Anyone Else having problems posting images from Google?

Help Discussion in 'BeerAdvocate Talk' started by meefmoff, Oct 30, 2017.

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  1. meefmoff

    meefmoff Pooh-Bah (1,922) Jul 6, 2014 Massachusetts
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    hey all,

    After several months of successful image posting from Google Photos I seem to have run into problems of late. I can see them on the computer I upload them on, but if I view my post on another computer the images are missing, and some posters here have told me the same. My most recent post that had the issue is here:

    https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/new-beer-sunday-week-662.543205/page-2#post-5702615

    After photobucket kicked the (ahem) bucket I started using Google Photos based on some suggestions here on BA. I go to the photo, right click on it and choose "copy image address" and paste that into the the image link here. It worked fine in the past and I don't think I'm doing anything differently so I'm kind of perplexed. That said I'm pretty dumb so I could easily be overlooking something obvious.

    Any ideas or suggestions appreciated.
     
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  2. AZBeerDude72

    AZBeerDude72 Initiate (0) Jun 10, 2016 Arizona

    Sorry I cannot help, I currently use Imgur without issue, former Photobucket guy also. Not sure but maybe others can help who use similar interface for photo's
     
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  3. dbrauneis

    dbrauneis Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,071) Dec 8, 2007 North Carolina
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    Are you images set to be public on Google Photos?
     
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  4. meefmoff

    meefmoff Pooh-Bah (1,922) Jul 6, 2014 Massachusetts
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    The short answer is I'm not sure :slight_smile:

    As far as I can tell (based on a previous discussion here with a helpful fellow) with google photos you can't actually use the direct "sharing" option/icon to get photos posted here. In circumstances where I do use the direct "sharing" option I am given a dialogue box where I can say what the privileges are for any email addresses I associate with the link.

    Instead, to post here the only option is to right click on the photo and click "copy image address" and paste that into the image field here, and there's no stage at which I'm given any options as to what the sharing privileges are on the link. If there is a global setting to make the pictures in my account public vs. private I haven't been able to find it.

    For completeness sake, here is an example of me doing what I listed in the second paragraph. Can anyone see this? I think it was working for a few months though i suppose it's possible that simply nobody mentioned that they weren't showing up until recently.

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    Thanks for the help. If this proves to much of a hassle I'll just start using Imgur since that appears to have a track record of working here.
     
  5. dbrauneis

    dbrauneis Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,071) Dec 8, 2007 North Carolina
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    This image is visible.
     
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  6. meefmoff

    meefmoff Pooh-Bah (1,922) Jul 6, 2014 Massachusetts
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    Huh. The plot thickens. Thanks.
     
  7. meefmoff

    meefmoff Pooh-Bah (1,922) Jul 6, 2014 Massachusetts
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  8. dbrauneis

    dbrauneis Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,071) Dec 8, 2007 North Carolina
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  9. meefmoff

    meefmoff Pooh-Bah (1,922) Jul 6, 2014 Massachusetts
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    Alright thanks - this was really helpful. And good call about checking at the higher level of google plus for global settings.
     
  10. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    No.

    I beg to differ. All I see is a big minus sign in a circle.
     
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  11. meefmoff

    meefmoff Pooh-Bah (1,922) Jul 6, 2014 Massachusetts
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    Thanks. Hmmm, if it differs from user to user I don't know what the heck to make of that! Maybe I should just change to imgr. There's probably a reason not a lot of people appear to use google around here.
     
  12. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    I move to Imgur recently when I got fed up with Photobucket. It works almost exactly like Photobucket did, but without the massive number of ads and the requests to start paying for the service. So far I like it.
     
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  13. Bitterbill

    Bitterbill Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,036) Sep 14, 2002 Wyoming
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    My go-to.
     
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  14. meefmoff

    meefmoff Pooh-Bah (1,922) Jul 6, 2014 Massachusetts
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    Thanks folks. Made the switch to Imgur and appear to have had a successful image post on the New Beer Sunday thread with no reported issues.

    I was a bit frightened at first because Imgur is a lot more "social media" heavy than I was expecting, and that's the one area where I prefer to remain a luddite. But once I learned that you can set everything to 'private' but still post links everyone can see, I was good to go.

    Thanks again for the help and suggestions!
     
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  15. PorterPro125

    PorterPro125 Pooh-Bah (1,700) Jan 19, 2013 Canada (NB)

    I have a Google Pixel phone and all of my photos back up to Google Photos, so I use that platform to copy the image address (like you said you do). I've never personally had an issue doing so and I do post quite regularly.
     
  16. meefmoff

    meefmoff Pooh-Bah (1,922) Jul 6, 2014 Massachusetts
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    Yeah, it's really strange since it appeared to work fine for me for quite a while as well. The only thing I can think of is that I have some sort of goofy setting toggled on either my phone or google drive and just haven't been able to figure it out.

    I don't post or share pictures anywhere else so it's easier to just make the switch than to keep banging my head against the wall :crazy_face:
     
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  17. PorterPro125

    PorterPro125 Pooh-Bah (1,700) Jan 19, 2013 Canada (NB)

    I really can't blame you there. Imgur is a great platform as some others have mentioned. I use it myself quite often on reddit. Hopefully you find something that will give you less trouble!
     
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