Another great reason NOT to use photobucket!

palerider · Post by **palerider** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:12 pm

New terms and conditions, $400 a year to link to pics from off site place.... like, here.

http://www.alphr.com/life-culture/10062 ... ops-broken

Goofproof · Post by **Goofproof** » Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:41 pm

palerider wrote:New terms and conditions, $400 a year to link to pics from off site place.... like, here.

http://www.alphr.com/life-culture/10062 ... ops-broken

Just read that, Sneaky!

lanco · Post by **lanco** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 3:02 am

I don't like photobucket and now use Imgur. At the time it was the only one i was aware of and I saw others use it.

Anyway, my links still work.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=113041&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15

palerider · Post by **palerider** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 6:29 am

lanco wrote:I don't like photobucket and now use Imgur. At the time it was the only one i was aware of and I saw others use it.

Anyway, my links still work.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=113041&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15

actually, they don't, first, because they're on photobucket, and secondly, you did them wrong.

Jay Aitchsee · Post by **Jay Aitchsee** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 7:30 am

Yep, I see my images have been replaced with:

Oh well, I've been going to clean them up anyway.

Sleeprider · Post by **Sleeprider** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 8:07 am

Photobucket is apparently doing its best to get out of business. The site has become useless without the upgraded subscriptions with more spam ads than a free porn site. Even if you wanted to use them, you'd have to penetrate the ads to get a membership, just so you could subject all your friends to more ads. I used PB for many years, but they don't have anything I can't replace...bye bye!

chunkyfrog · Post by **chunkyfrog** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 8:29 am

I have not added anything new for a very long time.
I will probably just let that stuff die.
Nothing lasts forever--don't we know it!

palerider · Post by **palerider** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 10:45 am

chunkyfrog wrote:I have not added anything new for a very long time.
I will probably just let that stuff die.
Nothing lasts forever--don't we know it!

I thought diamonds were forever... or is that just another marketing lie

Actually, I've seen that you can burn diamond... so even they aren't forever.

chunkyfrog · Post by **chunkyfrog** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 10:49 am

I still remember that tune--such an earworm!

Goofproof · Post by **Goofproof** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:22 am

chunkyfrog wrote:I have not added anything new for a very long time.
I will probably just let that stuff die.
Nothing lasts forever--don't we know it!

Just spent 2 hours last nite, deleting my uploads to the site, maybe when they sell their servers for scrap, they will really be deleted. Jim

Not a friendly process.

Pugsy · Post by **Pugsy** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:29 am

Apparently links to images will still work but we can't embed the images in posts anymore. The links still work because they force you to go to Photobucket website so that they can force the ads on you. Do they really think we don't know that?

When I have some free time I am going to move the important stuff to imgur and just delete the stuff that really isn't critical.
It used to be a nice place to use but hasn't been for quite some time due to the number of ads that hog up the site resources when trying to load an image. And now they want money for something they used to offer for free...ain't gonna happen.

Jay Aitchsee · Post by **Jay Aitchsee** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 1:34 pm

Pugsy wrote:Apparently links to images will still work but we can't embed the images in posts anymore. The links still work because they force you to go to Photobucket website so that they can force the ads on you. Do they really think we don't know that?

Yeah, the posts can be edited to remove the image code modifiers and then they will appear as links, but then, as you say, they take you to the site where the ads make them unusable.

I did download all my photos and they come in a Zip file so it doesn't take too long. I haven't extracted them, but I assume they will be fine and once extracted could be uploaded to another site.

SewTired · Post by **SewTired** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 2:41 pm

Thanks for the tips. I mostly used it for my crafts blog but haven't added anything recently. Still want the photos though.

Goofproof · Post by **Goofproof** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 2:56 pm

Jay Aitchsee wrote:
Pugsy wrote:Apparently links to images will still work but we can't embed the images in posts anymore. The links still work because they force you to go to Photobucket website so that they can force the ads on you. Do they really think we don't know that?
Yeah, the posts can be edited to remove the image code modifiers and then they will appear as links, but then, as you say, they take you to the site where the ads make them unusable.

I did download all my photos and they come in a Zip file so it doesn't take too long. I haven't extracted them, but I assume they will be fine and once extracted could be uploaded to another site.

Wish I had know that, I did mine one at a time.

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