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Post by Kinygos on Jul 13, 2017 7:44:00 GMT
It seems that Photobucket after all this time has decided that if you want to do third party hosting you will have to pay. This means that all my photos have been removed by them until I pay up. I do not intend to do so and I shall be looking for an alternative method of posting photographs. Videos on youtube are OK... at the moment.
Had this been clear at the start all well and good, but this change looks like a ransom situation with an annual fee that can be increased at the will of Photobucket.
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Post by janeandtony on Jul 14, 2017 12:32:44 GMT
Not good Simon, have you lost all your photos that were on there?
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Post by daveandgill on Jul 14, 2017 13:49:47 GMT
This is disappointing news... but it seems to be the way things are going. I can still see my images on Photobucket, and I can copy them back to my computer. In the past few years (not so much lately) I've left lots of links to my images from many website/forums, without knowing where they are, they will all be showing a blank box or Phohobucket message now. Time to rethink this.... didn't Flickr recently assume some rights to any images hosted there?
Maybe a personal website will do it... they seem to be available for free and website design tools are easy to use...and if only used to host images, it hardly matters what it looks like...
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Post by stevec on Jul 15, 2017 7:43:21 GMT
Flickr is free if you don't want the stats function or ads on screen. Free account used to have limitation on no of images, now unlimited. Any image which has no copy write info embedded in it (ie in the EXIF data) or water marked by the owner risks being taken up by any hosting organisation if it becomes orphaned/abandoned by the original poster if he or she ceases to exist so far as the host is concerned.
Having your own web site isn't free, you have to pay the annual fee for your domain name. Free hosting is often size limited, so a simple web site advertising what you do and how to contact you may be free, but a photo collection is a much bigger beast. My Flickr account which is pretty large with some 15600 JPEG images (none bigger than 1000 pixels long side), is over 3.7Gb
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Post by Liz on Jul 15, 2017 10:11:01 GMT
Oh Dear ! I'll have to look into this as the HV banners are hosted on photobucket  .. |
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Post by Kinygos on Jul 15, 2017 12:35:25 GMT
Not good Simon, have you lost all your photos that were on there? OK, firstly I have lost nothing personally. I hear of people losing cameras and "All their photographs" and I think "idiots!" I have everything saved and backed up to the hilt. I have absolutely nothing stored in only one place, and neither should anyone else! Storage is so cheap these days backing up is simple. My problem is all the photos on this board are now invisible unless I pay up, or host them somewhere else and reference them all again. The latter is time consuming and whoever hosts them could pull the same stunt and I am back to square one. This has occurred suddenly, without me uploading any more pictures. It means that my "Coast of the Island of Halki" is a total waste of time as a photographic reference. It took a lot of time to set up and it has been trashed overnight. For Liz and the banners. I had a lot of stuff on Photobucket, your banners are few. However, if they decide to bring the level down, who knows? The first thing you will know about it will be the replacement of the picture with the message: Please update your account to allow third party hosting together with a dial showing 100%. It does not show what constitutes 100%, so I suspect that 100% is going to be fewer and fewer photographs as time goes on. until <10 becomes 100%!!! Who knows. You will certainly get no warning. Any ideas welcomed. |
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Post by soupdragon on Jul 15, 2017 16:45:47 GMT
I'm sure there's a reason for it but all the pictures we've posted on here and other forums are still ok.
Am I missing something? They're all on photobucket by the way
Cheers. Tom and Rose
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Post by soupdragon on Jul 15, 2017 16:49:06 GMT
 Testing |
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Post by davidfromhastings on Jul 15, 2017 19:44:38 GMT
Sorry to say Tom but I think this is being rolled out over a period rather than one hit for everyone (Simon's pix were still visible after I started reading about other peoples images disappearing). One free alternative that might appeal is having a blog such as on Blogger.com (part of Google) and linking from images posted on that. The other option is starting a free Google+ account (Googles answer to Facebook). The few images I have here are linked to either my stock photography blog, my small Greek islands blog or my Google+ account. All free as I say. Hope that helps for someone.
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Post by soupdragon on Jul 15, 2017 20:47:19 GMT
I was afraid that might be the case.
What's the difference between a Google+ account and a plain Google account? We've got one of those where we have a few documents uploaded
Cheers. Tom and Rose
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Post by davidfromhastings on Jul 15, 2017 20:48:27 GMT
Oh Dear ! I'll have to look into this as the HV banners are hosted on photobucket .. Liz, take a look at the Proboards support forum. There's a very long thread about the Photobucket situation. If I understand the official response (about eleven posts in) correctly then, whilst Proboards doesn't support image hosting in general, things like forum banners are supported as part of your forum package (up to a certain limit). That's how I read it anyway! Kind regards, David. Proboards support forum |
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Post by davidfromhastings on Jul 15, 2017 20:57:59 GMT
I was afraid that might be the case. What's the difference between a Google+ account and a plain Google account? We've got one of those where we have a few documents uploaded Cheers. Tom and Rose Not quite sure what a plain Google account is as I've never had one! Google+ is a social media site where you make posts, post images, follow other people or groups, get likes (+1's) etc. Just do a search for Google+ (not Google plus) and it should all become clear! Edited to add my own Google+ account so you can see a working example - hope that makes it more obvious. My Google+ account |
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Post by soupdragon on Jul 15, 2017 21:05:40 GMT
I think I'm getting it mixed up with Google drive. Will do some research if I get the opportunity tomorrow
Cheers. Tom and Rose
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Post by Kinygos on Jul 16, 2017 7:55:13 GMT
I really need a solution that is not going to go the same way in a year or so. When I have that I will update my "Coast of the Island of Halki" and other stuff. I do not want to do it and find it has all been trashed again!
I also will be looking at possibilities online before I jump into anything.
Further: I have done a lot of third party stuff, in fact it is my sole reason for using Photobucket!
Every photograph I have put on Photobucket is used this way.
I guess I brought it upon myself.
I do not remember a warning about this when I started the account though, and that is what annoys me. It typifies the way that business is conducted on the internet; set something up for free, and when people rely on it, demand money.
Think of "free cloud storage" deals.
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Post by Kinygos on Jul 16, 2017 8:13:09 GMT
Test  Using Facebook Well that was worth a try, but a dismal failure! |
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