flickr vs. photobucket - posting pictures on forums

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Hi all

I like flickr in terms of the userbase, but am annoyed by the ridiculous number of steps required to obtain the code for posting an image on a forum. Not only that, but you have to adjust the code they provide so that it links back to the relevant flickr page, per the community guidelines.

Flickr requires that you click the thumbnail, go to all sizes, copy the link and adjust the code to be a linked image.

With photobucket, once you've uploaded the image, you just hover over the thumbnail in your album, and up pops several links, one of which is the
forum code, similar to the instant links imageshack provides.

Is there something in flickr that I'm missing? I've searched the help but it just seems to be long-since closed discussion topics bemoaning the same thing, with no solutions.

If flickr hasn't got a solution to this, my conclusion is that flickr is in fact crap in this regard. Given the number of uses that will be sharing their handiwork on photography forums etc., I cannot believe that their developers haven't added the functionality to easily share images on forums.
 
I found the same, tis too much effort for me. the easiest way would probably be a greasemonkey script. I found a couple but they didn't work so I'm guessing the page has changed format since they were written
 
Also interested in this, whilst i stick all my images on flickr I also put them on my personal webspace purely because it's so much easier to link to.
 
Photobucket doesnt always work with my ISP, 7 times out of 10 i cant even view the image. I used to use tinypic, but now i just use my own script on my server.

Portfolio wise i use carbonmade

i use flickr just to keep up with contacts photos and to see what cameras and lenses can do etc.
 
I don't really think they're the same service. flickr is more of an online album/showcase for your images, whereas photobucket is more of a pure image hosting site, so much more suitable for uploading to forums. I guess flickr make it harder so you have to direct people to your album and thus their site rather than them never visiting flickr at all. Just a guess. Photobucket requires you to visit and upload each time you host an image (unless it's already hosted) and as such you go through all the ads there.
 
alexhull24 said:
I don't really think they're the same service. flickr is more of an online album/showcase for your images, whereas photobucket is more of a pure image hosting site, so much more suitable for uploading to forums. I guess flickr make it harder so you have to direct people to your album and thus their site rather than them never visiting flickr at all. Just a guess. Photobucket requires you to visit and upload each time you host an image (unless it's already hosted) and as such you go through all the ads there.
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That makes sense to a degree. Some thoughts though:

- Wouldn't it be nice to have a service that offers both showcasing and distribution functionality, so as to kill two birds with one stone. Flickr would be a perfect service and I wouldn't really need photobucket (though photobucket's free accounts have more generous storage and bandwidth limits than flickr I believe).

- The fact that it's possible to hotlink to flickr, means that they're obviously not adverse to users doing so, they just seem to be making it unecessarily difficult.

- It's not true that photobucket requires that you visit the website in order to upload images.
 
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