Anyone Else having problems posting images from Google?

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.

 

The short answer is I'm not sure

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.



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.

 

Huh. The plot thickens. Thanks.

 

If I could bother you some more, here is a link to my recent post where I was told people could not see the image. Do the images show up for you in that link?

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

 

Alright thanks - this was really helpful. And good call about checking at the higher level of google plus for global settings.

 

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.

 

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!

 

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