just got the dreaded email from them stopping the 3rd party hosting so all my pics posted/linked from there have now disappeared unless i pay the £310 a year ransom ,sorry i mean upgrade package,robbing sods. fair enough they need to make some cash for it all but whoever came up with a yearly figure of that amount is having a joke,its going to ruin loads of threads on all the forums everywhere as no ones going to copy and paste them all and start again etc,ive noticed loads of folks siggys have gone too
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
photobucket
Collapse
X
-
Most forums will be unusable with the amount of broken images now... it's just another nail in the coffin to help the fb movement
However wouldn't be a surprise if vbulletin and the rest have a facility to delete existing posts portions with image embedding tags to Photobucket soon as it's going to be massive issues
fizz
Comment
-
from Wikipedia:
On June 28, 2017, Photobucket changed its Terms of Use regarding free accounts and third party hosting (hosting on forums, eBay, etc). Only the most expensive plan, at $399.99 per year, now permits third party hosting and linking to forums, etc. Which effectively alienating a very large percentage of their users, whom only used Photobucket for third-party image hosting. Photobucket made this change with no input or consultation with their current users, or the public. Adding this to photobuckets use of excessive pop-up ads, scams, clickbait advertisements, and in some cases viruses embedded in ads, the number of active account quickly decreased. [11]
This new business model has caused thousands of forum DIY's and write-ups with explanatory pictures to be rendered useless. About 500 words into the linked document was a declaration that free accounts would no longer permit image-linking to third-party sites. Ebay and Etsy have also been affected, in addition to many forums and blogs. Thousands of images promoting goods sold on Amazon and other shopping sites have been removed after the photo-sharing service changed its terms. Twitter partnership
Twitter announced in June 2011 that Photobucket will become the default photo sharing platform for Twitter.[12] According to a report by Sysomos, 2.25M images are shared on Twitter daily, which accounts for 1.25% of all Tweets posted.[13] Just before the announcement, TwitPic and Yfrog were the leading photo-sharing services.[citation needed]
Comment
-
You can still log in an export your images Frank, they have just suspended third party hosting so they can't be viewed on there.
I work in media, and trust me they've signed their own death warrant there. It may be that they reverse the decision once their user base drops off the cliff.
Comment
-
Originally posted by Simon T View PostYou can still log in an export your images Frank, they have just suspended third party hosting so they can't be viewed on there.
I work in media, and trust me they've signed their own death warrant there. It may be that they reverse the decision once their user base drops off the cliff.
Comment
-
Originally posted by biz View PostSpeaking of images on here, what really drives me nuts is hovering over an image and it says click on it for a larger version - but when you click on it, the result is the same size!
- 1 like
Comment
Comment