The Detailers Cafe
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Too Stroked on July 24, 2017, 09:50:42 AM
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I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here in this situation, so let's see if any of this sounds familiar. A few weeks ago I got an e-mail from Photobucket informing me that if I didn't sign up for a much more expensive account with them, they would disable third party hosting of my pictures on other sites. Since every one of the pictures in my various posts here is hosted via Photobucket, if I don't sign up for one of their new $399 / year accounts, all of the pictures in my posts will disappear. The pictures will still be available to me in Photobucket and I can even download - and upload them someplace else.
So here's my dilemma. I have all of my eggs in one basket - Photobucket. I've never had a problem with their service - until now. The easiest thing would be for me to simply send them $399 and be happy for one more year. I don't know about you guys, but I think $399 a year is highway robbery though. I have two more weeks to make my decision before all of my pics disappear on this site and several others.
So what are your thoughts on this one?
Tom
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F that! I lost my phone a year or two back and was devastated as I lost all of my pictures that were on it. I got over it. $399 is insane. Maybe $39.99.
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Set yourself up your own domain and host them yourself. Much cheaper.
or use an FTP service. zftp.com $8.99 a month.
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Same here, you can see the issue in all my threads.
I'm not coughing up that kind of dough for a service that is still free from other vendors. It sucks because all my links are broken, but it is what it is.
I'll be downloading all my pics (close to 1000 of them) and re-uploading into another service. I'll also be exploring what Doug is doing so I don't have to rely on someone else.
One new option for me is google drive. I can't see them tacking on a massive cost in the future.
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Same here, you can see the issue in all my threads.
I'm not coughing up that kind of dough for a service that is still free from other vendors. It sucks because all my links are broken, but it is what it is.
I'll be downloading all my pics (close to 1000 of them) and re-uploading into another service. I'll also be exploring what Doug is doing so I don't have to rely on someone else.
One new option for me is google drive. I can't see them tacking on a massive cost in the future.
Yea, that's pretty much what I was thinking of doing. I e-mailed Photobucket's Customer Service folks and said that if they came up with an option to allow 3rd party hosting for maybe $50-$100 a year I might be interested. I went on to say that if they couldn't do that, then they'll be losing a long time customer. I wonder how many folks will just tell them to take a hike?
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I'd be in that camp that tells them to take a hike. I have a Photobucket account but I never use it anymore. I must have missed the email.
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My honest and humble opinion is they can go suck an egg! There is no way I'm going to pony up $400 for them to host my pictures just so I can share them on a forum.
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Use google pictures and they are free storage or buy the 10 per month storage fee
photobucket sucks. Technology and the market has passed them by
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I still haven’t pulled off all my pics. All the ads on the site make it a major PITA.
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Same here, you can see the issue in all my threads.
I'm not coughing up that kind of dough for a service that is still free from other vendors. It sucks because all my links are broken, but it is what it is.
I'll be downloading all my pics (close to 1000 of them) and re-uploading into another service. I'll also be exploring what Doug is doing so I don't have to rely on someone else.
One new option for me is google drive. I can't see them tacking on a massive cost in the future.
Yea, that's pretty much what I was thinking of doing. I e-mailed Photobucket's Customer Service folks and said that if they came up with an option to allow 3rd party hosting for maybe $50-$100 a year I might be interested. I went on to say that if they couldn't do that, then they'll be losing a long time customer. I wonder how many folks will just tell them to take a hike?
I have a lot there too but I am not paying jack to keep them....most of my photos are now in google photos...but since I use TAP-A-TALK to post, photo bucket isn't my concert. Sadly, many of our old posts on F150OL will be gone.
Our legacy.....frown. LOL
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Same here, you can see the issue in all my threads.
I'm not coughing up that kind of dough for a service that is still free from other vendors. It sucks because all my links are broken, but it is what it is.
I'll be downloading all my pics (close to 1000 of them) and re-uploading into another service. I'll also be exploring what Doug is doing so I don't have to rely on someone else.
One new option for me is google drive. I can't see them tacking on a massive cost in the future.
Yea, that's pretty much what I was thinking of doing. I e-mailed Photobucket's Customer Service folks and said that if they came up with an option to allow 3rd party hosting for maybe $50-$100 a year I might be interested. I went on to say that if they couldn't do that, then they'll be losing a long time customer. I wonder how many folks will just tell them to take a hike?
I have a lot there too but I am not paying jack to keep them....most of my photos are now in google photos...but since I use TAP-A-TALK to post, photo bucket isn't my concert. Sadly, many of our old posts on F150OL will be gone.
Our legacy.....frown. LOL
I can go you one better. Every single one of my pics (here, F150 OL, etc.) were "third party hosted" by Photobucket. So I lost everything. I too refuse to pay them money to put them back up. I did recently invest the better part of an afternoon downloading every single picture from Photobucket to allow me to upload them someplace else.
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Same here, you can see the issue in all my threads.
I'm not coughing up that kind of dough for a service that is still free from other vendors. It sucks because all my links are broken, but it is what it is.
