just got my notice from phucking photobucket

[Kali]

phuck them! I have a couple hundred images and would be happy to pay a reasonable amount - especially if they would stop the loud flash adds and e-mail spam for coffee mugs and crap. but $400??!!!??? phuck that!!

[madamesilverspurs]

1. Right there with you!

I'm very much in the same boat, no way can I cough up that much money for them. Maybe they've been taken over by a Shrkeli wannabe, kinda looks like it.

Ick.

.

[Wawannabe]

10. tRump bought em!

He would do something like what I have been reading about.
I store nothing in the cloud on purpose...

[Ptah]

2. Even MFM's Photobucket account is now blocked.

I've been using imgur for a few years.

[Ptah]

6. I still have an old photobucket that has a low total

http://photobucket.com/pricing

Your Current Plan

FREE
2.1GB Storage

2GB Initial 0.1GB Reward
STORAGE USAGE

USING 0.0 GB OF 2.1 GB (3.12%)

[Kali]

14. yeah that is one of the things that REALLY pisses me off

of course, they already messed a lot of his stuff up from some other screw-up but just think of all the holes all over the internet from old accounts!

[Miles Archer]

3. Same here. Got mine today as well.

I RARELY post ANYTHING from my account. When I do, it's here on DU, and I only do it when the links from a source don't work.

I would say that in the last 12 months I've uploaded less than a half dozen images.

Photobucket is far from a necessity for me...I'm OK with not using them

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. What exactly did Photo-bucket do?

I used them a year or so ago, but never stored any photos there, it was all for DU posting.
Found Imgur is faster to use, soooooooo

[Kali]

13. they changed their terms of service and don't allow linking or posting YOUR images on forums or

other websites unless you "update" your account to a $400 annual fee. and they did it with little to no notice. People have built blogs and websites, have items for sale, and in general there is a whole lot of INFORMATION out on the internet that is now blocked. for me personally, it is mostly posts here on DU - and in the big scheme of things my little stories are not a big deal. They already screwed up so much of Jim's (MFM) account, most of his old posts don't work already but now the remaining ones are gone or soon will be.

for more than a decade, photobucket was THE go to place for hosting pictures to post on line and most people are not going to pay $400 for something they got for free or a small fee to avoid looking at ads or to have more storage space. it is a really shitty way to treat people. and a lot of compaints are saying don't pay it no matter what because they are probably going out of business anyway. and besides...fuck them! people should download their pix now unless they already have them backed up somewhere and should upload this so it starts showing as the most recent upload.



NOTE: this will either show their new blocking message, or it will show their message with the words "THIS IS WHAT TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE LOOKS LIKE" in bold red and black just above it.

edit - oh I see they blocked on of my sig line images already. fuckers.

[Ptah]

16. here's a link for the MFM toast:

http:// i.imgur.com/6nYDLfa.gif

extra space between http:// and i.imgur.com/6nYDLfa.gif

[Kali]

17. thanks!

I just noticed the MFM Lounge image is from you too! and the no pants is from cyberswede.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. I tend to keep important shit in a pic file on a slave drive.

But for them to suddenly spring a fee, not good at all.

Your comment about them collecting money and then shutting down, might be on point in some way.

had an other site go from free to ads and then suddenly to money. From what I heard, they lost half their customer base.

[louis-t]

4. I use drop box

[hunter]

9. $400 is an absurd rate... whatever Photobucket's new "business plan" is, it's suicidal.

Even if a Photobucket user pays the ransom, um, subscription, how do they know Photobucket will still be around next year?

This is going to be a lot less graceful than the shutdown of geocities was.

Every one of those "Please update your account..." messages is like an advertisement telling all who see it "Photobucket Sucks!"

I recognize their previous business plan was unsustainable, but this new plan is even more far fetched.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. I'm right there with you! I first learned how to post pix using Photobucket right here on DU!

