I made some avatars from the new MotU comics.

That's nice (even though they're all ugly and from a lame comic ), but if you don't upload them to the avatars directory, nobody will be able to use them...

I'll take Merman, my all-time favourite.

Edited out the speech bubbles from the respective pictures and uploaded those (only those three, though, because I'm too lazy to save the others ):





Edited by Mr Creosote at 17:50 on November, 03rd 2003

Looks better this way.

It'd be too much of a pain in the ass for me to upload those to the board since I'd have to do it one at a time. On the other hand, someone with FTP access (or telnet or whatever) such as yourself, could upload them en masse. Beyond that, anyone who wants to use one that isn't uploaded can save it, then upload it themselves.
(...and yes, I'm too lazy to edit out the bubbles. :p )

I never bother with FTP just to upload a few avatars - and since 90% of the avatars in the directory come from me, you can imagine I don't see much of a problem with uploading pictures one by one

I hate doing it one by one if I have more than 2 images to upload. In addition, I find FTP much more convenient than web-based uploading. I usually use Send to FTP to upload images. It doesn't have any server side features (you can't delte, move, or rename anything on the server, you can't change permission, etc (although you can create new directories)) and it can only upload up to 8 files at a time, but it's a very quick and easy way to upload pics. You just select the files to upload (you can open the folder, or even do it directly from the "open" or "save" dialogs withtin your image editor), then right click and choose send to->send to FTP.

Completely impractical for people with several FTP accounts.

Oh? Then how is it that I have over 10 FTP accts set up in Send to FTP, 4 of which I use on a regular basis?
You can setup a large number of different accts in Send to FTP (no limits that I know of), then you select which one you want to upload to with a drop down menu. It remembers your last selection, so if you're uploading to the same acct again, you can just click 'ok'.

Take a look for yourself http://www.pclightning.com/sndtoftp.html

Still useless. No upload to different directories, no downloading, etc.

About as useless as uploading via web interface where you can only upload one file at a time, and can't download or anything. You know, like uploading those avatars.....
You can upload to a different directory as long as you know the name of the directory by checking "in subdirectory" and filling in the name of the directory. It can also get a list of directories from the server.

This isn't supposed to be the ultimate FTP tool with all the widgets and thingamabobs, this is meant for quick and easy uploading. Like with the avatars, I was able to upload all of those to my site in the time it would have taken to fire up my browser, come to the spam club, go into my profile, click the upload avatar link, browse to the file, and upload one avatar. Why go to all that hassle uploading them one by one when it's soooooo much easier to use a program like Send to FTP? Best of all, once you click the ok button, you can just forget about it. It'll automatically close when it's done uploading. It also logs in quicker because A) it doesn't get and show a list of the remote directory's contents before uploading and B) when you do use a different directory, it can jump straight to it instead of you having to manually navigate to it before you can even begin uploading.

My favorite thing about it is that I can upload a pic as soon as I've created it, without having to open up another program and go through 20 steps. If I just want to upload a single image, I can do it from the save dialog of any image editor, and if I want to upload several at once, I can do that from the open dialog of any decent image editor.

For example; I can create an image in PSP7, save it, go back into the save dialog, right click the image I just saved, choose send to ftp, click the ok button, and a few seconds to a few minutes later (depending on the size of the image) it'll be uploaded. Meanwhile, I can close the save dialog and go back to image editing, or close the image editor and do something else, or whatever.
Alternatively, if I wanted to upload it to a subdirectory on a different server, I would: save it, go back into the save dialog, right click the image I just saved, choose send to ftp, choose the other server from the dropdown menu (or fill in the info if it's a server I haven't used before), fill in the name of the subdirectory in the appropriate blank, and THEN click the ok button.
Example 2: I can create a bunch of images (like the heman avatars), save them all, go into the open dialog of my image editor, use shift+click or ctrl+click to select all of them, then right click->send to ftp, etc.

Either example is infinitely easier than making the images, saving them, closing the image editor, opening a full featured FTP prog (which will take several minute since most FTP software is bloatware, whereas Send to FTP is very small and loads instantly), logging in to the server, waiting for it to list the files and directories, navigating to the remote directory, navigating to the local directory, telling it to upload the files, then having to monitor the prog to know when it's done uploading so you can shut it back down.
....OR....
Making the images, saving them, closing the image editor, opening your browser, navigating to the site you're going to upload to, navigating to the page you're going to upload from, then uploading half a dozen images one at a time, or possibly 5 at a time if you're using a webbased filemanager instead of just an upload/attachment field on a BB.

Wrong, because there are two fundamental differences between those ways to upload files:
1. Web-based upload script can be accessed from every computer in the whole world which is connected to the Internet. Regardless of hardware, OS and local applications. No need for configuration, always ready to use.
2. Security issues / different purpose. Your program is meant for people who have full FTP access to a server/account. For that, its functions are very limited (I'm referring to your own statement on that). An upload form, on the other hand, is meant for people who shouldn't have real access to the remote file system. Just like the one in this forum: The whole world can use it, but it follows the only reasonable security measure: forbid everything which isn't absolutely necessary.

Er... I don't know what strange FTP client you're using, but I've never seen such a program taking longer than two seconds to load. And if you're using an XT system, what stops you from using a command line client? I doubt you'll find anything less bloated.

I usually have WS_FTP open and closed with all my stuff uploaded in under a minute. It's a very nice program, I just wish it wouldn't start in the WS_FTP directory, as it's embedded within so many other directories, it is annoying.

Tuss: You can choose a directory on you hd to start in. (Startup --> Initial Local Folder).

"XT system"?

In any case, I hate commandline crap. First you have to remember every single file and directory, and second in the time it takes to type out the command to send a file, I could already have the file uploaded with send to ftp.

Bottom line: Sned to FTP serves one purpose, and serves that purpose exceedingly well. Uploading files via Send to FTP is infinitely quicker and easier than browser uploads, or other FTP progs.

Oh, sorry, I forgot your a teen

Actually, I'm not. :p

What is it, Donald?