OK. Looks like I will no longer use Mediafire - and use imgur for all future posts.
I have a paid account with Mediafire and I will have to keep it, because I have three years of BLF posts/images hosted through them. All the old images still work. But they changed their "share" menu, which no longer works reliably for image hosting.
Imgur’s broken. Need certain browsers, or the pix don’t show. Using FF both from home and at work, and can only see pix from home, not from work, and oddly my browser at home is older’n this one at work. Go to the site itself, and I just see a blank dark-gray page with nothing on it, from both browsers.
A few days ago, I went through many many BLF posts looking to see what image hosting other people were using. By a wide margin, it was imgur. For really old posts it was photobucket.
This is the first time in three years (since I've been a member) I've heard anyone say they had problems with imgur.
I’ve said it at length but gave up because all I got was “FF sux, use a different browser”, and I know at least one other person here who said the same (no images showing) about imgur.
Normally, the only time I even notice is in reviews.
If someone posts “I modded my ASDF90 to take a XHP70.”, great. If I don’t see an actual pic, I just figure it was a text-only message.
Only if (eg, in a review) someone posts “Here’s a beamshot with the old emitter and next to it the new one.”, then it’s like, “Aha, there’s supposed to be a pic, but I can’t see it.”, and then I know something’s missing.
I've been using Firefox for almost twenty years. No real issues. I just don't like it when they change too much at once (like the latest update, that came out last week, version 89).
At least at work, I’m using whatever’s the last version that IT pushes out, but also at work and at home, I use the latest non-quantum portable FF.
Since quantum, too mush shiite just plain broke, especially goggle-related stuff (gmail, etc.). Also, turning off js Is Just Plain Broken. Pre-quantum, prefbar would cleanly turn off js, but quantum version only half-turns it off, ie, you can still get js-driven crap (maybe by design??), so it’s in that half’n’half twilight zone.
It’s made that much worse that POS websites now rely on that, eg, “lazy” image-loading, etc. And no one designs their own clean websites anymore; they just use these canned libraries and templates so you have a brazillion copies of the same POS html/js code floating around out there.
Terry,
Using Firefox or Edge, (Win10) or Safari (- IOS Tablet). I don’t see the first 3 images. The 4th is displayed.
When I right click on one of the not there image blocks and select open in new Tab, I get:
Terry,
When I copy the image link on one of the non-displayed images and paste it in a text editor, the URL does not end in JPG.
I think (notice the word think) BLF image links must end in JPG. Or perhaps another image file format.
All the Best,
Jeff
I've never used MediaFire, but if they provide what is commonly called a "direct link" that has an extension like jpg, that is the one you want to use.
Some of the images might break BLF's rules, but using Imgur as an image host on BLF doesn't require going to Imgur's home page for the people viewing your images on BLF.
If the problem is with the images posted on Imgur, then from BLF's standpoint, is it a big deal, little deal, or no deal at all?
That's the problem. The links to the first three photos do end in jpg. And their direct link doesn't show any picture at all. None of their share links work anymore (but they used to). I've been back-and-forth with their tech support for several days. They don't seem to understand the issue. They give me different things to try, none of which work.
They changed something recently in their share menu.
I'm not really going to pursue this issue anymore. I'm just going to use imgur in the future. I will still have to pay Mediafire yearly, for a while, to keep all my old posts up.
I've done scrolling screen captures of all my important posts. I have all the original text and photos backed up. I could recreate them if necessary. I'm hoping that will never be necessary.