The all inclusive PhotoBucket issues,problems and solutions

[vette-kid]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

So you're banned.
You gonna take your ball and go home or are you going to leave your pictures there as good will to members?


Aimed at many, but no one specifically.
There are a LOT of excuses here to not put forth any effort to restore your threads.
There are a LOT of people who say they've loaded duplicates and pure garbage not worth having on their own hard drive.
There are a LOT of riteous indignation with no thought of a multi step cure to help You combat the perceived wrong inflicted on you.

ONE GUY has said he is quietly fixing the threads that are important to him.
Expend the effort to repair, instead of expending the effort to complain.

Please see the
That Kid
Thread.

Man I cant figure out your angle, do you work for PB? I don't want to start something here, you and I have both been around this forum a while and I respect your inputs, but I don't care how you slice it, PB did wrong by their customers and will lose a ton of them. Your right I am NOT going to go back and fix my threads. Too much work that I don't have time to deal with. SOME of the pics I have on PB I do not need to download as they were uploaded with the express purpose of posting in a forum. There is a CURE...close the PB account and find something else. Does that make the deed from PB any less wrong? Nope, still evil and stupid move on their part. Still frustrating. Which is why people are venting here.

 

[C_F]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

What's really ******* me off is Google is probably going to pick up the slack, and that's all they need; more people jumping over each other to give Google one more piece of the damned pie. I'd rather Photobucket have kept it.

Exactly! That's all we need, is for Google to have one more step toward being a monopoly.

 

[JCQuick]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

Like Vette kid said I only used it to share on forums like this and as others have said the last few years it was a PIA to use because of the ads I have all my photos I went on just to check.

I did send them an email and got a robotic reply with instructions on how to delete my account, so I guess they are expecting a backlash

 

[wildbill23c]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

I just use Photobucket to upload pictures to forums, I keep backups of everything anyhow so when they decide to delete my account the joke is on them.

 

[ard]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

Some upthread said something about needing to click on images? Learn how to post- upload an image as an attachment OR put it in a gallery on the site... AND then link it with an img VB command within the text.

Here is such a use to a image someone attached above:

Notice I am using an image link to a image hosted by GJ. Just not attached to THIS post or my account...

Good responses to my earlier post- as ive thought about all this, my use of images online has been driven by security and privacy- and the fact that I lived at the end of dial up for way too many years. I just dont trust ANYONE with my images or emails or data online. Cloud, gmail, etc.

 

[Ray-CA]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

Tons of people affected and PISSED OFF!!!!

http://www.pcmag.com/news/354711/photobucket-breaks-image-links-across-the-internet

https://petapixel.com/2017/07/01/photobucket-just-broke-billions-photos-embedded-web/

Ray

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

Some upthread said something about needing to click on images? Learn how to post- upload an image as an attachment OR put it in a gallery on the site... AND then link it with an img VB command within the text.

Here is such a use to a image someone attached above:



Notice I am using an image link to a image hosted by GJ. Just not attached to THIS post or my account...

Good responses to my earlier post- as ive thought about all this, my use of images online has been driven by security and privacy- and the fact that I lived at the end of dial up for way too many years. I just dont trust ANYONE with my images or emails or data online. Cloud, gmail, etc.

Fine for bigger website owners that have the capacity to store a lot of attachments/files. There are lots of forums that have a max of 10 attachments...or less. That is the main reason people started using off site hosting.

 

[ddawg16]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

I just went to look at my blog for my house
It wants me to update my account

**** them

I have copies of all my pics. I'll just redo my blogs

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

As a fellow victim, I will neither be deleting my account nor removing my images. Why? Because storage costs PB money.

I'd love to see how many signed up for the $400 3rd rate service.

 

[JCQuick]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

As a fellow victim, I will neither be deleting my account nor removing my images. Why? Because storage costs PB money.

I'd love to see how many signed up for the $400 3rd rate service.

