It happened. I'm old.

I don't understand technology or the internet anymore.

For years, i've been hosting my pictures on Picasa. It was easy, my android devices came with the uploader already pre-loaded, sorting was easy and intuitive, and grabbing the hotlink url was just as i always used to do: right click, copy image location.

My new phone (main source of pictures) doesn't have the Picasa Uploader, and it's not downloadable from the Play store. Presumably because Google has been killing off Picasa and trying to get everyone to use Google+ or Google Photo, which i believe requires a Google+ account. I don't want that.

So, i figure i'll go back to Flickr, which will set me up nice for when i buy a camera to take advantage of SWMBO's lens collection. Interface isn't awful in terms of uploading, i kindof like the social aspect of it, have lots of people on the Miata forums whose build threads i follow that use Flickr, so i can follow their stuff there as well.

I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO GRAB THE HOTLINK URL.

Can anyone help me? I use pretty much exclusively Android devices these days. I'm sure i could figure out how to do it on a PC, but there used to just be a link option under the "share" deal where it would give you the hotlinked URL with the hotlink code already there. Then it would just have the title and name of uploader underneath it automatically. I'm cool with that. I just can't find it when using Android thing.

Thanks in advance, now get off my lawn.

At least with my Nexus5, when I want to copy something, I just highlight it (usually a double tap) and then hold on it, til it brings up 4 options, cut, copy, paste, and something else. Obviously you want copy, and then click and hold where you want to paste, til it gives you the option to paste. I don't have flickr, and I can't put stuff on my wifes work phone (a g3) so I can't confirm it will work, but I suspect it will.

Right. The problem is that it won't give me a link with a .jpg anywhere in it in the first place.

This is all i can get.

https://flic.kr/p/qXhSuy

Looks like what i've got on the tablet is Picasa Uploader 1.3.242047, which should be in location: com.google.android.apps.uploader

My phone doesn't have any such thing. Wonder if i can somehow add it. First i'd need to find a way to get it, though.

Picasa more or less became Google Plus Pictures. At least, all the pics and albums I had in Picasa are now there. So now I use Google Plus to share photos, same way I used to with Picasa.

I don't want that.

Do you use an android thingymabobber? Do i have to upload with Google Photos now? Or Google+?

Blargh. It wasn't broken. Stop fixing it.

Ok, it took me a bit but i am on my phone, but thats what youre doing. When i clicked on your link, there are three little dots that bring up a menu to view different sizes. When you get to that page, the picture is no longer a link put a normal picture. I tapped the picture and held it until the menu shows up and did 'view image'. Then i copied the [.].jpg bit from the address bar.

Hrm so that helps.... The problem is that i'm working from the Flickr App, not from the website.

I feel like there's got to be a way to get to that URL without grabbing the link from the app, then opening up a browser window, pasting, doing your process to get the new URL, then opening a new browser window to GRM, and pasting that URL between the IMG tags.

I just don't get why this is MORE complicated in the year 2015. Why haven't we figured out how to just drag and drop pictures directly into forum posts and VOILA! Hotlink!

I use photobucket and have none of these issues.

Considering that less than 1/10 Photobucket direct URLs work on any of my mobile devices, ever, and that my work network blocks it, i find Photobucket about as useful as toilet paper made from barbed wire.

Picasa and Flickr are really my options.

I use imgur.com now. I used to use photobucket but when I uploaded from mobile the images got all compressed and pixelated. Imgur has none of these issues and the best mobile interface to me. And it give you a link right after upload.

I know imgur is a valid option, it's just not one i want to consider right now. I have thousands of pictures on Picasa, and hundreds on Flickr. I would prefer to keep using Picasa, but would like to use it the same way i've always used it.

If that's not possible, then i'm perfectly ok with going to Flickr if i can figure out to use it the way i need to use it, as Flickr is popular in the photography world, and that's something i'm getting into.

Imgur is a last resort for me at this point.