When I was first on DU, there was a Lounge thread asking for pix of your pets. I said I didn't know how to do that, so a really nice DUer offered to help me out - think I actually emailed her the one pic I had on my computer of my 2 dogs - and she kindly posted it for me! And then she explained how to do it myself using Photobucket - which I've been using ever since. I have quite a collection there now and I've passed on her helpful instructions. I read about this a few days ago in the Photography Forum and have been bummed out ever since.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/103659194

[In_The_Wind]

19. I'm so upset about what Photobucket is doing. I uploaded very old photos there.

I can't re-scan those 40 year old prints with the equipment I have now.

[Kali]

22. you can download your images from your account and keep them on your computer

and you can put them on another hosting site - they aren't "gone" from you, but anywhere you posted they are (or will be) gone unless you go back and edit (if that is even possible)

[In_The_Wind]

29. Thanks Kali. Just getting the photos back is a start.

I'll have to buy new CDs to burn copies of photos stored to my computer. This computer is nearing the end.

If I can post photos again I'll edit a few very special threads here on DU.

[Rhiannon12866]

28. I am so sorry, my friend!

I have some old photos uploaded there, too, but mainly used it for photos I wanted to share. I'm hoping that they'll learn PDQ that this was a big mistake! Can you get advice from DU photographers? There aren't too many things that someone here doesn't know about...

[In_The_Wind]

30. I remember when you helped me get started on Photobucket. We had great times.

[Rhiannon12866]

33. Awwww! Thank you!

Someone on DU showed me and I liked to pay it forward. I'm so sorry this is causing you pain, I'm not sure what I'm going to do, either...

And that wasn't the only thing - I helped you get through the 700 Club, LOL. I still remember because we both were snowed in that day. And I'll bet half the members here now won't have a clue what I'm talking about!

[krispos42]

12. I just bought a website with hosting

Upload my pics to it, then link to them.

Costs money up front, but it's way cheaper monthly.

[Kali]

15. are you going to go back and edit any old links?

its the incredible loss of "information" that is bothering me.

[krispos42]

20. Maybe as needed, but I haven't been as active here as I used to be

Fortunately DU3 has edit features so I can do it if I need to.

I don't have an actual site with clickable content:
; I just upload the pictures and link to them.

The ones in my Sig line, for example.

[pintobean]

21. TinyPic is owned by fotofuckit, too

so I guess they'll try the same shit. I'll host this gif on tinypic until then. It represents the new fotofuckit business plan.



I call it the Dew Drop Inn.

[Kali]

23. BWAHAHAHA!!!

EXCELENT name.

[Iggo]

24. I haven't logged in there in ages!

So what's happening?

Are they holding my half-dozen pics hostage, or what?

[LeftInTX]

25. I used it to submit some of my gardening pictures to various forums.

I also have some pictures of Deepwater Horizon...I kept getting screen shots of that gushing oil well and posting them for comments.

[Kali]

27. more like they are holding any posts you put them in hostage

see above - https://www.democraticunderground.com/1018965067#post13

if you only have a half dozen images there, I sure wouldn't worry about it, in fact I would probably try to fuck with them somehow

[lunamagica]

26. K&R.

[UTUSN]

31. O.K., so what does somebody like me use?

I'm totally "basic" and have only used P-bucket and not often and only to post here/DU. Tia

[Kali]

32. we are in the same boat

several people suggested imgur, but I haven't looked at it yet. I was sort of hoping there would be enough blowback that photobucket would relent and maybe at least grandfather the links already used under their old TOS.

[UTUSN]

34. Thanks. Let's not hold our breath for Pb to relent. Will check out Imgur eventually, too.

[steve2470]

36. postimages.org is very very easy to use

https://postimages.org/

Much less ad crap on it than PB. PB has become a hellhole and I won't use them any more.

[UTUSN]

39. Thanks for the tip. Will follow up.

[Kali]

35. copy this image and spread it around!

[steve2470]

37. i shall do so, thanks! nt

[steve2470]

38. retweet if you like twitter lol

Link to tweet