I sort of like that thinking but I most likely will be done with them

 

[JimVonBaden]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

I just logged into my paid account after not checking it for many months. It says I have used 9 percent and have over 1100 photos but I can not see a single one so far. I only get mostly blank screens and any selection I chose loops back to the same useless start page. Unfortunately my phone crashed last year and it would not even turn in so any originals that were not already on the memory card are not accessible anymore. I had uploaded them to Photobucket but that seems to have been another bad choice. I would be willing to do a one time pay to have all my pictures sent to me on a disc but I can't even get that option to open on the current sight.

Their site is AFU right now. I am a paid subscriber and can't do **** on the site.

I have opened an ImageShack account. You can do batch uploading, batch image tagging and posting. $18.95 a year. Hopefully they do not go the way of Photobucket in the future.

 

[rayra]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

Once again, point missed.
If the threads are important to you, the pics will be back up when you pay the 400 bucks, and those important threads will be intact, and you'll have a full year to repair those threads with the pics you placed on another free site.

Or the threads aren't worth the effort.
Which means
The threads aren't worth the effort.

There is a solution or a dozen, once everyone swallows their pride and puts forth some effort.

I'm sorry it's not free anymore and I'm sorry it'll cost you 400 bucks to fix it.

Pride and not wanting to put forth any effort, not ransom, will keep the pics from reappearing.


None of you have lost, you're just pissed.
Resolve, then be pissed.

I don't care.
I only speak of solutions.

You're basically advocating appeasement and paying the danegeld. Even more perverse, on our Independence celebrations.

 

[rayra]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

Because you can loose control of your photo's on that forum....

If you upload photo's to the forum and you are suspended or banned from the forum your photo's are there, and you have no way to delete or access them.

If you use a 3rd party for hosting, such as Photobucket, you can delete the photo or rename / move the photo at the 3rd party site and thus the link will be broken on the forum.

Exactly. You upload them to a specific forum and you've lost control of your work-product. And a large percentage of forums are run by petty tyrants, abusing what little power they have. I don't reward their behaviour, either.

Still looking for a hosting site which will retain my file names instead of replacing them. That's the only practicable way that I can rebuild a great many informational topics.
May also just try to use my ISP-provided space, if I can figure it out and if it will support such operations. Probably a bandwidth limit.

 

[ard]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

Lost control of your work product??? You post a picture ANYWHERE when someone can SEE it and you've lost control.

We are talking about build snapshots; car and motorcycle pictures, just run of the mill pictures. Sure, they are personal and all that- but couldn't GJ have swept up all the links and the underlying images if they wanted to, on June 28?

If you are a professional photographer, earning money from these pictures, then they don't belong online, anywhere (unless you watermark those, restrict resolution, etc)

Look, don't get *me* wrong- PB are scumbags and this is deeply troubling. Short of hosting your on site, there really is no way to protect against this if you want to have centralized hosting.


I wonder if any developers, Vbulletin, etc, might come up with an automated script to allow a specific user to more easily fix these links.....and or if a process like they have a TinEye could be used to find the blocked images and repair some of them.

 

[bushmechanic]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

Lost control of your work product??? You post a picture ANYWHERE when someone can SEE it and you've lost control.

We are talking about build snapshots; car and motorcycle pictures, just run of the mill pictures. Sure, they are personal and all that- but couldn't GJ have swept up all the links and the underlying images if they wanted to, on June 28?

If you are a professional photographer, earning money from these pictures, then they don't belong online, anywhere (unless you watermark those, restrict resolution, etc)

Look, don't get *me* wrong- PB are scumbags and this is deeply troubling. Short of hosting your on site, there really is no way to protect against this if you want to have centralized hosting.


I wonder if any developers, Vbulletin, etc, might come up with an automated script to allow a specific user to more easily fix these links.....and or if a process like they have a TinEye could be used to find the blocked images and repair some of them.

You're not getting it.

Let's say someone posts a shot of a vehicle that's been advertised, and then purchased by someone who wants to keep the sale information quiet. Then you are banned from the forum.

How about if you post a picture of yourself, a thread devolves, and someone digs into you and posts your personal information. That's deleted, but not before it's been collected; and you're banned before you can delete the picture.

