photo bucket.com

I dont use Photobucket, but I know there was a mass desertion of Photobucket on the other Forum because they started charging to use it...

base11 posted:

I need some help.  When I post a response on the forum, I get this big photo bucket reminder to update my settings.  When I follow all the prompts, it leads me to the payment section which is $399.00.  What's with that?

You might try the SEARCH feature here on the OGR Forum, as there has been LOTS of discussion about Photo Bucket and their new charges.

You're not alone, man. That "big photo bucket reminder" is seen all over the internet.

If you don't want to pay this new fee that they've imposed, you have to put those photos on different service.

The age of "free stuff on the internet" has ended, for the most part.

Anyone know of a good image hosting website to use instead?

Upload them directly to the forum, it's very easy.  They will not disappear when a hosting company decides to kick everyone off.

Or you can use Google Photos for free up to 15 GB and then pay $20 annually for up to 100 GB.

What, me worry?

Shutterfly.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Upload them directly to the forum, it's very easy.  They will not disappear when a hosting company decides to kick everyone off.

Are there many internet websites that require photos come from one of these places?

All of my photos are on my computer, and I insert them directly in various ways, on all the different interest websites that I visit.

I think maybe Model Railroader magazine's website requires third party hosting?

Goshawk posted:

Anyone know of a good image hosting website to use instead?

Depends - do you equate good with free?  Flickr is still available

Image Shack has a fee comparable to old lowest tier Photobucket account

You can get you own internet host account for about $4/month.

FOTKI less a year than a week of PB.....using for 15 years or so....

Photobucket thought it could sustain itself, from AD revenue, but it was not the case.  In June 2017, they decided, that to maintain the site, it would have to start charging for it's 3rd party hosting service.    The fees range from $60-$400, for you to use the site for 3rd party hosting.  If you have photos stored on Photobucket, you can retrieve your photos, back on to your computer, which can then be transferred to a flashdrive, if your number of photos are very large.  Most sites or forums can post photos directly from your computer, without the need to use a 3rd party hosting site.

For the other forums, or website that require 3rd party hosting, to upload photos, you will need to find another service that is still free, or very low priced.  Of the train related forums, that I visit, the one that is the biggest loser, is Classic Toy Train.  They require 3rd party hosting, to link photos.  The others simply use direct uploads.

I had started to detest Photobucket anyway.  At first it was great, then they improved it and it became difficult to use, then they improved it more and it became useless on the iPad, and then I learned how to directly upload.

By the time they started asking for big bucks, I was already gone!

"If you have photos stored on Photobucket, you can retrieve your photos, back on to your computer"

They never left my computer, so, why would I need to retrieve them? 

Big Jim posted:

"If you have photos stored on Photobucket, you can retrieve your photos, back on to your computer"

They never left my computer, so, why would I need to retrieve them? 

Just a FYI....many folks load directly from a phone or enabled camera....so those that do that will need to fetch them from PB.

Big Jim posted:

"If you have photos stored on Photobucket, you can retrieve your photos, back on to your computer"

They never left my computer, so, why would I need to retrieve them? 

As wacky as it seems, there are folks out there who think uploading their stuff to a cloud service means they can delete their local copies, otherwise known as "What's a backup?"

---PCJ

Not sure they allow embedding - but Google Photos is very nice.

If you have Google account - I think all you need to do is add the Google Photos App to your phone  - a lot of Android builds have it pre-installed and you just have to activate it.

Every picture you take on your phone is automatically uploaded to Google Photos - so when you get home or wherever - its easy to browse/share your recent photos from your PC. And - you don't have to worry about deleting photos from your phone to free up space - since they are already backed up.

This is a big, hosted forum platform, that comes with image hosting - not sure why its even an issue...upload here!

30 years as a IT Analyst trained me to back up the back up.

been using shutterfly on some of my other sites, really pleased with it.

AMCDave posted:

30 years as a IT Analyst trained me to back up the back up.

And back that up too!

Started IT career on IBM 360/20 in '72.

 And I would suggest retrieval asap before they decide to dump the data.

  Retrieving all at once isn't possible either. I'm only able to get back a few items at a time before my non-paid account becomes limited by them. At that point I can only browse. It takes a day or two to reset and works again. Help is not available for nonpaying members either.

 I might get them all back by spring  Luckily most are blurry 5mpx at best and of trains. I don't care too much about them, but find the approach to the whole thing  as dissappointing as the corporate religious spam;.... Stopped just shy of claiming those 8x10s were tickets to the Pearly Gate.s.

Or I can pay an outlandish amount and get my pictures today.....kinda like paying for a hostage? blackmail? bait & switch? 

The service before hand was hardly worth 10% of the new charge even at it's best.

  The ad campaign could have worked but they let their advertizers run the show and the invasive ads abused the system to it's limit of remaining funtional.

 I like to support "free by ad use" by actually reading/watching them. For my trouble  I got my first browser hijack of a homepage redirect from a PB ad ...PB didn't feel responsible and the ad ran for quite a while. I didn't use them much after that either, just an old data storage bank full of my Lionel photos.

Oh, I was warned about the change alright ...but couldn't access the site correctly to do anything about it for months because heir system stopped working right as they updated , or failed to update things, and further intergrated the useless app  by forcing the dumbed down mobile view vs a desktop, despite browser requests for a desktop view........

I.e.,  fyi, the app doesn't work on Droids either.

I have multiple backups of everything on my computer, and a couple of them are off-line and impossible to reach unless I want them reached.  When I cancelled my PB account, I just told them to get lost, I didn't have to download any pictures.