Author Topic: F off, photobucket (Read 7878 times)

Jamisjockey · « **on:** July 13, 2017, 08:31:36 AM »

So apparently photobucket now requires you to pay for an account to hotlink the pictures you upload.
Anyone have a better free site that doesn't throttle hotlinking?

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #1 on:** July 13, 2017, 08:57:41 AM »

Where have you been? They started with this on June 30, and the Internet has been ablaze with invectives aimed at Photobucket. It's not just that they want you to pay to keep third party hosting. Their other paid plans don't even allow it. They came up with a new plan that costs $399 a year, and that's the only plan that allows third part hosting. Rapacious bastards.

Possible alternatives:

~~Tinypic~~ [Owned by Photobucket]
Flickr.com
Imageshack.us
~~Imgur.com~~ <See post below. Imgur does not allow 3rd party hosting>
postimage.com
ImageVenue.com
FreeImageHosting.net
Canon Irista

A lot of people seem to be migrating to Imgur. I don't know why -- I looked at their site and didn't like it, but I tend to be contrarian that way.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #2 on:** July 13, 2017, 09:01:15 AM »

http://imgur.com/

Then again, they're pushing "net neutrality."

TechMan · « **Reply #3 on:** July 13, 2017, 09:28:20 AM »

If you have Amazon Prime, you get free unlimited storage of photos included. You can hotlink from there.

Mannlicher · « **Reply #4 on:** July 13, 2017, 09:42:19 AM »

Picture Trail works well. Pretty easy to set up, and at least for now, still free

MechAg94 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 13, 2017, 09:50:44 AM »

Quote from: adively on July 13, 2017, 09:28:20 AM

If you have Amazon Prime, you get free unlimited storage of photos included. You can hotlink from there.

I did not know that. thanks.

I need to go delete my photos on photobucket first.

230RN · « **Reply #6 on:** July 13, 2017, 09:50:57 AM »

Is this

Quote from: RoadKingLarry on May 08, 2016, 12:37:17 AM

Club races today.
This was taken by a competitor on a 32' Hunter Vision.

A result of that?

REF:
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=51600.0

TechMan · « **Reply #7 on:** July 13, 2017, 09:54:34 AM »

Quote from: 230RN on July 13, 2017, 09:50:57 AM

Is this

A result of that?

REF:
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=51600.0

Yes.

TechMan · « **Reply #8 on:** July 13, 2017, 09:55:12 AM »

Quote from: MechAg94 on July 13, 2017, 09:50:44 AM

I did not know that. thanks.

I need to go delete my photos on photobucket first.

You're welcome.

K Frame · « **Reply #9 on:** July 13, 2017, 10:10:10 AM »

I've been doing some linking out of my Google Cloud backup.

It works, but is a little non-intitutive at first.

mtnbkr · « **Reply #10 on:** July 13, 2017, 10:33:38 AM »

Oddly enough, all my links to Photobucket here and elsewhere are still working.

Chris

dogmush · « **Reply #11 on:** July 13, 2017, 10:38:11 AM »

Quote from: mtnbkr on July 13, 2017, 10:33:38 AM

Oddly enough, all my links to Photobucket here and elsewhere are still working.

Chris

Mine were until earlier today. I first saw the stupid speedo error pic on others posts yesterday, and mine were fine. As you can see now mine stopped working.

They might be doing it in waves.

I'm told google pics is decent if you already have a google account. I'm still looking at the choices. Gotta go look at Amazon, I didn't know they hosted pics.

K Frame · « **Reply #12 on:** July 13, 2017, 10:58:09 AM »

Apparently Photobucket is doing this in a relatively slow roll.

We've had more and more people complaining about it at TFL. First they say their pictures are still showing up, and then a few days later they aren't.

I'm hearing from a friend who works closely with Photobucket somehow that the defection rate they're seeing is FAR higher than anyone thought it was going to be.

mtnbkr · « **Reply #13 on:** July 13, 2017, 10:59:40 AM »

Ahh, good point. Well, once mine stop working, I'll find an alternative. I don't tend to maintain images there long term, so it's not going to harm me. I'll just delete the files and start clean somewhere else.

