Image hosting, pic hosting, scan hosting?

[Leon]

I am getting a few PM's and emails about the hosting of pictures and scans on www.net54baseball.com ...Let me make it very clear. I will help with any that are being hosted from our site. If you are using an external site to host I will not get involved. I don't have an issue with anyone using whatever they want to but if you want help from me, or my moderator dudes (they can actually do what they want to) then it will need to be done with our hosting. So far I have uploaded (or downloaded, heck, I don't know) 100's of scans and pics and have had 0 issues. Please feel free to comment...best regards

[T206Collector]

...that everyone keep their baseball card scans on a photo sharer like Photobucket or Picassa (I prefer Picassa), which are free. All you do is upload the photo and then past the embedded image link into the text of your Net54baseball.com post. It is super easy and you get to keep all your photos in one nice place for sharing in other places, like pasting your photos into ebay descriptions so you don't have to pay fees to have ebay host images.

Just click this link to get started with Picassa web albums. Again, this is free:

http://picasa.google.com/features.html

...and it will apparently save our moderators loads of time.

[Leon]

I guess it's a tiny bit better for us, if folks use external hosting, but why the pushback to using the Net54 pic hosting? I have 75 great looking images in my album and upload hundreds of images otherwise and have never had a problem. IS it because if you host them somewhere else you can easily use them in other places? I know I use my personal website for the lion's share of my personal collection so do understand that idea...best regards

[HRBAKER]

I regularly post scans on three different boards (Net54, CU, and SCN) so having them in one place makes it easy for that. I use photobucket. Is Net54 better or easier?

Edit to add: I do have three Net54 Albums in my profile so I guess I do both.

[frohme]

I'll echo previous comments - I also use Photobucket and other sites.

I went to upload stuff to Net54 but apparently need to optimize my images as they don't fit within the 97+ K, 600x600 pixel limits.

Then again, I normally optimize/resize on Photobucket for displaying here, so maybe I'm splitting hairs that don't really exist ... like the ones on my head.

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Mike

[Leon]

Originally Posted by frohme

I'll echo previous comments - I also use Photobucket and other sites.

I went to upload stuff to Net54 but apparently need to optimize my images as they don't fit within the 97+ K, 600x600 pixel limits.

Then again, I normally optimize/resize on Photobucket for displaying here, so maybe I'm splitting hairs that don't really exist ... like the ones on my head.

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Mike

Hey Mike
We must go to the same barber . It really doesn't matter to me but I have always wondered why people would prefer other places. Our album page is the easiest I have ever seen to download scans. I do understand about having them in one place though. As I said before, and not to belabor the point, but it's a little better if folks don't host them here, vis a vis space and bandwidth ....