Photobucket Disables 3rd Party Hosting
Forums of the world are discovering that Photobucket is ransoming image hosting for a cool $399 per year, certainly a pain in the ass.
So, as we don't like you uploading images directly to the forum (because it's bandwidth and it costs money that we don't have and you don't want to pay - so what about options.
What do you recommend?
Facebook does work, whether from a business page:
or a personal one:
So, as we don't like you uploading images directly to the forum (because it's bandwidth and it costs money that we don't have and you don't want to pay - so what about options.
What do you recommend?
Facebook does work, whether from a business page:
or a personal one:
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I am happy to contribute to a fund on an annual basis to keep the place open.
I've never had an issue with these.
Make it voluntary, then no one can claim any shenanigans...
So I'm....
*my complaint is I can't even copy annimage to move it somewhere else and as such replace all the pictures in my linenbacking thread.
im guessing PB will take a hit in the long run for no real prior notice to millions of customers who won't pay....
Tried imgur and worked, but took me a while. I'm old for this shit.
On to my own hosting....
As Bruce will tell you, when you host images on your server that everyone can see and use (share elsewhere) it really sucks the bandwidth out of your wallet. Personally for my own website I use a CDN service to reduce the load but even with that it's still a huge amount of bandwidth. Bruce's bandwidth usage therefore must be ginormously mega!
A quick Google Search and one can find the forums of the world are striking this problem with Photobucket and everyone is looking for and offering alternatives. I can also see the likes of FlickR, Imgur etc also being adverse to 3rd party hosting ultimately if everyone just jumps ship to these services, it does cost them money too so who knows, maybe they will head in the same direction or perhaps limit it.
I think using Facebook to host the images is probably a good option, they aren't going anywhere too soon and/or find someone who offers both a small free version as well as a paid version for the big boys which means individual users can slip in under the pricing radar.
A quick hunt and I found these people, I didn't join but they offers some good features - if someone does you could let us know
http://cloudinary.com/pricing
Spare a thought for Rick the man struggles to share his images here now, all this is going to do his head in..
My collection is ENORMOUS now...probably uncharted 6 star level! (Mel will need to confirm of course)
http://photobucket.com/terms
"The free account does not allow ... 3rd party image hosting."
BUT the law school exam Q is "can PB change its Terms of Use to affect legacy users?"
Um ... yup I think.
I get 500GB FOR $8 a month for MPC.guide:
https://www.register.com/product/webhosting/hosting-package-comparison.rcmx
PS - Who knew douche master Martin Shkreli also worked for Photobucket?!
mine are similar to your, but I think they are bootlegs.
Is gonna look a bit unattractive.... :grimacing:
Uhm...muhmmm....hummnnn...I am using Google Drive and third party hosting works when I link images into my Excel files, but cannot figure out (yet) how to use it here.
Likely you use Google Docs for Excel sheets?
In google drive you need to share the picture to everyone, copy the share link to notepad and then modify the link. Will paste an example later.
1) In google drive select the image you want to hotlink. Right Click Share --> "Anyone with the link can view"
2) Copy the share link to notepad e.g.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=<file_id>
3) Edit the link to
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=<file_id>&authuser=0.jpg
4) In VMPF go to image icon and paste the URL
I guess we just need a code generator and we will be all sorted!
Would following Sven's directions basically mimic what PB provided in terms of 3rd Party Hosting? (Obviously I need an alternative for all my photos but I want to retain the same level of privacy and security...)