Wildguzzi.com
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Calijackalbob on April 29, 2017, 06:25:20 AM
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I love looking at old (and not so old) posts to check out bike photos on this forum. The annoying thing is though, that there are so many "Photo not found(s)" and links to photos on ebay or craigslist that disappear after the bike is sold. There is a solution to this, to make the photos permanent. If you see something on ebay or craigslist thatyou want to share, download the photos and upload on photobucket or some other photo sharing website, then NEVER DELET the photo, so it's there for everyone to see forever!
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For me, it's a matter of time. It takes much more time to do it as you suggest - Photobucket (and all of the others) are very slow loading on both of my computers. I don't have the time or patience to deal with that every time I want to post a photo.
Using the "Add image to post" here is much easier and quicker, but still not as fast as simply copying the image address and pasting it into a post.
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I love looking at old (and not so old) posts to check out bike photos on this forum. The annoying thing is though, that there are so many "Photo not found(s)" and links to photos on ebay or craigslist that disappear after the bike is sold. There is a solution to this, to make the photos permanent. If you see something on ebay or craigslist thatyou want to share, download the photos and upload on photobucket or some other photo sharing website, then NEVER DELET the photo, so it's there for everyone to see forever!
That's the theory .... but Photobucket appears to be slowly dying due to an overdose of 'improvements' and 'features', it takes a LOT of time to upload pics and sometimes I can't find my pictures later, which means someone somewhere is reading a post of mine with a block in the middle that says "Photo Not Found" .... I've quit using it, just left the photos there that are already there, and started using SmugMug. No problems there so far.
Lannis
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The only real solution is to make a post on that thread and see if the OP still has the photos.
I know quite a few of mine went away when a hosting site went down without warning. Don't have those photos anymore either.
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I noticed today my Avatar was replaced. So i replaced it with a laptop download thru this site's loader. I'm on another forum and notice all my pictures are replaced with a photobucket invite to visit a link. I visit and see it will cost $399.99 a year to use their service... :thewife:
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Kinda makes ya realize what a bargain WG is ...
Dusty
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Yes, they've finally hosed all their users. Originally, "third party links" were what they ADVERTISED as what PhotoBucket should and could be used for. They were going to make their money on this "free" service by selling framing, printing, distribution, and other services.
But about two years ago (as documented right here on WG) the service started degrading. Uploads got more difficult, an "upgrade" made linking less efficient, and it gradually got to where I couldn't even use it any more, so I left my existing photos there and went to SmugMug, where I don't have such problems.
But now, I don't even have access to my "own" photos any more. All it means is that any photo on a forum I linked to over the years is just a blank space now, but that's life.
I guess they figure that some people have so many pictures up, and trusted PB to keep them there, that they'll pay the ransom. I'd pay something to erase PhotoBucket from the Internet, but it's not worth $400.
Should have expected it. No contract, no commitment, just "GOTCHA, SUCKER!".
Lannis
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According to their site, the least expensive plan that allows linking is 10 bucks a month or 100 bucks a year. It's still a crappy thing to do, to get you started and then essentially hold your links hostage for money. I don't plan to pay them anything, I'll just start uploading photos to forum sites directly.
I wouldn't be surprised to see them either go back to the original deal or go out of business from all the negative publicity this is generating.
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My photos work still, am I not understanding something, or has that which ya'll speak of not taken effect yet?
(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a538/broughsuperior/bodas%20trip%20253_zpsg2vqzpmv.jpg) (http://s1282.photobucket.com/user/broughsuperior/media/bodas%20trip%20253_zpsg2vqzpmv.jpg.html)
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Flickr still free.
Google Photos free too, with available unlimited photo storage.
I don't know why anyone still uses Photobucket. It has been lousy for years.
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Yes, they've finally hosed all their users. Originally, "third party links" were what they ADVERTISED as what PhotoBucket should and could be used for. They were going to make their money on this "free" service by selling framing, printing, distribution, and other services.
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I guess they figure that some people have so many pictures up, and trusted PB to keep them there, that they'll pay the ransom. I'd pay something to erase PhotoBucket from the Internet, but it's not worth $400.
