Where do post your MOC pictures?

[Ricecracker]

Lately I've been wondering where everyone post their MOC pictures. I used to post mine on both Brickshelf and Flickr. Now I only post on flickr. I used to post on Brickshelf because you can deeplink easily and it is strictly a Lego site. Then I started using flickr for the community aspects, and because of the interface, but didn't know how to deeplink from there. Now that I know how to deeplink from flickr, I don't use Brickshelf anymore. But what about you? Why do you post where you do? What are the advantages/disadvantages of said site? Post away!

[Commodore Hornbricker]

MOC Pages...Not sure why...because I'm a dork?

[Erdbeereis]

I use primarily Flickr, as I like the layout and the nice coummunity features like comments and favoriting. However, I use Brickshelf for deeplinking to

EB.

[Darth Legolas]

Brickshelf! It's the easiest to use. If only you could post comments... Not that I care, all I'd get is spam and comments telling me to go take a hike...on to the top of a mountain...and jump.

You made me cry Sausage boy!

Edited May 5, 2009 by Darth Legolas

[Natman8000]

I use brickshelf when my upload count is high on Flickr. I'm not so happy with the limit there but it is simple to do, and you can edit and resize pics on the site. Brickshelf is good since there is more space but it is a bit primitive.

[Millacol88]

I stick with good old Brickshelf. It's primitive, sometimes unreliable, and there is absolutely no community aspect. But it does what it claims to do, with no frills, and is simple to use.

[Siegfried]

I use my own site. I've been bitten in the past where a hosting site changes or vanishes completely (such as Zing) leaving me needing to find another option. To break it down.

• Flickr: Great site, great community but the limits of the free accounts sux. The pro price is OK, but I'd rather spend it on my own site. Also, their direct linking rules are confusing; they say you aren't supposed to do it, yet they still let you. I think this policy will change without much notice in the future.
  
• Brickshelf: Great features, clunky look and confusing support. Hard to trust.
  
• Personal: Full instant control. Easily possible to write scripts to rotate images. Hosting costs are about twice Fickr.
  

[Erdbeereis]

• Flickr: Great site, great community but the limits of the free accounts sux. The pro price is OK, but I'd rather spend it on my own site. Also, their direct linking rules are confusing; they say you aren't supposed to do it, yet they still let you. I think this policy will change without much notice in the future.
  

I think they say that you can deep link pictures as long as they link back to the photo's page on Flickr. At least that's what I understand.

[ILikePi]

I think they say that you can deep link pictures as long as they link back to the photo's page on Flickr. At least that's what I understand.

But no one actually does that, do they?

I use Flickr and BrickShelf the most. I usually post only one picture on Flickr, and put a link to more pictures on BrickShelf.

[Yoshi648]

I use Brickshelf and MOCPages.

Brickshelf because that tends to get more traffic and MOCPages because you can add more descriptions and others can leave commments.

[CP5670]

I stick with good old Brickshelf. It's primitive, sometimes unreliable, and there is absolutely no community aspect. But it does what it claims to do, with no frills, and is simple to use.

Same here.

Flickr is like a typical image hosting site, where you either pay them or you put up with various restrictions on the size and quantity of images. I don't like their interface either; the default sizes of both pictures and thumbnails are too small. Brickshelf's lack of limits is rare these days and the main reason I like it.

If I need to make images available quickly, I have a bunch of ISP webspace and some on my university site as well. Things on Brickshelf will get a lot more exposure though.

[Peppermint_M]

MOCpages. Mainly because two years ago when I discovered that there was Lego centric websites beyond Lego.com, it was linked from the wikipedia page on AFOLs (or something like that). It's a great site because I like to add background for my MOCs, give it a story or simply an explanation but then again its a bit rubbish community wise, all the Halo and Star Wars fans, the teens and their endless Bionicle re-mixes. However I don't understand Flikr nore like it particularly, Brickshelf won't let me post stories and a personal site would take too much of my time to run.

Are there any others besides these three?

[djo]

i post my MOC pictures in brickshelf and photobucket.

[Ralph_S]

But no one actually does that, do they?

Well, I do.

I use Flickr and BrickShelf the most. I usually post only one picture on Flickr, and put a link to more pictures on BrickShelf.

For me flickr is the main site, although I realise that the site is somewhat hard to navigate for people who aren't members. Because of that I also post lower resolution pictures to brickshelf. I've given up on MOCpages.

Cheers,

Ralph

[Freddie]

I use a combination of Flickr, Brickshelf and MOCPages.

