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Post by Geoff & Jude on Jun 30, 2017 9:44:17 GMT 10
howdy all well, it seems that photobucket has done what we've all been dreading for the past few years. they have removed the facility of linking your photos to an external source, like posting into a forum, unless you pay a membership fee. i had a look at their website and it seems that the cheapest way to be able to post photos is by paying a $400 per year fee. i'm not happy about that at the moment, so for the next little while, all my photos (and others may feel the same way) will be replaced by an advisory from photobucket.  i don't really hate anything but i think i might hate bastards like that. geoff 'n jude ps - i noticed that murray has the same problem, does anybody else? later today, yes - koala, cardygeorge, aussieute and counting....... pps - i've just spent a bit of time on the net looking at other peoples responses and it seems that bloggers and forums across the world have many members (but not all) who are suffering the same problem. photobucket started changing accounts around 12th june and seem to be moving through account holders and subjecting them to the new terms of service randomly. if it hasn't happened to you yet, it probably will fairly soon. it would be interesting to know how many of us have free photobucket accounts and haven't got the message yet. |
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Post by cobber on Jun 30, 2017 17:32:32 GMT 10
G'day Geoff 'n Jude,
The free ride has ended for me and my photos too. For photobucket to do this without any warning is not a nice way to run a business I reckon.
The mongrels won't be getting $400 per year out of me ..... they're just as likely to double it next year.
Cobber.
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Post by cardygeorge on Jun 30, 2017 17:49:41 GMT 10
Wow, that would be every photo I've put up on three different forums, including my avatar and Clementine's posts that took four hours to write up....  The word that comes into my head isn't suitable for public consumption..... |
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Post by cardygeorge on Jun 30, 2017 18:04:38 GMT 10
Funnily enough Photobucket's customer support page has disappeared and their Facebook page is "Temporarily Unavailable"
I've got accounts on a number of photo sites. It's not a small job, but my photos will be back!
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Post by Mustang on Jun 30, 2017 18:30:12 GMT 10
I'm unaffected at this stage.
Does this mean existing images are at risk.?
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Post by Geoff & Jude on Jun 30, 2017 18:36:59 GMT 10
yeah cobber and others the sad part of is that all of you who paid the extra money to have larger storage were treated exactly the same as those of us who stayed on the free service. as far as my pictures are concerned, i couldn't be able to go back over 12 years of posts and replace all the pb photos with ones from a new service for many reasons, a) because it would be almost impossible to find all my old posts, b) because it would be almost impossible to find all my old photos, c) because i'm getting too old to spend that amount of time on such a project, e) because i really couldn't be bothered, and that's the saddest part of the whole situation. the effect that this is going to have on this and thousands of other forums, bloggers and internet historians across the world that have developed a photo-based history of their particular interest using pb as their base is going to be devastating, cumulatively millions of bits of important data gone to the clouds because some greedy bastard has seen an opportunity to make a quick buck out of their membership. had it been a reasonably fee, then maybe i would pay the piper but at $400/year, no way. actually, any annual fee means that eventually, all the information is destined to the garbage bin, since we will all eventually leave the forum or kick the bucket (no pun intended). i won't delete my account just in case pb comes to it's senses and changes its current terms of service. geoff 'n jude |
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Post by Geoff & Jude on Jun 30, 2017 18:42:26 GMT 10
I'm unaffected at this stage. Does this mean existing images are at risk.? from what i've been able to work out, all pb accounts will eventually be effected. as an example, koala and cobber were ok this morning when i discovered my situation but koala was effected when i got home in the afternoon and cobber when i got back home tonight. pb seems to be progressively working its way through all its membership. geoff 'n jude |
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Post by Mustang on Jun 30, 2017 19:00:49 GMT 10
Just looked at my account. Pb say your images are safe?
I'm downloading all my albums.
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Post by cardygeorge on Jun 30, 2017 20:44:09 GMT 10
Just looked at my account. Pb say your images are safe? I'm downloading all my albums. That's correct, your images are safe and freely available to you but if you wish to share your property with others through their services, then you have to pay an exorbitant amount for the privilege. Just had a look at the AussieV8 forum and one of the threads I'm following was started in 2009 and went for 120 pages. Every photo he put up is gone. The only thing that's sitting in the corner of my mind is maybe they're a victim of the global internet hacking that's going on right now, and maybe they'll fix it. |
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Post by humpynvan on Jul 1, 2017 5:31:44 GMT 10
Glad i dont have shares in Photobucket, can see it surviving muchlonger with stunts like this
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Post by shesgotthelook on Jul 1, 2017 6:06:20 GMT 10
Looks like I'm cooked too  there was an email from photobucket but I deleted it without reading. I guess I should give up photographing air streams & old vans in Canada then? This was what imageshack did. I agree $400 is outrageous, if it was $35, I'd be more agreeable. One very disappointed long time poster signing off from the Canadian ice fields |
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Post by Roehm3108 on Jul 1, 2017 8:03:26 GMT 10
Looks like I'm cooked too there was an email from photobucket but I deleted it without reading. I guess I should give up photographing air streams & old vans in Canada then? This was what imageshack did. I agree $400 is outrageous, if it was $35, I'd be more agreeable. One very disappointed long time poster signing off from the Canadian ice fields One lucky lady swanning around in Canada! |
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Post by Roehm3108 on Jul 1, 2017 8:11:30 GMT 10
This sounds like the death-knell for all existing forums using the P/B hosting. BUGGER!!!! So much history will be lost, not only with this forum but all other interest groups.