What if a moderator just plain doesn't like you? You're banned from the forum, but the thread with all those personal attacks that ended up a little too revealing remains; along with pictures of various things you've uploaded?

In any of those events, an innocent picture becomes a constant torment, something you didn't intend to remain forever associated with your account, or even blackmail; something that's incredibly common.

A picture on a forum that can be removed remotely is mostly harmless. People don't think to "right-click save" as often as they used to. They don't often think of screen-capping discussions, either; so odds are you're going to be fine.

Once a forum controls it, however, they can do anything they damned well please. What you need to be worrying about so far as privacy is concerned are all the jerks that will use your information against you, because it's very easy.

Upload an image to a forum, and anyone can see where it came from. Upload it to a remote host properly, and they are the only ones that can see where it came from.

Not all forums are so restrictive. Get banned from certain places with a bunch of pictures and threads still there after an argument. See how you feel when you can't defend yourself and are dragged through the mud publicly with your own images in tow; and end up being turned into a meme.

I've seen it happen countless times, and this is also why you won't catch me on any social/job networking site, with a Google account, or posting on Twitter.

People don't understand just how easy it is to tear someone's life to shreds. Any information you can't alter is a SEVERE risk to your privacy.

 

[theoldwizard1]

Re: Photobucket alternatives...

I see it.

Good ! I was nervous !!

 

[Orionrising]

Re: Attention GJers-Check your Photobucket accounts

anyone know if photos uploaded with tapatalk are hosted by tapa, or is that uploading to the main garage journal site?

 

[NUTTSGT]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

You know, thinking about this situation with PB, alot of businesses try to take care of their current customer base and not to much about new ones. Then you have businesses try to worry about new customers and tend to forget about the old customers.

PB has gone the way of doing neither. They are trying to screw over their current customer base by going from a free service to an unbelievable $400 fee. Doing so has created resentment and customers leaving hand over fist.

As far as getting new customers, do they really expect somebody to pay a $400 fee when they can go elsewhere and get the service for free ?

 

[Jaguar Fan]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

You might think I'm excessive, but I'm so paranoid about losing my pictures, that besides having them on postimage.org I have them backed up on a remote hard drive, 2 flashdrives, all of my computers at home, and my computer at work.

"Only the paranoid survive." -- Andy Grove

 

[ChevyEFI]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

I am not saying PB should be free.

But did Martin Shkreli set their 400$/annum pricing increase?

 

[drivesitfar]

PHOTOBUCKET is holding some member's photos as hostage. what are the best options now

ALL: since there are so many member's threads have just lost either temporary or maybe forever in some cases if that member isn't alive any longer. so PB is asking for $399 a year so really wondering if they were HACKED or is it a cruel joke. in any case a lot of members want to move on and fix their threads or just learn a new method.

ANYBODY WANT TO POST THEIR FAVORITE METHODS OF POSTING PICTURES WITH STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS PLEASE DO.

1) i've got over 12,000 pictures on GJ and i quit using PB almost as soon as i joined here cause if a member would hit the quote button and say a good word or two the HUGE PICTURES would fill up a page or two very quick. another reason i began to also use my style of making posts to several members on one post which i do often on some threads.

I download pictures to my laptop from my old HTC cell phone via an email to myself then download the pictures i want to keep to my laptop. then if i want to post any pictures to a post on GJ i click on the paperclip just above where i write my post in the middle and a pop up menu comes up where i can download up to 7 pictures per post (if i have more than 7 pictures i make more posts). then once the thumbnails are on my posts all a member has to do is double click on any that they want to see bigger and they get them full size. or if left as thumbnails i think it makes the thread easier to read. some posters like the big picture method and i haven't used GJ's method to do this so if a member knows how and would like to explain it please do.

2) i've heard other services like TapaTalk, and several online free or small fee picture hosting sites have a good service, but we might be in the same boat if they get bought out or change policies later and want to hold our pictures for ransom.

