish to share are on Flickr.

all my photos are stored on thumb drives..
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I use Flickr. Put our cross country trip photos up on Flickr while traveling and the kids were able to see t'hem while we were enjoying the sights.

Bill

I'm now using IMGUR until THEY kick me out! (I suppose).

mike-s wrote:
- just pay for a hosting service. For ~$100/year, you can host your photos, have your own website, have your own email , and more. And it's all transportable, so you can move it elsewhere if needed..

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ImageEvent is even less.. about $26/year. I'm sure anyone on here can afford that, if you choose to.

The FOrum has a Dropbox account (There is a link to it somehwere on the pages) where you can upload photos for the forum.

Dropbox is also what I use for sharing photos

External Hard Drive for storing.

I would do that if I was posting commercially but I only post a few pics now and then on how to mods to my RV, Harley or Truck.

It's a Pisse- to think all the how to mods I posted in the last several years now have to pictures thanks to Pb..

ScottG wrote:

cooperwl wrote:
From the Imgur terms of service:

"don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere"

So?
I have never run into that situation so I have no problem with it.

So, just like Photobucket until a short while ago?

Really, nothing is free - if they can't pay for the service somehow (ads and selling personal info on users, most commonly), one can't expect a "free" ride forever.

To the OP - just pay for a hosting service. For ~$100/year, you can host your photos, have your own website, have your own email , and more. And it's all transportable, so you can move it elsewhere if needed.

I've used Bluehost for years and they've been reasonable and reliable so I've no impetus to move elsewhere, although there may be better out there now. Any "free" hosting of photos, email, web servers, etc., obviously isn't free - it costs them to provide a service. That only means that they're making a profit on you - typically by selling info about you. And, they want to lock you in so you can't move.

If you want it to be easy - stick to boards which host pictures, and makes it simple and intuitive to do so. This isn't one.

Lantley wrote:

ScottG wrote:

cooperwl wrote:
From the Imgur terms of service:

"don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere"

So?
I have never run into that situation so I have no problem with it.

Imgur works great and they dont bother you with spam.

Photobucket was great for about 10 years too.
Then they arbitrarily changed the rules.
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
At this point I have no reason to trust any of them.
It seems they have no 3rd party hosting in their rules.
Why should I think they won't decide to flip the switch one day? Sorry no thanks.

I assume then you are self hosting? Because that is the only way I can think of that would guarantee what happened with PB won't happen to any of the other sites.

AsheGuy wrote:

joebedford wrote:
Google Photos.

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Free, fairly easy to use and you can set up a website, Blog etc and use them...

I used to have websites, but kept getting hacked..
Now I let Google worry about that...

so Google Photos..

ScottG wrote:

cooperwl wrote:
From the Imgur terms of service:

"don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere"

So?
I have never run into that situation so I have no problem with it.

Imgur works great and they dont bother you with spam.

Photobucket was great for about 10 years too.
Then they arbitrarily changed the rules.
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
At this point I have no reason to trust any of them.
It seems they have no 3rd party hosting in their rules.
Why should I think they won't decide to flip the switch one day? Sorry no thanks.