Admin post
mood: 
sympathetic
sympatheticSome people are having problems with their pictures being locked even though they have set them to public on Scrapbook, which must be rather frustrating, especially if you are a new member and almost the first comment is 'I can't see it!'.
It looks as if, if your journal is set to Friends Only, the pictures from your Scrapbook are currently defaulting to that setting so that your own friends can see them, but other members of the community can't.
If you are having this problem could you possibly contact LJ and ask their advice? My own journal default is Public and I am not having the problem, so can't really ask! If they can advise, can you pass the advice on, here?
If you want to use a different site to host your pictures I wouldn't recommend photobucket as it is no longer allowing most people to post from there to anywhere else, like here. Personally I find that Flikr is good, and I see
lindahoyland suggesting the same thing to someone with the 'locked despite being set to public' problem.If you have other suggestions, again, it would be greatly appreciated.
I cannot default my LJ to public. I prefer to set it to public when I need to. I am too scatter-brained to default to public because I would forget to f-lock it and I know I would be airing my entire personal life to everyone in the world more often than not.
I find Imgur friendly and convenient as a photo-server. So I would recommend that. It has free usage limit well beyond the volume I will ever need and does not have an aggressive marketing posture like many others.
If someone else wants to wrestle with LJ and finds anything out, let me know.
Oh gosh no - I wasn't suggesting anyone should!
Thanks for the recc for Imgur - we can suggest this to other people too, now. And if anyone does get an answer from LJ we will certainly let everyone know!
Some more possible suggestions
A thought about LJ, when you upload a photo, it gives you the option to set the picture to public of friends only. I use that when posting photos of people. Maybe some people trying to post to the com, have the post set to public and the photo set to "Friends"?