Should have expected it. No contract, no commitment, just "GOTCHA, SUCKER!".
Lannis
Makes the $45/yr I pay for Flickr.com Pro Account look more like a real bargain. Not as flexible as SmugMug, and it is Yahoo, but for what I use it for, it's hard to beat unlimited storage for that price - and they don't compress or otherwise mess with the uploaded photos.
jdg
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I've been paying PhotoBucket (PB) 29.99 a year for 2-3 years for storage of a LOT of images. I have received no notice that anything has changed and my last payment was as recent as May.
Having said that, PB has turned out to be a pain to use. They have rented their site out to so many pop-up ads that booting it up takes a while. That, plus loading and notating images is not as easy as in the past.
I need to look at any possibility of transferring my images off of PB (if possible) and to another hosting site.
They start these internet companies and then sell out for a big price and the purchaser has to sabotage the original service to make caaaaaash.
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New rules went into effect on the Wednesday 28th for us freeloaders.
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I need to look at any possibility of transferring my images off of PB (if possible) and to another hosting site.
I don't remember how i did it (maybe search the smugmug site) but it was pretty easy to move all my pics off PB to Smugmug and it was the best thing I've done for hosting pics online. PB sucked since a few years ago..
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Guzzi/i-bjxjVPq/0/468c8138/S/IMG_1107-S.jpg) (https://fotoguzzi.smugmug.com/Guzzi/i-bjxjVPq/A)
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I started using Photobucket many years ago. It increasingly became more of a PITA, but I thought, "What do you expect for free?" and kept using it for documenting things here.
I have 543 pictures in the Lario rehab thread and 319 in the Aero engine thread. Countless hours of documentation gone. $400 a year? They can kiss my rosy red patootie. :evil:
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Countless hours of documentation gone. $400 a year? They can kiss my rosy red patootie. :evil:
As I posted above, according to their web site, the number is $100, not $400. Not that a hundred is much better, but $400 is for 3rd party hosting, not photo linking.
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I started using Photobucket many years ago. It increasingly became more of a PITA, but I thought, "What do you expect for free?" and kept using it for documenting things here.
I have 543 pictures in the Lario rehab thread and 319 in the Aero engine thread. Countless hours of documentation gone. $400 a year? They can kiss my rosy red patootie. :evil:
Regardless of the number, it's classic unfettered capitalism at work. Get someone "hooked" at a low or no price, then start turning the screws until they holler, then back off a quarter turn.
When I was on our school board, school bus leasing companies tried that. We had our own buses, our own shop, bought our own fuel, and hired our own drivers. The leasing company would come along and say "You should be in the education business, not hiring drivers and mechanics and owning buses and worrying about EPA regs on your underground fuel storage and buying diesel. Let US handle all that - we'll provide the buses, drivers, fuel, everything, and you just pay us a fee that's LESS than your transportation budget now, two year contract ...."
Most of the surrounding counties did that - sold their buses, laid off their mechanics, the leasing company hired the drivers, sold their shop equipment, got the undergrounds tanks out while they still could, big boost to the budget, that was.
Some board members wanted to go for it. But I wanted to know how the leasing company would make money on this deal. We didn't pay our drivers and mechanics all that much, they couldn't get local people any cheaper. We bought fuel by the tanker truck load, and they were buying it from the same place; more volume but it was only a few cents a gallon cheaper. Buses have to be replaced every few years regardless of mileage; that's driven by the new safety features everyone demands, so the leasing company had no advantage of us there.
So we kept our buses and watched. In true Photobucket style, you can IMAGINE what the contract renegotiation looked like when the current contract was up. The leasing company knew that no little rural county was going to be able to scrape up the capital to purchase 75 buses at $40K each, set up a shop again, bury more fuel tanks, and so they raised the price until the neighboring counties were screaming like a cut tomcat, but there was no place to go ....
Gotta watch out ... we all know that if it's too good to be true, it probably isn't ....
