covertrussian Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/30/photobucket-now-charges-399-for-third-party-hosted-images/ This really sucks, I spent weeks reuploading and updating forum posts from my personal host to Photobucket, I was fine with $30 a year (which was about half of my more featured host). But now $400 is way too rich for my blood. Guess it's time to switch to using this forum's built in upload function, too bad there are no way to do albums 05 LGT 16G 14psi 290whp/30mpg (SOLD) 12 OBP Stock 130whp/27mpg@87 Oct 00 G20t GT28r 10psi 250whp/36mpg 22 Ascent STOCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 So, not this? http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f43/Bu11dogg2/DEDED0B0-DEB0-4C8B-8560-DE03A735107B_zpsqbop4kmr.jpg http://legacygt.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=252363&stc=1&d=1499928777 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 I run my own server and dynamic DNS. Works good enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covertrussian Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 I used to have a hosted site myself for all the pictures, but I got tired of worrying about security patches and yearly renewals. Just gonna use the forum upload function going forward me thinks. 05 LGT 16G 14psi 290whp/30mpg (SOLD) 12 OBP Stock 130whp/27mpg@87 Oct 00 G20t GT28r 10psi 250whp/36mpg 22 Ascent STOCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwiener2 Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 All my photbucket links still work. Some links are almost 10yrs old. My Mods List (Updated 8/22/17) 2005 Outback FMT Running on Electrons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covertrussian Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 It's based on bandwidth, their new TOS applies to everyone (no embedded linking), but they are only actively shutting down active users. My pictures apparently get enough activity to be shutdown. 05 LGT 16G 14psi 290whp/30mpg (SOLD) 12 OBP Stock 130whp/27mpg@87 Oct 00 G20t GT28r 10psi 250whp/36mpg 22 Ascent STOCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators BarManBean Posted July 13, 2017 Moderators Share Posted July 13, 2017 It's based on bandwidth, their new TOS applies to everyone (no embedded linking), but they are only actively shutting down active users. My pictures apparently get enough activity to be shutdown. Same here. Apparently parting out a car and posting related pics will do the trick. I'm 100% done with photobucket. Their site has been borderline unusable due to excessive ads for a long time now. And now they want $400 a year just to link pics elsewhere? Yeah, GFYS. "Bullet-proof" your OEM TMIC! <<Buy your kit here>> Not currently in stock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infosecdad Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Same here. Apparently parting out a car and posting related pics will do the trick. I'm 100% done with photobucket. Their site has been borderline unusable due to excessive ads for a long time now. And now they want $400 a year just to link pics elsewhere? Yeah, GFYS. Same here. I would have probably paid $50 to not have to move everything around, but $400 a year? Nope. Exported all of my pictures off, then deleted my account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covertrussian Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 I'm not deleting my stuff yet, with hopes they see the light, but in reality they will probably go out of business first. 05 LGT 16G 14psi 290whp/30mpg (SOLD) 12 OBP Stock 130whp/27mpg@87 Oct 00 G20t GT28r 10psi 250whp/36mpg 22 Ascent STOCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadvw Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 I'm not deleting my stuff yet, with hopes they see the light, but in reality they will probably go out of business first. Well, yeah, that's probably why they did what they did - they aren't surviving on their current business model.. They're hoping they have some customers who are "locked in" with too many pictures to move and who can afford $400/year because they're making much more than that by using photobucket. Sucks for guys like you and me, though.. I think that's the problem with a LOT of sites - give away something useful for free that costs them money (storage, bandwidth, servers), and hope that EVENTUALLY people will "voluntarily" pay. Except that never works - too many people either are poor or are leeches, or in this case, they end up making the price very unreasonable for the majority of clients. It may work for them, or may not.. Wonder if facebook allows external linking of images? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWebb Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Same here. Apparently parting out a car and posting related pics will do the trick. I'm 100% done with photobucket. Their site has been borderline unusable due to excessive ads for a long time now. And now they want $400 a year just to link pics elsewhere? Yeah, GFYS. I told you wnat I use and ya banned me a few days for it. But you can post GFYS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covertrussian Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 Right I think that's the model, and perhaps people that link it to their eCommerce sites should be charged on a business model like that. Photobucket has been sucking a little too much for me to even pay $50/yo for their crappy service, at that point I might as well spin up my own host. EDIT: What's interesting is, some of my pictures are down and some are not. Looks like they are hiding some of my more popular pics and not whole account... 