PLEASE HELP OUR MEMBERS POST THEIR PICTURES SO WE CAN STILL SEE SOME GREAT STUFF

 

[LB-1911]

Re: PHOTOBUCKET is holding some member's photos as hostage. what are the best options

07-01-2017, 03:55 PM
Photobucket alternatives...http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=364507
Last edited by alwaysFlOoReD; 7/8/17 at 10:17 PM. Reason: new info

 

[drivesitfar]

Re: PHOTOBUCKET is holding some member's photos as hostage. what are the best options

LB: i thought there was a thread already, but i couldn't find one so decided to start one. since this is a huge issue and a lot of not so tech savvy members have had their threads destroyed unless they pay up $399 per year i think another thread is ok and thanks for your link.

if i couldn't find a thread while putting in PHOTOBUCKET in the searches i doubt some of the members will.

thanks for your help

 

[LB-1911]

Re: PHOTOBUCKET is holding some member's photos as hostage. what are the best options

if i couldn't find a thread while putting in PHOTOBUCKET in the searches i doubt some of the members will.

PHOTOBUCKET


http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/search.php?searchid=35318203

scroll down the page.

 

[Olafur]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

I am not saying PB should be free.

But did Martin Shkreli set their 400$/annum pricing increase?

looks like they want out of the hosting business.

 

[drivesitfar]

Re: PHOTOBUCKET is holding some member's photos as hostage. what are the best options

LB: well i'm not sending good members to a PHOTOBUCKET SCREWED ME HARD thread.

we already know that has happened and just looking for solutions not a bitching thread. i know there are maybe a few good posts in that thread in between the bitching and moaning, but thought a thread with just solutions might be a better idea.

i'll keep searching for answers to post here on my own if other members don't want to post on this one because i've already given this thread to several member's PM and threads to help them.

thanks

 

[LB-1911]

Re: PHOTOBUCKET is holding some member's photos as hostage. what are the best options

well i'm not sending good members to a PHOTOBUCKET SCREWED ME HARD thread.

Guess you missed the previously mentioned thread when you scrolled down the page
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/search.php?searchid=35318203

Photobucket alternatives...

 

[drivesitfar]

Re: PHOTOBUCKET is holding some member's photos as hostage. what are the best options

here's a post from the other thread that has a lot of good options:

Photobucket alternatives

July 1, 2017
12:35 PM


Recently Photobucket changed their "terms of use" so that one can no longer post pictures on websites without paying ~$33.00 per month. There are lower priced tiers that allow you to link to the picture but on my computer it takes approximately 25 seconds. I would like the community to post what they use and the cost and a link to the site.
I'll also ad that I don't know how a free site can survive without a LOT of ads or eventually doing what PB did and start charging. I don't think that PB did something wrong, other than no notice and probably should have grandfathered in existing 3rd party links. What they have done is a PR nightmare.
Eventually when I have a dozen or so sites I'll put up a poll and see what floats to the top.

Now alphabetical;
Now two sections, 1] Image Hosting 2] Website hosting

---WEBSITE HOSTING---


-Amazon drive
I subscribe to Amazon Prime. I talked to customer service and you can link to your pic but cannot embed [3rd party host]

-Cubeupload
Free, donation based.

• Do not upload ******** *********** or images of genitalia. We allow tasteful artwork at our discretion.
• Do not upload copyrighted images to which you do not own the rights.
• Do not upload material considered illegal or forbidden in both your territory and the European Union.
• Do not upload inappropriate images - use common sense!
• Do not upload images intended for use in unsolicited (spam) emails.
• Commercial use is fine for the most part.* Please /contact us or tweet us if you have any queries.

https://cubeupload.com/tos


-Dropbox
I had a free account of 2 Gb from Dec.2016. I can find no mention of the free account on the website now.
4 tiers.
1 Tb $13/month. $129/year for individual plan

https://www.dropbox.com/terms


-Flickr
A part of YaHoo. Free. 1,000 Gb size limit, no restrictions on embedding or linking photos

https://www.flickr.com/about

-Free Image Hosting
TL;DR
Free. No limit on pictures and no time limit. Bandwidth throttling.

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/rules.php


- Google Drive
Free and paid plans. Linked or embedded.

