PhotoBucket now charges $399 for third-party hosted images

[cdr]

[Troy]

What it means...
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,129297.0.html

Troy

[JB400]

Everything has to deal with money.   Special thanks to you Troy for keeping this site the way it is.

[keepat]

 Yes 3 days ago they locked out most of the pictures in my Modern Bullitt thread with no warning :-(
Pat

[cdr]

Thanks Troy, I missed it.

[VegasCharger]

Same here. Just noticed it myself yesterday. Sucks but oh well. I will use TinyPic.com from this point moving forward until they decide to do something.

TinyPic is no picnic either, especially if you don't have an add blocker. Also every other pic you upload you have to enter a code that they provide you. I don't even have an account with them, all I do is upload a pic and it's free for anyone on the web to look at. Then I copy & paste the link and store in a file with the matching pic. Then when I want to retrieve the pic later on, I will copy & paste the link in my address bar and it takes me right to that photo. If you lose the link it would be very hard to find your pic unless you categorize it uniquely in which I do not. I leave my images unnamed, usually I just use the default date/time ID tag for the pic.

In there you will have 4 options for posting pics. HTML, IMG Code, URL and Direct link. As you know in here you use the IMG code. You click on the option you want to use and it automatically highlights the entire link. Then right click, copy and then paste it to it's designation. I've done it, it works. I just checked a pic I posted about two years ago and it's still there. Basically it's just a website link. Like I said I didn't sign up for an account. So it's a free for all for anyone to view. The only way someone's going to view my pics (not that I care anyway) is if someone stumbles upon it while looking at other pics. So I will never post anything sensitive in there. I never did that on PhotoBucket either where I do have an account.

This is not for everyone because there is work involved. You have to be organized saving pic/files/links so that you can retrieve the photos. I'm curious to see how TinyPic would work if you were to register, but I'm not willing to try it just yet. I will piggyback them with the system I have in play. Hopefully not too many PhotoBucket rejects don't overflow TinyPic and then they start changing their ways.

Below is a screenshot of one of my TinyPic pictures to give you an example.

[alfaitalia]

So pissed off. Every pic Ive ever posted om here is now just that round symbol....bastards!!!

[dual fours]

So pissed off. Every pic Ive ever posted om here is now just that round symbol....bastards!!!

After you play the game for many years, now you must play their game their way.
I'm glad I have all my photos on memory cards and Kodak paper.
"Lay down your weapon's." "Come, let us help you, we will feed you and care for you." "Now, bend over." Have you heard this one before?
Guess you can't trust some of your "investments" in the hands of others.  

[ACUDANUT]

Blame our own site for having to use photo bucket.

[Charger_Fan]

Blame our own site for having to use photo bucket.

What the hell are you talking about? This site allows attachments.   For example, have you ever clicked on a thread where Tan Top has posted a bunch of Ebay photos? Troy has graciously allowed attachments here, and speaking for myself, the only reason I don't attach all my photos to this site is because I would rather pay for any photo bandwidth usage myself, by using a host site. Chances are, many others feel the same & that's why they went with PB in the first place.
If they had known that PB was going to pull such a dick move such as this, chances are they would have gone to a different host site.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

I use Flickr for now...

[moparstuart]

Blame our own site for having to use photo bucket.

What the hell are you talking about? This site allows attachments.   For example, have you ever clicked on a thread where Tan Top has posted a bunch of Ebay photos? Troy has graciously allowed attachments here, and speaking for myself, the only reason I don't attach all my photos to this site is because I would rather pay for any photo bandwidth usage myself, by using a host site. Chances are, many others feel the same & that's why they went with PB in the first place.
If they had known that PB was going to pull such a dick move such as this, chances are they would have gone to a different host site.

yes and i realize picture size is expensive but this site is archaic and backwards in the un-user friendly way to post pictures  , most other sites are easy and you dont have to rename and resize every freaking time you try to post a picture  . Im probable the worst offender with over 26,000 posts of  real pictures right on the site , but they are all my photos and all still here . 

[Troy]

If you guys pay me $399 per year (each) I will let you post as many pictures in any size that you want! I'll even make it stupidly simple. These days the problem is not bandwidth - it's storage space and limitations of our software. I can upgrade both. An extra $50k per year or so would easily solve that problem. I'll take money in whatever format you want to send it in. Photobucket got $20 million in cash and they're doing this so be generous.

This isn't the first annoying change at Photobucket so it shouldn't really be a surprise. A while back they deleted all accounts with 6 months of "inactivity" (meaning the user hadn't logged in even if their files were being viewed). The last year their site has been painful and almost unusable due to the ads and other nonsense running while trying to browse/upload files. I literally can't search for old pictures without my browser hanging. Apparently it's the default storage for Twitter accounts too so if you use that app you may want to check. The Wikipedia page mentions that anywhere from 200 million to a billion picture links are now broken on forums and Twitter.