Lannis
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Well, I started using it a few years ago. The ads got more and more invasive and annoying. At Chuck's suggestion just a week ago, I opened a free Flickr account.
As the saying goes - if you're not paying for the product, then you ARE the product.
Anyway, I like what WG has done with the IMGBB service that lets us upload directly in our posts. But I suppose there is risk and uncertainty in that hosting solution too.
I just logged into my PB account. There is an option to download entire albums at once.
I'll probably go back and update a few threads that might be useful to others in future with new photo links - like my continuation of Unkept's LeMans project.
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So, I'd have to manually put up new links to the 862 pictures?
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So, I'd have to manually put up new links to the 862 pictures?
That's the trouble with relying on any external entity to store photos or data. You always run the risk of losing the information, and then any links to it will fail.
I'm going to start taking advantage of the on-site photo storage that Luap has set up, and do the same for other forums I frequent if they have that feature.
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I mentioned this in the other Guzzi forum. I use DP for free hosting.
https://www.dpreview.com/
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There's another Guzzi forum?!?! ;^)
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As I posted above, according to their web site, the number is $100, not $400. Not that a hundred is much better, but $400 is for 3rd party hosting, not photo linking.
Actually, no.
Third party hosting IS photo linking in PB-speak. If you want your Photobucket pictures to appear, for example, in a WG post, you pony up 4 Cs.
Nice photos you got there, pal. Be a shame if sumfin happened to 'em .....
Lannis
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I've preached for years that this is what the "cloud" would come to -- store your stuff for free until you're firmly vested, and then charge you to access it. The other problem of course is that you become a more likely target of hacking when you're running in a herd. It's more productive for a hacker to breach one cloud and have the information of a thousand accounts than it is to break into each of those thousand accounts individually.
I used PB for some years until it was apparent that they were "hazing" people into paid accounts by making the free side unusable. Unfortunately, by the time I decided to remove my stuff, it was so unusable that I could only delete a couple of the hundreds of photos before the site would grind to a halt and I'd have to re-access it to continue. I finally abandoned everything there and decided no more cloud.
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Actually, no.
Third party hosting IS photo linking in PB-speak. If you want your Photobucket pictures to appear, for example, in a WG post, you pony up 4 Cs.
Yes, I reread their plan descriptions and I believe I was wrong before (sorry Chuck). It looks like photo linking is just putting a link in your forum posts, not actually displaying the photo. It doesn't matter in the long run though, since I can easily do without Photobucket.
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It's all over the web in these last several days, and almost every hobby/special interest forum and many businesses are affected. Photobucket, a very popular 3rd party image hosting service for the last 12-15 years, is now essentially a corporate ransome-ware site. That is, they are holding MILLIONS of users images hostage unless each person/business pays them $400 per year on what has always been a FREE site. You will see pictures all over your favorite forums stating that the image is not available unless the image-owner pays. Thus all those great how-to pics on repairs, mods, problems, solutions, etc will be absent from thousands of internet forums. I personally have 469 motorcycle and collector firearm pics hosted on the site that I now forum users cannot access due to this stunt.
There are still several free 3rd party image hosting sites available. Do your own research and take your pick. No telling whether Photobucket will relent or not, but they've screwed the pooch with this stunt, and their name and company are mud. Don't use Tinypic.com. Their terms of service indicate they're owned by Photobucket, so I'm guessing they're next to fall.
Here's an article to a number of sites that might be useful, but, note, it was written BEFORE the very recent policy change at Photobucket. https://www.lifewire.com/free-image-hosting-sites-3486329 I'm going to give postimage.org a try, but thousands of forum posts of mine made over the last 15 years or so are now sans-pictures. :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
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Well I guess there's no reason to give storage away for free forever. It's bound to bite you in the ass eventually.
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Same here. Been using Photobucket for years and I have hundreds of images there. When I saw this happen a few days ago I switched over to Postimage. They should have at least given a notice, its not like they don't have your email.
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Same here. Been using Photobucket for years and I have hundreds of images there. When I saw this happen a few days ago I switched over to Postimage. They should have at least given a notice, its not like they don't have your email.