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Post by Mustang on Jul 1, 2017 10:26:45 GMT 10
Looks like I'm cooked too there was an email from photobucket but I deleted it without reading. I guess I should give up photographing air streams & old vans in Canada then? This was what imageshack did. I agree $400 is outrageous, if it was $35, I'd be more agreeable. One very disappointed long time poster signing off from the Canadian ice fields Then it looks like all free image sharing sites are going the same way. I have been with Flickr for a few months, but how will one know?? I wonder how the bean counters arrived at exactly $400? |
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Post by Geoff & Jude on Jul 1, 2017 11:02:56 GMT 10
I wonder how the bean counters arrived at exactly $400? it's actually a little cheaper than $400 at $399.99 per year. they're said to have over 100,000,000 members holding more than 2.5 billion photos, so if they only charged $10 per year it would give them $1bn. greedy bastards. geoff 'n jude |
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Post by aussieute on Jul 1, 2017 11:46:14 GMT 10
This is not good all the history that will be lost didnt know till read this post thanks Geoff & Jude if i had gone into my site i would be left scratching my head trying to work out what has happened is there any other sites we can use to put photos back on to vv as i am not going to be held to ransom by there greed cheers chris
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Post by cardygeorge on Jul 1, 2017 13:43:16 GMT 10
Yeah, there is, but if you ignored the ads Photobucket was the easiest. And the mobile app was pretty decent too. The Tour de France starts tonight, I'll watch it with the laptop and see what I can find.
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Post by Roehm3108 on Jul 1, 2017 15:02:54 GMT 10
If this is the way of the future then I would watch very carefully about the stuff you put on and how dependent you become on Google Cloud!
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Post by Koala on Jul 1, 2017 18:54:24 GMT 10
Speaking as a computer novice, would this problem have been avoided if the forum had its own server to which members could load their photos??
If this is correct then we would not be individually reliant on hosting services such as Photobucket.
Koala
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Post by tooleyau on Jul 1, 2017 19:38:07 GMT 10
Speaking as a computer novice, would this problem have been avoided if the forum had its own server to which members could load their photos?? If this is correct then we would not be individually reliant on hosting services such as Photobucket. Koala The forum allows two attachments per post, but adds them at the bottom. We can operate this way in the future but it means a re-think of the way we post. See my story about our trip to Victoria. vintagecaravans.proboards.com/thread/16046/tooleyaus-great-ocean-march-aprilIn this post my submissions used the forums add attachments button. However, this does not negate the issue of photobuckets stupid and selfish approach to money raising. A more logical, and sensible approach would be to say "changed our rules, all future photo additions will be unable to...." Still doesn't solve the problem of historic posts MT |
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Post by cardygeorge on Jul 1, 2017 20:21:54 GMT 10
I was also under the impression it used bandwidth, which resulted in a slow site and cost the site owner a decent amount of coin to rectify.....
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Post by cardygeorge on Jul 1, 2017 20:33:39 GMT 10
A test link from Flickr  It seems easier than PhotoBucket, click on the photo you want to share, click on the bent arrow in the bottom right corner, right click and copy the link and then paste straight into this box..... Now I just have to move all of my images over.....  |
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Post by Roehm3108 on Jul 1, 2017 22:15:12 GMT 10
Hi cardygeorge. It would be a relatively easy matter for newer members to find their photos and re-submit that, but there are many photos from older members who have downloaded hundreds or even thousands of pics. An impossible task for all the reasons that geoff&jude mentioned earlier.
Sadly, I suspect that a lot of information will be lost on all forums relying on P/Bucket throughout the world, not just our little forum here in Oz. Maybe Mr Trump could tweet an opinion about this, instead of bleating about non-events!!! Or does he have shares in this site and needs the extra cash to pay his bribe monies?
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Post by Don Ricardo on Jul 1, 2017 22:41:48 GMT 10
Hi all, Don't totally despair at this point. A couple of us are exploring ways that may enable us to save at least some of the photos on the forum, especially in the Down History Lane section. There may be ways and means, although it will involve a fair bit of work on the part of administrators, but we are here to serve...  Whatever you do, can I please plead with you NOT TO CLOSE your Photobucket account or delete your photos from Photobucket at this point. If the photos are still hosted on Photobucket, then something can still be done with them. I am also interested in Koala's suggestion about an independent server. That is possibly something that can be explored. If anybody is able to assist us with following up that idea, can they please PM me? Thanks. Don Ricardo |
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there was an email from photobucket but I deleted it without reading. I guess I should give up photographing air streams & old vans in Canada then? 