Troy

[INTMD8]

The last year their site has been painful and almost unusable due to the ads and other nonsense running while trying to browse/upload files. I literally can't search for old pictures without my browser hanging.

Yes, it's been extremely aggravating to use for a while now. This $399 shakedown is the last bit of motivation I needed to delete my account.

[moparstuart]

If you guys pay me $399 per year (each) I will let you post as many pictures in any size that you want! I'll even make it stupidly simple. These days the problem is not bandwidth - it's storage space and limitations of our software. I can upgrade both. An extra $50k per year or so would easily solve that problem. I'll take money in whatever format you want to send it in. Photobucket got $20 million in cash and they're doing this so be generous.

This isn't the first annoying change at Photobucket so it shouldn't really be a surprise. A while back they deleted all accounts with 6 months of "inactivity" (meaning the user hadn't logged in even if their files were being viewed). The last year their site has been painful and almost unusable due to the ads and other nonsense running while trying to browse/upload files. I literally can't search for old pictures without my browser hanging. Apparently it's the default storage for Twitter accounts too so if you use that app you may want to check. The Wikipedia page mentions that anywhere from 200 million to a billion picture links are now broken on forums and Twitter.

Troy

I appreciate all you do and know you hate the thought of taking money  , I also love the no  pop ups and no ads and that your are beholding to any advertisers  , But i know i speak for many we would love to pay 20 or 50 bucks a year to be a member of the Dc.com club and help you   I know thats not all the answers but it will help and any upgrades would be a plus

[Homerr]

Dropbox... Google...  many places to use for free that I control the pics instead of asshats like photobucket.

[VegasCharger]

I don't get it. DC.com allows you to post up to 4 pics per post. So what's the problem??? If you need to post more then 4 pics, just follow up on another reply and viola you got 4 more pics to post. Lather rinse repeat. So what if you got to do some resizing and renaming it's NOT that FN hard. Use your default program called PAINT.

 

[Johnnymopar]

I had not been on pb for a while.  The site was super slow in loading, ads popping up like no tomorrow.  Deleted all my pics and closed the account.  Thanks for the heads up guys.   

[alfaitalia]

I don't get it. DC.com allows you to post up to 4 pics per post. So what's the problem??? If you need to post more then 4 pics, just follow up on another reply and viola you got 4 more pics to post. Lather rinse repeat. So what if you got to do some resizing and renaming it's NOT that FN hard. Use your default program called PAINT.

 

All of which takes ten times longer than pasting a link from Photobucket with a single click.....and even then half the time it doesn't load for some spurious reason...pic to big...name already used...etc etc.

[Homerr]

I don't get it. DC.com allows you to post up to 4 pics per post. So what's the problem??? If you need to post more then 4 pics, just follow up on another reply and viola you got 4 more pics to post. Lather rinse repeat. So what if you got to do some resizing and renaming it's NOT that FN hard. Use your default program called PAINT.

 

All of which takes ten times longer than pasting a link from Photobucket with a single click.....and even then half the time it doesn't load for some spurious reason...pic to big...name already used...etc etc.

also, tan_top has taken all the unique cool photo names like:

chargerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.jpg
asdffasdfadfasfsafaf.jpg
qwertyuuuuuuuu23940.jpg

[JB400]

It takes me about 2 minutes to use paint to resize pix, plus if you use todays' date as a file name, you won't have to worry about renaming photos.

[hemi-hampton]

Seen that coming over 10+ years ago, surprised it took them this long to do it. LEON.

[tan top]

yeah not supprised , get every one  hooked or using or doing something for free , while getting things set up & the population use to using it    , then  start charging  .....  I can see once the whole world is relying on the internet  , all books / directories /  printed matter gone etc , then  google / yahoo etc  start charging a nominal amount to use their search engine ,  every one having an on line account  & charged per search or yearly subscription 

[bakerhillpins]

I don't get it. DC.com allows you to post up to 4 pics per post. So what's the problem??? If you need to post more then 4 pics, just follow up on another reply and viola you got 4 more pics to post. Lather rinse repeat. So what if you got to do some resizing and renaming it's NOT that FN hard. Use your default program called PAINT.

 

Troy can probably speak to this but most of the other forums I use upload any size pic and automatically name/resize that to the forums limits. Troy has his reasons for not upgrading and I don't know if the never versions of SMF have this plugin but it would eliminate all this BS. Though it would probably up Troy's storage requirements.

[Nacho-RT74]

the only headache I find positing pics on here is the name. Its a lottery LOL, easy to solve thought. Otherwise I'm happy with what we got.

You can predict the size attachment will fit or not clicking on properties of the attachment and editing if required before try to upload, but not the name LOL.

I never have being a guy who use image hosting websites, but latelly found this what I think is pretty much nice

https://postimage.io

Ad free ( by now ) and easy to use.

Never liked photobucket. No matter if you copied the direct image link, allway took to the photobucket website frame instead just load the image on the browser when clicking the link