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Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:02 pm
by Kip
June 30, 2017

Until further notice do not use Photobucket. Photobucket has decided to impose a fee for third party hosting, the very service that they promoted. They have, without notice, eliminated the ability to view photos from this and any other forum, blog etc unless you pay an annual fee of $399.99. This is not a ransom....It amounts to Extortion. We no longer recommend Photobucket under any circumstances.

Please consider using other hosts including "imgur" which are still currently free services. We will continue to explore alternative methods for photo usage on this forum.

It is highly recommended that, if you are able, to download your photos/albums from Photobucket to your own computer.

Re: Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:28 pm
by neilj568
Thanks for the heads up - downloaded all my photos just now (not too many luckily)

Re: Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:37 pm
by Ian Mc
How do you do that?

Re: Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:38 pm
by Camberwell
Shocking - I'm not sure what logic they were using/not using when they set this price: surely they will lose most of their customer base?

Re: Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:53 pm
by Camberwell
Ian Mc wrote:How do you do that?
Open an album - on the centre right of your screen should be a group of Actions where you will see Download Album. It creates a zip file for you to download...

Re: Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:57 pm
by CHZacc
Thank you, doing it now

Re: Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:00 pm
by Ian Mc
Thanks.
Is there a way to transfer pics within Pb from a general page to specific albums?

Re: Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 4:39 pm
by footycrazy
I download every single picture ( 1000 + ) in less than an hour. all copied back to my laptop now by clicking on a folder, opening the picture, then on the right hand side click download. OK i had to do this lots and lots of times but it was pretty easy.

I did this very quickly for each folder and now have every single picture i ever uploaded to photobucket and can now send them all to Flickr or anywhere else i please. Whilst still leaving a copy of them on Photobucket for when they realise they have been arses.

Re: Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 6:58 pm
by Psalty
Camberwell wrote:Shocking - I'm not sure what logic they were using/not using when they set this price: surely they will lose most of their customer base?
They have customers?

Re: Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 7:59 pm
by Dancematt
I doubt photobucket will be around much longer at this rate. U suck photobucket. Uve sucked for years now. Bloody adverts. Crashing my phone when I'm trying to upload or download.

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Re: Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 9:51 pm
by ItsAliveJim
Dancematt wrote:I doubt photobucket will be around much longer at this rate. U suck photobucket. Uve sucked for years now. Bloody adverts. Crashing my phone when I'm trying to upload or download.

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I'm clicking an imaginary 'Like' button :clap:

Re: Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 10:07 am
by kiter65
Help...anyone know how to post pics using imgur on iPad only seem to be able to post link :oops:

Re: Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 10:11 am
by kiter65
^^^^^or a site which can be used by a idiot with an iPad :D

Re: Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 10:11 am
by Amor Vincit Omnia
kiter65 wrote:Help...anyone know how to post pics using imgur on iPad only seem to be able to post link :oops:
Sorry, I tried editing your post to insert IMG tags, but all I got was the little unavailable image thing (white x on black square and "image" inside dotted lines.)

Re: Effective Immediately - Do Not Use Photobucket

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 11:26 am
by Kip
Now I cannot even download the albums. I cannot tell if it is the proliferation of ads or they lead you to the promised land only to block you. :censored: