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Agreed, need to see if the functionality is built in or if I need to so something "special"

 

All -

I've been doing some research on this. A few things I've learned so far and a few responses the the comments:
1) This has hammered a lot of forums. For newer forum platforms some scripts have already been made to bypass this challenge (more on that later). Since we are running an older forum software, I have not found anything yet. That said, I imagine something will show up.. and I'm researching what it will take to migrate the site to a new platform.
2) If you are trying to look at a picture that was hosted on Photobucket and the user has not removed the picture you still can with a PIA work around. To see the picture:
a) Right click on the picture and choose "Open in New Tab" or "Open in New Window."
b)The picture will show up in the new tab/window.

Firebro17 - to your comment:

You can upload directly from you PC or phone. To do this:
1) When you are posting, next to "Post quick reply" is "Go Advanced. Click on "Go Advanced"
2) Scroll down below "Additional Options" and click on "Manage Pictures and Attachments."
3) That will open a pop up and you can choose the pictures from you PC or phone.
4) NOTE - there is a size limitation. I'm looking to see what it will take to re-implement the auto re-sizer (I understand it once worked on this site). It will require you to resize the picture.

I realize a better user experience would be clicking on the "picture" icon above the text screen. I'm looking into that and the ability to auto re-size pictures.

Ultimately, I'm trying to figure out a way to fix the following:
1) Some way to recover the broken links by the PB change.
2) Simple way for you to edit your old post/pictures if you want to upload them directly to the site
3) If we can modify the "Picture" icon to show the option to upload the pictures to the site. Many people may not know about the "Attach Pictures and Files" option under the Advance section of posting.

More on this as I find out more.

Josh

 

Minidave,

Thanks for the feedback, let me check into how/if we can adjust that so pictures can flow within the text instead of at the bottom. Regarding uploading pictures and them only showing up as thumbnails, can you provide a little more context? What OS is your computer and browser type?

This weekend I uploaded the ones on the Caffeine and Octane thread and they show up in full size. Here is the URL:
https://www.motoringalliance.com/forums/mini-stuff/29725-caffeine-octane-atl-tomorrow-morning.html

 

Regarding backup of photo's you can use a number of solutions. I currently use icloud, dropbox, or google drive. I also have an external drive. I'm trying to see if there is a vBulletin script that will automatically pull in pictures hosted on other sites. That way if something changes like what PB did, the pics are not gone. Some newer platforms have this type of functionality.. Haven't found that yet on vB. But still looking.