photobucket and picture hosting

Yeah, Im no longer a Fan of Photobucket.
I maxed out my space on Photobucket a while ago and just upload my pics directly to TB now.. what a pain to think about updating old threads....

 

Yep, I tossed them a while back when they did their big restructuring. Can't remember how long that was though... maybe a couple of years? I used the TB media to make an album for my last build thread, although not sure on how much storage one can use there...

 

Okay... just noticed this today in a couple of my threads -- thought I'd just exceeded some bandwidth limit or something (delusions of popularity).

Pretty much every photo I have on here is on Photobucket. :/

 

Just looked through my email to see if there was any notice sent of this. Nope -- not that I received, anyway.

A quick google turns up this and similar articles: http://nypost.com/2017/07/05/how-photobucket-is-now-shaking-down-its-users/

I'll read a bit more before I jump to conclusions -- and I get them wanting to make a buck -- but some notice would have been reasonable.

 

For my posts I've put pictures here in the gallery and then linked to them (so they appear in my post.) This last time I put pictures on Google Photos and linked to them (and they too appear directly in the posts.) The gallery is good since the pictures will be here forever. With any outside service, one needs to not remove pics or need to recover if the service gets discontinued.

Just two options I've worked with.

 

I've been hosting mine on Flickr 'cuz I've always hated Photobucket with a passion. The problem with Flickr is that you have to use a fairly not-straightforward method to post here on TB.

 

Imgur.com is the way forward:

 

Boy, now I feel silly. Been posting photos for years and always uploaded them directly to TB. What am I missing? What is the advantage to using an outside service? Please school me.

 

Yeah Photobucket is slow as hell these days too. I use the more options under posting and upload from my iPad. You could try Dropbox.

 

Got the email from Photobucket. Dang. I have like 30 folders organized with pics.

Just downloaded the Google Pics app, and it automatically uploaded all the pics on my phone?! Not sure how I feel about that.

Now I need to download pics from Photobucket and set up folders in Google to upload them. Still all my posts with pics won't have the pics. That really sucks.

 

I hate PB but it's a pain to switch.

 

I'm gonna check out Imgur when I get a sec, but any pics I need to post here, I'll probably just start using the file uploader. It's simple and you can do full size images...

I put up with PB's shenanigans when they started crapping ads all over my browsing. Yeah, I've been on PB a long time, and I have a bunch of pics there, but this time, they've gone too far...

 

Photobucket hasn't really been relevant in about a decade. I'd give Imgur a go at the moment. It's decent enough and easy enough.

 

Yep, the simple copy function that allowed photos to be easily posted suddenly stopped working, now I know why. I guess I missed the shakedown email. I'm not crying, it had become so slow it was nearly un-useable. Luckily I have all my TB photos backed on my PC. I tried Imgur, which is easier to use IMO, I suppose its inevitable that all these sites will eventually charge for the priveledge of looking at their ads. The older TB members will recall the early days of cable TV, when the primary marketing campaign was "look, no ads, because you are already paying for ad-free content!". Look how that turned out.

 

@ashtray I use Google Pics without the app. I use it via a browser on a desktop PC. It limits what you can do with it, but it also limits what they can do to you with it