It's killing the threads in this forum. Andy's GTR build thread has been smashed....
Shame what greed brings.
Shame what greed brings.
I got the same email from Photobucket about 3rd party hosting etc.
I have considered becoming a paying subscriber, but not for $400 a year....
In all fairness to them, they have hosted a lot of photos and significant bandwidth for a number of years - all gratis. Yes, it costs money, but I'm afraid they've taken it a bit too far.
Not sure what can be done about the images no longer being available here. It would be a good idea to upload your images in future posts directly to our forum's server.
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Another thought ---
What happens to your pictures you ONLY have stored on Photobucket if they decide to cut your limit to something like 100 images stored for free... Then if you want to get at the other two thousand - you have to pay up?
I have considered becoming a paying subscriber, but not for $400 a year....
In all fairness to them, they have hosted a lot of photos and significant bandwidth for a number of years - all gratis. Yes, it costs money, but I'm afraid they've taken it a bit too far.
Not sure what can be done about the images no longer being available here. It would be a good idea to upload your images in future posts directly to our forum's server.
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Another thought ---
What happens to your pictures you ONLY have stored on Photobucket if they decide to cut your limit to something like 100 images stored for free... Then if you want to get at the other two thousand - you have to pay up?
How does that work?
My avatar remains visible on this website, but Photobucket has already disabled it on a music forum on which I participate.
I lost access to my photobucket photos some time ago, so who knows how many of my photos remain?
It's a sad state of affairs, for sure
, although I agree wholeheartedly with Randy when he said Photobucket has been very generous for some time now!
Doug
Cheers? Not for Photobucket
I lost access to my photobucket photos some time ago, so who knows how many of my photos remain?
It's a sad state of affairs, for sure
, although I agree wholeheartedly with Randy when he said Photobucket has been very generous for some time now!Doug
Cheers? Not for Photobucket
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My avatar remains visible on this website, but Photobucket has already disabled it on a music forum on which I participate.
I lost access to my photobucket photos some time ago, so who knows how many of my photos remain?
It's a sad state of affairs, for sure
Doug
Cheers? Not for Photobucket
Doug - I think when you selected an avatar that was on Photobucket, that it automatically uploaded it to our server. My avatar is also hosted on PB..
All - there are other options for 3rd party hosting, but you run the same risk of a repeat with Photobucket...
See the link I posted above on how to upload pics here...
Dang! Just been hit with PB ransom demand, for that's what it is. It also makes for a very poor business decision as I don't know anyone who will send them $400. That's an outrageous amount and they could have had a much better result with charging, say $50. They say all your photos are still there and can be accessed as normal, so that being the case PB has alienated 100% of it's userbase for nothing as surely there are minimal costs involved in hosting to 3rd parties?
They're not getting that kind of money out of me, a non commercial user so it's time to say goodbye to all those cheeky Paddock posts from Keith 1, Colonel Mustard and Professor Plumpe. It's no biggie but I do feel for the guys that laboriously detailed their build threads using PB hosting, and for sure, this site has lost a lot of it's content at the stroke of some pissant's pen.
They're not getting that kind of money out of me, a non commercial user so it's time to say goodbye to all those cheeky Paddock posts from Keith 1, Colonel Mustard and Professor Plumpe. It's no biggie but I do feel for the guys that laboriously detailed their build threads using PB hosting, and for sure, this site has lost a lot of it's content at the stroke of some pissant's pen.
If you subscribed to the old add free service which was about $3 a month you got changed to what PB call a plus 20 account. This retains free image hosting until Dec 2018, you then need to upgrade. Other forums are enabling the edit function so folk can go back over old posts and direct download replacement pics . I subscribed to the add free and am hoping that PB backtrack and offer something a little more reasonable by the time Dec2018 arrives.
Bob
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