thats weird cuz when i push the image button to insert links i get this giantic window to now add links to which then seems to upload them to my album before being attached to the posts.. its been that way for a few months now... only way ive been able to avoid them from being added to my albums was to actually type img and /img instead of hitting the picture buttons...

 

prior to that part of the site changing the only album i had was the one for my truck... now theres a new one listed as "My Post Pictures" which is ones i had posted using that img button prior to realizing what it was doing..

 

Well, maybe they have changed something and not told us but I really kind of doubt it...

Yes, pushing the button with the mountain now brings you an entirely new dialogue, and can even let you drag-n-drop pictures from your desktop.

But copying pictures from other hosting sites? I really doubt it..........

 

feel free to look at my albums... like i said "my post pictures" didnt exist till they made that change... and the only pictures that have ended up there are the ones ive used that button for...

 

I just looked at mine... it contains only images which I have uploaded to here... yes, that drag-n-drop thing can be pretty convenient and handy, but it is *me* dragging (or navigating to a picture on my computer) pictures into it and thereby uploading them into one of *my* albums (with the default being My Post Pictures (or some such)).

Point being, it is *me* copying stuff into the albums, not the software going and doing it behind my back.

I suspect you're just not aware of what's really happening when you place pictures into that new application... but it's doing only what you tell it to, it's not doing anything devious behind your back.

 

for one thing im not dragging and dropping (as in from my desk top to the upload window for the site which is what your suggesting im doing)... im linking from other sites.. such as facebook and photobucket image shack ect ect.. those are 2 separate different things.. now if the site was simply using MY link to post the images that way (which the old setup use to just ad the img tags to both sides of the link for you) they wouldnt be in an album on here. not only that when you actually click on the images there then go to where it has share youll find that it now has a VB bulletin link address back to where ever it is FTE hosts its albums from.. wihat its now doing which is what ive been trying to explain but apparently failing to get you to understand.. is when you copy that outside link address into that box instead of it just adding the IMG tags like it use to its actually downloading that image from the original host site... adding it to that new album then posting it from there...

which im not saying its a bad thing.. because ive used it to get around the filtering some companies used to block images.. such as there a few people i talk to here that when theyre at work they cant view PB images because their administrators at work blocked PB.. ive uploaded them here via the PB links using that feature so they could view the image... but for what my original point was if your not aware that the site is saving it there like that to your albums its very easy for something like what the OP is commenting about with the obscene pictures... so yah that picture you may have meant to be sent privately just got uploaded to the public album and now is ending up in that "whats trending now" album..

 

Yeah, OK, I think I see what you're saying... I just created a post in the Testing forum and gave it the URL of a picture hosted on some other site... it copied it and uploaded it to my album (My Post Pictures or some such).

Whether this is good or bad, I don't know... the page *is* entitled "Upload Images" so in a way it's telling you you're uploading images to someplace and not just sourcing them, but it's not really clear.

So, yes, what you're saying could be at least part of an explanation for what's happening BUT... in the PM screen, clicking the button gives you the traditional "give me the URL to your picture" which I haven't tried but I imagine it's *not* copying to your album when inserting an image into a PM.

I'm impressed they actually have an image button in the PM editor now.

I have always typed in the IMG code manually and never used the button for such things.

 

they may have changed it back for the pm's since last time i tried it.. as for awhile the button in the PM's was giving me the same window as i get for posts when i try it there.. but has been awhile..

i do anymore as its quicker than hitting the button sometimes.. especially now with the new uploader thing... takes forever for it just to load the window for me.. where the old one was quicker.. after watching how the tags worked on other sites with VBbulletin i just started typing it..

 

The my post pictures is a separate album under your profile that contains pictures you have put into regular threads..

 

This is true, but we need to be clear... pictures do not make their way to that Album when one manually types in the IMG code... they get there when using the mountain-button application and giving it a URL to an already-hosted image (which it then copies into your Album).

 

i post all kinds of pictures from both photobucket, and off my computer using the insert image icon. and there are no albums or picture links in my user control panel... that i can see.
the only ones i find under my name are the old gallery photos i set up years ago.

 

have no clue why its not putting them there for you tom..

 

exactly.. typing in the IMG tags doesnt get them added... it was only when i used the mountain button..

 

This happened to me as well. I have a couple pics that are other peoples, which I posted in a thread. FTE made an album for me...

 

Stupid double post