Mediafire fucks up
Jun. 4th, 2021 06:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mificI've been emailing Mediafire's support staff about it, which is how I found out what had happened. They say they changed it to make it easier for people to get download links, i.e. they've prioritised business use over the rest of us. They also say they're working on a fix so we can still get embed links, but no idea when that might eventuate.
If they fix Mediafire and let me know, I'll post about it. Their support desk person said the "view" code could be edited for direct embedding, but I tried and it doesn't work for me - all I can see is the alt text. If you try it and it works, let me know. In the "view" code, you replace "/view/" with "/?" - so "https://www.mediafire.com/view/6j7brgitmw7s8my/arizonaroad.jpg" becomes "https://www.mediafire.com/?6j7brgitmw7s8my/arizonaroad.jpg"
Meanwhile, I've changed to using squidge.org's image hosting to store my images, as that's a dedicated fandom site. It works well - not quite as simple after uploading to locate the embed code as Mediafire used to be, but it's fine. And hopefully safer than a non-fandom site, longer-term.
ETA: Briefly, at squidge.org, after you upload an image you need to click on it to get the details. Below the image, not very obvious, it says "embed codes". After clicking on that, the second option from the top is the one you want, called "image URL". Clicking on that gets a "copy" button.[Follow-up fix for this is here]
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Date: 2021-06-03 11:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-06-04 08:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-06-04 01:58 am (UTC)Unfreakin believable. Just as I’m getting active here again, media fire goes kablooey. I was going upload some pictures tonight even. 😡
Thank you for letting us know.
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Date: 2021-06-04 08:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-06-04 05:53 am (UTC)I've been using DropShare to connect to an image host, which has been the most convenient thing I've found thus far.
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Date: 2021-06-04 05:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-06-04 07:41 am (UTC)well, the image itself is pretty small, so I don't know if it's a smaller preview version of the image, or the image itself was small to begin with? But yeah, I got it by viewing source from the view page and doing a search for ".jpg"
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Date: 2021-06-04 07:57 am (UTC)Well, I guess it's one solution, but not all that easy to do compared to using a site that just provides the link. It wouldn't make me go on using Mediafire unless they sort out a fix for the issue.
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Date: 2021-06-04 06:23 pm (UTC)Ugh, thanks for the update on this, and for suggesting squidge.org's image hosting--I didn't even know that was an option.
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Date: 2021-06-04 07:27 pm (UTC)