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helijohn · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 8:56 Post subject: Photobucket

What is going on with photobucket! They want to charge now!!! I am well p****d off with the money grabbers. Can anyone suggest an alternative free hosting site?

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peteinchad · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:16 Post subject:

It's working fine for me - except for the annoying pop-up adverts.

helijohn · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:17 Post subject:

helijohn · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:35 Post subject:

I am going to add a pic from bucket

helijohn · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:38 Post subject:

Now from elesewhere

peteinchad · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:12 Post subject:

Just done this:

helijohn · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 11:32 Post subject:

helijohn · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 11:36 Post subject:

I went back to try again and got it is disabled notification this time.

hutchy · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 11:57 Post subject:

working ok for me Exclamation

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peteinchad · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 12:07 Post subject:

[quote="helijohn"
So how come it works for you and not me???
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You maybe on a different server - Photobucket have been doing some changes lately.

It went funny on me a few weeks ago - none of my photos were showing in posts but then it was fine the next day.

Simon_W · ******* Joined: 21 May 2013 Posts: 4881 Location: Watford

Photobucket is fine for me too. I got so annoyed with the ads that I coughed up for the ad-free service.

Storage is so cheap now that it makes no sense that this forum doesn't host images. If it did, no images would be lost when members or ex-members close their Photobucket or other accounts. There are plenty of websites that offer free forum hosting, so if the Admin doesn't want to invest in capacity it could easily be moved to another host.

hutchy · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 13:05 Post subject:

i agree with you there Simon but i very much doubt this forum would move anywhere..one Simon who started the forum does so at his expense with members maybe paying a membership..but most don,t plus a lot of people use the pocuk on face-ache..and my personal opinion is this forum might end up being closed down i hope i am wrong,but this last few years it seems to be rather quiet apart from us regulars who come on here as part of our daily routine sort of speak.. Exclamation

helijohn · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 13:33 Post subject:

helijohn · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 13:36 Post subject:

Simon_W · ******* Joined: 21 May 2013 Posts: 4881 Location: Watford

This is really concerning. It does seem that Photobucket has disallowed '3rd Party Hosting' for all except the Plus 500 plan. This is a $499.99 service! Shocked

So just to make it clear, this is alternatively referred to as "hotlinking". This is the action of linking to an image or object on another server. An example of hotlinking would be using an <img> tag to display a JPEG image that you uploaded to your Photobucket account so it will appear on a different website like Etsy, eBay auction listings, blogs, forum messages, etc.

When this is applied to images that have already been linked, it means that the vast majority of images posted on the forum will be wiped out, destroying much of the forum's value as a resource.

http://photobucket.com/p500/

http://www.laurenwayne.com/2017/06/photobucket-phail-how-to-ruin-host-site.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/rant/comments/6jbyhp/photobucket_has_changed_their_tos_to_not_allow/