To attention of all Bellazon residents and friends

[AirAngel]

I visit on moderate weekly basis; perhaps not the most active or frequent person to charge my court at Bellazon.

Yet the for the first time I’ve learned about Bellazon, I’ve spent and formed my opinion about the same; as truly a great community - very friendly and equally communicative environment. Incidentally, once I’ve learned about this, somehow, reminded me about something I always postponed for later date to let you know.

Specially because of this fine community, would you consider recommending to your less informed users, some guide on finer hosting services? Just the free and abundantly available for their use. There are so many of them, just to remind those less informed forum users.

I tend to be very disappointed that many use truly mediocre hosting services. Many of them supplied with questionable promotional links, and often - not away from pornography. I guess, one cannot dismiss the nature of some, hopefully less (among fashion/models topics) frequent visitors, who like to fuel such side of "fashion" and for them Bellazon is only a starting station for "raw object side" of their affection and exploration.

Since it is in nature of people to emulate what others are doing, there should be a sort of guideline if you will, with 5-10 more decent free hosting services, that are not filled with adverts and questionable "side attractions" truly not desirable for this kind of forum. So at least, as result, most of them will start using better ones. For those of us who really like to stay On Topic, of what this site is primarily all about… I just felt the need to convey my thought about this. Again, forgive my uniformed post, If I have missed something since I wrote this with the best of my intentions.

You generally want to use clean hosting services, with less interventions as possible related to the model/pictures. Straight link, preview/full size target - nothing more, nothing less! This would in many topics and posts, elevate the user experience, but mostly, stay on On Topic with no adult theme distractions, that lurks in the process. Even when clean from such "distractions", for the joy of simplicity and functionality; you clearly do not want to choose derivatives of Imageshacks type of sites, but do wish to have their longevity quality when related to servers and your pictures over the years. Mind you that I find Bellazon’s own attachment picture facilities - more then excellent! And yes, I’m only speaking about users who use external services when supplying their picture for their designated Bellazon topics.

I would just like to give you one example - as there are so many free and clean hosting services. But more importantly - some features you might have missed completely.

You upload your picture to Abload. Then show your picture as Thumbs on Bellazon :

Please look at this: no adverts, no boring distractions, no interventions - just straight to your picture!

But this gets even better. Lets say that you have a link, or group of links from the model you plan to post pictures on Bellazon? But you don’t want to save them to your drive and create clean upload source. Well, this host will let you upload even pictures that are not from your drive! Superb option where you can link all those pictures straight into this upload, and then, as result, you have completely clean upload for your Bellazon.

Let me show you what I mean: You take your picture that is not related from you drive and simply create direct image location copy like this :

Then just choose to upload straight from this link

to your new upload destination like this :

even more exact :

and there you go :

A very useful feature many would benefit greatly.

Again, I don’t wish to impose my choices on you. I just wanted to show you, what you should look as ideal free hosting for the pictures you are about to show to your forum friends. Use any other service, but please, demand this simplicity! Also, please let this be recommendation (this approach) of how we host our external pictures on Bellazon.

Thank you for taking your time, and hopefully, Ballazon external picture experience would benefit greatly from this.

Sincerely yours in Bellazon

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