What is Photobucket thinking!?!?

Zick · Jun 30, 2017

PhotoBucket now charges $399 for third-party hosted images - gHacks Tech News

Apparently now they feel something they been giving/allowing for many many years is worth $400/yr. :thumbdown:
No way is it worth that much but this is crap because now all my pictures are screwed up and even changing to another hosting site would mean having to go back and re-link all the photo's over again...

smstonypoint · Jun 30, 2017

Zick said:
PhotoBucket now charges $399 for third-party hosted images - gHacks Tech News

Apparently now they feel something they been giving/allowing for many many years is worth $400/yr. :thumbdown:
No way is it worth that much but this is crap because now all my pictures are screwed up and even changing to another hosting site would mean having to go back and re-link all the photo's over again...

That explains the image I have seen on several TBN posts this morning.

Steve

turnkey4099 · Jun 30, 2017

smstonypoint said:
That explains the image I have seen on several TBN posts this morning.

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Steve

I didn't think I had any third party but I got a notice they have disabled some of my account because of it (I am still on the freeby altho they keep bugging me to upgrade)

Anyone have a suggestion for another free photo hosting site?

frugalangler · Jun 30, 2017

Would something like DropBox work? You can set public folders and then share the link out I believe, never done it but I think it works that way.

Wagtail · Jun 30, 2017

Sounds like Photobucket has enough people's images in their archives that they reckon they've got their 'clients' by the short&curlys.

It's a form of extortion.

dieselcrawler · Jun 30, 2017

I had no idea... bummed out, I have thousands of pictures stored in PB.

drssg · Jun 30, 2017

turnkey4099 said:
Anyone have a suggestion for another free photo hosting site?

I think there are a bunch of free options. If you sign up for a Hotmail account, you can use OneDrive. It will automatically sync to a folder on your PC, you can share folders, and they have a mobile client.

mopardude318 · Jul 1, 2017

i have years of picture posting on various forums using photobucket...im pretty dang pissed off they'd pull this crap...dang near ALL photos I've posted are now gone...

im not giving photobucket a **** penny.

flyerdan · Jul 2, 2017

I think that photobucket thought that it would be big and clever to get in on this ransomeware craze that's going about. They might get one out of every 10000 or so to pay up until they find a workaround, but they've effectively deposited something entirely unpalatable in their mess kit.

vvanders · Jul 2, 2017

Definitely a high price but bandwidth isn't free. I pay for a flickr account just for this reason.

If you're using something for 'free' then you're not using a product, you are the product.

sandman2234 · Jul 2, 2017

vvanders said:
Definitely a high price but bandwidth isn't free. I pay for a flickr account just for this reason.

If you're using something for 'free' then you're not using a product, you are the product.

So what does a flickr account cost per year?
David from jax

John Fitzgerald · Jul 2, 2017

This messed up a lot of different forum sites. I think PB will reverse it, or they might lose all their business, and be gone. Shot themselves in the foot, IMO.

vvanders · Jul 2, 2017

sandman2234 said:
So what does a flickr account cost per year?
David from jax

$50/yr which is much more in line with actual bandwidth costs. If you're real technical you could even use S3 which is pennies per GB but not as user friendly.

ovrszd · Jul 2, 2017

I hope it bankrupts them.

I won't give them a dime. I'll pay someone else before I pay them.

rustydollar · Jul 2, 2017

I'm surprised PB didn't demand bit coin to complete their extortion.

Oldpath05 · Jul 2, 2017

Haven't been on PB since this past winter, Had an awful time to log in tonight, my pictures wouldn't show up till about 6 tries then when I click on one , the picture didn't want to load so I gave up for now. Almost like the same issues I had with them over a year ago, nothing moves, everything is molasses there.

So over a year ago I took a 2 month crash course on how to download direct from the com. >> TBN, I might of been 3 months trying to figure that out. I probably drove a couple people here crazy trying to explain it to me , thankfully some members here sent images, diagrams, drawings, blueprints, pictures, pointing arrows and a couple slaps to the head.

John Fitzgerald · Jul 2, 2017

I saw some posts elsewhere about a denial of service attack being launched against photobucket in retaliation for ransoming 3rd party hosting. Maybe that is slowing the site to a crawl.

rustyshakelford · Jul 2, 2017

I'm pretty spun about it. It's not even a realistic cost either and I got an email the day they did this. No warning before hand. Screw photobucket

Brett

vvanders · Jul 3, 2017

Yeah, it certainly sucks but they're fully within their "rights" to do it. All the more reason to keep a proper backup and not trust free services with anything critical.