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Title: Photobucket
Post by: Hank on July 12, 2017, 06:43:50 AM
Well photobucket disabled 3rd party links, which really sucks for DDSR as I think over 1/2 the images on this site were hosted there.

They want $400/yr (!!!!!) now for a plan that allows 3rd party hosting.    I guess they can get bent... and I'll start looking at alternatives.
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Fletch on July 12, 2017, 07:57:47 AM
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t163/blackhills_2007/Mobile%20Uploads/CD47BA8D-4E11-4DCA-B072-FF2E5B5BBD6A_zpssqspasml.jpg) (http://s160.photobucket.com/user/blackhills_2007/media/Mobile%20Uploads/CD47BA8D-4E11-4DCA-B072-FF2E5B5BBD6A_zpssqspasml.jpg.html)

Hmm..
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Bogus Jim on July 12, 2017, 08:00:14 AM
I think Photobucket just committed suicide... no one except professionals will pay $400 and I doubt that many professional photographers use Photobucket.

Here's a link to bulk download your albums, for anyone who wants to move. But editing the embedded links will be 95% of the work.
http://support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us/articles/201892970-Downloading-Albums
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Hank on July 12, 2017, 08:29:29 AM
$25 per year might be something I'd swallow..  I don't think a there is a casual user in the world that will pay $400.   And I'm guessing that is about 95% of their users.

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Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: greatbuffalo on July 12, 2017, 05:05:26 PM
Never have used them for much. I think Jim is right, they just shot themselves in the hand that feeds them

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Wacked on July 13, 2017, 12:06:02 PM

FYI -

Baldy, who also developed and owns the ADVrider site, has recently sold the Photobucket domain.

So there's a new Sheriff in town and that's why so many people are seeing a shift in Photobucket policies - Hopefully he doesn't sell ADVrider in the near future.

Wacked
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Hank on July 13, 2017, 06:19:37 PM
I'm pretty sure Baldy owned smugmug and just sold that.   I don't think he owned photobucket?

Quote from: Wacked on July 13, 2017, 12:06:02 PM

FYI -

Baldy, who also developed and owns the ADVrider site, has recently sold the Photobucket domain.

So there's a new Sheriff in town and that's why so many people are seeing a shift in Photobucket policies - Hopefully he doesn't sell ADVrider in the near future.

Wacked
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: locopny on July 14, 2017, 01:00:27 AM
If I don't use the attachment feature on a site, I use Supermotors.net   while it may not be for everyone....it works for me.  It is free and its easy.  Two of the most important things in posting photos.  Yes I get a watermark on them, but I have the originals on a disc or the hard drive someplace if its important to see the whole picture.  Just an option for some of y'all.

This topic is likely the biggest thing to hit discussion forums since 'private servers' and 'collusion'.
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Robmicgrn on July 14, 2017, 02:19:32 PM
This is all over the interweb. Lots of pissed off people................
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Fletch on July 18, 2017, 04:42:21 PM
so what is the easiest, cheapest (preferably free) way to post photos?
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Bogus Jim on July 18, 2017, 07:34:04 PM
I'm going to look into ImageShack and SmugMug. ImageShack has a free plan, the cheapest SmugMug plan is $4/month. $48 a year seems kinda high. You can setup your own domain/site for about the same money.

If you guys have any other ideas, post them...
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Hank on July 19, 2017, 04:47:39 PM
Quote from: Bogus Jim on July 18, 2017, 07:34:04 PM
I'm going to look into ImageShack and SmugMug. ImageShack has a free plan, the cheapest SmugMug plan is $4/month. $48 a year seems kinda high. You can setup your own domain/site for about the same money.

If you guys have any other ideas, post them...
I wonder if I could add photo storage with the ability to link right on the DDSR domain?   I don't know how to go about that right off hand but I'll bet it wouldn't be that hard.

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Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Fletch on August 10, 2017, 04:41:50 PM
testing testing testing
(http://i.cubeupload.com/T9YBvk.jpg)

(http://u.cubeupload.com/BlackHills/airgirl.jpg)

Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Hank on December 13, 2017, 09:35:10 AM
When this all happened I started the process of downloading all my albums off PB and got a few done.    Tried again lately and they've eliminated the option to download entire albums!!   So it was looking like 1 picture at a time, which would suck real bad when you have 1000+ pics on there.