Storage Price (US$)
15 GB Free
100 GB $1.99 per month ($19.99 per year with 16% discount)
1 TB $9.99 per month ($99.99 per year with 17% discount)
2 TB $19.99 per month
10 TB $99.99 per month
20 TB $199.99 per month
30 TB $299.99 per month

https://www.google.com/drive/terms-of-service/


-Imgur
TL;DR
NO linking or 3rd party hosting allowed!

Quote:
Stuff not to do

If someone else might own the copyright to it, don't upload it. Don't upload gore, "hate speech" (i.e. demeaning race, gender, age, religious or ****** orientation, etc.), or material that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, or that encourages violence or crime. Don't upload illegal content such as child **** or nonconsensual ("revenge") ****. Don't hotlink to adult content or to file-sharing, gambling, torrent, warez, or Imgur rip-off sites. Don't impersonate someone else. Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it.

-Imageshack {I used Imageshack when they were a buck a month. Once you get used to it, it's good. This is the front runner for now.}
TL;DR
Unlimited space, auto backups, mobile apps...

$4/month basic plan [casual user has direct link, I assume means 3rd party hosting]
$30/month pro user, 30Gb to 1Tb of bandwidth [1 million views of a 1Mb file]
$100/month premium, 1 TB to 4 Tb of bandwidth [ 4.2 million views of a 1 Tb file]

https://imageshack.com/upgrade

-MEGA
Data encrypted locally before uploading.
50Gb free, up to 8Tb paid.
I'm not sure about the ability to link or embed pics.

Data allowances
• Free account users are provided with one option:
○ 50*@#$Gb of storage (variating, up to 15 GB of bandwidth or more, replenishable every 6 hours)
• Paid account users are provided with four tiers of options:
○ 200 Gb storage (1 TB of bandwidth per month)
○ 500 Gb storage (2 TB of bandwidth per month)
○ 2 Tb storage (4 TB of bandwidth per month)
○ 4 Tb storage (8 TB of bandwidth per month)

https://mega.nz/

-Nikon Image Space
2Gb free basic membership
20Gb with proof of Nikon camera purchase
I'm unsure of how to link or embed

https://www.nikonimagespace.com/conf...sConditions.do

-Onfinite
500 Mb free, has watermark.
1Gb $1/month, no watermark.
10 Gb $2/month, no watermark

http://onfinite.com/tos.php


-Pbase
Yearly Pricing Plans
US$23 yearly for 1000 MB of photo storage.
US$43 yearly for 2000 MB of photo storage.
US$60 yearly for 3000 MB of photo storage.

Additional storage can be added at any time in increments of 1000 MB.
Included Features
• Direct Image Linking (post your photos on other sites)
• Number of photos limited only by your available storage space.
• Unlimited number of galleries.
• Zip uploads, Stylesheets, EXIF extraction, automatic thumbnailing
• Custom framed prints of your photos
Notes
• $23/year is less than two dollars per month.
• If your photos average 450 kB each, you could store 2270 photos in 1000 MB
• This price includes not only the disk space itself, but also the webservers, database, backup systems, and the bandwidth used to show your photos to the world.

https://secure2.pbase.com/help/tos

-postimage
Free.
Paid plans coming - no pricing as yet.
No time limit. Embeds image.

Anonymous uploads (without any kind of an account)
• Advertising enabled
• Expire in 31 day (currently can choose between no expiration, 1, 7, and 31 days)
• Mandatory image optimization (currently no optimization performed)
• Hotlinks to 1280px max resizes
• Max 8Mb file size
Note that images uploaded via forum plugins*@#$will be exempt from expiration even for anonymous uploads.
Free registered accounts
• Advertising enabled
• Can choose between no expiration, 1, 7, and 31 days
• Mandatory image optimization*@#$(currently no optimization performed)
• Hotlinks to 1280px max resizes
• Max 8Mb file size
Premium registered accounts (New! Sort of)
• Advertising disabled for you and visitors of your images
• Can choose between no expiration, 1, 7, and 31 days
• Optional image optimization
• Hotlinks to full-resolution images
• Max 16Mb file size
We also plan to introduce a special plan for high-traffic sites so webmasters relying on PostImage hotlinks can support our project.