That would defeat their purpose: holding your images hostage.
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That would defeat their purpose: holding your images hostage.
They're not holding your images hostage, you still have access to them, you just no longer the ability to link share them on a forum.
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Is there any way to migrate the images en masse to a new site, or to download the entire library to a file on your own computer? I couldn't find anything on PB that looked like you could do any more than one at a time it.
The site has been hinky for the last 6 months, failing to show recently uploaded pics, difficulty logging in, etc. I bet that was going on all the while they were prepping the site for the big switcheroo.
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As I posted above, according to their web site, the number is $100, not $400. Not that a hundred is much better, but $400 is for 3rd party hosting, not photo linking.
Except that the issue is that the overwhelming number of users HAVE been using the third party feature all these years, for many forums it was the ONLY way to post images. The only way to change them around would be to go to every forum post individually and change the IMG connector to a Link, on those forums where that will work. One at a time, for every picture you've ever posted. Shame, because the incredibly valuable "how-to" resources documented on thousands of web forums of all types, are now up in smoke.
It actually makes the everyday ransomware scum seem like "nice guys."
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Is there any way to migrate the images en masse to a new site, or to download the entire library to a file on your own computer? I couldn't find anything on PB that looked like you could do any more than one at a time it.
yes there is, I was able to transfer in bunches to Smugmug..
https://portal.photom.me/portal/migrate-photos-smugmug-using-smugglr/
https://www.picbackman.com/blog/help/how-to-backup-photobucket-photos-to-smugmug/
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At last! A way to puck Botto phucket!
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yes there is, I was able to transfer in bunches to Smugmug..
https://portal.photom.me/portal/migrate-photos-smugmug-using-smugglr/
https://www.picbackman.com/blog/help/how-to-backup-photobucket-photos-to-smugmug/
Actually, PB closed this loophole. From Smugmug Help today, :
Hey John,
Thanks for contacting SmugMug.
Normally I would say please use our free migration tool - which worked perfectly until recently:
http://www.smugglr.com/
Unfortunately Photobucket has blocked our app and is not allowing us to access user images.
Our engineers are working on a workaround for this.
In the meantime you could just download your content to your computer and then upload to your SmugMug site.
I wish I had a better answer for you.
Take care,
Tom
SmugMug Support Hero
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PB $399/year! Friggen hell!!
Edit: what free photo hosting keep the full definition of the pictures? PB definitely doesnt.
Testing if it still works (not mine):
(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/Guzzi156/null_zps08449568.jpg) (http://s81.photobucket.com/user/Guzzi156/media/null_zps08449568.jpg.html)
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PB $399/year! Friggen hell!!
Edit: what free photo hosting keep the full definition of the pictures? PB definitely doesnt.
Testing if it still works (not mine):
(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/Guzzi156/null_zps08449568.jpg) (http://s81.photobucket.com/user/Guzzi156/media/null_zps08449568.jpg.html)
I just received an email from PB asking for the $399 ransom money. They can go scr3w themselves
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I finally got mine yesterday. I replied simply "piss off", but I doubt if it will get through to anyone. As of this afternoon, my photos were still coming up on forum posts, but I guess that will stop soon.
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reminds me of this guy
(https://img.rt.com/files/2016.02/original/56b391c3c361881e7f8b4618.jpg)
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If you still can, download the important one into computer. I couldn't and had to take screenshots. I will be deleting my PB account and want nothing to do with them
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You can use this web-utility to re-enable photos on this, and other, forums that use bulletin board code. Just copy the image address from the "photoblockit" image, and paste it into the box at this link:
https://photoruckus.nicinabox.com/
Then it displays your image, along with a link that you use when you edit your post. The image is saved to an Amazon web services account.
The script was written by the son of a moderator at V11LeMans - he's a programmer for work and V7 rider too. I believe he intends to launch a no-tracking, no-ad photo hosting service that caters to people like us who want to share pics on various sites.
I've "unblocked" tons of photos over at V11LeMans site and have been updating my posts here too.
