WTF is Photobucket playing at

15-07-2017, 04:18 PM

looks like I need to find somewhere new online to save pictures for forums like here as the pics have vanished with a stoopid update your account graphic replacing my pictures

any advice

thanks

Dirty · 15-07-2017, 04:32 PM

use postimage.org. It's been on the cards for years that Pbucket will install a paywall eventually

Luddite · 15-07-2017, 04:40 PM

More details here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40492668

Nickj · 15-07-2017, 04:41 PM

Seems like you need to upgrade to a paid account, this will let you direct link to other web sites (paste a url into a page here) and to be able to download your own pictures!!
$399 is the going rate ??
For just using the service $9.99 a month.

You could use Google space but again you can't have direct links, just very long temporary links to post.

A collection is listed >> here <<

Anything that is free usually has strings, and for anything free and online always assume 'monetising' wil happen at some point.

15-07-2017, 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nickj

Seems like you need to upgrade to a paid account, this will let you direct link to other web sites (paste a url into a page here) and to be able to download your own pictures!!
$399 is the going rate ??
For just using the service $9.99 a month.

You could use Google space but again you can't have direct links, just very long temporary links to post.

A collection is listed >> here <<

Anything that is free usually has strings, and for anything free and online always assume 'monetising' wil happen at some point.

At $9.99 a month it is OK but $399 up front with them changing the TOS with no notice is ridiculous. For sure not a good way to retain your customers and what guarantee will they give that they will still be here in a year, if this is the way they behave.

I hate to think how many forums like here that are now covered in this nasty photobucket graphic and totally screwed up.

I am sure we all use free email services, just imagine if your email supplier said as of today I want $399 if you want to continue sending and receiving mails.

This and many many other forums are free so I cant agree with your suggestion that sooner or later all of these forums will be charging us users. BUT hey who knows, funnier things have happened AKA PHOTOBUCKET!!!

jonzi · 15-07-2017, 06:07 PM

http://imgur.com/

Nickj · 15-07-2017, 06:23 PM

'Free' e-mail and hosting just add a few more trackers than say google does, and if you actually map them ....... You trade information for the 'free' bits, google can do some fairly impressive data mining metrics with that. The tailored adverts that follow you around web pages hardly even scratch the surface.

And yes big online ruckus has followed PB's decision to change the TOS without any real publicised announcement.

Dave G · 16-07-2017, 10:33 AM

Im just going to delete my PB account, I only used it to link pics for posting on places like here so it has just made itself irrelevant. Turkey voted for christmas shocker.

Darkness · 16-07-2017, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave G

Im just going to delete my PB account, I only used it to link pics for posting on places like here so it has just made itself irrelevant. Turkey voted for christmas shocker.

Likewise: mines already cleared and closed.

I'm not paying $400 to post photo's, and without that facility I've no use for it.

16-07-2017, 02:38 PM

How are all these forums going to work as well as they did previously?

That is the big question.

How do we safely post pictures here as linking from another site is obviously not a wonderful or safe idea as PB have show us..

Never mind the destruction of the historical photo data on thousands if not millions of posts on forums world wide.

For sure they are all totally ****ed up now with all the pictures we posted from FB to illustrate what we were talking about now replaced by their stooopid FB graphic

I have in excess of 12TB of storage on my BigBlackBeast desktop so all my PB pics are safe BUT almost every forum I am on Car Mobike Sailing Aeronautics and Model Building now has been invaded by this FB graphic compromising and destroying what was a very very useful 'historical' resource.

TRULY internet vandalism of the highest order by PhotoBucket.

PBucket reminds me of the MOD and the UK governments aviation 'lack of policy' TSR2 The Fairy Delta The Harrier The Nimrod and more, never mind giving the Russians a nice RR jet engine to play with and copy which they put in the MIG 15.

I guess I have to build my own cloud server so I have and can retain control.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Answers on a postcard to THIS IS NOT PHOTOBUCKET Planet Earth

Wasta · 16-07-2017, 07:27 PM

I've moved to Flickr. Pb appear to be on the edge of a cliff. Not many will pay a lump like that up front when there are so many ways to save images.

Blah blah · 17-07-2017, 03:56 PM

So... a business only want people who are going to pay to use the service they provide shocker..!

(I'm not going to upgrade, I'll find somewhere else to use)

18-07-2017, 01:33 PM

Darkness · 18-07-2017, 05:46 PM

A little large, but how has that been done with Wikimedia?

21-07-2017, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darkness

A little large, but how has that been done with Wikimedia?

sorry about the size i just found A MONSTER Picture {giggles} url and imaged it

trying to set up a safe secure online site for the pics i want to share. It looks like I need a home cloud or build a web site.

