Photo hosting problem (Photobucket)

I have used Photobucket for years but they have gone crazy with their charges,I fear all the photos I have ever posted will disappear shortly,what are you guys using? HRP

 

It's a disaster.

Most of my tech posts and project write ups have lost most of the pics.

The site will have massive holes in it.

Mart.

 

From here out, post directly to the forum. Years ago when i joined and there were less than 6000 members, bandwidth was expensive and a hosting site was necessary. Even when the Hamb got the ability to host pictures, it was courtesy to use a host to save bandwidth.

But now its so much cheaper, and its pictures that drive traffic to a site, so photo hosting is an unnecessary extra step. When issues do arrive, the forum can only save whats posted directly to the forum, in most cases.

Hosting sites are charging now because they're dying off, they're not relevant anymore.

As for preserving old, previously hosted pictures, im not sure theres much that can be done.

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Danny, I am in the process of switching my stuff over to flickr. On some other boards I'm on, many guys pics have been locked by photobucket, they no longer allow hot linking unless you pay them to host your pics. I am downloading my albums back to my PC, and when I figure out how, will upload them back to flickr. I've got some pics over 10 years old that were on other computers I no longer have.

 

All my pics go to SmugMug. Standard account is free, premium stage 1 is 8 bucks a month. No ads, completely customizable. Love it. I believe you can download your Photobucket pictures in complete albums if you have it organized that way. Then re-upload to a different site then cancel your account on Photobucket

 

Be Careful.

I started trying to download my captive photos and it seem dea old photobucket has a virus attached to the photos now,I spent all say yesterday trying to correct the problem and finially had to re-install windows and lost everything on my computer ,it's not worth it. HRP

 

If this is true it sounds like time for a class action law suit

 

Like Squablow said, I always hosted elsewhere as a matter of courtesy. If it's no longer relevant, I'll post directly to the forum.

I can't see me replacing all the lost links, though, it would take ages.

Mart.

 

I was concerned about band width in the past,this is the second time I have lost a host site,in the early days star boulevard was a popular site,then photobucket.

I also have a Fotki site,,heck I'm concerned about all of them now.

My future Hamb worthy images will be uploaded to my albums here. HRP

 

Yes, I have a few build threads and hundreds and hundreds of pics here, all gone now. To go through and replace all the pics would be damn near impossible.

Still, when Photofucket are bankrupt they will hopefully realise why!

 

I have most of my pics duplicated on my computer. How can I post directly from my computer?

 

Thanks!

 

Thousands of lost pics on Good Ol' threads... I agree with Morrisman's comments on PhotoPhucket.
Total loss of some really good threads. Maybe a few OP's will get bored enough this winter to just post some pictures directly to update a photo history of some really good threads.

 

is there a tutorial on how to reduce photo size?

 

I just right click and hit edit. Should be a resize button on the top tool bar. This is for ones stored on your PC, "My Photos" etc.

 

thanks

 

I was able to save a lot of photos,but I can;t seem to down load any albums now. HRP