PSA If you use Photobucket

2328 Views 99 Replies 28 Participants Last post by laristotle, Oct 2, 2017

Bubb

Discussion Starter · Jul 1, 2017 (Edited)

If your account is still active I would suggest going there and downloading any pictures you want to keep.
There are people reporting that they can't gain access to their pictures after getting the email about the new terms of agreement.
I was able to get what I wanted off but my account seems to still be functioning for now.
It seems the accounts are being locked as you receive the email.

JFYI

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Robert1950

· #61 · Jul 14, 2017

Third part hosting of internet size pictures was obviously the place they were not making any money. Seeing that all these people getting this service for free and, being a profit making business, they got pissed and thought "F*** This. You wanna host? You PAY."

Kenmac

· #62 · Jul 15, 2017

Yesterday I received two e-mails from them trying to convince me to move to their paid service. I ended up deleting them as I'd already moved my gear related photos to snapagogo and my non-gear related photos to Flickr on July 3rd. For now it looks like my photos are still showing up here and in other forums but I know it won't be long before they get replaced with their logo.

G

· #63 · Jul 19, 2017 (Edited)

3

they finally froze my PB.

using OneDrive that's comes with my hotmail account.
testing .. one, two, 3

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Diablo

· #64 · Jul 19, 2017

I switched to flickr yesterday....so far I hate the UI...maybe i'll get used to it, or figure out how to use it better. It seems more geared towards browsing other ppls photos. But no way I'm paying PB just to show pics on a couple forums.

Lincoln

· #65 · Jul 19, 2017

I haven't even looked at my PB account in years, nothing in there worth saving, really. I'm getting about 2 emails a day from them now trying to get me to sign up for money. They got so slow & crappy the site was unusable anyway.

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Steadfastly

· #66 · Jul 19, 2017

I got locked out too about a week ago. When I tried to post a picture, it got changed to their logo. I'll just use a different service.

Gimper

· #67 · Jul 19, 2017

Is there any consensus on what the best alternative to photobucket is?

G

· #68 · Jul 19, 2017 (Edited)

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Gimper said:
Is there any consensus on what the best alternative to photobucket is?

Open a hotmail account.
There's a lot that they offer, including storing files/pics etc.
See my post (#63) above.

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Gimper

· #69 · Jul 19, 2017

laristotle said:
Open a hotmail account.
There's a lot that they offer, including storing files/pics etc.
See my post (#63) above.

Ahh... thanks. I already use OneDrive a lot for storage, but I guess I never realized you could post images to forums from there. I'll have to check it out.

G

· #70 · Jul 19, 2017

Gimper said:
I guess I never realized you could post images to forums from there.

Neither did I.
Figure I'd give it a try.
Eureka!

Gimper

· #71 · Jul 19, 2017

laristotle said:
Neither did I.
Figure I'd give it a try.
Eureka!

Damn... it's perfect! I already have ALL my photos up there. And the option to generate code to embed a photo PLUS change the size if necessary... is great!

SaucyJack

· #72 · Jul 27, 2017

Outlook seems to work well for me

G

· #73 · Jul 27, 2017

Because of the millions of useful information/tutorial/educational posts with photos hosted by Photo Bucket now rendered useless, governments should step in and expropriate PB as an essential service to society.

GuitarT

· #74 · Jul 27, 2017

Postimage.org — free image hosting / image upload

Works great so far.

Scotty

· #75 · Jul 27, 2017

They made a fatal mistake IMO. Let them wear the noose

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High/Deaf

· #76 · Jul 27, 2017

Boto-Phucket?

jb welder

· #77 · Sep 25, 2017

Player99 said:
Because of the millions of useful information/tutorial/educational posts with photos hosted by Photo Bucket now rendered useless...

Good news! There is now a fix available as an add-on (at least for firefox and chrome). It restores the missing pics.

firefox: photobucket embed fix

chrome: photobucket embed fix

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mhammer

· #78 · Sep 26, 2017

Do you have confirmation that it "works" as promised, without causing any other problems?

zontar

· #79 · Sep 29, 2017

Can you see this?
It's from Photobucket--apparently mine works & I haven't paid them a thing...

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Steadfastly

· #80 · Sep 29, 2017

It is also working for me. This is an Oscar Schmidt I used to own.

I wonder how long this will work?

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