Thread: Photobucket breaks images across the Internet

^ The same from me BB.

Originally Posted by Digby Fantona

This getting a bit silly. First I could not sign in, Then I signed in and had a page without graphics. I clicked on my account but none of the links were working. I signed out but was not allowed to sign in again.

Now several hours later I try again and everything works. Photobucket is really screwed up.

PB is getting hammered with everyone downloading their pics and closing accounts.

This decision be digital suicide for them.

Originally Posted by Fondles

PB is getting hammered with everyone downloading their pics and closing accounts. This decision be digital suicide for them.

Fokked if they do and fokked if they don't.
Someone has to pay for storage of those 10 billion photos and someone has to pay for their high capacity connection.
Adverts pays that when a real visitor enters their site, hotlinks only create more traffic for them without any ad revenue.

TANSTAAFL

BBC News: Amazon and eBay images broken by Photobucket's 'ransom demand' - BBC News

Originally Posted by BBC

Amazon and eBay images broken by Photobucket's 'ransom demand'


Thousands of images promoting goods sold on Amazon and other shopping sites have been removed after a photo-sharing service changed its terms.

Ebay and Etsy have also been affected, in addition to many forums and blogs.

The problem has been caused by Photobucket introducing a charge for allowing images hosted on its platform to be embedded into third-party sites.

The company caught many of its members unaware with the change, prompting some to accuse it of holding them to ransom.

Denver-based Photobucket is now seeking a $399 (£309) annual fee from those who wish to continue using it for "third-party hosting" and is facing a social media backlash as a consequence.
The BBC received an automated response when it tried to contact the company and is still seeking comment.

Policy switch
Photobucket has been online since 2003 and says it has more than 100 million customers and more than 15 billion images on its servers.
Part of its attraction with small retailers was the fact that its ad-supported "free" accounts could be used to upload images of goods to a single destination from where they could be pushed to multiple outlets.


On 26 June, however, the company published a brief note advising users to "take a moment to review our updated terms and policies".
About 500 words into the linked document was a declaration that free accounts would no longer permit image-linking to third-party sites.
Many users realised the change only when their embedded images were replaced by graphics saying their Photobucket accounts needed to be updated.
Devon-based seller vintage store Retro 2 Go, which sells its goods on eBay, was one of those affected.
"I have quite a bit of editing to do," the store's owner, Gigha Klinkenborg, told the BBC.
"A bit of notice would not have been unreasonable to expect. I have deleted my accounts and would not use [Photobucket] again."

'Held to ransom'

Some sellers unwilling to pay the fee have handled the change by uploading their product photos to a rival service.

But the new policy has also affected historical social media posts, blogs and forums that were reliant on Photobucket.
One of those affected is Stampboards, a forum with more than 17,000 members who discuss postage stamps and share images of them.
Many of its pages are now filled with Photobucket's upgrade demands instead of the photos of stamps it once showed.
"They are holding you to ransom," the site's administrator, Glen Stephens, told members, advising them not to pay the fee.
"You have no guarantee they will be in business... in a month the way this disaster is rolling out."

One British digital marketing company said it was understandable that Photobucket had wanted to become less reliant on ads, but criticised the service for both the sums it was seeking and the way it had gone about the move.
"It came out of the blue," blogged Runcorn's Aqueous Digital.
"There were no announcements, no emails warning people that it was about to happen and more importantly, no explanation.
"Bulletin boards across the globe are being crippled as previously vibrant threads with detailed images are disappearing.
"People who have used Photobucket for hosting these images successfully for over 10 years are finding that they will have to literally start again with what for some, amounts to a lifetime's work."
But one expert said the public needed to be aware of the risks of relying on any free image service.

"There's a lot of websites out there looking for advertising, and there's a finite amount of advertising spending to go round," said Nigel Atherton, editor of Amateur Photographer magazine.

"And any photo gallery and storage site like this that relies on ads to offer a free service can only continue to do so if they have enough money coming in.

"So, if you put all your photos into any site or app like this where it's not clear how they are going to continue financing their business, then it could come back and bite you at some point in the future."

It is surely inevitable that Photobucket will cease to exist very shortly unless a major player like Amazon buys it in order to preserve its own images. The dilemma that faces us is that if we retrieve our pictures while they still exist, we automatically remove them from this forum. If we do not retrieve the photographs soon they could be lost forever.

If Photobucket are prepared to upset the likes of Amazon, they will not give a toss for Teakdoor.

I have decided that it is too much work to attempt to recover my pictures and will leave them there as requested by a moderator on another thread. I am, however, almost certain that Photobucket will disappear very soon.

http://petapixel.com/2017/07/01/phot...-embedded-web/

http://www.dpreview.com/news/6875746...lions-of-users

Photobucket Breaks Image Links Across the Internet - Web.com Web Hosting

The TD gallery is difficult if you are not familiar with image sizing. Also, the process is quite long-winded.

