Photobucket?

[Rob]

Nobody has yet mentioned Cloud so I thought I would post this link to look at. I don't use any service as I keep all my photos on a harddrive and/or memory sticks but I might not have as many as others, anyway, hope the link is of interest, cheers.

https://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/guides/ ... e-is-best/

[Tinman]

Photobucket clearly is a top rate online image hoster. Its the way they handled the free account that pissed every body off. Its the way the free account screwed up laptops (pissing me off!).

They do not know how to manage their own affairs. If they go out of their way to provide an image hosting service, free or paid for, we expect an imgae hosting service which Thousands of users were getting, until some bright spark in management decided it would be changed and no more free accounts causing endless frustration at the loss of Thousands of pictures on uncountable blogs and forums being removed, many never to be seen again.

Good luck to all those that continue to use the services of Photobucket, fingers crossed they don't come up with some other hair brained scheme that backfires on us!

Ghosthunter.

I don't know how long they warned everyone because, as a paying customer, I never saw any of the process leading up to the end of free links and 3rd party hosting. However, they did give notice. It's a for profit company and they are free to choose their own business model. The only thing certain in this world is change. There is no guarantee that the photos you move from photobucket (to another free host) ... won't end up charging a fee or maybe even be bought out by photobucket.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

I never saw any warnings simply because I stopped going to Photobucket. The account pages became so un-userfriendly, screwing up my couple of laptops I could use for forum interaction (locking up, slow down and worst and most worrying of all causing them to run very hot), so I stopped visiting my account pages.

Ghosthunter.

[Tinman]

I have been using this with no problems and it's very easy...
This one...https://imgur.com/

While you may hotlink to images uploaded to Imgur, the service's Terms of Service forbid you explicitly from doing so. It may or may not work.

I can think of one good reason photobucket abruptly changed their business model : Twitter. Why be a pawn for someone else's business?

[GHOSTHUNTER]

I don't actually use 'imgur' anymore myself, been using 'postimage' but imagine T & C's are similar which if scrutinised probably says the same as 'imgur', not suposed to hotlink, so why deisign it in such a way that makes us all use it that way

Ghosthunter.

[zBret]

.. so why deisign it in such a way that makes us all use it that way Ghosthunter.

To get millions of people to use their free image hosting. Then later they will load it up with advertising making the site so slow it's unusable, but fear not they have a plan to sell you that will eliminate that problem. Later when they have hooked in as many as they can with that method, they will hold the feet, of anyone who's left, to the fire and demand an enormous amount if you wish to keep the content that you have posted to any third party site, visible.

It's a great business model

zBret

[misterpop]

.. so why deisign it in such a way that makes us all use it that way Ghosthunter.

To get millions of people to use their free image hosting. Then later they will load it up with advertising making the site so slow it's unusable, but fear not they have a plan to sell you that will eliminate that problem. Later when they have hooked in as many as they can with that method, they will hold the feet, of anyone who's left, to the fire and demand an enormous amount if you wish to keep the content that you have posted to any third party site, visible.

It's a great business model

zBret

[misterpop]

I dont want to get into an argument on this subject but,they did offer us a free service for a long time and yes they should make a profit somewhere and I presume
they have done that with advertising as someone mentioned.As one of the cheap skate surfers there service did very nicely when I could'nt afford a state of the art PC but now even I can pop out and buy a stick that will hold all my pictures and music files etc no problem.What saddens me is when I look up forum threads for subjects like ours and find nothing but stupid boxes of frustrating nothingness.As they say "A picture is worth a thousand words"

[GHOSTHUNTER]

I would not have been so peed off with Photobucket if they could have left all those Thousands of pictures in place as a thank you to us for using the service for so long, then charge a fee to carry on using the service for new uploads to Photobucket after the date of the introduction of a fee paying service as a new customer!

Ghosthunter.

[Tinman]

I would not have been so peed off with Photobucket if they could have left all those Thousands of pictures in place as a thank you to us for using the service for so long, then charge a fee to carry on using the service for new uploads to Photobucket after the date of the introduction of a fee paying service as a new customer!

Ghosthunter.

That's probably impossible. Either you block the use or not,