I'll be downloading all my pics (close to 1000 of them) and re-uploading into another service. I'll also be exploring what Doug is doing so I don't have to rely on someone else.
One new option for me is google drive. I can't see them tacking on a massive cost in the future.
Yea, that's pretty much what I was thinking of doing. I e-mailed Photobucket's Customer Service folks and said that if they came up with an option to allow 3rd party hosting for maybe $50-$100 a year I might be interested. I went on to say that if they couldn't do that, then they'll be losing a long time customer. I wonder how many folks will just tell them to take a hike?
I have a lot there too but I am not paying jack to keep them....most of my photos are now in google photos...but since I use TAP-A-TALK to post, photo bucket isn't my concert. Sadly, many of our old posts on F150OL will be gone.
Our legacy.....frown. LOL
I can go you one better. Every single one of my pics (here, F150 OL, etc.) were "third party hosted" by Photobucket. So I lost everything. I too refuse to pay them money to put them back up. I did recently invest the better part of an afternoon downloading every single picture from Photobucket to allow me to upload them someplace else.
Yeah, same here. Only reasons why I used Photobucket was to post on here and F150OL. All well. Imgur seems to work Ok for sites I can’t use Tapatalk with. I’m really only active on three forums.
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So I am the only dope at F150OL that made albums there ?
:doh:
I even converted post Steve selling the place to the new albums and fought the photo merge issues from hell.
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So I am the only dope at F150OL that made albums there ?
:doh:
I even converted post Steve selling the place to the new albums and fought the photo merge issues from hell.
I think I did throw some pics into a album on their. I think it was mainly for a signature picture though.
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I think I did throw some pics into a album on their. I think it was mainly for a signature picture though.
I have 12+ albums there, depending on the topic; none are signature related. :redneck:
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TOM.....I have solved this....well partly
photobucket is holding all of our imagines hostage. Meaning they have removed the library and album download butting so you can get all your photos...in my case, around 2900 or so.
Bad news, they ARE holding third party hosting sites hostage but I just want my imagines.
If you go here...and pay, 1.99 cents, you can get all your photos...album by album and I am doing this right now.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/photobucket-album-downloa/jmpbbfglflhdhbmimlcacoojpkeopelc
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Also visit this link and add your name to the petitiion.
https://www.change.org/p/photobucket-reverse-the-photobucket-third-party-rule (https://www.change.org/p/photobucket-reverse-the-photobucket-third-party-rule)
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also, doesn't appear there is much discussion (none) of photobucket issues at F150 ol....
strange.
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TOM.....I have solved this....well partly
photobucket is holding all of our imagines hostage. Meaning they have removed the library and album download butting so you can get all your photos...in my case, around 2900 or so.
Bad news, they ARE holding third party hosting sites hostage but I just want my imagines.
If you go here...and pay, 1.99 cents, you can get all your photos...album by album and I am doing this right now.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/photobucket-album-downloa/jmpbbfglflhdhbmimlcacoojpkeopelc
Thanks JP, but I already manually downloaded every single image I had in Photobucket to my laptop. My grand plan was to upload all of them to a new site and then go back and edit all of my posts to enable the new links and get the pictures back up in them. For some reason I ran out of energy and didn't do the last part - yet. The easiest thing would be for PB to come up with a more reasonable amount to charge for third part hosting. I'd probably be willing to pay $50/year or so, but not what they're demanding right now. Bastards!
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TOM.....I have solved this....well partly
photobucket is holding all of our imagines hostage. Meaning they have removed the library and album download butting so you can get all your photos...in my case, around 2900 or so.
Bad news, they ARE holding third party hosting sites hostage but I just want my imagines.
If you go here...and pay, 1.99 cents, you can get all your photos...album by album and I am doing this right now.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/photobucket-album-downloa/jmpbbfglflhdhbmimlcacoojpkeopelc
Thanks JP, but I already manually downloaded every single image I had in Photobucket to my laptop. My grand plan was to upload all of them to a new site and then go back and edit all of my posts to enable the new links and get the pictures back up in them. For some reason I ran out of energy and didn't do the last part - yet. The easiest thing would be for PB to come up with a more reasonable amount to charge for third part hosting. I'd probably be willing to pay $50/year or so, but not what they're demanding right now. Bastards!
Yeah that is pretty chicken shit of them...i mean they went from hero to one of the most hated companies on the net in record time. But the fact is, they know that third party hosting is also dying....and has been. BBB/SMF and other community sites are slowly dying...Facebook and other social sites are taking over. There are many aspects to the cafe that are not longer supported...several extensions are no longer updated and there is much less innovation.
It is my my hope that one day we can use Facebook Groups for the cafe and have this site remain up as long as SMF supports it...
Tapatalk has really made posting from smart phones very easy and they do offer 3rd party hosting on their server automatically.
That service is also free...for now but as other sites start to compete who knows they may do the same thing. The cafe doesn't have the traffic it once had and it is a costly site to keep. So, at some point we need to consider doing a migration...but not for a bit.
Carry on, sorry for the rant
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Thanks for the find and link to pay a little to get the pics. I'll be completing it this weekend. I get that it costs money to host and house data, but PB went way to extreme.