Wildguzzi.com

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: John Ulrich on May 21, 2018, 04:54:32 PM

Title: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: John Ulrich on May 21, 2018, 04:54:32 PM
Just got this,

All of your hosted images across the internet have been restored for a limited time under your Free Account.

We are also offering a new, competitive subscription package that includes:

    Continued use of 3rd Party Image Hosting services
    10GB of Storage
     No Advertisements

All of this for just $1.99 per month or an option of $19.99 per year. 

Hurry, last day for this offer!  Prices increase to $2.49 per month or $26.99 per year on May 22nd, 2018!
TAKE A LOOK

Photobucket is under new management and there are more positive changes on the way, including a new and improved version of Photobucket.com and additional plan models.


Title: Re: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: Lannis on May 21, 2018, 05:04:40 PM
Hope they didn't pay too much.

That well is poisoned now .....

Lannis
Title: Re: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: Lannis on May 21, 2018, 07:38:42 PM
Only for those folk who had a hissy fit and threw all of their toys (photo's) out of the cot.
$20 is a bargain so will take up their offer even though all my links are still good for some reason.

Thanks for the heads up John U.  :thumb:

Along with the hissy fit folks, it would also include the people who don't like being bait-and-switched and ripped off, and who found another photo storage solution that they are satisfied with, and won't take the trouble to go back to P-bucket and wait for another lubeless event without even getting dinner. 

That would be a lot of us.

Lannis
Title: Re: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: Travlr on May 21, 2018, 07:44:09 PM
I use imgzeit which is $11/year.   :thumb: :thumb:

Mike

https://imgzeit.com/
Title: Re: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: fotoguzzi on May 21, 2018, 08:36:40 PM
it's $20 now.. but what will it be when they decide to make another change.. I wouldn't trust PB for a second.
fool me once but not twice..
Smugmug has an app that will transfer all your PB pics in one click and you never have to see PB again.

 (https://photos.smugmug.com/All/i-Mq9FcVP/0/4ea2dc72/Th/ScreenShot2013-09-23at73233PM_zpsedde9c73-Th.png) (https://fotoguzzi.smugmug.com/All/i-Mq9FcVP/A)
Title: Re: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: EldoMike on May 21, 2018, 09:31:07 PM
it's $20 now.. but what will it be when they decide to make another change.. I wouldn't trust PB for a second.
fool me once but not twice..
Smugmug has an app that will transfer all your PB pics in one click and you never have to see PB again.

 (https://photos.smugmug.com/All/i-Mq9FcVP/0/4ea2dc72/Th/ScreenShot2013-09-23at73233PM_zpsedde9c73-Th.png) (https://fotoguzzi.smugmug.com/All/i-Mq9FcVP/A)

Is this new? When I started using Smugmug there was no easy way to move pictures from FB to Smugmug...
Title: Re: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: fotoguzzi on May 21, 2018, 09:44:08 PM
I was afraid you'd ask.. took me awhile to remember .. 3rd party Firefox app but their connected to Smugmug..

https://www.smugglr.com/
Title: Re: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: Dilliw on May 22, 2018, 06:43:47 AM
I was afraid you'd ask.. took me awhile to remember .. 3rd party Firefox app but their connected to Smugmug..

https://www.smugglr.com/

The whole "hold your past linked photos hostage" ploy was a terrible move, but the problem for me was that, before they made the move to pay for host, they killed the site with popups.  It's like they never had a business model that worked for their investors.  Hopefully the new owners got a fire sale and can make a good run of it.

1.  I will pay for a nice working image hosting site providing there are no ads and the site is easy to use.
2.  I will use a free site and gladly put up with the advertising.

I won't do both.
Title: Re: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: vintagehoarder on May 22, 2018, 07:22:04 AM
Won't be going down that road again.
Title: Re: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: EldoMike on May 22, 2018, 07:26:09 AM
I have over 4k photos on FB...slowly but surely moving the ones that matter to Smugmug...
Title: Re: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: kballowe on May 22, 2018, 07:45:58 AM
All of my photos are on the computer hard drive.  Everything gets backed up monthly to an external hard drive.

Photobucket was a great convenience to post up pics for "do it yourself" projects.  Thats the sad part - that much of that information is now lost.

Right now I'm using flikr - until they go belly-up... or whatever

Title: Re: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: EldoMike on May 22, 2018, 08:25:01 AM
All of my photos are on the computer hard drive.  Everything gets backed up monthly to an external hard drive.

Photobucket was a great convenience to post up pics for "do it yourself" projects.  Thats the sad part - that much of that information is now lost.

Right now I'm using flikr - until they go belly-up... or whatever

Flikr has been bought by Smugmug
Title: Re: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: Toecutter on May 22, 2018, 09:28:51 AM
In a world of zip drives, external hard drives, and the ability to upload directly from phones and computers to, well, everywhere... nah. Forget about it.
Title: Re: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on May 22, 2018, 04:25:04 PM
I just checked the Lario Rehab and Aero Engine novels  :smiley: in the completed projects area, and the pictures are there again. Needless to say, Photobucket can kiss my patootie, but at least those pix are back..
Title: Re: New Owners at Photobucket
Post by: rodekyll on May 22, 2018, 07:54:28 PM
I had the hissy fit and I'm sticking by it.  Between the ransoms, hackings, harvesting, scams, and all the other breaches of trust, why would a sensible person store anything on the internet?  It's like having a random stranger hold your wallet and house key while you go on vacation.