Are PB and Yuku the only places we can store image

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DeAnna1	Are PB and Yuku the only places we can store image		Lead	[-]
Posts: 80 6 Jun, 2009 18:36	Tags : None images to use in Yuku? Like, can I use my 4shared account for skins? I obviously want things I'm going to post in replies to be in Yuku or PB so it's easy to pull up and add. But they are getting so full and it's taking longer to load the albums. Since I use my 4shared account to share the skins I make, I thought I could just put all my skin stuff there, the tiles, headers, buttons, etc and add the http from there. Would leave my other accounts for tags and posticons and stuff. Would that work? If not, I'm going to have to figure out something because I add a bunch every day. Pretty soon it'll take forever to load AND then page through everything to find what I am looking for. I guess I need to get another user account because all the stuff in my albums (well most) has to stay forever so the skins don't fall apart. I need more space! Just trying to plan ahead before it's too late. Thanks, DeAnna Last Edited By: DeAnna1 6 Jun, 2009 18:39. Edited 1 time.
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m0zaic		#1	[url]	[-]
resident expert Posts: 1821 6 Jun, 2009 19:21 He who knows ALL (Well, ALMOST!)	Does 4shared allow hotlinking? If not, no. I never link PB to yuku because I have a separate account per board. I organise images into folders and it is never slow. I suspect the slowness you are experiencing is because they are linked. If you are sharing skins, use yuku images and in that way your bandwidth will never be exceeded. People use imageshack, fokti, ripway, etc. I have not found them to be as reliable as PB though. Maybe thigs have changed. You can use your support account to store images too. Link.
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SciFiGuy		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 312 7 Jun, 2009 09:20	FYI, Photobucket allows only one free account per person. See their Terms of Use #3 ["Members are limited to one free account per person."], as well as a comment here by one of their forum moderators. They have been known to delete accounts when someone has more than one account.
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alison		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2881 7 Jun, 2009 11:37 Goddess of Mischief fits into the bottle now	You also use your own hosting if you have your own domain.
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m0zaic		#4	[url]	[-]
resident expert Posts: 1838 7 Jun, 2009 12:03 He who knows ALL (Well, ALMOST!)	I guess their T&Cs have never changed then. I will rephrase slightly then. I do not personally have more than one account. You know, I don't even have one (now that I think about it).
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1992casey		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 149 8 Jun, 2009 20:56 brewing up trouble	You should be able to use any image hosting site that's set up for hot-linking as long as it works to your satisfaction. Additionally, a lot of people have storage space provided by their ISP. You might need to pay attention to bandwidth limitations. You also want to make sure that your ISP URLs aren't too close to your real name or an e-mail address that you use. ISP storage is usually pretty flexible about file formats, meaning that it might work for those .ico files that people occasionally ask about. Our boards are each connected to a "main" site that isn't part of Yuku. Any images like logos are hosted under the the main site's domain. The logos shared with the main site aren't critical to board operation, plus we don't want visitors to have to load them twice as they move in and out of the Yuku portions of the sites. We keep our critical board-related images (new post icons, sticky icons, etc.) in our board Support accounts. We've had our main sites go down at times, making those images unavailable. If images.yuku.com goes down, problems extend well beyond a board's custom images. Last Edited By: 1992casey 9 Jun, 2009 01:22. Edited 2 times.
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Chris		#6	[url]	[-]
administrator resident expert Posts: 1585 8 Jun, 2009 21:34 Fresh and Minty testicles	This isn't really pertinent to storing images that you're going to use regularly, like skins and smileys, but I find for posting one off things that I would like to be around forever (or at least a long time), don't mind being public and don't want to clutter my own hosting with, tinypic.com is quite handy Now that I investigated it a bit more, I see tinypic is owned by photobucket. You can also get yourself a flickr account.
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DeAnna1		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 83 10 Jun, 2009 18:36	Thanks for all the responses. You've given me a lot to look into and think about. I have one thing I'd like to try to fix right. When I started making the skins I wasn't aware of a lot. Well, I used my main Yuku user account and I'd like to change this. How do I explain this? I want to have like a first time user for Yuku, and I know I can add another user account. But, I want the name as I have it now and my profile (well, I can fix that easily). This is not coming out right lol I have saved a lot of skin files and will add more to this Yuku user account, so I want to start another user name under the same Yuku account. This will be the user name I visit boards on, etc So the one I'm using now for that will be like my "skins user account" but I want my name as it shows NOW on this new user account? Sheesh! Do I make ANY sense? DeAnna
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m0zaic		#8	[url]	[-]
resident expert Posts: 1915 10 Jun, 2009 18:48 He who knows ALL (Well, ALMOST!)	I think so. How do you imagine it would work with two people posting with exactly the same name? How would their accounts be differentiated? You would have to make a slight variation of your name in order to create a new profile (or make a local account and trail a longboardname after yourself wherever you go). Images are stored per account and if you made another profile on your existing account, you would not get any more storage and the images would be exactly the same. To achieve what you are trying to achieve would begin with you having a different email address to use. You would then go to the yuku homepage and logout. Then you would try to make a new username as close to the one you already have as possible. In order to switch accounts, you would have to logout and login each time. If it were me, I would try to move the image hosting to for example your board's support account.
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DeAnna1		#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 85 11 Jun, 2009 05:18	You mean moving all the files that I have with all the skin images in them? But won't that break the links to the skins that are already in place? DeAnna
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alison		#10	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2954 11 Jun, 2009 09:09 Goddess of Mischief fits into the bottle now	only if you remove them from the old place as well.
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m0zaic		#11	[url]	[-]
resident expert Posts: 1934 11 Jun, 2009 11:04 He who knows ALL (Well, ALMOST!)	Yes I do mean that and yes I also mean editing the skins. Remember, I have no idea what quantity you have and I do realise this can be a daunting task but I have always found it easier than at first thought.
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1992casey		#12	[url]	[-]
Posts: 155 11 Jun, 2009 13:49 brewing up trouble	If your file names remain the same and they're in similar folders, you should be able to paste your code into a word processor or text editor and use its find and replace function. Example... Old URL: http://www.oldhost.com/album/myboard/filename.png New URL: http://www.newhost.com/albums/someboards/myboard/filename.png In each URL, "myboard/filename.png" is the same. Likewise, all files in "myboard" would be the same. You'd use the find/replace feature to change the rest of the URL. You wouldn't be able to do this if you're moving files to Yuku, however. Yuku changes the filenames to random characters. Last Edited By: 1992casey 18 Jun, 2009 08:39. Edited 2 times.
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DeAnna1		#13	[url]	[-]
Posts: 86 16 Jun, 2009 13:02	Thanks and that's a good idea. I don't know if I'll tackle it or not. I always have so much to do here already...that would just take forever. I guess everyone will have to get use to a variation of my name. DeAnna
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