PhotoBucket warning

I got the same message from PB.

It seems that you'd have to buy their so called Plus500 account that allows 3rd party hosting, $40/month or $400 annually.

-Sami

I just logged into my photobucket account.

Seems my measly "plus 20" account is no longer an option, and yes to obtain 3rd party image sharing status I'm going to have to upgrade to a "plus 500" account, at $400 per year (or $40 per month). The last time I renewed (earlier this year) it was $35 per year.

The custom smileys and all the other graphics used on the forums are hosted on Photobucket. All of the stuff I've ever posted on the internet was hosted by Photobucket.

The price increase seems extreme, but if Photobucket is doing it, what are other image hosts up to?

All my 26 pages of "stuff" is now missing....

DAMMIT!

Rocky

Maybe try flickr. That's where I store all my stuff, but I suppose some day that will get screwed too.

I wanted to thank Joe for posting this "heads up" when he did.

I could not risk the upset to the forums that would have occurred had my linked images been blocked by Photobucket. So of course I bought the $400 membership. So far everything has continued smoothly as it always has.

I'm sorry Chuck to read about your problems.

I use pair.com

Full controls of emails and web directories. If you just want to keep a stash of photos you can control your directories and make web pages if you like.


Cuteftp for basic file transfer

I can't find the post that described the hack that would get the photobucket pictures to show up. Anyone remember it? I just had to send off a bunch to a member that needed to see some of mine that are missing.

What are members using now instead of photobucket?

Steve

I think the best option and the one most forums are recommending is to post them directly as an attachment. Yes that does mean resizing to 200KB for this forum, but at least they will remain there as long as the site is up, albeit requiring a bit more storage bandwidth for George.

Steve, this may be the hack you need:

http://pantera.infopop.cc/eve/...674/m/3691038066/p/3

I haven't had time to try it yet.

The hack works, at least for now.

Here's the method posted by Kelly in the other thread:

quote:

Originally posted by Panterror:

Since you posted the original links, if you have your photobucket URLs, try this hack on the photo address:

After the .jpg before the [/img] put ~original ,or otherwise stated: .jpg~original[/img]

This will get all the PB photos showing again, for the moment at least! It worked for me.

Best,
Kelly