Hosting Images on Photobucket

[Pete]

Oh f*ck, so all the pics I've ever posted on here are now toast?! That'll include all the suff I've ever put up on the old MCR forum, Autosport and Pistonheads! Wankers! . Essentially Photobucket have f*cked up a whole raft of forums packed with historic info!

[timmy201]

I'm guessing a copy of the image will still exist in your photo album but you won't be allowed to share them on forums without paying extra?

Ahh, so am I to presume that posting up pics directly onto the forum uses up some of this 30gb space but using a hosting site such as Photobucket or Flickr doesn't ?

That's correct. When you host the images on an image hosting site the image is downloaded from them and not from the individual forum. This also means if you want to share the same image across multiple forums you don't need to upload it separately onto each forum, you can just use the same bbcode link.

I guess not many of you guys who use Photobucket are photographers and use Photoshop Elements editor (or similar editing software) to resize and then save to your PC ?

Sites like Flickr are designed primarily for photographers. Most of them will resize your images to a number of different sizes to suit different forums.

[mab01uk]

Oh f*ck, so all the pics I've ever posted on here are now toast?! That'll include all the suff I've ever put up on the old MCR forum, Autosport and Pistonheads! Wankers! . Essentially Photobucket have f*cked up a whole raft of forums packed with historic info!

It will be the same for me (although my pics seem ok at present).....and on TMF many of the members detailed project threads and forum history have already/or will be trashed without photos:-
http://www.theminiforum.co.uk/forums/to ... otobucket/

Photobucket Breaks Image Links Across the Internet
http://uk.pcmag.com/webcom/90124/news/p ... e-internet

[BLT]

With so many of us now using photos in forums to reference the right way to do things it makes you realise how pre-internet there were so many 'creative restorations' and downright bodges with people having to just guess how it should look. These forums and the internet in general are one of the main reasons people can now do quality restorations.

[winabbey]

The IT press is on to this debacle. Lots of posts about we users being held to ransom by this organisation.

Here's just a few posts.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/3 ... party_pgs/

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/30/photo ... ed-images/

http://www.laurenwayne.com/2017/06/phot ... -site.html

[Andrew1967]

Looking at those links I see it is possible to open the images by right hand clicking and opening in a new window.

Right pain in the arse for sure but it is a workaround.

[Spider]

Here's a not quite up to date list of Photo Hosting Websites from Wiki;-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_i ... g_websites

I see there are many free ones and those who do charge ask for a realistic figure, nothing like the extortion Photofucket are asking.

[mab01uk]

At the moment my pictures are not affected, yet. A year after signing up for Photobucket I used up the "free" 2Mb of space so paid for some space for a small fee (considerable less than what is being asked now). I checked out the new terms and conditions and the plan that I have is not listed. However when they last changed the terms and conditions what I signed up for did not change, nor did my fee, so hopefully this time I will get lucky again. My next payment is due next April so that may be crunch time. If I do loose what I have there will be a lot of empty spaces on forums as it will be impossible to reload all the pictures that I have linked to another site.
It appears to me Photobucket is using a kind of "legal" RansomeWare obviously hoping that people will sign up so their pictures can be viewed again. I wonder if anyone will bring a legal challenge to what they have done?

I have tried flikr, and it does work, but is not as easy as photobucket to use. Also you always have to leave a link to you photos so it makes it easy for others to find all your pictures and nick them for their own use (Mini and British Lifestyle).

In the mean time I will plod on with photobucket.

At the moment my pictures are not affected either. After I signed up for Photobucket I also used up the "free" 2Mb of space so have since paid for some extra space for a small fee but I guess that will end when due for annual renewal if not before.......

