Photobucket

[Dave Ambrose]

Just upload your photos to this site. I removed the storage quotas. Our hosting company doesn't have them, and we don't need them either. That didn't used to be the case, but we have a much better hosting company now. If you run into problems uploading pictures, please let me know. 

 

[mr68gts]

 Dave, That's good to know. I certainly understand the issues with storage quotas as it takes up a lot of room. At least we have that option now.

Thanks

[Joe Handley]

I Agree and it is appreciated!

[crazyjim]

That's pretty cool, Dave.  How would a person go about uploading to this forum?

[Tom Geiger]

That's pretty cool, Dave.  How would a person go about uploading to this forum?

I believe Dave is offering to post the photos on this site, one at a time, as you put them into posts.  Not everyone uploading their 10 gig of pix from Photo Bucket.

[Xingu]

That's pretty cool, Dave.  How would a person go about uploading to this forum?

Jim - Look at the paperclip, at the bottom left, when you are typing a post. It gives you the options available to load photos. I think you can only position them below your text.

[JollySipper]

That's pretty cool, Dave.  How would a person go about uploading to this forum?

Hey, Jim..... All you have to do is use the 'choose files' option below your text. Just click on that, choose what photo/s you want to share. they will appear in a box below the posting field. as you type, just click on 'insert into post' to add a pic from the box below into the post...... Be sure to hit enter between pics, tho...........

[martinfan5]

Yep, I got the same email from PB, and no way in heck am I going to give $40 a month so I can post photo's on forums, time to find a new photo sharing website.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Those of you recommending and fleeing to Imgur might just want to read the fine print...

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.

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[Ace-Garageguy]

PostImage fine print...same as PhotoBucket

By uploading a file or other content or by making a comment, you represent and warrant to us that (1) doing so does not violate or infringe anyone else's rights; and (2) you created the file or other content you are uploading, or otherwise have sufficient intellectual property rights to upload the material consistent with these terms. With regard to any file or content you upload to the public portions of our site, you grant PostImage a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license (with sublicense and assignment rights) to use, to display online and in any present or future media, to create derivative works of, to allow downloads of, and/or distribute any such file or content, including embedded (hotlinked) into third-party websites otherwise not affiliated with PostImage.

[mr68gts]

I believe Dave is offering to post the photos on this site, one at a time, as you put them into posts.  Not everyone uploading their 10 gig of pix from Photo Bucket.

I would assume you are correct.

[Ace-Garageguy]

YOU ALL BETTER CHECK YOUR DOWNLOADS FROM PHOTOBUCKET, IF YOU REMOVE YOUR FILES FROM THAT POS PLACE.

I JUST DID A TEST DOWNLOAD OF ONE ALBUM TO BEGIN RELOADING ONTO THIS SITE, AND THE PHOTOS ARE SQUASHED WHEN YOU OPEN THEM. UNUSABLE.

They do not display properly in the Windows photo viewer (Windows7 PICTURES LIBRARY) but appear to display properly when uploaded here. The odd image compression in "Pictures Library" makes it difficult to identify exactly what image you want prior to uploading here.

 

Edited July 2, 2017 by Ace-Garageguy

[Dennis Lacy]

So, basically, because of all the "smart" people screwing Photobucket out of its ad revenue with ad-blockers, Photobucket just did a Big G.F.Y.

I pay to use Fotki and couldn't be happier. There aint no free lunch.

 

 

[Xingu]

So, basically, because of all the "smart" people screwing Photobucket out of its ad revenue with ad-blockers, Photobucket just did a Big G.F.Y.

I pay to use Fotki and couldn't be happier. There aint no free lunch.

 

 

I think half the people are mad because now they can't get something for nothing. The other half are upset at how the change was handled. If they sent out emails once a week for a month saying that the change was coming, and leaving the 3rd party hosting in the mid level plan, they would have made a lot more money than they are now going to make.

[Ace-Garageguy]

So, basically, because of all the "smart" people screwing Photobucket out of its ad revenue with ad-blockers, Photobucket just did a Big G.F.Y.

I pay to use Fotki and couldn't be happier. There aint no free lunch.

 

 

I've been PAYING to use PeeBucket for years.

I never EXPECTED a free lunch.

If you had ever experienced the level or poor functionality of the FREE PeeBucket, with ads screaming at you to buy useless unwanted BS and slowing the upload time to days, you might understand WHY people run adblockers.

BUT...I figured if I was getting decent functionality, I could certainly pay something for it...and would have HAPPILY paid 2 or three times as much as my current plan. But no, the SOBs just locked up billions of images.

I can see PeeBucket getting rid of millions of freeloaders. I just have NO understanding of the WAY THEY WENT ABOUT IT.

 

[Dennis Lacy]

I've been PAYING to use PeeBucket for years.

I never EXPECTED a free lunch.

If you had ever experienced the level or poor functionality of the FREE PeeBucket, with ads screaming at you to buy useless unwanted BS and slowing the upload time to days, you might understand WHY people run adblockers.

BUT...I figured if I was getting decent functionality, I could certainly pay something for it...and would have HAPPILY paid 2 or three times as much as my current plan. But no, the SOBs just locked up billions of images.

I can see PeeBucket getting rid of millions of freeloaders. I just have NO understanding of the WAY THEY WENT ABOUT IT.