https://postimage.io/terms.php


-Photobucket;
TL;DR,
minimum charge to link is $8.33/month, $100/year [billed by the year]
minimum charge to 3rd party host is $33.33/month, $400/year [billed by the year]
Quote:

Types of Accounts, Pricing and Limits

Visiting : There is no cost to visit the Site or to register as a Member.
Free account : Each individual Member gets one free account that provides 2 GB of free storage or space available for your original photo files, or videos under 10min. The free account does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting. If a free account Member exceeds their Content Limit, their account will be immediately suspended and they will need to become a “Paying Member” (defined below) in order to continue accessing their account. You can upgrade to a Plus account at any time.
Ad-free Account : The Ad-free Account offers Members the ability to use the Site without seeing any third party banner advertisements when logged into your Ad-free Account (note, viewers of your images within Photobucket will see ads unless they, too, have Plus accounts and you will continue to see Photobucket offers and announcements). This account level is available for $2.49 / month, payable by the Member on a monthly recurring basis.
Plus Account : The Plus Account offers several paid options that may give the Paying Member more storage, bandwidth, 3rd party image hosting, image linking and/or other services as outlined below. Once and during such period of time in which you subscribe to and pay for a Plus Account, we will consider you a "Paying Member." Please note that all Plus Account subscriptions are billed annually at the commencement of the service. Photobucket may also offer a monthly billing option for its Plus Accounts (see terms and restrictions, below).

Available Plus Account Plans : Photobucket offers the following Plus Account Plans:

o Plus 50 Plan: 52 GB of Storage for $59.99 / Year. The Plus 50 Plan does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting.

o Plus 100 Plan: 102 GB of Storage for $99.99 / Year. The Plus 100 Plan allows for unlimited image linking but does not allow 3rd party image hosting.

o Plus 500 Plan: 500 GB of Storage and unlimited bandwidth for $399.99 / Year. The Plus 500 Plan allows for unlimited image linking and unlimited 3rd party image hosting.

Additional Features of all Plus Accounts : When you upgrade to any Plus Account, you will also receive:

o Premium Support. You have direct access to our tech support team. Email our PLUS Support Team

o No Ads: When you're logged into your Plus account, you won't see any ads on Photobucket pages (note, viewers of your images within Photobucket will see ads unless they, too, have Plus Accounts and you will continue to see Photobucket offers and announcements).



-Smugmug
Has 4 tiers. The basic is $6/month or $48/year. Unlimited uploads and traffic. Embed in website included.

https://www.smugmug.com/features



-Supermotors
Free pic hosting with watermark on 3rd party hosted pics.
$12.99 a year with no watermark.
Supermotors.net

-Tinypic
Owned by Photobucket, 'nuff said.



-Wikipedia page of photo hosting sites;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...aring_websites

--- WEBSITE HOSTING ---

-Hostgator.
Quote from lilblueford "It's usually like $8-14 per year for a domain name and I was paying a little under $400 for three years of hosting. "

 

[dngrmse]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

Someone mentioned they are under new ownership? My guess is the new owners are looking to cash out. A certain percentage of people will pay, and probably make it worth their while.

 

[kelpaso1]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

Sounds to me like this is legal ransom or extortion. They screwed millions of people who post pics in forums. I bet most these people will say F#*K YOU and PB will go down the drain (which I really hope happens).

 

[thool]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

What if PB is doing this on purpose? Technology (hardware, licensing, data centers, software) is expensive because it shifts forward very often. There is obsolescence that has to be addressed otherwise you will be running unsupported assets. If a company has been dealing with debt for several quarters (along with the above) and their current solution of adding more ads per page isn't working, then a subscription model is the next logical step.

But if a company has all this, and their marketing research indicates that their best subscription/ad option would still have them coming up short, then they are on a sinking ship.

When this happens, a company can do this move to gather as much sucker money as it can while quietly laying off personnel and ignoring questions about their decisions. It might be the case that only those who paid the ransom will be the ones who have their images available following collapse, via a holding company.