Chris

mtnbkr · « **Reply #14 on:** July 13, 2017, 11:01:49 AM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on July 13, 2017, 10:58:09 AM

I'm hearing from a friend who works closely with Photobucket somehow that the defection rate they're seeing is FAR higher than anyone thought it was going to be.

This part surprises me. WTF did they think was going to happen at $400/year to keep the service? They obviously don't understand their market or their place in that market.

Chris

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #15 on:** July 13, 2017, 11:10:20 AM »

Quote from: mtnbkr on July 13, 2017, 10:33:38 AM

Oddly enough, all my links to Photobucket here and elsewhere are still working.

Chris

Mine were, too ... until yesterday. I finally received "the e-mail" notfying me that I will have to pay to play.

Except that I don't. I'll migrate my few hosted photos to some other site, re-link, and delete my Photobucket account. As Jamis stated it so eloquently in the title of this thread, "F off, photobucket."

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #16 on:** July 13, 2017, 11:14:05 AM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on July 13, 2017, 10:58:09 AM

I'm hearing from a friend who works closely with Photobucket somehow that the defection rate they're seeing is FAR higher than anyone thought it was going to be.

If this is true, they are morons.

With the number of members they ~~have~~ had, if they had decided to charge $10/year they would have brought in about $1 BILLION dollars a year. Did they seriously believe that people would just happily pony up $400 a year so they could have a dozen or so images show up in old discussions on some web forum somewhere? What the hell were they smoking?

AJ Dual · « **Reply #17 on:** July 13, 2017, 11:22:22 AM »

Just nuked my account. I was waiting until they got to me too. LOL... some/many of you may have Bug Eye'd Earl from Red Meat cached, but it looks like even my Avatar here was hosted through PB. Hit F5 a few times to see if it changes.

I'll just go figure out how to use my Amazon Prime space.

K Frame · « **Reply #18 on:** July 13, 2017, 11:57:37 AM »

Quote from: mtnbkr on July 13, 2017, 11:01:49 AM

This part surprises me. WTF did they think was going to happen at $400/year to keep the service? They obviously don't understand their market or their place in that market.

Chris

From what Sam was saying there was the thought among the management team that people had become so dependent on PB for things like hosting photos to Ebay and other auction sites that they'd be more than happy to fork over the $400 a year just to keep from having to relink all of their active sales and learn a new site for new sales.

That's apparently not working out as they had hoped, and they have so far lost FAR more in people from the lower-use, smaller paying accounts leaving than they've gotten with people signing up for the new plan.

I agree, it doesn't make much sense at all because it guarantees you're going to lose huge number of casual hosters.

K Frame · « **Reply #19 on:** July 13, 2017, 12:00:56 PM »

Oh, and when I say "anyone," it was apparently management's theory that people would open their wallets in droves, and the employees with whom Sam works are WTF??? From what he was saying, it basically wasn't explained to employees until AFTER the spit started hitting the spam.

I've seen on a number of other forums where people are talking about this that they've tried calling the HQ in Denver repeatedly, and the phone is always busy.

bedlamite · « **Reply #20 on:** July 13, 2017, 12:03:26 PM »

I went through my PB account when I got the email a week ago, pulled everything down that I didn't already have, deleted the rest, and the only pic left on my account is a copy of this

AJ Dual · « **Reply #21 on:** July 13, 2017, 12:05:55 PM »

Watch this space for links to "RIP Photobucket" tech articles and their mention in the "Top Ten Internet Blunders of the 20-teens"

Scout26 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 13, 2017, 12:09:48 PM »

Quote from: AJ Dual on July 13, 2017, 12:05:55 PM

Watch this space for links to "RIP Photobucket" tech articles and their mention in the "Top Ten Internet Blunders ~~of the 20-teens~~ EVAH !!!"

FTFY

K Frame · « **Reply #23 on:** July 13, 2017, 12:30:25 PM »

"the only pic left on my account is a copy of this"

K Frame · « **Reply #24 on:** July 13, 2017, 12:32:32 PM »

My guess is that in a month or two they'll realize what they've done and try to roll out a bunch of tiered packages in which you had have X number of 3rd party hosts for X dollars a month...

And by that time, it will be FAR too late to recover even a smidge of the good will they used to have and they'll end up amplifying their ever steepening death spiral.

News:

Author Topic: F off, photobucket (Read 7878 times)