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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rich_V174SS on February 18, 2018, 05:47:57 PM

Title: Photobucket
Post by: Rich_V174SS on February 18, 2018, 05:47:57 PM

I'm constantly getting emails from Photobucket advertising their new rates for 3rd party hosting yet as far as I can see all my linked photos are still working when I go to my rebuild posts and I haven't given them a dime. I haven't actually logged into my Photobucket account for probably a year. Anyone know what's going on with them?

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Oldfishguy on February 18, 2018, 10:31:20 PM

My Photobucket account is not working.  Even if they reinstated the free account I would not use them; the way they went about a no notice fee based system was really a poor consumer decision.  Really hard to say how long they will be around.

Should we (administration, really), be thinking about hosting photos in our own cloud network??

We lost a lot of great photos in this thread alone:

http://forum.cgoamn.com/index.php?topic=5883.0 (http://forum.cgoamn.com/index.php?topic=5883.0)

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: dorelse on February 19, 2018, 12:41:46 AM

Quote from: Oldfishguy on February 18, 2018, 10:31:20 PM

Should we (administration, really), be thinking about hosting photos in our own cloud network??

The site already has unlimited storage, photos uploaded as attachments are ours, stored in the site and were unaffected by the Photobucket ransom. 

'Our own cloud network' would equate to a private cloud...(very) expensive, and someone would need to figure out how to generate static hyperlinks for photos, maintain security, user accounts, etc, etc. 

So, we've always had a solution. 

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Hyperacme on February 19, 2018, 11:02:42 AM

I've only got one email from them, the day they shut down 3rd party hosting.
Nice heads up on there part ...
Tried to get some pictures I didn't save, got the "3rd party hosting disabled" picture on most of them on there site, logged into my account ?
Between ad's , pop up's and redirectors my browser locked up three or four times !
Don't remember exact price to unlock, but was something crazy like $60 per month.

Was my fault for uploading alot of forum pictures to Photobucket over the years ...
Trying to repair threads ... SLOW ... Frustrating ... #@%& !

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Rich_V174SS on February 19, 2018, 11:46:04 AM

This is what I don't get though - all my photo links from Photobucket are still working here and on CGOA Main and were never shut down yet I'm not paying them anything. I really shouldn't complain.  ;D

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Jason on February 19, 2018, 12:03:55 PM

I think they only shut down the people with pictures that have a lot of view counts. My links are all broken as well. I can still get into my account to view my pictures but like Gregg said it's a pain with all the ads so I gave up. I had all my pictures copied on my computer at least!

Oh well, Was a good idea at the time.

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Plugcheck on February 19, 2018, 05:40:03 PM

Probably best to not say anything Rich, chalk it up to being lucky.  I would copy every photo off to somewhere lest you be held hostage for your pics.