But, FYI there is a chrome extension you can buy for $2 that allows you to easily download entire albums..  Well worth it!

Photobucket's site is now like participating in an SNL skit.   There are so many ads running its hard to even see the screen.     It'd be comical if it wasn't so incredibly frustrating.   I can't wait to close my account.
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: greatbuffalo on December 13, 2017, 07:09:41 PM
I am lucky as I only had a few photos there. I do know others that had literally 1000's.

Sucks

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Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Bogus Jim on December 13, 2017, 08:09:00 PM
I mentioned ImageShack above... a couple days ago, I decided to move my photos there, but after reading the fine print, their "free" account disables uploading after 30 days. Useless! So still not sure where I'm going to move photos to.

I came across a free site called PostImages.org, and they have a plugin for our forum software. Might be an option for those who want to quickly post a photo or two. But I don't know anything about the site, so we'd want to vet it I suppose.

https://postimages.org/smf (https://postimages.org/smf)
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Hank on December 14, 2017, 06:35:09 AM
This might be an option too.  I'll play with it.

https://www.labnol.org/internet/embed-google-photos-in-website/29194/
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Hank on December 14, 2017, 06:43:00 AM
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ogOgtjDKAWuxrqSCkiGnEZGR_k4ZKy8AroRYm_lctS-X6DAQ29b_eUKy2MhWdgsFj8BVRWbkP88CiZQS5o_pVZcWlY76KOg5E6vLyqQsCQbgIPeviJ-mNsDSFI8eSf6YsMc1QZwS)
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Hank on December 14, 2017, 06:43:19 AM
That worked but its kinda small.
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Hank on December 19, 2017, 09:08:10 AM
I'm going to look into doing photo hosting right on our site.   Would be for DDSR members only with the goal to allow image embedding on any site.   So basically a simplifed version of photobucket for DDSR members only.   Maybe it's not possible or practical  but I at least want to investigate it.

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Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: greatbuffalo on December 22, 2017, 11:29:18 PM
That sounds like a great idea Hank
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: greatbuffalo on January 13, 2018, 04:35:04 AM
Hank I tried using that process from the link you gave for the Google photo embed generator and had no luck. Can you instruct a moron?
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Hank on January 15, 2018, 06:42:45 AM
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Xc5jXrR9tEz84Tak4DBGiL38BmHt206iwL_QuPx4HqkOrAyqM3VFWG4_FWOHB0Bs2H5bdxS5vi_bJonxFeyFTI7pPc7ku4mUgBsoULlXMbubVzj5tasCajGslbYhLED1tGA0jrIANQ)
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Hank on January 15, 2018, 06:46:51 AM
Its a pain.    Make an album on google photos, add your pictures.   Then click each pic and hit the share icon.      Then click "get link" in the share dialog.

Paste that link into the box here:  https://ctrlq.org/google/photos/

Then it will generate the codes at the bottom - but don't use the IMG code - use the direct link code and put that between the [IMG] brackets (the binoculars icon).    Let me know if it doesn't work.
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Bogus Jim on March 10, 2018, 10:25:37 PM
I looked into Amazon Prime photos, since I'm already paying for Prime. Unlimited storage, but they don't support embedding w/ the [IMG] tags as far as I can tell.

I ended up moving my photos to Flickr. The free account doesn't have any serious restrictions that I could see, and you can embed links to the full-size photo.

Anyways, felt good to delete the Photobucket account.
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: greatbuffalo on March 11, 2018, 06:46:44 PM
I have used flickr in the past, and used to post here, but haven't for some time. I will have to check to see if my account is still active.
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: Akunin on March 28, 2018, 08:08:41 PM
Quote from: Bogus Jim on December 13, 2017, 08:09:00 PM
I mentioned ImageShack above... a couple days ago, I decided to move my photos there, but after reading the fine print, their "free" account disables uploading after 30 days. Useless! So still not sure where I'm going to move photos to.

I came across a free site called PostImages.org, and they have a plugin for our forum software. Might be an option for those who want to quickly post a photo or two. But I don't know anything about the site, so we'd want to vet it I suppose.

https://postimages.org/smf (https://postimages.org/smf)

I second postimages.org I've used them for several years and had no issues
Title: Re: Photobucket
Post by: greatbuffalo on May 10, 2018, 02:42:13 PM
And in the latest twist........  Smugmug is now buying Flicker...