Ace-Garageguy Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 Today, Pbucket is loading insanely slowly, uploads are taking forever and dumping some of the photos, etc. I NEVER have any problems, not since 2012. Is anyone else noticing anything like this lately? I know the site was offline a couple days back.
Earl Marischal Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 Yup. Had exactly the same problem when I last tried an upload.steve
cobraman Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 I ran into the off-line problem twice in the last two weeks. Also my space was up to 89 percent used so I bought more space. Worked fine yesterday. Did not try today.
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 1, 2016 Author Posted February 1, 2016 (edited) Just checked. Server's down for everyone now.And apparently there have been pretty serious and ongoing /intermittent problems since at least as far back as the middle of November.Yeah, ain't technology grand. Edited February 1, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 1, 2016 Author Posted February 1, 2016 OK. Now it's up, but it's saying "Down for Maintenance". Better than no response at all.
Harry P. Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 Strange...I just went there a few seconds ago... uploaded a photo... everything worked perfectly.
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 1, 2016 Author Posted February 1, 2016 Strange...I just went there a few seconds ago... uploaded a photo... everything worked perfectly. Yup, now it's up and working.
Petetrucker07 Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 Since I do everything with my phone, which I know is part of the problem. My PB App keeps crashing when I'm trying to upload pics, well, pretty much when I do anything. It is irratating. I guess you get what you pay for. I have the free PB. But I've heard it won't be free anymore at some point.
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 2, 2016 Author Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) Working, but stupidly. Puts uploads anywhere in a particular folder it feels like, ignores entirely "newest first" command. Seems to put uploads close to what it thinks the new photo looks most like.Just now I started a new folder, uploaded 3 pix. Slow loading, showed they had been uploaded, but it never put them in the folder, just hung.Pushed it through again, now have 2 copies of each photo. What, have they hired some $10 per hour web developers to work on this?Something works almost flawlessly for 4 years, then suddenly begins to work like cheap Chinese tools, it's NOT on my end. Edited February 3, 2016 by Harry P.
landman Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 I had the slow, erratic upload too. Seems to be back to normal.
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 2, 2016 Author Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) Not working again at 9:03 AM. Won't even load the log in page. All I get is, finally, "Sorry, an unexpected error occurred".Checked , site's down, "server not responding".Read the comments recently here:http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/photobucket.com.html 9:41, responded finally, recognized my IP address and went to my "recent uploads" page. Won't do anything else. Edited February 2, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy
Belugawrx Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) Yep I'm getting that "unexpected error"Won't even load the login page....This sucks Although it is still backing all my photos here, and elsewhere Edited February 2, 2016 by Belugawrx
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 2, 2016 Author Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) Photobucket obviously has multiple functions, and it's still able to establish the links to our stored photos so they show up in an older post. For now.For this we can be grateful...however, there have been reported instances where this function has failed as well.THIS is the problem I have with storing information "in the cloud", which is the new cool hip happening oh-so-techno-savvy BS thing.Yeah, right.All it means is that when (NOT IF) there's a technical issue where YOUR data is stored, you're SOL. Edited February 2, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy
JTalmage Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 Well, the mobile app was working for me until I tried to refresh it... it wasn't showing I had pics in a folder (but they were there) so it was a minor annoyance, until I refreshed the app... then it failed. And kept failing. So then I tried to get to the website... and that doesn't even try. annoying.
Belugawrx Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 Wow ...and now ...it's up... Time to look at other options
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 2, 2016 Author Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) Yup, it's up at about 10:20 AM Eastern, working well enough to upload a couple of pix and post, but it's not working right.I'll probably give it at least another 30 days before I seriously start thinking about bailing. Problems DO happen, and sometimes can be extremely difficult to untangle.Lets hope they can get it sorted. Edited February 2, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy
JTalmage Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 The odd thing was, when I was playing w/ the mobile app, it was smoother and faster than it had ever been. Right up until it failed again. Balls.
Foxer Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 I just uploaded and posted here a couple photos and it worked better than it has been. Just FYI 10:34 am
cobraman Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 I tried a couple minutes ago and all I got was the little kitty cat hanging down
Harry Joy Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 I have a decently fast PC and connection, but Photobucket is always slow for me now. I blame the pop-ups (which I have to allow, or PB won't work now), and all the videos and dazzlies they load the free pages with.
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 3, 2016 Author Posted February 3, 2016 I have a decently fast PC and connection, but Photobucket is always slow for me now. I blame the pop-ups (which I have to allow, or PB won't work now), and all the videos and dazzlies they load the free pages with.When I started running Adblock Plus under Chrome, it sped up loading pictures from my computer considerably, and eliminated the annoying marketing crapp in the bargain. It's been working fine for two years with the ad-blocker installed, and only recently began acting up. It's not just me and a few users on this board having problems...it's net-wide.My storage is nowhere near full, and I pay for additional monthly bandwidth.Even when the server is up and responding, the site is glitchy now, and requires some workarounds, different from the way it's worked since I've been using it (2012).
Harry Joy Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 I use Adblock, in Firefox. When I have the Adblocker on, the silly mouse-overs don't work.I hate to sound like an old coot, but I was an early adopter of PB, and back in the day it was so simple to use, simple to organize, simple to share. Now it's just a pain. Maybe someday I'll start my owned danged photo site to share from.
Belugawrx Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 (edited) This is a test uploading new pic now 5:37 pm 5:41 pm Edited February 3, 2016 by Belugawrx
Belugawrx Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 (edited) WorksFreeCheers Edited February 3, 2016 by Belugawrx
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