Scrapbook

[altariel]

Right, LJ, after a week trying and failing to upload pictures to Scrapbook, I'm going over to Flickr.

Bang. They're up. Post about them later.

Comments

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

What issues where you having? Direct with LJ or via a client? I have an external photo account too, but whenever I do use scrapbook, I've never had any issues with it.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Direct with LJ. It would upload as far as, say, 87% (or, more annoyingly, 97%), and then the upload would fail. Tried usual stuff - emptying cache, restarting browser, restarting machine, different machine, different browsers - no luck.

This is the first time I've ever had problems with scrapbook too.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'd better prepare myself for next time I upload!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Let me know! Although others on my f'list have posted pictures, so I think it's may well just be me.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I have used Flickr, but it generally takes me about an hour to work out how to do it. Whereas Scrapbook tends to work OK for me, so I hope I can stick with it.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I found my way round Flickr quickly enough; I like the mapping function. But I've had no problems with Scrapbook at all and it's where all my pictures are archived. It'll be a right royal pain if I can't get it to work again.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Flickr is way better. I love their interface.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

A good choice on your part! Scrapbook is behaving in an increasingly wonky fashion - and believe me, it's a lot easier to crosspost from another photo-hosting service than to have to move your photos and redo your links later. I've found that out the hard way!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm liking the mapping function very much. I haven't tried linking directly to pictures yet from an LJ post; I'll have to see how that works out.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'll be hugely fed up if I have to redo links in LJ posts. It's a shame, because Scrapbook was a perfectly functional little tool and I was quite happy to keep on using it. But it shouldn't take a week to (not quite) upload 13 pictures.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

No, it shouldn't. Apparently the LJ Scrapbook is abandonware; they're not updating it at all. I wish I'd known that before I'd posted 1500 photos to it! That's going to be a lot of links to update (not to mention photos to upload to SmugMug).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the update. But - oh, bloody hell! *kicks LJ*

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Now what's LJ doing to deserve a kick? (I'm almost afraid to ask...)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Just not supporting Scrapbook. I'm OK with LJ most of the time, but this is annoying.