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Speed tests - image hosting providers

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:16:09 +0400

Fastest to slowest:

As of 08/25/10

1. Flickr and Tiny Pic
2. Photobucket
3. Imageshack

* these are US based .com hosts. I'm working on accurately measuring speeds from hosts in other countries.

Re: Free Image Hosting Websites

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:05:54 +0400

tinypic.com
imageshack.us

No registration required on either.
Direct links are readily available

Imageshack seems to be slightly slower.

Hot Linking

VeskoMarinov — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:43:35 +0400

Hello, i would like to know hot to link button - images
example:

[align=center]
[/align]

Re: Free Image Hosting Websites

Wes — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:52:33 +0400

That would be ...

Photobucket.com

I have another one but i'm notat home so i don't know it from the back of my head ...

Btw i was inactive for long, i'm still not fully back on internet, but i will tryu to come more ...

Re: Free Image Hosting Websites

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:41:01 +0400

photobucket.com
flickr.com

Pros:
- Both are Free
- Both allow a huge amount of images to be hosted
- Both have many tools to help make organizing and editing easier
- Both are stable with minimal (if any) downtime.

Cons:
- Registration required.
- On Flickr, direct links aren't readily available (if I'm missing something, please post)

Free Image Hosting Websites

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:40:03 +0400

Hello,

Please post your favorite image hosting websites here. List pros and cons whenever possible.:)

Image Uploads

admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:07:04 +0400

We switched to mainly URL rotations. This change did not impact already uploaded images and will help preserve our limited resources. The good news is that everyone will have a lot more signatures and avatars. And by limiting image uploads, we will be able to improve server performance for all users.

If you are still worried, there are plenty of websites that offer free image hosting, and SignAvatar will be able to randomize the URL's without any noticeable difference in service. Plus, the benefit of saved resources will protect SignAvatar servers from overloading and allow for more features, such as the upcoming twitter signatures, avatar ratings and more.

View free image hosting websites list

Thank you for understanding,
- admin

Re: I can't log in

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:23:52 +0400

I was able to login your username and new password.

I'll try to see if there's something on my end that's causing this. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Re: I can't log in

ashin06 — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:32:30 +0300

Thanks for the quick response admin. You reset my password hella quick but now I'm having the same problem as alienation.

I've tried to log in (with the correct info) and it just says Error: Invalid Login.

I can't log in

Alienation — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:24:52 +0300

I just registered and I gave my email, but when I try to log in it says Error: Invalid Login.
WHAT DO I DO?

Re: Sequential option

admin — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:03:29 +0300

this feature will be included in the upcoming version.

Sequential option

Atramental — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:14:58 +0300

Hey, I was just wondering if you could add an option for the avatars to be displayed in the order they were uploaded.

Thanks in advance.

Re: This...

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:02:38 +0300

xat chat

Re: This...

Indiman — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:22:54 +0300

Them? Them as in Photobucket?

Re: This...

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:09:09 +0300

sounds like the image is being saved to their server and not as .png. You might want to ask them what exactly is happening with the image.

goodluck

Re: This...

Indiman — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:18:21 +0300

No, but I think it used to. It doesn't have blue backgrounds by itself. Maybe there's something wrong with the image.

Re: This...

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:13:58 +0300

what happens when you put up just one image, like this one [i250.photobucket.com] does the blue background still appear?

This...

Indiman — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:41:02 +0300

Hi, I'm new here and I'm wondering why my link was working fine in xat chats, and now it's got a switching and transparency problem.
[signavatar.com]

On xat chats, it now only shows the first image (doesn't switch at all) with a blue background, which is not how it is supposed to be. It is fine when you click the link, but not for xat chats :S
Anyone know how to fix this?

Re: Forum Feature Compatibilities with Hotlinking Images

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:27:14 +0300

Like you said, the bandwidth that's spent is ours not theirs, but likely the reasoning behind disabling external avatars is that trusting external sites to load the images may slow down the page, but that doesn't justify limiting users in creativity.

Unfortunately, there's not much we can do to bypass that, except encourage forum admins to enable external avatars -- as most forum software supports the feature (vBulletin definitely lets you choose whether to serve external avatars or upload your own).

Re: Tagging and Sorting for More Than One Website

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:29:06 +0300

this feature will be available soon. I'm working on twitter signatures right now, but after that i'll start working out some of the feature requests.

- admin

Forum Feature Compatibilities with Hotlinking Images

Oddbrother — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:50:38 +0300

Sometimes it's not really easy to simply hotlink our avatars and signatures in other websites. Although the image tags are common on most (if not all) websites, some don't allow us to hotlink directly towards them.

I've seen ones powered by vBulletin where you were only allowed to upload your avatars or signatures to the server itself, which would probably mean being limited to more than one image, and pretty much using up more of the servers bandwidth depending on how many registered users use their avatars and signatures. Has there been any workaround for it, or would the admin have to use some kind of a hack to allow off-site avatar and signature image linking?

Tagging and Sorting for More Than One Website

Oddbrother — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:45:12 +0300

Although we're allowed up to 200 avatars and signatures in rotation, I think there should be a feature where we could tag and sort our avatars and signatures for different hotlinks.

Tagged avatars and signatures would not only allow us to sort them more easily, but with it, we don't have to delete or replace them with others when we only want to show which exact images on which website.

That, and it's also better than making alternative SignAvatar user accounts. We'd get banned for that anyways. :(

Re: Resize

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:42:13 +0300

This feature will be added in the upcoming version. However, there are many programs that specialize in image editing; google's picasa is free, or if you'd like to edit online, you can use a website like fotoflexer.com

Also, the stretching you described is not normal. It maybe that the forum you are using the avatars on is setting the width and height in img tag.

goodluck

Resize

Oddbrother — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:51:35 +0300

I don't like that if my images for my avatars are in more than one size, some of them get stretched to the biggest image size uploaded.

Although I may not be able to independently edit them, I would at least like to downsize most of them.

Re: Time-based image change

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:07:53 +0300

While I can't give you the exact time this will be implemented, custom interval rotation is on the feature list for the upcoming version.

Time-based image change

emanueu — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:15:24 +0300

Hi there!

First of all, I want to say I loved the idea of SignAvatar. I aways wanted a service like this without have to deal with scripts and these stuff that I'm not used to handle.

As there's a board to request new features, I would like to make a suggestion: an option to change the images in a specific order (like upload time, or maybe the user could decide it arbitrarily), with the possibility to choose if the image reload each 15/30 min, 1 h or something like that. It would be even more interesting if it was possible to set the image according to the viewer's clock time. I've seen something like that once, but I have no idea if it's viable for this site.