Hmm, so I found this:

Flickr FAQ page said: Where is the HTML code and photo file link? The HTML code to embed a photo in a web page that you used to find on the All Sizes page is now only in the Share menu on the photo, to the left of the More menu. We now also include BBCode! (standard message board code) There are a few cases where the code may not be available: 1) If the photo is restricted. 2) If that person has turned off "Share this" or access to original files. The direct link to a photo file is no longer shown on the page. Per the Flickr Community Guidelines "pages on other websites that display content hosted on flickr.com must provide a link from each photo or video back to its page on Flickr." Linking directly to the photo file doesn't do this.

I have had similar difficulty grabbing you tube video links on my android tablet. I end up hitting the "share" thingy and choosing e-mail. It pre-populates an e-mail with the link, where I can copy it and exit the e-mail pretty easily. This is within the you tube app BTW. If there is an easier way to grab the link to a freaking yous tubes video I would love to hear it.

I realized I was old the first time I heard an Ozzy song on the elevator muzak. That was a weird day.

Photo bucket?

Tom_Spangler wrote: Picasa more or less became Google Plus Pictures. At least, all the pics and albums I had in Picasa are now there. So now I use Google Plus to share photos, same way I used to with Picasa.

if this is the case, I wonder why I get "demands" that I download Picasa every few days … the one time I tried, it wasn't comparable with my Mac … I've just deleted it every time since then … but that is a little irritating

moparman76_69 wrote: I use photobucket and have none of these issues.

I'm not using a mobile device, but I had nothing but problems with photobucket, and flickr … I've found that imgur takes care of everything I need

In reply to Swank Force One:

Just use Google Plus Photos. You don't have to do anything different or use the social media aspect of it and you already have a google plus account since you have a Picasa account.

Seriously, just Picasa changed names and added some extra features that you don't have to use, unless you want to.

EastCoastMojo wrote: Hmm, so I found this:

Flickr FAQ page said: Where is the HTML code and photo file link? The HTML code to embed a photo in a web page that you used to find on the All Sizes page is now only in the Share menu on the photo, to the left of the More menu. We now also include BBCode! (standard message board code) There are a few cases where the code may not be available: 1) If the photo is restricted. 2) If that person has turned off "Share this" or access to original files. The direct link to a photo file is no longer shown on the page. Per the Flickr Community Guidelines "pages on other websites that display content hosted on flickr.com must provide a link from each photo or video back to its page on Flickr." Linking directly to the photo file doesn't do this.

I have had similar difficulty grabbing you tube video links on my android tablet. I end up hitting the "share" thingy and choosing e-mail. It pre-populates an e-mail with the link, where I can copy it and exit the e-mail pretty easily. This is within the you tube app BTW. If there is an easier way to grab the link to a freaking yous tubes video I would love to hear it. I realized I was old the first time I heard an Ozzy song on the elevator muzak. That was a weird day.

Yeah i can figure it out from the actual web page. I wonder if i'm asking for something that just doesn't exist, since i want the HTML/BB code directly from the app, since the app is what i use on the tablet/phone.

Le sigh. I'm a relic.

As for youtube videos, i have the option to "copy to clipboard." What i'm about to paste is what i got from that.

火車: http://youtu.be/vUz9xCTOPRw

I have never been able to figure out how to do anything with photos from my phone. I can't figure out anything but photobucket on the computer. I tried flickr and imgur but they were about as useful as a stone tablet and a chisel. I'll stick with what I know. Technology scares me. Get off my lawn!

I'm with Nick.

And I thought this was a thread about being old. This weekend my brother told me that Nick Giambi retired. Officially making me older than anyone playing in the NFL, NBA, MLB, or NHL. That's an old milestone I'm not entirely happy about.

you're not getting old, you're getting wise to Google wanting to unify everything, so they can track your behavior.

Microsoft is trying to as well, you cant have a skype mobile account if you dont have a MS account to link it to.

remember, everyone. if you arent paying for the product, you are the product.

Photobucket works for me on my nexus 5, its a piece of cake to do everything you want and none of my hot-links from the past two years are dead :)

madmallard wrote: remember, everyone. if you arent paying for the product, you are the product.

Or even sometimes if you are (Cable/satellite TV)

Photobucket is blocked by work network, and direct URLs for photobucket cannot be opened on any of my mobile devices. The m.photobucket site is the biggest pile of berkeley i've ever seen in my life.

Thanks for your input on how to grab the URL i'm looking for within Flickr's app, though.