 

[kelpaso1]

Re: Photobucket Just Screwed Me Real Hard

What if PB is doing this on purpose? Technology (hardware, licensing, data centers, software) is expensive because it shifts forward very often. There is obsolescence that has to be addressed otherwise you will be running unsupported assets. If a company has been dealing with debt for several quarters (along with the above) and their current solution of adding more ads per page isn't working, then a subscription model is the next logical step.

But if a company has all this, and their marketing research indicates that their best subscription/ad option would still have them coming up short, then they are on a sinking ship.

When this happens, a company can do this move to gather as much sucker money as it can while quietly laying off personnel and ignoring questions about their decisions. It might be the case that only those who paid the ransom will be the ones who have their images available following collapse, via a holding company.

Well then this would be the stupidest business decision ever made. $400 a year??? That's plain nuts and greedy. If they have say 50 million subscribers and they came out and said it's going to cost $100/yr, which most people could afford, they would be raking in 5 billion a year. These owners are absolutely worse than lawyer scum.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Re: Photobucket alternatives...

Thanks for the bump.
New info, added Amazon Web Services.

 

[LB-1911]

Re: Photobucket alternatives...

Thanks for the bump.
New info, added Amazon Web Services.

This thread might be of use to those new to Flickr.
flickr ?

 

[MrGiggles]

Re: Photobucket alternatives...

What I don't understand is why anyone would use a third party host like PB to post pictures to forums like this one which allows you to upload pictures directly to the forum ?? Just about every other automotive and hobby related forum that I visit, probably 50 of them, allows you to upload the pictures right to the forum. That's what I do. No need for anything like PB.

1. Many times I upload photos that get posted to a couple different forums. Would have to upload the same photo two or three times to each forum. It's nice having all the photos in one place, just copy and paste the links.

2. I take the photos with my phone and was able to upload right to PB with their app, and post it with my computer. To upload here, I have to plug in my phone, manually transfer the photos or access the site and upload with my phone. A pain in the **** any way you look at it.

 

[iajonesy]

Re: Photobucket alternatives...

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question or not, but here goes. Is there any good simple information out there for someone like me, that has never taken or posted any photos before? I don't have the first clue as to how to do any of this and would like to find a beginner's manual to try to learn how to take and post photos. I have a Mac, will that make a difference?
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give.

Mike

 

[unslow1]

Re: Photobucket alternatives...

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question or not, but here goes. Is there any good simple information out there for someone like me, that has never taken or posted any photos before? I don't have the first clue as to how to do any of this and would like to find a beginner's manual to try to learn how to take and post photos. I have a Mac, will that make a difference?
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give.

Mike

You would really do much better to find someone who has done it and have them show you.

 

[Jeeper]

Re: Photobucket alternatives...

I think I have google drive figured out. Found these simple instructions on Stack Overflow. Now the question is do I find all of my pics in previous posts and move them over to google drive. I suspect google is less likely to change their policies about sharing images.

here is how from @ https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/drive/yU_yF9SI_z0/discussion

1- upload ur image

2- right click and chose "get sharable link"

3- copy the link which should look like

https://drive.google.com/open?id=xxxxxxx
4-change the open? to uc? and use it like

<img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?id=xxxxx">


https://stackoverflow.com/questions...-g-images-stored-in-google-drive-on-a-website
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Test the process with a pic of my Krl:

 

[drivesitfar]

Re: PHOTOBUCKET is holding some member's photos as hostage. what are the best options

ALL: some members are buying their own domain name website and paying about $150 a year to have it and host their own pictures as another option.

a couple places to buy these websites and have them hosted that i've talked to and gotten pricing from are:

1) GoDaddy.com
2) Google.com

anybody else have a place they like to get a domain name and start their own web site and have their own pictures or do a blog or whatever do say so and let us know the costs if you can.

thanks and to all of you that have the PB pictures in hostage mode i feel for you, but it's better than having your computer crash is all i can say. not much better and just trying to help since i left PB years ago.

 

[wrenchguy]

Re: PHOTOBUCKET is holding some member's photos as hostage. what are the best options

i have a free site at weebly (cutwaters.com). Can i 3rd party host from there?