Photobucket is dead to me

Photonucket just blocked all third party hosting. Which means the hundreds of photos I've posted here and thousands of photos you've posted here via Photobucket are now hosed.

I've already made the move to Flickr but now all of the old posts are pictureless.

Awesome. :evil:

What, they want people to pay now?

Yep, discovered this f*ck up on another forum I visit.
RIP, Photobucket.
The problem is all those build and "how to" threads are now defunct - so much for digital technology.

Cheapest option they are offering to continue using third party hosting is $399 a year! Considering there are still free options for it on other sites I think they are committing commercial suicide.

Bizarrely the pictures I have linked from P'bucket are still here at the moment.

Ian

Photobucket has gotten out of control with ads. Good riddance, unless all the photos that have been posted previously are now gone? The VIP forum membership is the easiest way to post photos, and your money supports this great resource.
Bill

$399 a year is absurd.

I pay $39 a year for PictureTrail COMPLETELY AD FREE and I've been posting since 2002, with plenty of space left.

Gotta respect their business model... get millions of folk around the world dependant on your free service... then charge for it...!

B*stards!

Well, I am a VIP member but still only know how to post pics via photo bucket, probably because I've become dependant on another global corporate blackmailer who sells IT products named after a fruit that keeps the doctor away....!

Whenever I try to upload pics from my iPad they're too big.

I know folk have posted on here about various apps and work around etc... but the reality regarding IT and me is, unless the answer is clearly stated in the first 3 lines, you've lost me. Or I've lost interest. Or both!

Can someone please give us a 'picture posting for Dummies 101'... again?

Maybe its your attitude. Still working for me.

Hard to believe but there it is. They sure screwed most of us really good didn't they.

Links still work for me.

I'm using Flickr which is working fine but I worry about what will happen to them next now that the Yahoo ship has sunk.

Just use google drive, and use this link to generate embeddable image URL's

http://gdurl.com/

Mine's still working.

Stillreel said:

Mine's still working.

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mine is not. it is starting to look like Ludwig posts. Oh no.... :shock:
T

Amazon Prime Photos.
I'm already a Prime member (I love Amazon). Maybe you are too. Unlimited photos.
Download all your stuff off PB and upload to Prime Photos.

Fast Eddie said:

Whenever I try to upload pics from my iPad they're too big.

I know folk have posted on here about various apps and work around etc... but the reality regarding IT and me is, unless the answer is clearly stated in the first 3 lines, you've lost me. Or I've lost interest. Or both!

Can someone please give us a 'picture posting for Dummies 101'... again?

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Fast Eddie,

Regarding the process by which VIP members may post photos, try the following. But before attempting such a death defying advanced technology maneuver you’ll have to summon all your powers of observation and concentration for you’ll have to get past the 3rd line to realize the entire process. Or maybe we can trick you say the beginning of the document is simply preamble and background, and the real meat of the matter is actually only the final 2 lines not 3!

The image to be posted cannot be a 2+ GB photo, so has to be compressed. So view image with whatever you use on your computer and hopefully said viewer has the ability to compress the image. For example, I use MS Photo Manager (should be on all versions of Windows if you search for it), and under “Edit Picture” you can compress the image you are viewing. The choices provided for compression are the following; Documents (saves image to 1024 x 768 pixels, which makes a 2 MB image about 220 KB), Web Pages (saves image to 448 x 356 pixels, compresses 2 MB image to 43 KB), and E-mail messages (saves image to 160 x 160 pixels, compresses 2 MB image to 5.5 KB). I always use the 1024 x 768 choice, or about 200 KB after compression, which works fine with the AN site.

Once the image is saved in the lower resolution form you are good to go. When responding to any topic on the forum, below the text box you are typing in is the section pictured below where you can choose the desired image and upload it.



Once uploaded you can insert the image anywhere you desire in the document by 1st moving the cursor to the desired location and then hitting the “place inline” button. There, that wasn’t so hard was it?

That's awesome, thanks for trying so hard to assist a Luddite.

Sadly you underestimated the level of my incompetence...

I fell at the first hurdle; I cannot fathom how to resize photos on my iPad.

Anyone...?

BTW, anyone remember Peanuts (i.e. Snoopy and Charlie Brown)?

Can you remember how adults were portrayed?

Whenever they spoke, all you heard was an intelligible "wha, wha, wha" noise.

Well, that's what I hear when people talk IT...!

Eddie
you mess with an IPad - what the hell is that?
My granddaughter fiddles with some tablet thing which I cannot fathom for the life of me, is that a similar contraption?

Sending pictures via email is so quick and easy I wonder how such complication as PhotoBucket ever became necessary.

If I get a big picture I usually save it in Paint as a jpeg file, and that reduces the size of the file considerably, otherwise a large file (in MB size) takes too long to send or receive.

I gave up on PhotoBucket some time back

Fast Eddie said:

That's awesome, thanks for trying so hard to assist a Luddite.

Sadly you underestimated the level of my incompetence...

I fell at the first hurdle; I cannot fathom how to resize photos on my iPad.

Anyone...?

BTW, anyone remember Peanuts (i.e. Snoopy and Charlie Brown)?

Can you remember how adults were portrayed?

Whenever they spoke, all you heard was an intelligible "wha, wha, wha" noise.

Well, that's what I hear when people talk IT...!

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Eddie,
E-mail the picture to yourself. When you do that you will be asked what size you want the picture to be. Choose either Medium or Small and see how that works out.
Pete

I downloaded a free program called PhotoScape that lets me crop and re-size my photos and saves them with much less space than paintbrush and other programs.

First I crop the subject down to eliminate surroundings that I don't need, especially from iphone photos with lots of extra sky and foreground.

Next, I re-size the image to 800 pixels maximum dimension to the longest sides.

When I save it, I can reduce the quality of the saved image as much as I like, to arrive at the file size I want; I typically reduce images that I intend to post on forums to 800x### (about 800x600). For beauty shots of bikes, I use 1000x750. That means my file size stays at under 100K in most cases.

You can store a LOT of good photos on a free hosting site if you keep them that small.