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I was going over a thread on the HMVF and my pics have been replaced by a something from photo bucket that looks like a speedo and states 3rd party hosting has been temporally blocked, I went into my account and nothing is mentioned. There is another web address that I can go to but thought I'd ask here if its a scam etc ?
Photobucket in their infinite wisdom has decided to no longer allow third party hosting, their primary reason for existing, unless you pay $400 a year for it. So on top of the adds, popups, and scripts that don't work, you now need to pay for the luxury of using Photobucket for it's primary purpose Because that worked so well for Imageshack, who went from not even needing an account, to being free with an account, to requiring money for hosting, and thus was promptly was abandoned as the image host of choice. Tinypic is still free but is complete garbage to use.
I am currently using puush to host images, which is fast, free, and easy but they only host images for something like 60 days or 6 months. However, that works fine here as a copy is automatically made and rehosted on the forum to preserve it. For longer term solutions I believe there are some other sites out there but have no researched the,.
Thanks for the above, bit Pi***d off to say the least regarding photo bucket, is there any quick way of moving your stored pics etc to another site, I've looked a flickr and its had some good reviews.Quote:
Originally Posted by cipherk98
Anyone else know of an alternative to photo bucket ?
I wish I could help you but I'm pretty much in the same boat.
Some forums won't allow picture hosting sites like Photobucket...etc.
Because pics get deleted, leaving a post/thread without the needed picture.
I'm now trying to figure out how to store pics on my home PC's.
Hoping my son the IT can help me with when he has time.
I sure think of and miss Harlan when stuff like this hits a one finger typist who uses his thumb for the shift key.
Really miss my little buddy.
CH-P777
When you post a link to an image here (photobucket, etc) it is imported and saved. So, no lost pictures in threads.Quote:
Originally Posted by painter777
All forum software comes with image uploading these days. If a forum decides to turn it off for whatever reason, I just don’t bother with it. If they don’t want to host it, I don’t post it.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigduke6
I've never had an issue using Photobucket. I do pay a small amount for extra space. It also eliminates the adds and such.
My photobucket photos are fine. Other than being very slow lately, not had an issue with it. Is this something that happened in the past few days? I haven't posted this week yet.
I have posted using my facebook account also. The photos were larger. I just am not extremely comfortable posting photos of firearms through facebook.
I've always used Microsofts Windows Photo Gallery program, great bit of stuff with the ability to do some pretty fancy editing.
But that was on the old XP, don't know about the new system, still trying to get my head around that one.
But what I have done is turn an old XP into a photo and file storage, Only connect to the Internet if I want to post pic's, though I can always download from storage to a Windows 10 to post.
I use imgur and have not had an issue so far and it is much easier and reliable than photobucket in my experience
Heck, I can't even log into my PB account anymore. Time to move to Imgur!
Russ
Just posted photos from photobucket so it's still working as usual for me. It is extremely slow however.
Thanks to forward thinking Badger for integrating image capture software for this site many years back! I have roughly 10,000 photos on P'Bucket that are now basically useless! Now to figure out an alternative....
I had problems with photobuket :thdown: a long time ago and said Never again!
Sarge
I assume the other forum I was posting on didn't have image capture software, lucky I kept all but two pics that were in one of the photo bucket accounts I had, I've deleted all the pics in the account and have deleted the account. Had the option of telling them what I thought and did so, seems a lot of folk have had similar experiences and have stuck two fingers up at them.
Have tried imgur and seems ok but from now on will save all future pics on my Mac and separate hardrive etc.
I'm still not understanding what the problem with photobucket is. It is slow but it still works. I don't pay for anything additional and my photos are still posting here.
It will work ok with Milsurps as it has image capture software as Jmoore pointed out, some other forums etc don't, so all my pictures on a dedicated Military vehicle site are no longer, unless I paid the highest tariff for photo bucket........ I was getting sick of the adverts anyway, just didn't expect the sudden "we want your money attitude", not the best way of running a business.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aragorn243
OK, I get that about the image capture. But I can still upload photos to here. I just did two days ago.
Yep you can upload here, but its OTHER forums, ebay etc that you upload pics to that seem to have the problem, the Military vehicle forum I'm a member of (HMVF.co.uk) don't have the software so a sign appears saying 3rd party hosting etc, and want over $400 to unlock them......... like I said it was great pleasure telling them why I was closing the account.
I tried Imjur and seems ok, no adverts as yet and no page loss like photobucket. It has effected a lot of folk according to the internet.
I'm not ready to accept Photobucket's latest blackmail and am willing to move to another photo hosting site. Any recommendation welcome.
Thanks in advance.
They are going down the list from largest to smallest users. My account was still hosting my images until 2 days ago. Now on all sites that I had images posted, (except here) there is the blackmail image in place of my pics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aragorn243
You can still download your images to your computer, either one by one, or the whole album. Then upload to another host. I chose Imgur.
I list items on ebay. Did some yesterday. Instead of using the IMG link, I use the Direct link and it has worked fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigduke6
Photobucket caught up with me last night. I got the notice about 3rd party sharing. Not sure what they think they will accomplish with this. I don't see very many people subscribing at almost $40 per month for the service. People will leave and then they will lose their ad revenue.
