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To get eBay style features (including the enormous storage required) would mean subs and ads everywhere
Per our previous discussion!
@fuengi
Android or Apple?
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Hence need to keep the instructions up to date.
The main variables are ...
(And all of this is assuming that we have already taken care of the part that befuddles most people - hosting and uploading the image - and simply want to link to it.)
So what is to be done about it? Probably nothing. Think of it as being like the secret Masonic handshake: if you can't remember how to do it, then you are probably not cut out to be a Mason anyway.
1 - Hosting costs. The sheer cost of storage is immense, and would easily double (and more) our existing hosting costs.
2 - Copyright and defamation liability. Hosting user-uploaded images would require us to take responsibility for breaches of copyright and defamation from people copying images, or uploading parody images (or both!). That's a level of human resource and management that we're just not set up for.
Maybe phone to imgur is tricky, maybe some of the hosting sites aren't compatible with Vanilla, but OK, it then it takes one extra step. Loading via handshaker or sending a pic from phone to computer isn't crochet science (mumsnet reference there).
* Unlimited image hosting (within reason)
* No-one can stop hosting your images or mangle them or put bloody watermarks on them. They are yours.
* No-one tracks the people viewing your images for commercial gain.
* If you don't like your hosting company, moving to a new one is easy-peasy - and you don't need to change bookmarks, email addresses, anything. No-one except you will even know you have changed providers.
* Unlimited no-snoop, no-Google email accounts - any address you like, such as yourname@yourname.co.uk
* Change email addresses any time you like. For example, sign up for stuff you don't quite trust with the address spam@yourname.co.uk. If you start getting too much crap, start using spam2@yourname.co.uk. Or (even better) set up a catch-all, then whenever you give out your address, use their name - e.g., harrods@yourname.co.uk or sainsburys@yourname.co.uk. Then, if you start getting crapmail from all over, you can tell exactly which barstards handed your address over to the spammers.
* Your own website (if desired)
* Various other benefits I can't think of at the moment.
Cost is something like twenty quid a year. Peanuts. (I pay more than that but I have some extras not relevant here.)
It takes about 3 seconds literally with Imgur.
@Fuengi
From imgur via my (Android) phone.
You can get FTP hosting for about £3 a month, maybe a bit less. Although imgur works I can't stand all the adverts and would rather pay for hosting