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Just took 3rd party hosting off of users, have to pay upgrade to post on forums or blogs...I despise PB anyways.

The sky is blue...

Guys:

Photobucket also does not load over SSL or https, at least as of the time of this writing. That means that the pages on which PB-hosted images appear cannot be fully secured, which is one of the main reasons we went through the upgrade.

I have added some new hard drives with lots of space. Anything loading from 24hourcampfire servers WILL load over https using SSL encryption.

Upload your images here instead of photobucket. Get the URL. Paste the URL in image tags. Voila. Free pic hosting, secured.

We are going to be doing the same for avatars and old images, as we have to have to have to make sure we get SSL locks going forward.

Now that Photobucket is not free, it's time to move it here.

Wish I had an 11 year old grandson to explain that to me. Don't understand a bit of it.

He means from the net, not from your computer.

LOL, same traffic...

I've had zero problems over many years with PB, and the last time I posted a pic here, it was through PB, but with IMG tag thing like always.

Maybe PB and 24 have changed since then...

Actually, both.

If you use the "Full Editor" option under the reply box, you will find the attachment manager. There you can upload images.

Then, make sure the URL you are posting has https instead of http. Put it between image tags [img] and [/img], and you should be good to go.

The key to the secure page lock is that the URL is https and not http. Gotta have https.

Going to need some help also....

Fair enough...can we delete that image at any time in the future or is it a permanent fixture?

Has the file size limit been increased? In the past it was a very restrictive 100K if I recall correctly, to upload using the attachment manager.

I would say under normal circumstances it will stay up. One issue with older posts with images is the images get deleted or changed and then the thread/post often loses necessary content/context, so the default is to leave it up. However, I can always delete under special circumstances.

Also, within 24 hours you can edit post and delete the image that way as well.

I can modify it. There do have to be some limits though. But we'll find a happy medium.

PB.........still works.........but still sucks..............

OK but check the SSL lock icon, on Firefox or Chrome it's on the top bar near the address window. Since that PB image is not being served over a secure connection (https), there is no lock. That's an issue on the modern www.

I have done all I can on the server side, but third-party images have to be served from https, and PB does not support it (yet).

I can get PB to work on my iPad, but not my laptop.


The pic link starts with http://s

No doubt. As many photos as get posted, it would eat up hard drives awfully quick. In the past, I'd crop photos and save them to lower resolution, but too often it left pics too grainy to bother posting, so I established a PB account. PB has become too annoying though so I'll close that account and try a different image host. If I had to guess, a limit of 300K to 400K would probably work, but it should be relatively easy to test some pics and zero in on a sufficient limit pretty quickly.

What is the 'D' for?

Rick, thanks for all of your hard work. This sounds great because I think a lot of us are sick of PB. However, I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to computers. I'm mostly self taught. If it's not too much trouble, could you please give us some plain english instructions for dummies to load pictures? Do we just load the pictures one at a time on each post? Whereas with PB, we have a library to resource.

My first initial D for Dave.

When making a post, click the "use full editor" button at the bottom. Once the "full editor" screen is open click the "Attachment Manager" hyper-link at the bottom left corner of the screen (there's a paper clip icon next to it). Once you've clicked it, the Attachment File editor will open. You can then either drag and drop the image file from your pc's harddrive file, or you can click the "Select a file to attach" button. You will have to navigate your PC's file tree to find the image file you want to attach. Select it and it will automatically upload and tell you when that is done. You can load up to 5 photos. Whenever you're finished, select/click the "done" button. That's it.

The file will appear as a hyper-link in your post. Users will have to click that link to view the photo .. unless you do this work around. Once you finish your post, click your attached image link which will open a new page and show the image. Copy that url/web address from the address bar at the top of your browser, in this example case it is: https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...nload/Number/44786/filename/Longhorn.jpg and paste it into the image tags. Do this by editing your original post and click the image icon/button which is to the right of the smily face icon, or the 9th icon from left to right, at the top of the full editor screen. Paste the url/address into the box and click the "Change Post" button at the bottom of the "Full Editor" screen. Now the image has been referenced so users won't have to click the hyper-link to see it.