PhotoBucket now charges $399 for third-party hosted images
"As far as alternatives are concerned, there is Imgur for instance which supports the embedding of images on third-party sites.
While members of Photobucket may wait and hope that the company reverses the stance on third-party hosted images, it is probably better to migrate the photos to another hosting service entirely.
You can download your entire library of images by selecting Library on Photobucket, and there the download album link under actions."
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/30/photo ... ed-images/

"Beware of relying on any one service. Any of them can fail, price themselves out of reach, or change their terms of service. Keep backups of your photos and posts, and be prepared to make decisions to move to another service as needed."
http://www.laurenwayne.com/2017/06/phot ... -site.html

[surfblue63]

Testing Flickr uploading






Well that works OK, just not so quick when uploading multiple images.

By the way, Flickr gives you 1 TB for free, so it will take a few years before that's used up. I will not be uploading any more stuff to photobucket. Hopefully all my links will still work until my subscription runs out next year and the idiots/extortionists that are running fuctupbucket will have a change of mind.


Just uploaded my Cadwell shots to flickr. Loading time was similar to fuctupbucket, but album creation was slightly different but easy enough to work out.

[rich@minispares.com]

that galaxie is the boss!

id have one of those if I could!

[Pete]

that galaxie is the boss!

id have one of those if I could.... fit down the majority of Yorkshire lanes with it!

Got to agree I do love a 60s yank tank. A Galaxie turned up at the Huddersfield motor club reunion (ex Goodwood racer) a few years ago and filled half the car park! looked the nuts. You don't get much for your money with Minis really do you? I was looking at a mate's Noble M12 yesterday and just thought wow, that's a whole lot of sportcar for the price of a top restored and no doubt reshelled/retrimmed Mk1 S!

[mk1]

With respect, how on earth does it cost £57 a month for 30Gb? There appears to be lots of hosting packages out there that offer far more for far less.

TBH, I don't detect any respect there at all!!!

The forum has grown from fairly small beginnings over the last 15 years or so, & I have been with this provider for something like 9. As demand & band width has increased they have forced their price up & there is fuck all I can do about it. The only option would be to try and migrate to another provider & risk loosing the forum entirely. From my point of view its easier to swallow hard & pay up.

BLT, If you feel that you can do a better job & are happy to spend the time & money yourself I SUGGEST YOU DO IT!

I would really look forward to telling you how you could do it better & cheaper.

[BLT]

TBH Mark, this is not the first time you've had a go at me. I don't know why I've upset you so much other than sometimes having a different opinion, but I've almost come to expect it now. As for that post, of course I respect the effort you put in here and have said so on many occasions how much I value this forum. How much you pay for hosting is your business.

[mk1]

You have PM.

[rich@minispares.com]

I'm just downloading all my photos from photobucket using this method

http://support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us ... ing-Albums

the worry is that photos will just vanish, particularly if photobucket are circling the drain.

might be worth everyone doing this sooner rather than later


rich

[InimiaD]

99% of my pics on P Bucket are stored on my external hard drive, but if they do pull the plug it's going to be a right faff reloading the missing pics into any of our build threads.

[docka]

are there any coders among us?

is it possible to write some code to search and ascertain historic filenames of pictures assigned to a certain username and then do a search on that users' home drive to weed out the original photos or would that be insecure/unwise?

[mk1]

That would be VERY insecure & I for one would not be keen on some faceless bot (even if it was created for me) to go hunting round my hard drive.

[rich@minispares.com]

I'm just downloading all my photos from photobucket using this method

http://support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us ... ing-Albums

the worry is that photos will just vanish, particularly if photobucket are circling the drain.

might be worth everyone doing this sooner rather than later


rich

MOTHERFUCKERS!

good luck claiming your own photos back from photobucket!!!!


adware infected, crashing SHIT

[surfblue63]

I think Fuctupbuckets servers a suffering under the strain of all its users trying to download their pictures. Ever since they changed the terms and conditions the site has been slow, full of bugs and almost unusable. It takes about 10 page refreshes just to log in sometimes.

They might learn that messing with peoples stuff is not good busness practice.