- Flickr: Started to use this site not so long ago, when I wanted to comment on something. Brikkelauget has also set up a group for its members here, which I now help to administer. So far only have one picture on there, which links to my DigiMOCs on MOCPages, but my intention is to use Flickr for pictures of other things too, and not just LEGO. Also possible to communicate with other people on the site, which is a big plus.

- MOCPages: Used for MOCs. While it forces me to learn som basic html-coding, I can live with that since there are currently no limits on MOCs, pictures or on the size of these. It's not possible to communicate between users, limited to leaving comments, but then again it is pretty much a gallery site.

- Brickshelf: For me, this is not much more than a storage-site. I upload pictures, then I hotlink them on other sites, such as here. Also used for scraps and WIPs, when I want to show something on IRCNet. Those who have seen my folder will see that there's plenty of clutter and random stuff in there.

[Guss]

Sometimes I post my pictures on brickshelf, but I don't really like it, so I stopped, I sometimes use it like Freddie, as "other pictures" storage.

Recently I discovered Flickr and I like it , so I start to use it . ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/9868626@N03/ )

But usually I post the pictures of my finished project and set reviews on my own website ( http://guss.teammu.com )

And I also post them in the Freelug Gallery ( http://photos.freelug.org/main.php/v/guss/ ) .

here are the website I use^^

[Shadows]

Brickshelf. For all their issues, they've been good to the community and I don't mind giving them the hits.

I have a Flickr account, but find the pages to be incredibly slow loading and despite all the talk of community, I feel more like I'm surrounded by the appropriate things at Brickshelf. I've done some searches on Flickr and been surprised by what came up.

[Da Death Star!]

Brickshelf.I haven't really had any problems with it(Yet :skull: ).

(_)DDS(_)

[Peppermint_M]

Brickshelf. For all their issues, they've been good to the community and I don't mind giving them the hits.

I have a Flickr account, but find the pages to be incredibly slow loading and despite all the talk of community, I feel more like I'm surrounded by the appropriate things at Brickshelf. I've done some searches on Flickr and been surprised by what came up.

Unpleasant surprises? (or am I misinterpreting emoticon use...) I was thinking dual posting with flickr so I can show off my models with a teaser pic and link back to the MOC page.

Ho hum.

[Shadows]

Unpleasant surprises? (or am I misinterpreting emoticon use...) I was thinking dual posting with flickr so I can show off my models with a teaser pic and link back to the MOC page.

Slightly inappropriate surprises. I just don't like my LEGO mixed with other things. I don't think there's anything wrong with using them to simply host pics that are posted elsewhere (aside from the speed issue for me), though.

[Ralph_S]

Slightly inappropriate surprises. I just don't like my LEGO mixed with other things. I don't think there's anything wrong with using them to simply host pics that are posted elsewhere (aside from the speed issue for me), though.

I'm a very happy flickr user, but I too know that it's very awkward to use if you don't actually have an account. It works an awful lot better if you do. There are so many ways of customising it that I rarely get to see anything that I don't want to see and I now consider the fact that flickr is also used by people who don't build with LEGO an advantage, because my pictures are seen by people who would never stumble across them on brickshelf and they often have very interesting comments. My pictures have also ended up being blogged on a number of non-LEGO websites, such as autoblog.

Cheers,

Ralph

Edited May 16, 2009 by Ralph_S

[Mraz Skintas]

I like Flickr because the upload seems to take very little time at all, The only thing I don't like about it is the fact that you only get 100 MB a month for free.

[Perterz]

I use Photobucket for over 5 years now for all my hobbies. My album is private tho. It's organised that way I have to search exactly 2seconds before I find what I need, very handy. I deeplink pictures from that account to all forums or internetpages I'm on or visit.

Since I'm into Lego again, I've created me a Brickshelf account to use as a gallery to add on forums like here. If I post a MOC, I just have to post a couple images deeplinked from Photobucket and I just add the Brickshelf Gallery link with it for all the pictures. That seemed the way people were posting here so I joined the bandwagon.

Photobucket in my opinion is just perfect, no limits, resizes in any size you want to, tho I use Photoshop for that mostly.

You are able to protect wips and other photo's for public while you still upload tham on the internet etc etc

visit their site for more info he..

Flickr seems to have 1 thing I miss on Photobucket: the ability to write a comment directly on the picture and not in a list below it.

Edited May 17, 2009 by Perterz

[Ralph_S]

Flickr seems to have 1 thing I miss on Photobucket: the ability to write a comment directly on the picture and not in a list below it.

Flickr actually does have that, but I'm pretty sure the default setting for it is that only people who are on the contacts list of the owner of the picture can add notes.

Cheers,

Ralph