The Photobucket Ransom thing

[WillieB]

I pay $3.99 a month to Imageshack. That's less than a Starbucks coffee.

For that amount I have been covered, for years, for all my hosting needs.

Just bringing it up because I too live on a very tight budget, but this silly hobby is one of the luxuries in life I can afford. So I nourish it, even if it means one less café au lait a month. 

Same here. +1 for Imageshack

[Viruz]

I am in the same Bucket, mate.  Evil Evil
Too many pictures to even think about it.

Maybe start them all over again...?
NO!

To start again? No way.
 Hundreds of photos have disappeared from my MetalMagic Forum. 

I hope you mean goodbye Photobucket and not goodbye LAF! Shocked

Goodbye  Miniatures Hobby on the Internet (MM Forum closed) ,not Goodbye LAF .

I wait a few more weeks and decide later.

[Etranger]

There's a work around, at least until PB catches on. Type ~original after the .jpg suffix in the image address and the photo will display.

[Etranger]

why are my photobucket pics unaffected while everyone else's are all screwed up?

It only seems to apply once you click on to their "updated terms and conditions". It may also be selecting those with larger numbers of photos.

[weismonsters]

Hundreds of photos have disappeared from my MetalMagic Forum. 

Sorry to hear that Viruz.

Good idea about taking a week or two before deciding what to do.


What are photobaucket playing at? Its like they are deliberately trying to annoy as many people as possible.

[Mr. Peabody]

There's a work around, at least until PB catches on. Type ~original after the .jpg suffix in the image address and the photo will display.

Brilliant! I'm grabbing reference pic's from compromised threads while I still can.

[Jerekin]

What a bullshit...

I was never a fan of photobucket or imageshack tbh. Quazillion of scripts and and Pop-ups. Sluggish as fuck.

How do they expect to make money of free picture hosting if visitors are basically forced to use script and ad prevention tools?

The Industry shot basically already it's own knee and did so once again.

Couldn't they have addedd small adbanners under the extern photos? Still bad but not as terrible as this ransom.


I really hope they rethink their policy.

I heard there is a google chrome app to bypass the placeholder. Hope something like this will be reIeased for ff as well. I don't think I have the patience to change all the URLs in my bookmarke Threads by hand when visiting...

 

[Andym]

There's a work around, at least until PB catches on. Type ~original after the .jpg suffix in the image address and the photo will display.

Dude! Your a genius!

[Predatorpt]

Brilliant! I'm grabbing reference pic's from compromised threads while I still can.

All the pictures are still on their respective Photobucket accounts. Just log on there, choose the album and you'll get a "Download Album" option. That's what I did with all my stuff before deleting the account. That process automatically downloads the said album in a zip file.

[Viruz]

All the pictures are still on their respective Photobucket accounts. Just log on there, choose the album and you'll get a "Download Album" option. That's what I did with all my stuff before deleting the account. That process automatically downloads the said album in a zip file.

This option is no longer available, I can no longer download folders, it is denied me. 

Type ~original after the .jpg suffix in the image address and the photo will display.

These photos are still visible
Photobucket will still change this.
I do not want to describe hundreds of photos ( Supplement ~original )

At the moment I could cry with rage. 

[Andym]

Why not just copy the '~original' text into all of your pics? It means you don't have to write it sooo many times!

[Etranger]

Dude! Your a genius!

No credit to me. I picked up the tip on The Wargames Guild site. It's just enjoyable to see Facebook getting screwed over for their greed.

[Dolmot]

It's just enjoyable to see Facebook getting screwed over for their greed.

What did they do this time?

[dampfpanzerwagon]

One consequence of the Photobucket change of terms is that hundred, no thousands of images have been lost to us on reference sites, for example, I have been researching Narrow Gauge railways for a side or new project and when you try to find reference photos on sites like Freerails, http://freerails.com/ you find that many of the inserted images have disappeared with the 'update your account' image appearing.

Photobucket have, in one stroke removed years and years of reference images from the internet, if this was any other form of reference storage for example library there would be a huge outcry. As it is they have produced chaos for thousands.

A very poor state of affairs.

Tony

[Viruz]

I'll give you right.
Trust in Photobucket is broken.Other picture hoster will follow.
The damage done is great.

https://gizmodo.com/5948794/your-old-pictures-on-the-internet-are-going-to-be-deleted

https://lifehacker.com/back-up-your-photos-so-companies-like-photobucket-cant-1796726043