The Photobucket Ransom thing

[Andym]

I use the iPad app and it still seems to be ok......so far anyway!

Proof of the pudding......

[westwaller]

Hmm this is confusing. Has it got something to do with the way people are using Photobucket? I know on some threads if you click on the pictures, to see them bigger I sometimes get linked to that persons photobucket library.

I have only ever used Photobucket as a way of transferring the images to the LAF- Are some of us doing one thing and others another perhaps? Or is it perhaps a hack?

[armchairgeneral]

From the message that replaced my pictures it seemed to suggest it was the number of linked images that was the problem but having deleted quite a few there's no change 

[YPU]

From the message that replaced my pictures it seemed to suggest it was the number of linked images that was the problem but having deleted quite a few there's no change 

I think that once enough people have accessed the image from other sites the ransom triggers, at which points removing the links doesn't help anymore.

[Plynkes]

My reference is posting photos to my Google blogs - pretty danged simple.  In comparison, photo hosting services seem clunky to me.

The thing is, a blog and a forum are two different things. It's standard to give away hosting space with a blog account. A company like Google can afford to have lots of non-paying users using up their bandwidth and storage, they make their money off the really popular blogs that are monetized, and besides, they have very deep pockets.

By contrast, it is much less common for a forum to give away free hosting with every account. Lead Adventure isn't quite in the same league as Google. Generally speaking forum photos have to be hosted somewhere else. That's just how it works. I think we're pretty lucky that the Prof lets us host our pics here.

[Treebeard]

Don't have any issue with PhotoBucket yet but my account is very small (2%). It might only impact larger and older account.
Anyway I will move away from it.

[Gunbird]

My 3 accounts all have the same issue, all of my topics and Blogposts older then a year have been gutted and are essentially useless now. Looking into purchasing my own website to no longer be dependant on "free" sites. (Mind you, I had a paid account with Photobucket almost since they started but let it lapse as the service/quality etc became less and less each year)

[Stroezie]

Got blackmailed to, deleted my account.
I hope they crash and burn!
Even if they do a 180 I'll never go back.
Been uploading all my pics to my blog, as I come across any of my old posts here I'll try to link the pictures through to there.

[Mr. Peabody]

Imgageshack seems to have been working for me since, well, forever. I pay a very modest fee every month.

Horses for courses, but just sayin'.

[carlos marighela]

James, please...

This isn't Frothers, after all.

I think you can excuse what was clearly an historical reference. James was merely reflecting on Photobucket's propensity to sit amongst the waves bidding the sea to recede, whilst collecting Danegeld.

[flatpack]

What's the iPad app to post pictures ?
I think all my pictures have gone from this forum, and I'd only started putting them on a couple of months ago.
I was using photobucket for free, and had only used 3% of my space.
Pity really as I was enjoying posting the pictures.
So tell me more about the iPad app please.

[Andym]

Well I'm 39% on the iPad and so far(touch wood) all seems ok. I'm not sure if they don't update that specific part as much as the rest. Compared to the rest of the Photobucket stuff it's not seen much of an update/change in a while.

[Ogrob]

My account is still unmolested, but as soon as it gets held to ransom I'll delete it and rehost some of my images. At least I really only have one thread to rebuild.

[MagpieJono]

I was only at 2% but they've blocked my account. I've now deleted it and will be looking elsewhere for image hosting.

As has been said before, it wouldn't be as bad if it was a smaller amount, but $40/month is just scandalous. Can't see this working for them as I doubt many people at all will swallow that level of charge.

[alcal]

Its nothing to do with the amount of space you use  in your photobucket account its how large the pics are in memory against how many times they are opened,ie its bandwith that's being overloaded by how popular the pics you post are.I have hundreds and hundreds of pics and havnt reached my limit.But the more popular posts have crippled my allowed bandwith quota.

I don't think I have the heart to do all that work again or the time.

What a stupid way to treat us , more warning and a better deal would have made them all the money they needed as so many are tied into there picture history.