photobucket what happend

[Sneetches]

This is a test....


Image linked from Photobucket. I certainly don't pay them $400/yr. You can check the image link. I think if you've been a user for long enough you get grandfathered in without paying. Or maybe that's wishful thinking and my images will get turned off eventually.

Something tells me it will get removed eventually. Mine were all fine yesterday even when the warnings were put up, but I checked today and they're all gone.

 

[calcagno45]

Mine are still working as well... We'll see for how long though.

 

[Highmark]

Appears to work for me (for now).

 

[gottorque]

None of my photobucket linked photos are working in any of my threads. There is no way i have the time or patience to migrate and relink every photo, so Ill just wait it out and see what happens

My most recent stuff Ill move to flickr.

What a pain.

 

[badhoopty]

i had it happen to me with imageshack i think, it was free for ages and they sent out an email i guess saying to pay, and if you didnt your pics were held ransom. i also had another imagehost crash and lost a TON of pics that i had linked to all sorts of build threads and whatnot. sucks for sure.

 

[allanon1965]

This is why i dont host my pics anywhere but my own hard drive, then on a backup... Pay the 20 bucks and upload all I want"thumbsup"

 

[OSRC]

I pay $30/year as I was approaching the bandwidth limit a few years back....not having any problems that I'm aware of.

Just the usual glitchy standard PITA site it always is.

 

[cartronicshn]

testing...1...2....3...:mrgreen: Works for me still.

 

[Habanero]

>I did notice that my pics seemed to be fine for about a day after I first saw all of this occur,so I guess they might be working through everyone's accounts in batches? <

I think you nailed it. I just noticed some of my pics are disappearing at the actual website itself.

 

[BJoe]

Found this on another forum that is affected by this,
https://www.pcmag.com/news/354711/photobucket-breaks-image-links-across-the-internet

I think this commentor is right on the money here.

<header class="comment__header"> iffydiffy • 5 hours ago </header>If you have used Photobucket (and I do), then you know their technical prowess is very weak. Their website fails a lot, there is no usable tech support whatsoever, and they have steadily made their site less and less efficient over the years by overburdening it with a fancier and fancier, more animated user interface that is far more cumbersome and much less useful than it was 5 or 10 years ago.
So don't expect them to have the brains to realize how stupid this move was. They will go out of business. Their "new customers per month" number just went to zero, for starters. Anyone who goes to Photobucket today and realizes they can't post links to their photos elsewhere on the internet is going to move on to some other service. And every single one of their existing customers is scrambling to download all their stuff even as I type this so they can move it to another service.
Even if they revise their policy, they are probably doomed. Would YOU stay there, once they did this? I would probably keep my existing photos on their for a while, but I would start hosting everything new at another service. And that means that over time, their customer base will trickle down to zero.

 

[BUBBA069]

I got my own web hosting to share image galleries with family and what not. I use Imgur for Reddit and some forum posts.

 

[sharkattack99]

Yeah, I downloaded all my pictures to my phone then closed the account. So ridiculous.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+

 

[STANG KILLA SS]

so whats the fastest way to download all your pics?

 

[mikemcE]

Keep them on your HD ??
All my images are in my house / HD . PB and any other hosting uses copy's.


Hang up and Drive

 

[sharkattack99]

so whats the fastest way to download all your pics?

i just used there app on my phone, lets you download the album.

 

[Habanero]

Keep them on your HD ??
All my images are in my house / HD . PB and any other hosting uses copy's.


Hang up and Drive

You can be certain of death, taxes AND hard drive failure.

Lost more stuff that way.

Still need backup I burn to DVD.

 

[Greatscott]

testing...1...2....3...:mrgreen: Works for me still.

My pictures from PB still work as well. After doing some reading, it has to do with the amount of pictures you post, when you hit that magical BW limit from people looking at your pics, PB shuts you down until you pay. I am guessing that PB thinks if you are that popular you will pay up to avoid having to rebuild your posts, upload your pics to another site and relink them all. It is kind of like PB is has taken a marketing que from the ransomware attacks, pay up or have your sh*t locked up.

But, I am assuming that sooner rather than later this pay-to-post model will trickle down to us low BW users as well.

 

[mikemcE]

You can be certain of death, taxes AND hard drive failure.

Lost more stuff that way.

Still need backup I burn to DVD.

I back up to the cloud every 72hrs.

That said I burn a DVD every 6 months.

Its all about thinking the worst and being ready.:mrgreen:

 

[STANG KILLA SS]

Keep them on your HD ??
All my images are in my house / HD . PB and any other hosting uses copy's.


Hang up and Drive

no i mean is there a fast way to download them from photobucket to my harddrive. ie rather than right clicking each photo individually :shock:
ive probly got 20-25 albums and thousands of pictures

 

[mikemcE]

I start with the images on my HD. Only images on PB are for needs, and have been uploaded by me.

For you the trouble will be time and bandwidth.
A faster way isn't possible at PB.


Hang up and Drive