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Just got my notification that I was using them for 3rd party hosting, as if I have been doing something bad. Wanting me to pony up $$. Not gonna happen!
Personally, I hope they go down in flames!
John Henry
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When I get home after taking a bunch of photos at an event, I create a folder on my computer for those photos and download from my camera to my computer. Then, I upload the images I want to share into an equivalent folder on Smugmug.
So, I'm not really understanding all this "holding my photos hostage" talk. If Smugmug locked me out today, I have every image I've ever uploaded to Smugmug saved in folders on my computer.
Are some of you saying that you don't save your images on your computer, but delete them after uploading to Photobucket, or whatever photo hosting site?
I don't get it. Why would you do that? Listen to Rodekyll: the cloud cannot be trusted. Keep copies of anything you upload to a hosting site safe in a folder on you own computer or external hard drive.
Oh, and I've been using Smugmug for more than twelve years. No ads. No BS. Yes, it costs about $30 per year, but it's probably the best hosting site out there, and it's owned by a motorcycle enthusiast. The same guy who owns ADVrider.
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Are some of you saying that you don't save your images on your computer, but delete them after uploading to Photobucket, or whatever photo hosting site?
I think that is what some people are doing.
Kind of surprising. All of my photos are on my PC. Backed up to a local NAS drive. Synced to a SD card in a tablet. Even synced to an SD card on my phone. And occasionally copied to a hard drive that I store outside the home. If I take a photo with my phone, by the end of the day it is stored on 4 systems automatically.
Don't give me any files that you don't want remembered forever. :laugh:
A backup disk is not that expensive.
I like the 'cloud' for sharing things, but would NEVER trust it as my only storage option.
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When I get home after taking a bunch of photos at an event, I create a folder on my computer for those photos and download from my camera to my computer. Then, I upload the images I want to share into an equivalent folder on Smugmug.
So, I'm not really understanding all this "holding my photos hostage" talk. If Smugmug locked me out today, I have every image I've ever uploaded to Smugmug saved in folders on my computer.
Are some of you saying that you don't save your images on your computer, but delete them after uploading to Photobucket, or whatever photo hosting site?
I don't get it. Why would you do that? Listen to Rodekyll: the cloud cannot be trusted. Keep copies of anything you upload to a hosting site safe in a folder on you own computer or external hard drive.
Oh, and I've been using Smugmug for more than twelve years. No ads. No BS. Yes, it costs about $30 per year, but it's probably the best hosting site out there, and it's owned by a motorcycle enthusiast. The same guy who owns ADVrider.
Well, Rocker.. the "hostage" thing is all about third party hosting. All the hours I have spent documenting Guzzi stuff here no longer shows up without ponying up that $400. They can kiss my patootie. Right down the middle. :evil:
Of course, I still have all the original pix.. 800 and some for the Aero engine and Lario rehab thread.. or I can use the utility that Scud posted and "fix" every one. Labor intensive, to be sure.
I "think" they can be fixed by an administrator in one fell swoop from the FAQs he posted.
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I can use the utility that Scud posted and "fix" every one. Labor intensive, to be sure.
I'd be worried that Photo Bucket would block a work around, like they blocked Smugglr, so I wouldn't go to all the labor to try and "fix" the Photo Bucket links.
Maybe Photo Bucket will relent, but I'd be real tempted to cancel my account and move my business elsewhere.
Real bad PR on Photo Bucket's part. Asking more than 10-times the going rate for other paid photo hosting sites. I think they have jumped the shark with this move. Probably the beginning of the end for them.
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I haven't gotten the ransom letter yet and I guess my links still work:
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g152/Dilliw/0212171059_HDR_zpsaijfh6po.jpg)
Is it because I'm a "W" and they just haven't gotten to me yet?
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No Mike, however I have resized the photos I've created links to so they were not so large. Furthermore, I have no idea how many times or how many different threads just here that I have linked to over the years. The details and pics when I installed cruise control on my Norge come to mind. I have had several people tell me they used that info to complete their own install.