05 LGT 16G 14psi 290whp/30mpg (SOLD) 12 OBP Stock 130whp/27mpg@87 Oct 00 G20t GT28r 10psi 250whp/36mpg 22 Ascent STOCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators BarManBean Posted July 13, 2017 Moderators Share Posted July 13, 2017 I told you wnat I use and ya banned me a few days for it. But you can post GFYS? Oh you mean when you posted a link to a porn site in a public forum? Is that what you're referring to? If you can't make the distinction there, maybe you can spend a few more days/weeks/forever off the site while you think about it? Let me know. "Bullet-proof" your OEM TMIC! <<Buy your kit here>> Not currently in stock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators BarManBean Posted July 13, 2017 Moderators Share Posted July 13, 2017 Exported all of my pictures off Was there a straight forward / automatic way to do this? "Bullet-proof" your OEM TMIC! <<Buy your kit here>> Not currently in stock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWebb Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 Oh you mean when you posted a link to a porn site in a public forum? Is that what you're referring to? If you can't make the distinction there, maybe you can spend a few more days/weeks/forever off the site while you think about it? Let me know. They will host just about anything up there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covertrussian Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 You should see a "Download Album" in root of your bucket. It wont capture videos or gifs though. 05 LGT 16G 14psi 290whp/30mpg (SOLD) 12 OBP Stock 130whp/27mpg@87 Oct 00 G20t GT28r 10psi 250whp/36mpg 22 Ascent STOCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twisty Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 i switched from imageshack to tinypic for web pics, still free and a ton of space available. also, you can upload from URL as well as files from your hard drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwiener2 Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 It's based on bandwidth, their new TOS applies to everyone (no embedded linking), but they are only actively shutting down active users. My pictures apparently get enough activity to be shutdown. 88k views? My Mods List (Updated 8/22/17) 2005 Outback FMT Running on Electrons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covertrussian Posted July 14, 2017 Author Share Posted July 14, 2017 Hard to say, my banjo bolt pics are down, while some others are not. It probably is some sort of a threshold of views per image. 05 LGT 16G 14psi 290whp/30mpg (SOLD) 12 OBP Stock 130whp/27mpg@87 Oct 00 G20t GT28r 10psi 250whp/36mpg 22 Ascent STOCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-3-2-4 Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 Photobucket should be gone by the end of the year.. but yeah it's funny how almost every site I go to now I see this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covertrussian Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 More insight into the price hike from Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/16/photobucket-fee-hike/ Either they assume that people that link to the images are business (that can afford the $399) or they are just wanting to get rid of us nonprofit forum folks. Either way the damage they did will be very hard for them to recover from. 05 LGT 16G 14psi 290whp/30mpg (SOLD) 12 OBP Stock 130whp/27mpg@87 Oct 00 G20t GT28r 10psi 250whp/36mpg 22 Ascent STOCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators BarManBean Posted July 17, 2017 Moderators Share Posted July 17, 2017 More insight into the price hike from Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/16/photobucket-fee-hike/ Either they assume that people that link to the images are business (that can afford the $399) or they are just wanting to get rid of us nonprofit forum folks. Either way the damage they did will be very hard for them to recover from. Part of me gets it, but I've never used a site with more BS ads than photobucket. If you do that side of it correctly you make money from the "free" users. Hell, youtube does it with VIDEOS. An ad pops up at the beginning of videos sometimes. Sometimes I can skip it, other times not. Sometimes an add pops up here and there throughout longer videos. I deal with it. I understand as a free user sucking a lot of bandwidth, that the ads are necessary. Photobucket wasn't that. Their site was horrible and borderline unusable, and then overnight they want you to pay $400/yr to use it. Um, no. "Bullet-proof" your OEM TMIC! <<Buy your kit here>> Not currently in stock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covertrussian Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 You hit the nail on the head perfectly, I would pay $50/y TOPS to photobucket for how crappy overall their was. The only reason I liked them is, they allowed nested albums, I want my car build pictures to be well organized. I wish the forum's built in album feature allowed nested albums. 05 LGT 16G 14psi 290whp/30mpg (SOLD) 12 OBP Stock 130whp/27mpg@87 Oct 00 G20t GT28r 10psi 250whp/36mpg 22 Ascent STOCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adoniram Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 ... Wonder if facebook allows external linking of images? Yes they do, but the link you get will be very long and unreadable, which by itself is fine, except that it'll expire in about a year or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDII Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 $400/year? Need forum help? Private Message legGTLT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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