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Post by shaxper on Jun 29, 2017 23:26:21 GMT -5
Photobucket has become increasingly obnoxious and impossible to use over the past year, but I've clung to it like a fool because it was what I was used to. Now, as of 12am Friday, they have disabled all 3rd party hosting unless you pay them $300 per year. You read that right. So basically every photo I've ever embedded for every review I've ever written is now locked out, held ransom for pay, no advance warning given.
Obviously, this brings my reviews to a screeching halt.
Can someone recommend a reliable image hosting service that I can use in place of Photobucket? then I can spend the rest of the damn summer moving the images over and updating all the links...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2017 23:43:54 GMT -5
You can try Imgur but, this is pretty much ads free and all that and that's one of reasons that I spend about 1-2 hours searching images to be used without ads and hotlinking concerns for my Adam West Batman thread. Pretty much, all image hosting websites are depending on it's users to pay for it. It's getting harder and harder to find a good reliable image hosting site these days.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jun 30, 2017 2:24:20 GMT -5
Photobucket has become increasingly obnoxious and impossible to use over the past year, but I've clung to it like a fool because it was what I was used to. Now, as of 12am Friday, they have disabled all 3rd party hosting unless you pay them $300 per year. You read that right. So basically every photo I've ever embedded for every review I've ever written is now locked out, held random for pay, no advance warning given. Obviously, this brings my reviews to a screeching halt. Can someone recommend a reliable image hosting service that I can use in place of Photobucket? then I can spend the rest of the damn summer moving the images over and updating all the links... This has been a pain and problem for many long-time genre bloggers as well, focussed on movie reviews, requiring screencraps (much like your comic-reviews). A recent successful monster-film blogger suddenly had all the images pulled from their blog, rendering their site pretty-much useless: 'thanks, photobucket'. I use an alternate site, created after F-bucket. I'll message you the link. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 30, 2017 5:44:55 GMT -5
You can try Imgur but, this is pretty much ads free and all that and that's one of reasons that I spend about 1-2 hours searching images to be used without ads and hotlinking concerns for my Adam West Batman thread. Pretty much, all image hosting websites are depending on it's users to pay for it. It's getting harder and harder to find a good reliable image hosting site these days. I second imgur.com, It's fast and absolutely no pop ups.I love it. |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 30, 2017 6:47:07 GMT -5
Anyone know anything about ImageShack?
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jun 30, 2017 6:51:11 GMT -5
not as conveniant as what I sent you, but way better than f-bucket.  |
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Post by Confessor on Jun 30, 2017 7:16:02 GMT -5
Man, that's sh***y! I've always used tinypic.com and have never had any problem with it. This was my go to image hosting site way back in the CBR forum days, when I used to use it as a non-registered member. I only created an account there about two years ago (which is free to do) and, actually, having an account where you can keep all your images in various folders is a very handy thing.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 30, 2017 7:31:44 GMT -5
Anyone know anything about ImageShack? Disastrous experience here. Imgur is a joy to use, though. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 30, 2017 7:45:56 GMT -5
Also, &$@#% you, photobucket. I will waste a good part of the coming weeks moving my images to another service. You will naturally not get one penny from me, and in the future I shall never pass an opportunity to badmouth your company. Now that's good business-customer relations. Here's how to download one's entire photobucket library before uploading it elsewhere. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 30, 2017 10:07:17 GMT -5
A gut-punch experience realizing all the work you put into a digital project goes up in smoke due to a change in policy/ownership of someone else's website. Which just points out the precarious nature of thinking you own something on the web.
Not altogether different from what happened to the CBR forums, the IMDB forums and others. Poof-it's gone. With Photobucket, they included a ransom note
Don't think for a moment that it could never happen here
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Post by shaxper on Jun 30, 2017 11:59:45 GMT -5
Don't think for a moment that it could never happen here One of the reasons I went with proboards for our site is that it's small but successful, the owners are passionate, and I've been with them since 2000 and have never seen them make any "greed" moves in all that time. My first discussion board is still up in all its glory, even though no one has visited it in years. That impresses me. Besides, our site makes them money. I'm not sure the same was true for my Photobucket account. So not likely they'd pull something like this on us, but you're correct -- there are never any guarantees. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 30, 2017 12:11:15 GMT -5
Photobucket works ok for me.  |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 30, 2017 12:15:10 GMT -5
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 30, 2017 12:20:55 GMT -5
Oh. That blows. I've been using Imgur, too. (The above picture was from four or five classic comics christmases ago.)
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 30, 2017 12:52:04 GMT -5
What is third party sharing?
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