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May 14, 2022 09:09 |  #1

When I first found POTN, I could see the photos, with a few ads sprinkled on pages. Registering removed the ads. Just twice since then, I've wanted to show a nonmember something of mine on POTN, and each person reported that photos didn't show. Now it's necessary to log in. Is there, or could there be, something like a time-limited guest pass for a person who wants to view images but has no other reason to open an account?

Failing that, is it all right with the management if I let a friend borrow my username and password for a few days? Assume that the person can be trusted not to abuse this privilege.


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May 17, 2022 14:58 |  #2

Do not share your login info with anyone. It's not impossible for your friends to join.

It has always been so that you'll need to log in to see full size hosted photos (attachments).

I know this is a problem as at the moment Google won't index our hosted images and guests won't see them. To make hosted photos available for all is not an option (bandwith and copyright).

I have been working on a solution.

Each hosted photo gets a low quality resized copy with watermarks and origin info. Quality is enough to see what the photo is about, and watermarks are prominent but do not mess up the photo too badly.

For example, post https://photography-on-the.net …showthread.php?​p=19174940 will be shown for guests with image (37KB JPEG):


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please log in to view hosted photos in full size.


I'm not sure yet if ALL 1.8 million hosted photos with get the low quality guest copy, but at least a few last years worth will.

More about this later. This is not working yet here.

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May 17, 2022 22:45 |  #3

Pekka wrote:
=Pekka;19379173I have been working on a solution. . . .

More about this later. This is not working yet here.

All right, thanks for explaining.


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