ZZ
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No Mike, however I have resized the photos I've created links to so they were not so large. Furthermore, I have no idea how many times or how many different threads just here that I have linked to over the years. The details and pics when I installed cruise control on my Norge come to mind. I have had several people tell me they used that info to complete their own install.
ZZ
Oh, it's a huge bummer, for sure. Actually, I can't believe they've asked for $399 to continue hosting the photos. Crazy, really.
Just look at how many ride reports and repair how-to threads will be impacted on our little forum, then think about how many tens of thousands of other sites will be affected.
I hope most people have the stones to tell Photo Bucket to piss off.
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So, I'm not really understanding all this "holding my photos hostage" talk.
You make some good points, Rocker.
But, I'd go even further; why is there an insistence on using a photo-sharing site in the first place (or at least the seeming misunderstanding that there is no other way)?
For $3 per month you can have your own domain-name site and be able to upload and download photos (and any other files) just as easily as you already move files on your own computer (using the same file manager). Linking to your photos is simple, and there are no 3rd-party fees to worry about. I would suppose I've posted more photographs than anybody on WildGuzzi, and they've all been linked to my own domain (dankalal.net). Fast and easy and cheap.
It's cheap, but, not free. If "free" is what you want, then your options (and control) are always going to be limited.
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Oh, it's a huge bummer, for sure. Actually, I can't believe they've asked for $399 to continue hosting the photos. Crazy, really.
Just look at how many ride reports and repair how-to threads will be impacted on our little forum, then think about how many tens of thousands of other sites will be affected.
I hope most people have the stones to tell Photo Bucket to piss off.
I could understand their wanting some kind of compensation from me if I was using their site for photos to support a business, but simply for sharing with others, it seems absurd.
Daniel made an interesting point regarding an inexpensive alternative. If I knew then what I know now, I would have done that very thing. Of course hindsight is 20/20.
Yep, piss off photohostagebucket!
John Henry
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I'd be worried that Photo Bucket would block a work around, like they blocked Smugglr, so I wouldn't go to all the labor to try and "fix" the Photo Bucket links.
Maybe Photo Bucket will relent, but I'd be real tempted to cancel my account and move my business elsewhere.
Real bad PR on Photo Bucket's part. Asking more than 10-times the going rate for other paid photo hosting sites. I think they have jumped the shark with this move. Probably the beginning of the end for them.
Right now the fix site saysCurrently seeing a high amount of timeouts when downloading images. Fetching your image may not be possible.
So PhotoBlockit may be trying to stop it now. Or... there is such a high level of traffic from others downloading their pix, etc.
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You make some good points, Rocker.
But, I'd go even further; why is there an insistence on using a photo-sharing site in the first place (or at least the seeming misunderstanding that there is no other way)?
For $3 per month you can have your own domain-name site and be able to upload and download photos (and any other files) just as easily as you already move files on your own computer (using the same file manager). Linking to your photos is simple, and there are no 3rd-party fees to worry about. I would suppose I've posted more photographs than anybody on WildGuzzi, and they've all been linked to my own domain (dankalal.net). Fast and easy and cheap.
It's cheap, but, not free. If "free" is what you want, then your options (and control) are always going to be limited.
Daniel, I was looking at your website years before I acquired a Guzzi. First, because you were riding where I live, and next, I found so much more.
You're a google motorcycle ambassador. A legend. :thumb:
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You make some good points, Rocker.
But, I'd go even further; why is there an insistence on using a photo-sharing site in the first place (or at least the seeming misunderstanding that there is no other way)?
For $3 per month you can have your own domain-name site and be able to upload and download photos (and any other files) just as easily as you already move files on your own computer (using the same file manager). Linking to your photos is simple, and there are no 3rd-party fees to worry about. I would suppose I've posted more photographs than anybody on WildGuzzi, and they've all been linked to my own domain (dankalal.net). Fast and easy and cheap.
It's cheap, but, not free. If "free" is what you want, then your options (and control) are always going to be limited.
This is exactly what I've been doing for years.
