Test of Photobucket

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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
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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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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.

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.
 
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:

 
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.
 
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.

I just deleted all of my Photos off of Photobucket. If a company is going to change the terms of their business and try to hijack you for $400, then I am just going to remove my content from their site.

They can go pound salt.

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.
 
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.

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.
 
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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.

 
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.


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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