Photobucket and Imagehosts

[culturejam]

They come down on Avatars in their statement,

And why wouldn't they? What forum won't self-host the avatar? It's been a loooooong time since I joined a forum that didn't have room for 100x100 avatar images.

[alanp]

I might have to look into getting my own domain to store this crap, like how Juan rolls.

I wonder if shittylittlepcbs.com is taken yet...

[matmosphere]

I might have to look into getting my own domain to store this crap, like how Juan rolls.

I wonder if shittylittlepcbs.com is taken yet...

I've seen the boards you've made. They don't look shitty at all and they sure as hell aren't little.

[alanp]

You're only saying that cos you haven't been watching me try and troubleshoot my boards this weekend

[davent]

I think posting to  forum like this from imgur is fine. They actually provide links that you can copy and paste straight into forums from their site. Guess I could be wrong but that seems like an odd thing to offer if you don't want people posting to forums.

You're right! Did some more casting about and found it addressed at Imgur/community.

https://community.imgur.com/t/what-do-the-tos-mean-by-dont-use-imgur-to-host-image-libraries-you-link-to-from-elsewhere/21348

dave

[matmosphere]

Much like the dvd cost increase that was supposed to save video stores companies have just waited too long to change prices so wildly.

[nzCdog]

Am I missing something?  My photos still work on this board, linked to photobucket...  Is it when you get over 2GB?

[davent]

Am I missing something?  My photos still work on this board, linked to photobucket...  Is it when you get over 2GB?

On another forum as of yesterday i was only missing the odd one, haven't checked today. Here and at other guitar related forums i've been scrubbed from existence. I'm at 79% of 2G and my has 51% of her 2G and we're both toast.

I did see someone at yet another forum who hadn't been affected yet so i have no idea what's going on at Photobucket, i guess everything is normal there.

You didn't get the ransom email either?


https://www.pcmag.com/news/354711/photobucket-breaks-image-links-across-the-internet




dave

[nzCdog]

Hmm... maybe the images I'm seeing are cached.  Ohwells, I really disliked photobucket anyway... so spammy.

[lars]

Photobucket is terrible. Whenever I'm browsing anything in Google images and click on the button to "view image", if it starts to open Photobucket, I immediately close the tab. Why should I have to go to a website to view an image, when all I want to see is the image BY ITSELF? I don't want their ads and links and browsing tools. Not even YouTube does that, in fact, I think Photobucket is the only site that forces you to view hosted images in their proprietary browser. If I wanted to "visit page", I would have clicked "visit page".
Use Postimage.org instead. It's been working great (and normal, and free) for years.