218 replies to this topic

[lawrence]

Has anyone else noticed this? New terms of service are basically a ransom asking for 399 dollers to show 3rd party photos

I know mine are now all gone since the start of my thread

Any suggestions people? Personally 399 is taking the piss!

[Steve220]

Yeh, sod that. Will be going with someone else.

[lawrence]

Sad thing is I've got flipping 8 years worth of photos for my blog that now don't show. Currently making a backup from photo bucket incase they doing anything more to the accounts. 

 

Might start a new build thread with a new hosting company

[nicklouse]

what a pain. Imageshack did this a few years ago.

 

looks like the business plans don't work.

 

might have to look at hosting it my self.

[Icey]

There's so many options out there now that it really doesn't matter.

 

Imgur would be the first place to look at, if you don't like that you can create your own public folders in Dropbox, Google Drive and most other storage services. If you want it truly personal/self managed, create a public/web enabled S3 bucket in AWS (or the equivalent on Azure). You could also put it in a public album on Facebook - there are a lot of options!

[Midas Mk1]

Facebook private album to just you, and copy the url image link. 

 

Gave up on photo bucket ages ago, got too clunky, slow, and behind with the times imo. 

[Vinay-RS]

Facebook private album to just you, and copy the url image link. 

 

Gave up on photo bucket ages ago, got too clunky, slow, and behind with the times imo. 

Do Facebook albums retain the image in its original quality? 

[Vinay-RS]

Trying to use google drive. How does one use the shareable link from google drive with an IMG code? 

[The Matt]

That's ruined a LOT of threads on a LOT of fora. All of my project threads, guides etc are now scrap.

Nice one photobucket. Total greed. Who's going to pay $400 to restore their IMG links?

[The Matt]

#thedaythepicturesdied

[Vinay-RS]

I guess people will have to modify their build threads if they want to keep them going. 

[nicklouse]

to be honest I think will ask mine to be locked and start a new one with just some abbreviated pics to cover the last few years, not worth going back and adding new links.

[sonikk4]

I guess people will have to modify their build threads if they want to keep them going. 

 

Can you imagine trying to redo a build thread that is 8 years or more old.

[The Matt]

Can it really be 400 dollars?

Wonder if they've been hacked or something?

[Midas Mk1]

Considering tnt was hacked the other day, I think you could be on to something Matt