It appears Photobucket screwed us by disabling the ability to hot link to web forums (like this one) and other web platforms. Photobuck will still permit it for 39.99 a month. But that kind of sucks.
So after doing a little bit if research I found it is possible to hotlink photos from a Google Drive. There are two ways to post a Google Drive image.
You can add it using the brand new googleimg button I just created. (Instructions below:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7328#p66513)
Or you can hard code it like the example that follows for the picture linked in this post:
Code:
How to hard code a linkable image from Google Drive.
1. Upload the image to your Google Drive.
2. Make the image shareable by right clicking it and selecting "Get sharable Link." In my case I built a folder called public and made it open to anyone with a link. (I made sure to set the folder to read-only as well)
3. Copy the link Google gives you.
The link to the picture below is: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzJscDFYP36ITG80Um5iSFhBSlE
4. Copy everything after the "id=" in the link.
For the picture below, that is: 0BzJscDFYP36ITG80Um5iSFhBSlE
5. Paste that ID number onto the end of this URL: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=
The picture below comes out to:
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0BzJscDFYP36ITG80Um5iSFhBSlE
6. Click the [Img] button above the text box you enter your posts in. You will get this in your text: [img][/img]
7. Paste the link between the two tags like this: [img]https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0BzJscDFYP36ITG80Um5iSFhBSlE[/img]
8. Enter the rest of your post and you get something like the picture below.
Please keep in mind that the forum software does not scale images. If you post a really big picture it will be difficult to look at as it bleeds of the edges of the page. 900px wide by 800px tall or smaller seems to fit everyone's screens.
Let me know if you encounter any problems using this method.
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