(http://www.ulterior-design.net/photos/guzzi-01.JPG)
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It's cheap, but, not free. If "free" is what you want, then your options (and control) are always going to be limited.
Well, in my case, I don't pay for a web-site for the same reason I don't make my own shoes ... I'm not very good at it. Some people might be, but not me.
I also realize the "If it's Free, You're Not The Customer; You're The Product Being Sold" motto that you mention, and as Facebook and Photobucket have demonstrated.
So, I pay a small amount (not much more than $3 a month) to folks who will maintain a photo-hosting environment for me. This won't keep them from holding me hostage if they bare their teeth like PB did, but will make it much less likely, in my experience.
Since all the sites I post on don't have a site-based posting method like WG does, I need a separate hosting site, and paying a little bit to qualify me as a "customer" and not a "product" seems to work .... !
Lannis
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It looks like AOL is doing the samething. AOL is doing away with the existing "Desktop" and replacing it with $5/month "Gold" replacement.
I seldom use the Desktop version but still rely on my AOL web mail. Hopefully my e-mail won't be affected but it's not entirely clear. And even if they keep the free e-mail, I wonder about my other uses such as investment portfolios and the like?
Anyway they're giving 30 days notice and will allow 30 days free trial for "Gold". I suppose I should reactivate my Yahoo e-mail (which was I never renewed after the password breach) or my Gmail which I've never really used.
You know, any of these e-mail providers could try the Photobucket trick and hold our e-mail accounts hostage. I hope that it's not happening to AOL nor any of the other providers.
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I have downloaded my photobucket pictures on my phone and deleted my PB account. Used PB for about so many years, too bad it had to end this way.
I predict they will not be around in a year
Edit: I would suggest other delete their accounts too before PB sells your details to the highest bidder
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Steph, it could a money grab and run. But now I am wondering if the same thing will happen to our e-mail accounts. it seems to be more than a coincidence that this is all happening at once.
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Photobucket, which I reluctantly went to after my favourite image hosting site went dog has now in it's infinite wisdom decided that it will cease allowing 3rd party image hosting, like posting pics to this site, which is my entire use of it.
That is of course unless I pay $400 per year for the privilege. That is most certainly not going to happen!
So....
What recommendations for a free image hosting site do we have out there?
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John , there are some answers here .
Dusty
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This is exactly what type of thing I thought might happen with hosting or cloud services. Once they get you hooked and you have sent your pics or documents to a service. They will start charging and eventually hold your pics or documents hostage till you pay up.
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and now, after a while offline I return here to find all the photos I've uploaded (Via photobucket) are not visible and when I went to Photobucket to find out why they ask me to upgrade my account,........................... $399 a year.
f*** OFF!
F if I'm gonna pay that!
Anyone have a better suggestion on photo hosting sites?
If I use this site's uploader will it be forever?Testing, one, two, three.............. ............
(http://thumb.ibb.co/jmKhek/P1020455.jpg) (http://ibb.co/jmKhek)
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Anyone have a better suggestion on photo hosting sites?
Welcome to The Photobucket is all bucked up merged threadfest.
Happy reading...
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I visited their site to look into sucking back my photos. Only because I had gone to the trouble of resizing them smaller before posting. Anyway, although you can suck them back into your computer, I was only able to figure out how to do one at a time. Furthermore, you are being bombarded with adds to the point that it is a losing proposition. It would take more time than I'm willing to devote and I have less than 20 pages of photos there. I truly pity the poor person that actually used them as a repository for their photo collection. I guess that is what they are banking on................
I would like to simply delete them out and sign off their now crappy site forever. Oh and tell everyone I see to avoid them like the plague.
John Henry
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I downloaded all my albums from the bucket and just left the account hanging. I use imgrr now for photo hosting.
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Were you able to do the entire album or did you have to do them one at a time?
If you did the whole thing, how did you do that?
John Henry
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I was able to download the entire album as a zip file but I did it early when it first hit the fan. Not sure how you can do it now. I'm trying to help a friend of mine download 3,000 pictures (less than I had) and I'm not having any luck with his.