I'll give 'em a year, they'll join the history heap...Quote:
Originally Posted by Aragorn243
Russ
Probably, The other forum I frequent is the HMVF.co.uk (Historic Military Vehicle Forum) one member I know who posts on another vehicle forum has lost over ten years worth of photos etc, the site was a eral helpful site with the pics being a main source of info all gone in a second. At least Dick Turpin wore a mask.Quote:
Originally Posted by RASelkirk
During this past week Photobucket got to my account on the list. [sigh]
Thank goodness I only have 444 images stored there.. Their Download Album option refused (repeatedly) to work for me so I spent some time D/Ling the "savers" individually.
One thing that was a real eye-opener for me ...
... when trying to get Download Album to work, I also connected to Photobucket via both IE11 and Edge, in succession, thinking that Firefox might be the culprit.
I do not have ABP (AdBlockerPlus) installed on either of those proggies and found that without ABP both IE11 & Edge are just this side of unusable due to the MASSES of pop-up crap. :move eek:
I will now checkout Imgur ... and any other reasonable alternatives that I can identify. :)
EDIT: To my eye, Imgur looks absolutely horrid ... off to find another solution ...
I can use facebook for posting but don't really like putting firearms on there as it is directly linked to me. Not that it wouldn't be difficult for anyone with motivation to make the links from photobucket, it's not simply broadcasting who I am. I never relied on Photobucket to store photos so not losing anything there. I still maintain them on my hard drives.
Imgur works great and is faster and easier than photobucket, thanks for the referral.
Got my Photobucket 'Blackmail' warning today, started having problems yesterday.
I've used them since I believe 09, the free account with 2.1 GB storage, currently using 0.4GB of 2.1GB equals 21%. Now to use the 3rd party hosting I'd have to step up to 5021 GB of Storage ???
So to get ANY 3RD PARTY HOSTING from them, I'd need the minimum PLUS 500 Plan AT $39.99 per month or $399.99 a year
Another forum I frequent won't allow 3rd party hosting because of older threads having pictures being removed/deleted.
Thinking about other sites, but leaning towards just storing on my own.
More information about Buckets plans if interested:
Photobucket Please review the latest changes at Photobucket. - Photobucket
PLans and prices,
Photobucket Plus Storage | Photobucket
I don't understand what LINKING is,
Any Help appreciated
Charlie-P777
I just can't figure out who is going to pay $40 a month for something they have had for free for years and can get from somewhere else. Took me two minutes to sign up for Imgur and uploads were very fast and easier to put into albums than Photobucket. I don't know how much storage I have as I didn't check but since this is the only site I post photos on, doesn't matter as I can delete them if it gets full, they will be saved here.
Hello folks… :)
It appears that Photo Bucket is gradually working their way through their subscribers accounts, implementing their new pay policy where you can't link your pics from there site to other web sites like ours.... :thdown:
Apparently it's become a huge deal on a lot of other sites where people have hundreds of pics referenced back ...
I need to test some code to see if we can work around it for now, but I don't have PhotoBucket account that’s been penalized yet. It’s important that you be a member here who has already had their account blocked and have NOT signed up for their Plus 500 $40/month Subscription. So, can one of you guys who use Photo Bucket (if you have it) and meet the previous criteria, try to link a picture into this thread?
If your account that has been blocked on other sites to showing your Photo Bucket pics, you’ve probably been seeing this pic below.
Attachment 86085
(Click PIC to Enlarge)
If that’s the case and you now see your blocked elsewhere picture here, then it appears this temporary workaround is functioning correctly. so you should be able to continue linking your pics without signing up for their Plus 500 $40/month Subscription
NOTE: Sooner or later Photo Bucket will adapt their code to cover this hole, but until then, this code modification may (or may not) work.
Use IMG codes if you can ... :thup:
Thanks ... :cheers:
Regards,
Doug
Here ya go ... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Badger
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...IMGP0283-1.jpg
Thanks Youngblood.... :thup:
It appears we have a working fix. Even though Photo Bucket is blocking pics from some accounts, basic subscribers will still be able to post them in threads and posts on Milsurps.Com.
Note: For now, this workaround for members only works on our site and no other Internet sites. Also, once you've linked to your post pic from Photo Bucket, it may take up to 15 minutes for it to appear on Milsurps.Com. This is due to a background processing maintenance routine that runs every 10-15 minutes and it's what converts the Photo Bucket blocking pic to a member's real pic. During that wait, you will still see their blocking pic as shown in my previous post.
For those of you who have referenced (3rd party linked) your Photo Bucket pics to our site for the last 7 years, they have all been preserved and saved on our servers for everyone's benefit and research. Therefore, they still appear in your posts here as they always have.
For more information on how (and why) this works, read this thread Why are my images from Photobucket, ImageShack etc. copied to milsurps.com?
Hope this helps some of you ... :beerchug:
Regards,
Doug
It's possible that Photo Bucket have done something to block our workaround of their block.... :lol:
So, I need another test to see if our workaround is still functioning.
It’s important that you be a member here who has already had their account blocked and have NOT signed up for their Plus 500 $40/month Subscription. So, can one of you guys who use Photo Bucket (if you have it) and meet the previous criteria, try to link a picture into this thread?
Thanks...
Regards, :cheers:
Doug
Quote:
Originally Posted by Badger
Here's a photo meeting your criteria which I'm sure hasn't been previously posted on this site:
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...eajjjoxo-1.jpg