I am hearing that Photobucket will no longer allow 3rd party hosting of photos on their site so I'm trying a test here. Apparently I still can do this. Are others on this forum having problems?
Jim

Yes, I have been unable to even sign into my Photobucket account. My pictures have not been deleted, I just can't access them. I had paid the $10 fee to avoid all the advertisements about a year ago. I've never seen such a anti-business move by any business. They have lost hundreds of customers.

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H Richard
SWCA1967 SWHF244

I have not (yet) experienced any of the problems reported by others. Everything seems to be the same as it always has been No idea why/why not. Maybe PB just hasn't reached my name to screw up my account.

See this thread on the jihad being waged by Photobucket on its customers:

We'll all you guys please hurry up and pay

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Charlie Flick
SWCA 729 HF 215

I was okay until yesterday and then I got the page of death. No more PB for me it seems.

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Mike
S&WCA #3065

I guess it all boils down to what "3rd party" means. Every picture I have on PB is either one I took myself or one I was given and loaded off my own computer.

All mine are currently working.

This is a gun:

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Freedom isn't free.

I cannot access it, I have no idea if it will work again.

Mine is okay too. I resize before I upload them. I have hundreds of pictures but I'm only using 6% of my free storage.

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SWCA #2817

nightly test

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Mike
S&WCA #3065

With a lot of folks seeing the greed issues with PB, I figured I would look at using someone else. In the other thread about this I saw someone posted that they are using Postimage. So I went and opened a free account with them and this is a test of using them for hosting:

Yep. I like postimage a lot. No sign up and free.

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Mike
S&WCA #3065

Photobucket is not working for me anymore. Specifically, I cannot link to my images when I post on other websites.

The worst part? I deleted most of my gun photos from my computer after I uploaded them to Photobucket.

Oh well.

That's sad. Did you not have them backed up anywhere else? Reason I ask is because in your other post about Photobucket, you say you deleted all your photos from their site because you're angry about their new policy and pricing.

If you didn't have your gun photos backed up on disc or another hard drive, you should've downloaded them off Photobucket back onto your computer, or even downloaded them to DVD or somewhere before you deleted them from PB. Then you'd still have your photos.

But as you say...oh, well.

I was going to suggest to open up your pics in PB and do a screen shot capture of the pics you wanted to keep on your computer. But when I tried to get on PB just a minute ago and clicked on Library I get nothing. I don't know what's up with that. All my stuff is triple backed up so I'm not fooling with it anyway. Maybe I'll just use the thumbnail attachments within this forum to post pics... I duknow...

It's been so long since I've used Windows I forgot how to to capture part or all of the screen... but I think it's now called a Snipping Tool. For Apple it's Command+Shift+4 then drag the cursor over the area to copy.
Good luck.

My PB just went belly up...can't post to this site. Here is one from Postimage.org:

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No good deed goes unpunished.

I moved all of my pictures from PB to Postimage and cancelled my PB account.

Good riddance.

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Eccentric old coot

Friends don't let friends use Photosuckit.

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Release the Kraken

Testing my new Imgur account.

It works just fine.

I have posted this several times. Read the PB Terms if you are not storing over the free limit it works.

Terms | Photobucket

Free account : Each individual Member gets one free account that provides 2 GB of free storage or space available for your original photo files, or videos under 10min. The free account does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting. If a free account Member exceeds their Content Limit, their account will be immediately suspended and they will need to become a “Paying Member” (defined below) in order to continue accessing their account. You can upgrade to a Plus account at any time.


Here is an invisible gun.

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Still Running Against the Wind

2GB of photos is not much. But most of the problem comes from this rule-

"The free account does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting."

I believe when the photos your linking reaches a certain amount or views you will have the same problems everyone else is having.
I use Apple products and for .99 cents a month my photos automatically upload to Apples cloud and doesn't fill up my phone or IPad Pro. I'm using Postimage to links photos and have had an Imgur account since I had problems a couple of years ago with PB.

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Get off my lawn!

For those of you NOT having problems with Photobucket ..... I'd strongly urge you to get those pictures saved to your hard drive ASAP.

I think so too ..... the clock is ticking.

I was only using "9%" of my allotted storage. When all the complaining started, I clicked on their Terms of Use to read for myself. Within 12 hours I'd received their email and they'd deleted the links to all the pics I had posted.

