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Whenever a picture doesn't show up in an article in the Times, I see an endless
line of people
posting about it. It's really annoying; people start a million threads about the
same exact thing. Haven't they learned that it takes a while for the pictures to
appear each week?
I have found a possible way to fix this problem.
Why can't we save the picture onto our computers and upload them to a website
like Photobucket? Instead of taking the
picture and posting it directly to Whyville, wasting their bandwidth, we could bring it to
Photobucket, where direct linking is encouraged.
The big benefit is, as long as the image is saved
before the article is out, we'd be able to see the image right away, and it
would prevent useless posts.
Anyway, it's just a suggestion. And a painfully short article.
I'm calling on a stranger when I've got no back up plan,
I'm disregarding danger when I'm in your foreign land,
Timantha
Editor's Note: I don't really know what the legal issues might be for
Whyville linking to pictures at Photobucket and similar places -- they might be
intended for individuals, so it might be against their rules for a real business
to use their site like that. A bigger concern I have is that people might
move their images later, or their accounts at those sites might get closed down
(or the site itself!). Let's say Timantha had an image in this article that we
linked to at Photobucket. In a few months, she's running out of space there, and
decides to delete the images she's not using anymore. We at Whyville would have
no control over that -- we shouldn't, they're her pictures -- but if she deleted
the image linked to in this article, everyone who reads it after that wouldn't
get to see the pictures.
It's not ideal, but we'll probably have to stick with our current system for
now, unless a brilliant Whyvillian can take Timantha's good idea and solve the
problems I mentioned here.... :-)
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