 

I get what you're saying and since you were using one of their pay-to-play options then what I wrote doesn't apply to you. 

Its the users who not only used the free version,  but additionally blocked the ads that generated revenue for Photobucket that allowed them to offer a free version that are the problem. These people screwed it up for everybody. Unless this is some major hack job, Photobucket basically just gave everyone the big middle finger, consequences be damned. 

When I started out sharing my models on forums I used Photobucket for several years but started to notice at some point that it became increasingly frustrating to use with all of their glitches and poor site design so I bailed and started paying for Fotki service. Other than some down time when they changed servers a few years ago I've never had a problem. 

Now I wonder if other free services like Flickr are going to get overwhelmed. I also wonder if MCM's internal storage, while it seems there's plenty of room now, is going to become a problem when all the ship jumpers look for a shore to swim to. For years there's been a bandwidth limit for direct uploading. Now suddenly it's okay to have a free for all? Hmm... 

[russosborne]

Just upload your photos to this site. I removed the storage quotas. Our hosting company doesn't have them, and we don't need them either. That didn't used to be the case, but we have a much better hosting company now. If you run into problems uploading pictures, please let me know. 

 

Thanks, Dave!

I hate to say I told you so, but I've been saying for years that being dependent on an outside source for pictures is going to come back and bite us. Hate to see it finally happened at this large of a level. Things like Harry's pictures possibly being lost makes me sick.

I really feel bad about people who are commenting on some of the other sites about losing their pictures, since they were stupid enough to not have them stored anywhere other than PB and they are not able to access them at least right now. And people think the "CLOUD" is a great thing. Although not thought of as such, places like PB are part of the cloud effectively and this just goes to show how unreliable it could be if that is your sole storage.

As far as forum costs go-

I would be interested in paying for say a yearly subscription to the forum (not the magazine, strictly for forum support) as many of the forums I am on have that option. You get a nice "supporter" or similar under your name and the money goes directly for forum things, like server space. Generally you get less or no ads when logged in as another bonus.

Most are like $20 a year or so. I think I paid like $100 for a lifetime one for a Pontiac GTO forum (don't even have a Pontiac anymore).

Maybe you can suggest it to Gregg?

Just a thought.

Russ

[ChrisBcritter]

Thank you kindly, Dave!

(Hey, it works!)

[crazyjim]

I like that idea, Russ, and would be willing to pay too.

[Eshaver]

[Eshaver]

Ha , I can share pictures of my dioramas now again !!!!!!!

[fumi]

For all the Photo Bucket bashing, people should realize hotlinking your photos from PB (or any other photo hosting services) to forums, blogs, web sites etc. consumes their bandwidth while generating zero income to them.  Every single image page load on said forums, blogs, web sites etc. is a toll on their resources.  With the amount of photo hosted on their service, the bandwidth consumption must be huge.  I am surprised it took this long for them to nix it, at least for free accounts.

Edited July 3, 2017 by fumi

[crazyjim]

Those gas pumps appear to be about 2 stories tall.  Is it the angle of the camera?

[Tom Geiger]

I think half the people are mad because now they can't get something for nothing. The other half are upset at how the change was handled. If they sent out emails once a week for a month saying that the change was coming, and leaving the 3rd party hosting in the mid level plan, they would have made a lot more money than they are now going to make.

Agreed. At first I thought P-Bucket was owned by Yahoo or Google and they were shutting it down to direct the traffic to their own services. Then I looked it up and found that it is a privately held corporation, was worth $4.5 Million (at least last week!) and this is their only business. I agree that the company needs to generate revenue to exist, and agree that if they had gone about it in a reasonable business manner they would have made out better.  Looking at the market, if they made it $29 a year... even $39, people would have grumbled but would have paid up.  

Now they have created such animosity, that people will not do business with them just on principle.  

The effect is across the Internet.   "Stamp Boards" is virtually crippled because they had recommended P-Bucket as their  photo partner.  Same with Twitter and many other boards. The Stamporama board is not affected because they wisely have hosted all photos internally since their inception.  

From Wikopedia:

On June 28, 2017, Photobucket changed its Terms of Use regarding free accounts and third party hosting (hosting on forums, eBay, etc). Only the most expensive plan, at $399.99 per year, now permits third party hosting and linking to forums, etc.^[11] Even a day later the site broke links to billions of pictures that were posted online. Photobucket sent out no emails to warn users of this change. This resulted in millions of users being forced to ether pay up to restore links or find alternatives. Somewhere between 200 million to 1 billion picture links on forums and Twitter, etc. are broken and replaced with a "Please update your account to enable 3rd party hosting" message.

This new business model has caused thousands of forum DIY's and write-ups with explanatory pictures to be rendered useless. Photobucket has not had any new accounts created on their site since this new change took place.

[MrObsessive]

With this move by PB, unfortunately they may well go belly up before the year is over.

I have to admit I cringe at times when someone has a link to a bunch of pics to a show or something and it's to Photobucket. The ads are terrible and I swear something from that site got into my laptop and caused it to reboot. I've had no problems since then as I ran scans to try and clean things up.

I stand by using Fotki for all my linking/hosting of pics. No drama from them as far as pricing, although they too no longer offer a "free" account as far as linking pics is concerned. For $25 a year, I can live with that though.