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Hey- so I guess Photobucket is now trying to charge you to 3rd party host images. The site is full of spam now also. Anyone have any suggestions for a new image hosting site?
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SmugMug is owned by the same folks who do advrider.com...have heard positive feedback from more than a few subscribers....
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One of the guys on the Canadian Kawasaki triples board bought a domain name and set up a cheap photo hosting site for his fellow board members. It didn't cost much, and since it's under the control of one of the members, it's unlikely to disappear or otherwise go bad without warning.
Since this board lets us upload our photos directly, we're all set as-is. (thank you Luap)
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Since this board lets us upload our photos directly, we're all set as-is. (thank you Luap)
When did this happen?
The last time I attempted to download a picture, a third-party host was required.
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I would like to simply delete them out and sign off their now crappy site forever. Oh and tell everyone I see to avoid them like the plague.
Uh, yeah.. they can ESAD as far as I'm concerned..
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When did this happen?
The last time I attempted to download a picture, a third-party host was required.
I don't know... a while back. Luap announced the improvement. When you're composing a post and want to add a photo, click the "Add image to post" text just below the composer window.
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I guess I'll have to dig up a picture of my Mille and add it to Guzzi photo gallery. :thumb:
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Well here is the official link to photobucket"s new terms. NO 3rd hosting unless you buy it.
http://photobucket.com/terms
I still see a lot of Avatars on WG with the photobucket "no 3rd party hosting" sitting where the Avatar belongs.
NOW someone tell me how to use the uploading on WG cause I cannot find it and I reread this tread and cannot find instructions.
So help this dodo out please. :gotpics:
I tried adding my Avatar on my personal page but it would not let me upload. But also how do you upload on thread?????
Anyone?
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I don't know... a while back. Luap announced the improvement. When you're composing a post and want to add a photo, click the "Add image to post" text just below the composer window.
The only downside to that (and I know it's not supposed to have a downside) is that if I post, say, a travelogue or a trip report or something that isn't WG specific, I'm posting it on 2, 3, or 4 different sites, some of which don't have on-site image storage. And even if they did, I'd have to separately load the pictures to each site on which I wanted to post them.
So I just continue using a photo-hosting site (one that is not eating it's young ... yet) and that way I only have to upload my photo from my camera to the hosting site ... once!
Lannis
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I haven't gotten the ransom letter yet and I guess my links still work:
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g152/Dilliw/0212171059_HDR_zpsaijfh6po.jpg)
Is it because I'm a "W" and they just haven't gotten to me yet?
Well, it took them a little longer to find my photos but looks like I've got the ransom note now...
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SmugMug is owned by the same folks who do advrider.com...have heard positive feedback from more than a few subscribers....
I believe Baldy recently sold smugmug. Not sure who wons it now.
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So I just continue using a photo-hosting site (one that is not eating it's young ... yet) and that way I only have to upload my photo from my camera to the hosting site ... once!
Lannis
Which one do you use Lannis?
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Which one do you use Lannis?
SmugMug is working for me ....
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Copied from another forum. I tried the Chrome fix and it works for me. Yay!
I all, just read this on another forum and wanted to share it here as pictures are so important to sharing info about our hobby. I just copied the post so here it is and it seems to work with firefox for me.
Fix for seeing Photobucket pics
Postby yavapaigunworks � Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:13 pm
If you're using Google Chrome, go to the three dots on the right side of the screen and click them. A drop down should appear. Hover your mouse over "More Tools," and when the next drop down appears, click on extensions. Go to the link towards the bottom that says "Get more extensions." In the search box, type "Photobucket Fix," and hit enter. Click the install button and once it's done, you should be able to see photobucket pictures again.
For FireFox users, click on the three bars on the right side of the screen, then click on add ons. Click search for "photobucket hotlink" and click install. Same result.
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Woo hoo, that one works (right now until the scum at photoblockit figure out how to disable it)
I was wanting to review SEDs Monza suspension stuff on the bike builds area..
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I'll be dammed.....that Photobucket fix worked for me too. Learn more on Wild Guzzi then you thought possible!