I can post from my google blog here too so maybe have two goggle blogs one for sailing and one for Mobikes and Aeronautics and other things.

the MONSTER Monster pic pic is just

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...r_696_2013.jpg

between ****[IMG][/IMG]****

from my blog a nice non mobike picture from St Barths Bucket 1917

15-07-2017, 04:18 PM	#1
Flying Scot Guest Posts: n/a	WTF is Photobucket playing at looks like I need to find somewhere new online to save pictures for forums like here as the pics have vanished with a stoopid update your account graphic replacing my pictures any advice thanks

15-07-2017, 04:32 PM	#2
Dirty Bockloks Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: London Bike: No Bike Yet! Posts: 4,601	use postimage.org. It's been on the cards for years that Pbucket will install a paywall eventually __________________ Wounds heal, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever Beware of eBay

15-07-2017, 04:41 PM	#4
Nickj Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Forest Of Dean Bike: S2r Posts: 3,193	Seems like you need to upgrade to a paid account, this will let you direct link to other web sites (paste a url into a page here) and to be able to download your own pictures!! $399 is the going rate ?? For just using the service $9.99 a month. You could use Google space but again you can't have direct links, just very long temporary links to post. A collection is listed >> here << Anything that is free usually has strings, and for anything free and online always assume 'monetising' wil happen at some point. __________________ "The final measure of any rider's skill is the inverse ratio of his preferred Traveling Speed to the number of bad scars on his body." Song of the sausage creature

15-07-2017, 06:07 PM	#6
jonzi Mary Mary Quite Contrary Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Berkhamsted Bike: M796 Posts: 1,398	http://imgur.com/ __________________ #48

15-07-2017, 06:23 PM	#7
Nickj Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Forest Of Dean Bike: S2r Posts: 3,193	'Free' e-mail and hosting just add a few more trackers than say google does, and if you actually map them ....... You trade information for the 'free' bits, google can do some fairly impressive data mining metrics with that. The tailored adverts that follow you around web pages hardly even scratch the surface. And yes big online ruckus has followed PB's decision to change the TOS without any real publicised announcement. __________________ "The final measure of any rider's skill is the inverse ratio of his preferred Traveling Speed to the number of bad scars on his body." Song of the sausage creature

15-07-2017, 04:40 PM	#3
Luddite Registered User Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Southampton Bike: M1100evo Posts: 2,465	More details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40492668

16-07-2017, 10:33 AM	#8
Dave G Imagineer Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: West Kilbride Bike: S2r Posts: 999	Im just going to delete my PB account, I only used it to link pics for posting on places like here so it has just made itself irrelevant. Turkey voted for christmas shocker. __________________ "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man" -Elbert Hubbard

16-07-2017, 02:38 PM	#10
Flying Scot Guest Posts: n/a	Yes but How are all these forums going to work as well as they did previously? That is the big question. How do we safely post pictures here as linking from another site is obviously not a wonderful or safe idea as PB have show us.. Never mind the destruction of the historical photo data on thousands if not millions of posts on forums world wide. For sure they are all totally ****ed up now with all the pictures we posted from FB to illustrate what we were talking about now replaced by their stooopid FB graphic I have in excess of 12TB of storage on my BigBlackBeast desktop so all my PB pics are safe BUT almost every forum I am on Car Mobike Sailing Aeronautics and Model Building now has been invaded by this FB graphic compromising and destroying what was a very very useful 'historical' resource. TRULY internet vandalism of the highest order by PhotoBucket. PBucket reminds me of the MOD and the UK governments aviation 'lack of policy' TSR2 The Fairy Delta The Harrier The Nimrod and more, never mind giving the Russians a nice RR jet engine to play with and copy which they put in the MIG 15. I guess I have to build my own cloud server so I have and can retain control. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Answers on a postcard to THIS IS NOT PHOTOBUCKET Planet Earth

16-07-2017, 07:27 PM	#11
Wasta Registered User Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Durham Bike: M900 Posts: 386	I've moved to Flickr. Pb appear to be on the edge of a cliff. Not many will pay a lump like that up front when there are so many ways to save images. __________________ 2018 Aprilia Tuono V4 1100RR 1998 M900 monster

17-07-2017, 03:56 PM	#12
Blah blah Upsetting normal people.. Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Portreath Bike: S2r Posts: 833	So... a business only want people who are going to pay to use the service they provide shocker..! (I'm not going to upgrade, I'll find somewhere else to use) __________________ Power is nothing without control... I have neither !

18-07-2017, 01:33 PM	#13
Flying Scot Guest Posts: n/a	PICTURE Test

18-07-2017, 05:46 PM	#14
Darkness . Join Date: May 2007 Location: Stockbridge Bike: M900 Posts: 1,984	A little large, but how has that been done with Wikimedia? __________________ Original and Best since 1993