Yep, I was at 3% and photos that have been linked for a long time on the S&W forum are the problem ones. I click on them and the update picture pops up instead. Some photos I posted last week with hardly any views are still showing.

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Get off my lawn!

Imgur fixed my Photobucket issues.
Took me a couple of hours but well worth it.
And I now keep the pics on my computer too.
I feel lucky to have retrieved them all.
When I tried to log into PB last night, they've flooded me with ads and other nonsense.
And, no great loss to them as I wasn't a paying customer anyhow!

Need to read the "whole clause" as I highlighted.

Why is mine still working as are others??

Granted 2mb is not a lot, but if folks resize the pics rather than mega pixels or perhaps get rid of ancient ones that are no longer used.

I mean its FREE

Whatever

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Still Running Against the Wind

As I stated in another thread, unless you pay the $399 it's only a matter of time before everyone is shut down from linking to your photos. And yes, I did read it all.
If a free account Member exceeds their Content Limit, their account will be immediately suspended and they will need to become a “Paying Member” (defined below) in order to continue accessing their account. You can upgrade to a Plus account at any time.
Your "Content Limit" isn't how many photos you have on there, it's the amount of views of your linked pictures. I've had two accounts for years. My first one stopped working because their terms stated that if the linked bandwidth exceeded a certain amount each month, it would shut down. That was views, not amount of pictures. This is the same thing but the rules have been made stricter and prices have skyrocketed.

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Get off my lawn!

I'm using about 8% but it said I can't link to a third party site (Like S&W Forum). It makes all my photos into that clock image. I am leaving PB for good.

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No good deed goes unpunished.

Good time to buy stock in other photo hosting sites. And a good time to sell any stock you have in Photobucket.

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Get off my lawn!

Does PB offer stock?

I have over 1,500 pics in my account. Because I resize them all, I've only got about 2% of my storage consumed. Meh, PB may have issues, but it's working for me.

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Freedom isn't free.

No offense, but:-

[rant on]

Actually, 2GB is a whole bunch of storage if you don't put the original pictures up on Facebook. Problem is with cable modems everybody got lazy and uncaring about bandwidth. If you save your files at a reasonable pixel count (1200x900) and use reasonable file compression the files should be about 250 kB or less.

Thing is there are certain folks feel that ANY reduction in picture filesize (pixels and/or bytes) is an infringement of some right I don't recall in my citizen ship test. I got into it with a couple of folk on this site over their unnecessarily huge (in bytes) files that made certain threads unviewable using dial-up.

IMHO all Internet users and webpage writers should spend some time using a figure of eight bellwire connection with a 14 k dial-up modem somewhere up near Stonewall Pass, NV. That way it will be forever imprinted on them that speed and bandwidth are finite and precious resources not to be wasted.

[rant off]

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Release the Kraken

Guess "they" have not found me yet??

My account is private so no views on their site unless I give someone permission.

All photos on this forum still exist??

From PB

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Still Running Against the Wind

All mine are private too and are gone. I think you are correct in the statement that they have not found you yet!

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Miss My Buddy crsides!!

66-2 Gun show find Saturday



28-2 Double dip same gun show

First post with imgur

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SWCA #2306
DAV in honor of POP

I quit using Photobucket years ago when they went to a paid service. I had also pulled all of my photos from everywhere as well.

I think with Facebook, if you put pictures on there, you give them the right to use your photos for whatever they want.

Since most of my posts are here on this forum I am experimenting with using the forum's own photo posting feature:



Don't know how well it will work out in the long run, but it seems ok for now.

PS...I just checked my photobucket account, and I can still see all of my photos, just can't do 3rd party posting from there. Also, PB specifically says that your photos will be accessible with the free account. I'm not worried about losing any of mine, since I have all of them backed up. Guess for now I'll just leave them there to take up space.

Best Regards, Les

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SWCA 3084, SWHF 495, PGCA 3064

About a year ago photobucket was being glitchy so I thought I'd be a big spender and sign up for the 99 cent per month ad free plan.
Solved the intermittant problems and all was good.

I've never had any of the problems others are currently having and I wondered why?
Turns out members of a paid plan that were in good standing June 1 2017 will have normal service through 2018.
I'm going to stay with pb and by then surely there will be an acceptable alternative.

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God spelled backwards is dog.

test photo bucket

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SWCA LM#2190 SWHF#414