You need to make your images 72dpi and about 20cm by 15.

I've allways had good luck with fingerpaint. Didn't we take classes together at one point?

Silly fish.....we went to different schools together.

Just a hook up line I used to use.

I will say TD gallery is tough to navigate and takes much time.

Try doing a thread sometime. .......................the fish.

When you use the TD gallery, the pics become property of TD.
In case you get banned/miserabled, you lose access to the gallery.

Oh, and should you decide to take your pics down, you'll get banned.

I stay with outside hosts.

Originally Posted by stroller

When you use the TD gallery, the pics become property of TD.
In case you get banned/miserabled, you lose access to the gallery.

Oh, and should you decide to take your pics down, you'll get banned.

I stay with outside hosts.

Hi Stroller, how are you doing

Texpat was all worried about you and even made a thread on the Dog House about it

Originally Posted by stroller

When you use the TD gallery, the pics become property of TD.

Link? Serously, lots of people have said this and I believed it too but I can't find where it says that.

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

Hi Stroller, how are you doing

Unfortunately, I've had a job for a while.

that's fucking shit mate

Won't be much longer and I'll be back to smokin shit and getting sunburned in the garden...

Originally Posted by stroller

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

Hi Stroller, how are you doing

Unfortunately, I've had a job for a while.

Dude! You sold out, man! You used to be cool!

Ruddy hell Stroller , rumour had it you eloped with Terry

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by stroller

When you use the TD gallery, the pics become property of TD.

Link? Serously, lots of people have said this and I believed it too but I can't find where it says that.

i cannot see that the gallery is is anyway a separate entity from the rest of the forum - where it seems clear you certainly don't hand over the copyright whichever way you upload it, but do grant free usage ?

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Originally Posted by blue

you certainly don't hand over the copyright whichever way you upload it, but do grant free usage ?

That's what I thought. No different to anywhere else.

I logged into my PB today and someone elses profile and library appeared, photos of tractors and chainsaws.

Tried again and mine appeared.

Weird.

Imageshack used to be ok

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by blue

you certainly don't hand over the copyright whichever way you upload it, but do grant free usage ?

That's what I thought. No different to anywhere else.

But as I understand it, if you get banned or miserabled and your pics are in the gallery, you lose access to your pix. You can't even delete them to make a grand flounce. Heh.

My threads will remain to have "disappeared pics". There are sometimes hundreds of pics in one thread. It'll take too much time & effort to repost the pics on the gallery or other hosting site, plus I have crappy net.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by blue

you certainly don't hand over the copyright whichever way you upload it, but do grant free usage ?

That's what I thought. No different to anywhere else.

I'm fairly certain that's a change and, at least at one point, there was a term about assigning copyright.

I remember it because I was thinking about uploading some pics to the gallery, saw it and thought: 'how the fuck is that enforceable' and 'fuck that anyway' and never used the gallery.

Moot now obviously though.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Ruddy hell Stroller , rumour had it you eloped with Terry

Had to look that one up in the dictionary.

Red coming as soon as the evil mods will see the light & love and restore my buttons.

Originally Posted by katie23

But as I understand it, if you get banned or miserabled and your pics are in the gallery, you lose access to your pix. You can't even delete them to make a grand flounce. Heh.

So keep a copy on your local drive! Nobody in their right mind would upload their precious photos to somewhere on the internet and then delete their local copy. I don't believe anybody does that.

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

photos of tractors and chainsaws.

Pat you need to buy a lottery ticket asap.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by katie23

But as I understand it, if you get banned or miserabled and your pics are in the gallery, you lose access to your pix. You can't even delete them to make a grand flounce. Heh.

So keep a copy on your local drive! Nobody in their right mind would upload their precious photos to somewhere on the internet and then delete their local copy. I don't believe anybody does that.

You'd be surprise as to the number that do just that and don't give it a second thought, Bob.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by katie23

But as I understand it, if you get banned or miserabled and your pics are in the gallery, you lose access to your pix. You can't even delete them to make a grand flounce. Heh.

So keep a copy on your local drive! Nobody in their right mind would upload their precious photos to somewhere on the internet and then delete their local copy. I don't believe anybody does that.

Well, you don't hsve to shout, drbob. Lighten up, will ya?

If you prefer to use the gallery, then good for you. Some of us prefer to use other sites. We all have free will. If the hosting site folds up, then that's life, that's the consequence of our choices.

If TD improved the pic posting procedure, then prolly more ppl would use the gallery. But the complaints have been falling on deaf ears. In a previous forum that I've joined, you could upload multiple images directly frm your device, so it's not as if making the procedire easier is impossible.

And yes, I keep copies of all my *precious* pics in my hard drive. So if the pix disappeared (like Mathos'.pix or mine), then it's TD's loss.