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Photobucket giving it's users the $$$haft! No more image linking unless you pay!

It's a shame that many informative threads, complete with pics for illustration and guidance purpose, will be rendered practically useless. And this applies to many different forums across the internet. There are allot of people who are pretty pissed-off.

I don't mind paying, however, I do find $400/year to be excessive. I will not be renewing my subscription once it expires. I have already sent PB my sentiments.

I'll be uploading directly to AK from now on.

Lesson learned!
 
Deleted my account.

Made sure to select "Unhappy with service" option, then filled in the fact that they no longer support third party sharing.

Hopefully everyone does something similar.
 
GD70 said:
Avatars are copied from your computer directly.
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I don't know how you can say that. Just like most photos they where on my computer first, then uploaded to PB, I edit the size and then used them here in avatars.

Photos posted in comment boxes where on my computer first, then uploaded to PB, then posted here.
The only difference is I did some editing at PB, and they are not posted in comment boxes. Maybe there is some kind of block the site has that PB can't control. But I think if I delete my account it will delete the avatars.
 
4-2-7 said:
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Ok this image was posted yesterday and it's still here.

Along time ago and I don't know if it's a apple thing but I could not right click and copy the ULR and post using the tool bar image imbedding tool. So I started to learn drag and drop, if I wanted to post a photo from my files, google images, or PB and really anywhere this is what I needed to do.

The way I do it is have more than one page open like here and PB and then reduce the view of the pages so I can see part of my desktop, At PB it was different to drag and drop than anywhere else, you can't do it on their pages, so I would open the thumbnail to the larger photo, right click and open it in a new tab. Once in a new tab it could be dragged to my desktop, and then draged to a comment box, and on this site you have the option to do a full image.

So maybe PB can only control the images that had their ULR copied and posted?
 
Yup there are going to be a huge amount of post that lack the photos now, including the many thousands that I posted in the music threads.
 
What you were doing 427 sounds like uploading your photo to AK. Many of us didn't do that, we would simply copy our URL address and leave our photos on PB domain and what you see when you are looking at a thread with pic's is the pics were filled in with information stored in PB's site. Personally I did it to help save AK from being burdened with the huge amount of space that would be needed on their servers to store photos. AK was already slow enough and when they made it easy to upload pics I felt it would be just a short time before AK's servers were getting over loaded by pics. Several times their were request for aid with funds to pay for more server space. I felt that if everyone didn't use AK's server space for their individual pics that it would help out by reducing the load on AK's storage servers.

I guess this is what you get for trying to be considerate.
 
The writing was on the wall for some time now for PB with all the promos and upgrades being offered
it looked to me they were grasping for a quick cash infusion.

For them to take this drastic action it won't be long now for their demise in my opinion.
 
I opened an account years ago and probably put about a dozen photo's on it. I figured this day would come and stayed away from it.
Considering the implications this has, I wonder if a legal challenge won't be mounted. Sort of reminds me of having a pathway that runs along your property line and after many years it acquires a legal protection.
If photobucket was concerned that it's rules were being abused, they have had many years to enforce it. It appears that they let it build up to a point to try and cash in.
At this point a good percentage of post on all forums will be effected.

BillWojo
 
4-2-7 said:
I don't know how you can say that. Just like most photos they where on my computer first, then uploaded to PB, I edit the size and then used them here in avatars.

Photos posted in comment boxes where on my computer first, then uploaded to PB, then posted here.
The only difference is I did some editing at PB, and they are not posted in comment boxes. Maybe there is some kind of block the site has that PB can't control. But I think if I delete my account it will delete the avatars.
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When I added my avatar image it was uploaded from my Mac, not PB.
 
luvvinvinyl said:
The new AK software makes uploading images much easier than before, and we have always advocated loading to our own server, just so that this would not happen.
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What are the size limits now? It used to be a max of 800 pixels wide which is kinda small, and definitely too small for certain things like schematics. That was why I used PB.
 
Ken Boyd said:
Many of us didn't do that, we would simply copy our URL address and leave our photos on PB domain and what you see when you are looking at a thread with pic's is the pics were filled in with information stored in PB's site.
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Well that's what I was doing up until around the site change. At that time my computer would not copy image ULR anywhere for an image but still does with vids. But also at that time the new site format and computers are able to drag and drop images.

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Once you drag and drop you have the option to post a thumbnail or full image.
 
Cactus Bob said:
Check your expiration date in your PB profile. At that point you will have to fork over $399 per year for third party linking otherwise your images will disappear from the sites you post on. I was also a paying subscriber and my expiration date is July 11th. I cancelled my subscription the other day in case they automatically drew the upgrade price of $399 from my Paypal account instead of the $30 or whatever it was.
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JEEEZ this is sounding ugly, thanks for thhe heads up CB :thumbsup:
 
So when are the PB pics suppose to go away? I just checked a thread I posted in May 2016 and my PB pic is still there.

These days I just open the pic on my PC, right click, copy, paste to thread.

Rob
 
There are quite a few of what I call hooks out there, both with subscription software as well as online services. Norton Security has a deal where they will store all your passwords on their servers (presumably for our security). What happens when I want to bow out and switch to another company? My passwords could well be gone.. Also I have heard Adobe is moving to subscription based photo editing where if you stop using the service all the work done, editing as well as organizing vanishes too. You still have the files but all the work you did goes away. I have heard where that can't happen with music streaming but it wouldn't surprise me if there wasn't an attempt at some point.
 
Does anyone know if Adobe Creative Cloud Suite is capable of image hosting for posting on forums & such ?
 
Cactus Bob said:
Does anyone know if Adobe Creative Cloud Suite is capable of image hosting for posting on forums & such ?
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I have it and don't see any way of doing that, but perhaps I'm not seeing something. Also, it's provided by my work, so there might be facilities that they've disabled and I don't have.
 
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