Seems My Point Is Entirely Missed...

[WAYNO]

 

[Pat-inCO]

Some of the photos have little more than novelty value, but many
photos have informational or collector value.
. . .
This PhotoBucket fiasco put quite a squeeze on the collectors communities,
from stamps to guns to coins to cars, and everything in-between.

Sounds like a lot of people have expected others to take care of
something they like/want.

 

[eveled]

The part I don't understand, if you do a Google search you can find some of my images. Then you click where it says visit page.

It will bring you here to the thread but the image is gone. Who is hosting that image now?

 

[Jimbo357mag]

Thanks Wayno, I hadn't thought about all the other forums and sites and organization that used Photobucked hosted pictures. Must be millions or maybe billions of pictures on the net that just disappeared overnight. I always thought the annoying advertising was what made the hosting possible. I guess I was wrong or that they aren't happy with just advertising dollars anymore. They want the users to pay an extraordinary amount for the same service. Yeah right??? Stuff it Photobucket.

Just glad all my pictures are still on my computer but unfortunately only a few are now hosted for the public. It's like starting over.

 

[yooper1]

I haven't paid attention but I googled the issue and found t hat they now want to charge users to embed images on third party websites.

Looks like they want high prices. Something like $399.00?

This article has a bit of info on it:
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/06/photobucket-complaints-over-charging/

Here is a screenshot of an alert one user got:

 

[Pat-inCO]

Let me see if I understand what has happened.

"People" have put their photos on Photo-Buc and then deleted them from
their own computer? That's what it sounds like. And now they are going
to have to pay up the ying-yang to get them back? . . . . . . . . . So sad.

My web site costs me $7/mo. (just had a significant price increase) I
have all of the pix I want to share on there, along with several hundred
web pages, along with a HUGE amount of documentation I have either
created, or been part of the development of. That said, I have used less
than ten percent of the default storage I get from my service provider.

Sorry, I do not understand.
I thought you paid for what you got, either by working for it, or paying
money to someone else for the service.

 

[WAYNO]

Let me see if I understand what has happened.

"People" have put their photos on Photo-Buc and then deleted them from
their own computer? That's what it sounds like. And now they are going
to have to pay up the ying-yang to get them back? . . . . . . . . . So sad.

My web site costs me $7/mo. (just had a significant price increase) I
have all of the pix I want to share on there, along with several hundred
web pages, along with a HUGE amount of documentation I have either
created, or been part of the development of. That said, I have used less
than ten percent of the default storage I get from my service provider.

Sorry, I do not understand.
I thought you paid for what you got, either by working for it, or paying
money to someone else for the service.

None of this discussion was my intention. All I was saying, is many of us have photos missing from this forum. If anybody needs to see any of them for research value, we can re-attach them. That's all.

And yes, I paid for the PhotoBucket service. That's why I am still able to access my material. Again, not what this thread was about. I was willing to pay forty bucks a year, but I'm not willing to pay 400 bucks a year. That's my choice.

 

[dougader]

$40/year at smugmug includes 3rd party hosting. I kicked the pop-up, screen-freezing morons at Photobucket to the curbs years ago.

 

[Heliman]

WAYNO, my process to vacate Photobucket involved probably 8 hours of computer time. I didn’t have albums so I had to delete them one image at a time. There were some images that I had to download to my computer because Photobucket had the only existing Pics. Anyway, I now use Postimage to store a minimum number I use to post to 3rd parties. When I no longer need them, I delete them from the website and my computer. I do save some “important” images on my computer but not on Postimage. I learned my lesson with the Photobucket fiasco.....

Dave

 

[pete44ru]

The part I don't understand, if you do a Google search you can find some of my images.

Then you click where it says visit page.

It will bring you here to the thread but the image is gone.

Who is hosting that image now ?

AFAIK

Google is hosting the pics, which Google uploaded for Google's sole use.

Once Google uploaded the pic(s) to itself, they have the pic(s) forever, or until Google deletes it/them - and it doesn't matter whether the pic(s) are still hosted by the original cloud source, or not.

Although I haven't tried it (all my PB pics have been moved to another host or two), the url of the pic(s) now on Google "might" be able to be copied/pasted where wanted.


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[WAYNO]

WAYNO, my process to vacate Photobucket involved probably 8 hours of computer time. I didn’t have albums so I had to delete them one image at a time. There were some images that I had to download to my computer because Photobucket had the only existing Pics. Anyway, I now use Postimage to store a minimum number I use to post to 3rd parties. When I no longer need them, I delete them from the website and my computer. I do save some “important” images on my computer but not on Postimage. I learned my lesson with the Photobucket fiasco.....

Dave

PhotoBucket was so easy, it made me lazy, and I relied on them too much. I have most of my photos on SD cards, so I could always retrieve them from there, but for this one-time shot, it was easiest to transfer them from PhotoBucket to my computer and/or Postimage. Yep. It was a good lesson.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

The part I don't understand, if you do a Google search you can find some of my images.
Then you click where it says visit page.

Google is hosting the pics, which Google uploaded for Google's sole use.

I have seen that also but what I see is a thumbnail that they will show you after a search, when you go there the photo is gone. Nice to know your old photos are floating around in space somewhere and never really go away.

 

[Galaxiedan]

Let me see if I understand what has happened.

"People" have put their photos on Photo-Buc and then deleted them from
their own computer? That's what it sounds like. And now they are going
to have to pay up the ying-yang to get them back? . . . . . . . . . So sad.

My web site costs me $7/mo. (just had a significant price increase) I
have all of the pix I want to share on there, along with several hundred
web pages, along with a HUGE amount of documentation I have either
created, or been part of the development of. That said, I have used less
than ten percent of the default storage I get from my service provider.

Sorry, I do not understand.
I thought you paid for what you got, either by working for it, or paying
money to someone else for the service.

The problem lies in the fact that photobucket allowed 3rd party hosting for many years. You had to put up with the ads but it was free. Many many people including myself that arent tech savy enough to have there own server, website, etc, invested time by using thier product how they intended.
All my images are saved in hard copy but think of the time lost. I frequent a car forum that has lots of stickies with how to tutorials with page after page of pics that now need redone.

 

[Don Lovel]

I salvaged a few items from Photobucket, but then it got so unreliable and I could not access my stuff to download it off there.
Go so frustrated the last time I tried to work on it, I just gave up and will eventually probably lose stuff but I won't have them hold my stuff for ransom no matter what fancy name they give the membership fees

 

[caryc]

One doesn't have to be really "tech smart" to create and have their own website. Around 13 or so years ago, I started making custom grips. I started selling them on Ebay. I got tired of that and decided that I needed my own website.

I went to Register.com and registered my domain name "clccustomgrips.com". Knowing absolutely nothing about creating a website, I purchased the book "Creating Web Pages For Dummies". The first thing I found out is that you need an FTP program for uploading files and pictures to your website. So I downloaded a free FTP program called "Coffee Cup" which I still use today.

I used the dummies book and managed to create my own website. It's not really that hard. Most of it was trial and error. But, for just showing pictures in a forum, you don't have to create a website. All you need is to get that domain name registered. You then just use the FTP program to upload your pictures to that domain name. Then use your domain name and picture file name in the URL to display your photos in any forum.

It's not rocket science.