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Samon

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Mar 24, 2011
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Yep, Photobucket screwed us. Made my thousands of images impossible to share without spending $400 so I need a new one that is both reliable and free.

Can anyone help??

cheers
 

Samon

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Mar 24, 2011
3,970
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Whats the deal with photobucket? Mine seems to be working fine atm

Fine for storing images. Try posting one of them here and you'll see the issues.

I've trasnfered about 1000 images to imgur as tinypic was confusing.
 

Samon

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Mar 24, 2011
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<a href="http://imgur.com/ZKJkaG4"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/ZKJkaG4.jpg" title="source: imgur.com" /></a>

Test post..
 

Samon

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Mar 24, 2011
3,970
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testing
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Samon

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Mar 24, 2011
3,970
44
Britannia!
Figured it out! yay.

Now to figure out how to organise the images in the correct order.. ugh another few hours sepnt ticking away at a keyboard.

Oh and excuse the gross ogre picture of myself. lol
 

demographic

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Apr 15, 2005
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710
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They've hardly "Screwed" us though have they?

I've had several years worth of hosting from them totally for free, its come to an end now and I'll likely have to sort out an alternative.

I can't really complain at that.
 

TarHeelBrit

Full Member
Mar 13, 2014
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Alone now.
My problem with photo bucket isn't connected with it 3rd party posting but just lately it got so slow, I've only got 175 images there, but it take the home page about 2 minutes to load and half the time it says done and half the images don't load. I've been using Imageshack and it's 100% better.
 

Stew

Bushcrafter through and through
Nov 29, 2003
6,446
1,284
Aylesbury
stewartjlight-knives.com
They've hardly "Screwed" us though have they?

I've had several years worth of hosting from them totally for free, its come to an end now and I'll likely have to sort out an alternative.

I can't really complain at that.

I think they have. Overnight change your business model with no warning. A decade or more of info 'lost' on the internet overnight. Think I'm being dramatic? Here's some tutorials that have now been canned overnight with no guarantee that the author will rectify the problem.

http://knifedogs.com/showthread.php?39956-My-5-00-light-box-build
http://knifedogs.com/showthread.php?26744-Handle-Broaches-with-simple-tools-WIP
http://knifedogs.com/showthread.php?28920-USAKnifemakers-Stage-1-knife-kit-Tutorial
http://knifedogs.com/showthread.php?7605-Converting-a-surface-grinder-to-Belts
 

C_Claycomb

Moderator staff
Mod
Oct 6, 2003
7,355
2,369
Bedfordshire
I am in agreement with Stew.

I started using Photobucket years ago, when their web page was fast and worked. Over the last couple of years their site has become impossible for me to use, slow, laggy, and guaranteed to hang and grind to a halt. It started out that the problem was the army of video adverts, but now it seems to be the whole thing. I am not sure how many photos I have on there, but the volume is pretty tiny, 18% of the 2Gb they provide for free, so around 360Mb. The SOLE reason for hosting photos there has been to post them to forums. The only way I can use them for that now is pay their fee, which they think is fair since they provide 500Gb for it....but I haven't even used 500Mb! Now if they were willing to reduce the bill to one thousandth what they are asking, to correspond to how much of their storage I am using, they might get some money from me!

I started to use Flikr for adding new content, but I am now contemplating setting up some sort of paid for server space that can't have its terms changed overnight. It is going to take me a lot of time to migrate all the photos that I had for trip reports and tutorials and I don't like the idea of having to do it again if flikr follows suit one day.
 

rancid badger

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Aren't they just holding people to ransom?:confused:

"you want your pictures to display again in a forum?, just pay us $400 and you'll be fine till the next time we decide to screw you all"

It's little different to the ransomware thing, the only difference is that these characters don't hide, they simply demand "money or else"

I've only used it for hosting for forums too and there's no way on earth I'm going to mess about swapping to another hosting site that is quite likely to go the same way. I'm also not bothered about missing images in threads etc, the idea of reloading to another site then redoing all the image links is ridiculous it would take days if not weeks, so a lot of people may well pay up (probably what sxxtbucket is banking on?) Not me like!, I've simply deleted everything off sxxtbucket then deleted the account too.

Anyone who thinks they haven't done folk over, is.....er.........lets just say; "mistaken". ;)
 

daveO

Native
Jun 22, 2009
1,453
513
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Photobucket has never been truely 'free'. It's rammed full of targeted advertising and has never worked well enough to justify an actual fee. They would need to do some serious improvements to convince anyone to pay to use it.
 

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