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 Post subject: Photobucket to end free 3rd party hosting of internet photos
PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:19 am 
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Got an email this morning:

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WE NOTICED THAT YOU HAVE BEEN USING
PHOTOBUCKET FOR 3RD PARTY HOSTING*

*What is 3rd Party Hosting?
Photobucket defines 3rd party hosting as the action of embedding an image or photo onto another website. For example, using the <img> tag to embed or display a JPEG image from your Photobucket account on another website such as a forum, Etsy, eBay auction listings, a blog, etc. is definitively 3rd party hosting.

Our Terms of Service does not allow 3rd party hosting with your current account level.

Going forward, this service will not be free, each account holder has to upgrade to a paid account that will cost $400/year. I guess all my record cover photos will start disappearing from IMWAN now, and I'll have to find another service to do the job, ugh...


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:26 am 
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I noticed a lot of my pics from older threads suddenly no longer display on IMWAN.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:49 am 
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$400? Bye bye Photobucket.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 10:20 am 
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Let's hope imgur doesn't follow suit.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 11:17 am 
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Guys, please switch to http://www.imgur.com for all your image uploads. It's the easiest and most reliable image repository, and works best at IMWAN. Other places just have too many issues for consistent forum posting, this Photobucket mess being the latest one.

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 Post subject: Photobucket to end free 3rd party hosting of internet photos
PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:02 pm 
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I switched several years ago and never looked back. So simple and Photobucket was becoming a huge pain the ass even before all this with ads and site interface.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 1:24 pm 
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I've been seeing this at a couple of the guitar boards I'm on. The reaction has been similar to Larry's, but much less polite. $400/year? I'm hosting my own for less than a quarter of that, and that includes web pages, e-mail and stuff I don't even use.

I saw a blurb somewhere that the biggest thing Photobucket will gain from this is the status of being one of the biggest examples of how not to transform into a pay service.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 1:41 pm 
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imgur is the way to go. There is even a Chrome (and Firefox) extension so you don't have to hassle beyond a couple of right mouse clicks to get an image there and get the link to share it.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 6:05 pm 
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I dumped Photobucket this morning after getting their email.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:13 am 
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What do you think of Flickr? That's what I've been using.

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 Post subject: Photobucket to end free 3rd party hosting of internet photos
PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:30 am 
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Switch to Imgur before a similar thing happens to Flickr.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 9:53 pm 
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Rokin Robin of Locksley wrote:
Going forward, this service will not be free, each account holder has to upgrade to a paid account that will cost $400/year. I guess all my record cover photos will start disappearing from IMWAN now, and I'll have to find another service to do the job, ugh...

That's just stupid. I pay less than that for my domain name and hosting, and my host lets me sell pics too.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 10:03 pm 
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Linda wrote:
Guys, please switch to http://www.imgur.com for all your image uploads. It's the easiest and most reliable image repository, and works best at IMWAN. Other places just have too many issues for consistent forum posting, this Photobucket mess being the latest one.

How does Linda pronounce 'imgur'?

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 10:20 pm 
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Brotoro wrote:
Linda wrote:
Guys, please switch to http://www.imgur.com for all your image uploads. It's the easiest and most reliable image repository, and works best at IMWAN. Other places just have too many issues for consistent forum posting, this Photobucket mess being the latest one.

How does Linda pronounce 'imgur'?

"Image-urr".

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 Post subject: Photobucket to end free 3rd party hosting of internet photos
PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 10:22 pm 
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Bannings: Bannings? We don't need no stinkin' bannings!
Oh. I thought it would be "I'm jur", as in "I'm jur best choice for hosting images!"

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 10:24 pm 
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But..... What if it's really "IM-GRRRRR?"

Where's the inventor of the GIF when we need him?

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 Post subject: Photobucket to end free 3rd party hosting of internet photos
PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 10:29 pm 
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Imgur's founder Alan Schaaf pronounces it "image-urr", so that's what I go with.

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 Post subject: Photobucket to end free 3rd party hosting of internet photos
PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 10:53 pm 
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Well that's anti-climactic.

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 Post subject: Photobucket to end free 3rd party hosting of internet photos
PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 11:00 pm 
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For some reason this discussion puts me in mind of Star Trek- The Motion Picture's V'Ger.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 11:21 pm 
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I never even considered it might be Image -ur, but I like it.
And, for the record, I've never tried to pronounce it all. Just bookmarked it and don't even think about the name.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 11:59 pm 
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I'm Juan. I'm Gurr. This is the way I will continue to pronounce two of these words that make up our world.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 2:35 pm 
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ted262 wrote:
But..... What if it's really "IM-GRRRRR?"

That's how I've been saying it. Oops.


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