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That is interesting. Like you I really hate the way they went about their conversion from free to pay large money or get screwed. Had they been up front at first I think many would have signed on. Now I believe it's too late for that.

They will get no money from me. That bridge has been burned by them.

 

Soooo, I get an e-mail tonight that PhotoBucket is now offering a $99/yr non-commercial 3rd party hosting option...
Offer only good for 7 days...

Personally, it could be $12/yr and I still wouldn't give them a dime after what they did.

Had they offered this up front, I probably would have been fine with it ($8.25/month is worth it to me), but this just seems to be a feeble gesture to come back from an obviously failed attempt to take advantage of their customers.

Still hope they die a fiery death, or whatever the business equivalent of that is....

 

Yeah, it definitely sucks! No notice at all, and then you find out they're going to extort you for four bills per annum to use the hosting service. They will tell you that they're still allowing you to store photos on the site, but BFD! I have hard drives for that. If they had given a little notice and charged something like $5.99 a month I might have gone for it, but now? I say F***-em.

 

I used to hotlink things from PB. Nothing there I can't lose so it is not a big deal to me, but it is a major pain to other's. How long did people think they'd have a free ride? About a month ago a message appeared telling me to turn off my ad block in order to use PB. I did & received an avalanche of so many pop ups that it made PB unusable. Yep the handwriting was on the wall. The way they have gone about this is really poor. They gave people no time to get their ducks in a row. Now if you want to use those hot links it's $399 or lose them. Worse yet if anyone is using PB to store their pictures oh man are they in trouble.

As far as Flickr & Imgur go this very same thing could very well haven there too.

I've used smugmug for a number of years now. It costs me $3.99 a month for the basic plan that does everything I need. Here is a coupon code gVhOoc1hjCn5Q that will save you $5.00 if you decide to use them.

https://www.smugmug.com/

Whatever you decide to do make sure your pictures are kept in a safe place & backed up in 3 places.

 

There are no guaranties in life. Yes smugmug could go belly up, but they have a good business model that works for them & has for years.

PB was stupid, they gave it away for so long & got to the point where they'd have to close with so little income & all the folks taking advantage of that free storage. Yes many millions of broken links & that's a shame. A months warning would have been great. $399 a year is crazy. ut:

One more thing they are not loyal customers. They are-were people taking advantage of a huge free loophole that has now closed. Only to be reopened with a large amount of $$$.

 

Not sure if this is of any interest, but it does work. For how long until they say pay up is anyones guess.

PostImage.org

 

More PB stuff.....

https://petapixel.com/2017/07/01/photobucket-just-broke-billions-photos-embedded-web/

 

This is linked from my photobucket page.



Still works for m e, When are they going to turn it off?

 

Maybe they just sent you the bill for $399.

 

This may be a stupid question (probably) but how much would it cost and how hard would it be to set up a private hosting site? Anyone know how much the software would be? Is there much maintenance involved? I'm not talking about a commercial site that is marketed to the public, just something that is small and private, with the members sharing the expenses. As far as I am concerned, I am a computer dummy, but I would volunteer to be treasurer to keep the money straight. Many years ago, I volunteered to be a treasurer...and WWW.type2.com was born, in pretty much the same way. Tell me how dumb I am ....

 

I still use PB without paying them anything.:confused5:

 

Do you have to wade through an avalanche of pop up adds to use it? My account is still there, but it is a painful site to use now. I'll use a more painless hot- linking site now.

 

Me too, I wouldn't mind paying for the service, I actually did pay annually because of the amount of storage I was using, but they upped the limit on the free account and it was no longer necessary to have a pay account.

Problem is, they aren't offering 3rd party hosting in anything but the Top Tier account ($399.00 annually) if they would have offered it in their lower tier accounts, I would stay with them.
But honestly, after this, I'm pulling everything and looking for another solution, with the way this went down, I'd be surprised if they even last out the year as a company, at this point even if they changed their policy, this left such a bad taste in people's mouths, most will never use them again.
Everyone that uses them, just needs to be prepared for the site to disappear without a trace.

 

It looks like it still works for me.

I just logged into PB
Selected a photo.
Copied the IMG tag and pasted it here.

:ihih:

 

Here are all the boob pictures I have on Photobucket.

With MINI content too!

 

This is from my account.

 

I posted this on my thread yesterday.