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    I looked up your photo, looks like it is from instagram?

    I am pretty sure that you cannot use the image "img" tags from instagram. If you have flickr or similar that will work. You can also upload photos after 15 posts if I recall correctly?



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    Honestly I never use the board-hosted option.

    I upload to imgur and do IMG tags to wrap them. Almost *every* single build thread or any other thread with really old photos that DON'T do this have happy little boxes where there should be images.
    This is the biggest problem with all of the miata forums.

    Found that wicked writeup for the mod you really want to do. Oh, every image isn't loading because they used photobucket. Great.

    Imgur doesn't delete old pictures, and I forsee them living for quite a long time since they just got something like 1bil in funding from reddit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RuckkehrMiata View Post
    Honestly I never use the board-hosted option.

    I upload to imgur and do IMG tags to wrap them. Almost *every* single build thread or any other thread with really old photos that DON'T do this have happy little boxes where there should be images.
    This is the biggest problem with all of the miata forums.

    Found that wicked writeup for the mod you really want to do. Oh, every image isn't loading because they used photobucket. Great.

    Imgur doesn't delete old pictures, and I forsee them living for quite a long time since they just got something like 1bil in funding from reddit.
    ^^^ great info!! linky --->>> http://imgur.com/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phatmiata View Post
    ^^^ great info!! linky --->>> http://imgur.com/
    They have a sick mobile app too that you can sync pictures from your phone as well. Convenient
    If you make an account on IMGUR you can group them in albums as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phatmiata View Post
    I looked up your photo, looks like it is from instagram?

    I am pretty sure that you cannot use the image "img" tags from instagram. If you have flickr or similar that will work. You can also upload photos after 15 posts if I recall correctly?


    Thanks for the help

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    Quote Originally Posted by RuckkehrMiata View Post
    Honestly I never use the board-hosted option.

    I upload to imgur and do IMG tags to wrap them. Almost *every* single build thread or any other thread with really old photos that DON'T do this have happy little boxes where there should be images.
    This is the biggest problem with all of the miata forums.

    Found that wicked writeup for the mod you really want to do. Oh, every image isn't loading because they used photobucket. Great.

    Imgur doesn't delete old pictures, and I forsee them living for quite a long time since they just got something like 1bil in funding from reddit.
    There are positives and negatives to photo-hosting services and forum-hosting. The irritating blank boxes are not typical of Miata forums but every forum. Over time, people move, change or delete categories in their photo-hosting site and suddenly photos become unavailable anywhere they've ever been posted.

    For instance, if in Photobucket, I created a category called "Miata" ten years ago and then uploaded 10,000 pictures to it and linked them to every Miata or car site imaginable, I could never change that structure. If I simply change "Miata" to "My Miata," every link I've ever posted in every forum would nullify. The same would be true if I decided to move "Miata" inside another category I create like "My favorite cars" for example.

    You can certainly create, rename and move folders on your photo-hosting site just like you can files and folders on your home computer but making a single change can ruin every link you've ever posted.

    I'm just curious but you seem to attribute blank boxes to Photobucket. How would imgur be any different?


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    Imgur links never change. The direct link to it is permanent.

    Almost every missing photo I have seen on miataturbo etc tends to be a photobucket link, and I have a bias against them for just being bad (I know people who work for imgur)
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    why is it so difficult to post pictures? I would really like to start a build thread with tons of pictures. but all my pictures are on my phone and instagram. is there any way to upload from a phone?

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    Quote Originally Posted by RuckkehrMiata View Post
    Honestly I never use the board-hosted option.

    I upload to imgur and do IMG tags to wrap them. Almost *every* single build thread or any other thread with really old photos that DON'T do this have happy little boxes where there should be images.
    This is the biggest problem with all of the miata forums.

    Found that wicked writeup for the mod you really want to do. Oh, every image isn't loading because they used photobucket. Great.

    Imgur doesn't delete old pictures, and I forsee them living for quite a long time since they just got something like 1bil in funding from reddit.
    I'm glad I read this before posting any photos on the forum as a new member I hate when the photos don't work on the forums because of old Photobucket links don't work. Imgur sounds like the move. Does anyone upload manually with files through there computer still anymore? I'm not seeing any benefit, especially if Imgur has a halfway decent mobile app interface.

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    I notice that I post less and less on forums where I can not paste pictures directly into my post.
    I think the gap between editing in forums and other modern plattforms is one of the main reason forums are dying.

    Sorry.

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    I use Flickr to host my pictures. It may take a little bit of time to copy and paste the link but it still gets the job done. I don't have any apps on my phone only because I try not to use my phone as much.

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    +1 for Imgur

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    I use Imgur and Flickr

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