Photobucket blocked 3rd party hosting

StormshadowGuitars

It would appear our photobucket account will no longer allow 3rd party hosting for the pics on our thread, who do you chaps recommend we switch to? O the most commonly used hosting service on here?

Cheers,
Rich

Rox

I just have my own webspace and upload to it.  No ads, no popups, no hassle.

jimmyguitar

Imgur

bbill335

jimmyguitar said:

Imgur

Yep. Not perfect but pretty hassle free in terms of hosting stuff for forum use.

Whitecat

Photobucket was/is a rotting pile of garbage anyway. Good riddance. +1 for imgur for speed and relative ease-of-use, it does what it needs to do.

smigeon

Dropbox worked for me.

StormshadowGuitars

Whitecat said:

Photobucket was/is a rotting pile of garbage anyway. Good riddance. +1 for imgur for speed and relative ease-of-use, it does what it needs to do.

Yes it seemed to be getting a lot worse with all the spam and popups, i'll let that account die.

dogload

Yeah - takes so long to load and find your pictures. It barely works at all on our work network

Strangefan

What's totally mad is over the last week, photobucket have been working flawlessly, with no spam and immediate showing of pics! Nit sure what's going on there! 

Dopesick

People need to stop using Photobucket to upload photos here. It needs to die, it's utter shite.

WezV

Nail in the coffin. 

I guess  the choice was to fund the site by ads,  or subscription.  The ads clearly were not working, so forced subsciption

i may need to pay for a month just to get the last 10 years worth of pics

StormshadowGuitars

WezV said:

Nail in the coffin. 

I guess  the choice was to fund the site by ads,  or subscription.  The ads clearly were not working, so forced subsciption

i may need to pay for a month just to get the last 10 years worth of pics

You can still get to your account and download your pics back, or at least i can. 
I just cant use the direct links to host them on here anymore.

Jack_

Imgur is good, but I find flickr's option to choose what size in pixels you want your picture to be incredibly handy for sizing photos I post on here accordingly.

Imgur lets you resize the picture, but flickr allows you to post the picture at a bunch of different sizes without having to edit the original picture. When you click share, it offers you lots of different sizes with the same aspect ratio.

ICBM

WezV said:

I guess  the choice was to fund the site by ads,  or subscription.  The ads clearly were not working, so forced subsciption

The ads are actively driving people away from it.

Wazmeister

Ive just notced a problem with mine... end of PB then...

lasermonkey

I have several thousand photos that I need to move elsewhere, but I've been struggling to find a simple, reliable host.
Flickr has never worked for me. It's always been slower and more unstable than Photobucket. Christ, just moving from one picture to another takes forever!
Just tried Village Photos, but that wouldn't work as advertised. It stuck my sequenced pictures in a random order and, despite supposedly having the option of re-ordering the pictures, it just won't save the changes.
All I want is somewhere to host my pics, that allows me to select which order the pictures appear, has folders and sub-folders and doesn't slow to a crawl because of stupid, buggy, browser-killing adverts.
Is that too much to ask?

matone

Why can`t we just have a system where you simply attach your pics directly ?
Other forums can do it .

Jack_

matone said:

Why can`t we just have a system where you simply attach your pics directly ?
Other forums can do it .

Server load presumably, this forum is free and without adverts, so attempts are made to keep the load down to keep the running costs low.

Personally, I think embedding hosted pics is easier anyway, so I'm happy with it the way it is if it keeps adverts away.

stickyfiddle

You can download all your Photobucket images in a single zip file. Highly recommended if you don't want to lose them as the writing's obviously on the wall. 

Imgur is just fine. It can be bit finicky but no worse than anything else and super simple in general. 

ICBM

Sounds like they're becoming the MySpace of photo hosting...

My who?

ChrisMusic

Just a quick reminder that this thread is still available and has lots of links to other discussions.  I will update and add this thread to it shortly.  It sounds like PB has signed it's own death warrant !

http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/14957/posting-pictures-a-little-help#latest


there is this site which may help in "transferring hosts" (that sounds like a scene from Alien !)

cloudsfer  ~ Cloud to Cloud migration service