https://petapixel.com/2017/07/01/photobucket-just-broke-billions-photos-embedded-web/
Seems like a stink deal to me.
Seems like a stink deal to me.
Photobucket just broke a million forums on the internet - including this one!
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I understand why this is a huge problem for most of those sites and users, but I'm absolutely amazed that more people here, especially the artists, don't have their own domain and web space.
Which brings up another issue...I got into a minor argument with a mod because I was accused of hotlinking from others' sites and I wanted to know why they'd assumed that and they asked me why I thought they shouldn't.
Which brings up another issue...I got into a minor argument with a mod because I was accused of hotlinking from others' sites and I wanted to know why they'd assumed that and they asked me why I thought they shouldn't.
Artists etc should have their own galleries etc and not using a free service that could go paid at any moment, but for someone like me who uses it solely for caption this contests it's a bit annoying.
Perhaps not, but if they all of a sudden charge $400 for what used to be free, then they need to defend themselves against the inevitable accusations of price-gouging.
No offense, but that's the DEFINITION of entitlement. It's their web space. They can do with it what they wish, whether it's charge a million dollars or simply shut it down. There are other free options out there, or, you could do what many people have done for years and that's pay a few bucks a year for your own hosting.
I feel, as an artist, that too many people nowadays have this mentality that everything should be free, or at least done for exposure, not actual money. One of the things I hate Bill Maher for most is when he absolutely ridiculed anyone for giving hand-made items for gifts; that they were, in fact, worthless.
Free hosting is not free. They pay for it with ads. If you don't want the ads, pay their price or move on to another space. The same goes for this very forum. Either go against the TOS and use adblockers (which only screws over the people that allow you to be on this site) or pay for a Premium Membership.
While that may be true, users are also under no obligation *not* to be angry about a $400 price increase.
I personally think that people who signed up under the original Terms & Conditions should be grandfathered, but I accept that ship probably sailed on that issue a long time ago.
Anyway, here's an article from ghacks.net discussing Photobucket alternatives, for anyone interested.
Of course. But one party is rendering a service and the other is not, which is why I find it an overreaction on the part of some. (Not people in this thread, I should stress. Just reactions I've seen out there in the wild.) I agree that it's a suck-ass move, to be sure. But there are heaps of free alternatives.
I have about 25 GIF/JGP images that I posted here and on another forum. That's it. So why would I be willing to pay $400/year for their service? I understand that a company can't stay in business if they give everything away for free. I'd be willing to pay a few bucks, perhaps $25/year, if that's what it took to keep the service going. And if that service was a lot better than it is now. But since I opened an account, I have seen Photo-Bucket's service degrade, and there's no sign it will improve by paying what has been aptly described as extortion-level prices. There are too many ads on the page, and even people with Plus account say they have to put up with ads. Worse, they limit photo size to 1024x768 in a day and age when most people are running 1280x960 or even 1600x1200 monitors, if not higher. I mean, come on: 1024x768 was implemented in 1990. Why are the using a 27-year-old standard as they max size limit??? And why would I want to pay $400/year for all that??
Fortunately people have got plenty of other alternatives for image hosting.
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I switched to postimage.org 3 or 4 years ago because Photobucket was already taking a downward turn. Postimage is what Photobucket used to be: fast, easy to use, and just a simple upload and share service.
Some of it may be laziness, but a lot of it is probably that people just don't know. Especially if you are in your late teens or early 20s, you may not even remember a time when self-hosting was commonplace and so wouldn't know that it's available or how to obtain it. Personal websites are pretty dead these days.
There is, of course, the fact that image hosting services tend to be free, while hosting isn't. And paid web hosting requires more technical competence than an image hosting service. And it's not unusual for someone to buy less hosting bandwidth than they need--a problem that is eliminated by using one of the large image sharing services.
As with so many other things in life, the path of least resistance dominates.
No kidding. $400 a year is batshit. Do you know how much general purpose hosting $400 a year can buy? A lot. Much, much more than Photobucket will give you.
The T&Cs say you can have a free account, and when you have over 500Gb of stuff that it'll cost you $399. Well, that's as I read it, I may be wrong.
PB is not great because of the myriad myriad myraid ads, I would pay for it AND put up with the ads, FTN.
To see if PB still works, I will now post a pic of my adorable granddaughter.
There it is!
PB is not great because of the myriad myriad myraid ads, I would pay for it AND put up with the ads, FTN.
To see if PB still works, I will now post a pic of my adorable granddaughter.
There it is!
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