Public Art Opportunities by Sockpuppet Utility
October 16th, 2008 12:37 PMHello everyone. It came to my attention that there is a feature on SF0 not fully supported, and the means to provide support for it was something within our own power. When posting comments, we have the power to include an image in our comment, but only by providing the URL of this image, without the power to upload, as with a task. Commonly players dedicated to the effort of uploading an image will either include the image on their player-photograph page, or on an independent hosting site, such as photobucket. Both have some downsides -- posting on your player photograph quickly clutters your task with images only relevant in passing, which then show up on your player page in among the random display of photos you have uploaded, and independent sites have no guarantees of permenance, or friendly to referral traffic from sf0.org, or worse, cost money you could instead donate to SF0
So here is your opportunity to publicly share images:
Login as photobucket; everydaylife. Edit the player-photograph task (or this one I suppose), and upload your images there. Once uploaded, all of your images are assigned an sf0 URL, like (http://sf0.org/media/photobucket/popupalbum69667.jpg) which you can find by clicking on the image itself, or "view file" from the "Upload Files" tab while you are editing the praxis.
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I host the images I use in posts in my media folder on SFØ. But this is a good idea.
With a little effort, here is the best way I've figured out how to do the equivalent thing to the photobucket using your own media folder. Go to any task submission page, and click on the Upload File tab. From there, upload the files you want, select them by clicking on their corresponding thumbnail among your proof files, and click the button (between update and delete) that says move to media.
Having done that, you can go to your media folder, and click "view media folder" at the bottom of a praxis submission page, and see all the thumbnails. Right click on one, and select "open image in new tab" or "select image url". This gives you the location of the thumbnail (little square) image, and you can get the url of the full image by removing the "thumb_" from the URL.
Example (remove the bold): http://sf0.org/media/photobucket/thumb_popupalbum6966769668.jpg
Or load the photo into an unsubmitted proof and click "view file" and copy the address from the browser window and then move the file to your media folder.
I thought that changed the URL, but you are right to point out it does not. That is easier, people should do that. I will still use the photobucket whenever I have a particularly off-the-wall image to upload, just to compile the random. It will be fun to see what all ends up on there. Then again, people need to use sf0quotepaste.com more often too.
Clever, and cool.
I like it!