Do you have another option/?

I just realized what happened. They mixed conversations right in with the rest. We're just not seeing them because there hasn't been much activity. John, found your latest down several pages.

So I guess the answer is yes, post anything you want here?

John, I was just trying to figure out what had happened to "conversations" and whether we would be allowed to post everything here. I'm also trying to figure out if I want to post a photo, do I just click on the "photo" icon below this box....

Annie

Well, they want us to stay, and that means making us happy. :)

I'd be fine with member news kinds of posts amongst the cooking, but not so much politics or gossip. Not that Conversations really had much of that! For the few discussions that were over there, why not in the main column, but I'm not up for a free-for-all.

They will have to figure out a way to have conversations separate, the way they were before. The main forum should be on topic, or else it is meaningless as a topic, and this will be true for other forums.

Hopefully, conversions will come back.

Annie, you can click on photo and then drag the photo from your file to the box.

~Ann

Hmmm. So I don't have to resize or use photobucket anymore?

Annie

Well, they will own all your pictures, as did i village, if you are cool with that.

I don't particularly care what they do with the pictures, none of mine are good enough that anyone actually wants them for anything, LOL. I'll try one and see how it goes...

"Annie, you can click on photo and then drag the photo from your file to the box.

~Ann"

I am paranoid about doing that, allowing others to come in and pick stuff out from my computer directly.

dcarch

Test

[URL=http://s800.photobucket.com/user/jylmks/media/Bikes%20-%20Vitus%20997/A1813CEF-1256-4DFC-A1D8-31705E86B72B_zps95q8urhj.jpg.html][IMG]http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy282/jylmks/Bikes%20-%20Vitus%20997/A1813CEF-1256-4DFC-A1D8-31705E86B72B_zps95q8urhj.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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yeah i was wondering about that. looking at the source code on say WFD i see the html links, but can they be used on new posts?

Nope, I can't manage to post an inline image using a Photobucket URL

But then again, I can post straight from my iPhone to here, which is quite handy. Win some, lose some.

We've been able to do that since they added the "add a file" feature. It is better now, with up to 4 instead of just one. Plus video.

Next question, WTH is up with the "related discussions" on the right? Stuff is up to like 9 years old! I foresee a lot of "resurrections" in our future!

Ugg, you can't edit photos once submitted and this place is huge. Absolutley no more personal pictures!! Everything you post becomes their property which can be used against you in a court of law - only kidding - I hope ;) It does become their property and can appear anywhere on there site or in advertising etc - worse than FB

"Absolutley no more personal pictures!!"

You can say that again. I just stumbled upon something that I'm sure USED TO BE in a more "initimate" corner of the site. Now it's just out there for everyone. Yeah I know, everything on the interweb is public and always has been. But this just makes it almost a little creepy.

Whenever you upload an image to a website, including Photobucket or another image-hosting site, you most likely grant the site a license to use your image. Details vary.

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/06/who-really-owns-your-photos-in-social-media157/

I noticed on another forum that people are starting new conversation threads with CONVO: as the first word of the thread title.

I suggested on another thread, in home decor they did give us a conversations area, so you might ask here too....

To be fair, when you uploaded a photo to GW, it became their property. When that awareness developed is when you began to notice people putting watermarks on their photos.

Watermarks are like one of those little bicycle locks that anyone can open with a pocket knife. False sense of security. With old, not very sophisticated software, I can manually remove a watermark in about fifteen minutes. There are apps that can do the same thing automatically.

Apparently they are working on making some changes with regards to our concerns.

https://support.houzz.com/hc/en-us/articles/204631087

Email Tamara and ask her for your conversations back. At Home Decorating we got ours back. It's now a separate link at the top of the Forum.