johnf04
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I registered a domain name this afternoon, and set up a website. I downloaded Wordpress and loaded pictures into a basic photo gallery. I can copy a link from there, and use the "insert link" feature here to display the photo.
Photobucket Hosting Changes
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I registered a domain name this afternoon, and set up a website. I downloaded Wordpress and loaded pictures into a basic photo gallery. I can copy a link from there, and use the "insert link" feature here to display the photo.
Archiver
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The sudden change in Photobucket's policies were evident when I was browsing some other enthusiast forums, and I wondered why so many images were gone. At a guess, Photobucket's management has made that price based on the number of subscribers they think they will get vs the amount of bandwidth is being used.
Is it really a high price for what amounts to a very high number of images hosted on a server for a year? I'm not up to speed on what other image servers are doing.
Is it really a high price for what amounts to a very high number of images hosted on a server for a year? I'm not up to speed on what other image servers are doing.
Michael Markey
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They are in France.
I moved there too because of the Flickr changes but kept my Flickr account.
I don`t post on Ipernity these days because it just seemed to lack any sense of community and I missed my Flickr contacts.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Finally ... they have cut me off at the knees! lol
I wonder who in their right mind, having had free hosting for all these years, is going to turn round and pay these idiots $400 per year to get that back? Surely they must realise that there are other sites out there that offer that as a part of their free, or even basic plans for the ones that don't actually have a free hosting service. I suspect they are going to have to make some sort of back peddle on this or they will persish for sure! Even if they turn around now and say OK we'll give you hosting on our basic plan they will have pi$$ed off enough people that it could be too late.
I've never really liked the place and only used it for stuff that wasn't really all that important to me but the gaps in imagery in the pages of RFF threads will leave a bad taste for years to come.
I wonder who in their right mind, having had free hosting for all these years, is going to turn round and pay these idiots $400 per year to get that back? Surely they must realise that there are other sites out there that offer that as a part of their free, or even basic plans for the ones that don't actually have a free hosting service. I suspect they are going to have to make some sort of back peddle on this or they will persish for sure! Even if they turn around now and say OK we'll give you hosting on our basic plan they will have pi$$ed off enough people that it could be too late.
I've never really liked the place and only used it for stuff that wasn't really all that important to me but the gaps in imagery in the pages of RFF threads will leave a bad taste for years to come.
RichC
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You forgot to put the image link in square brackets using the "picture" button in RFF's toolbar...
PS: what on earth is that a photo of!?
fergus
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Photobucket want $399.
I registered my domain name and paid for hosting, it's Au $9.95/month = $7.22/month after-tax, = approx $5.40 / month.
This, or ZenFolio. Why would anyone pay for PhotoBucket?
I registered my domain name and paid for hosting, it's Au $9.95/month = $7.22/month after-tax, = approx $5.40 / month.
This, or ZenFolio. Why would anyone pay for PhotoBucket?
ColSebastianMoran
( IRL Richard Karash )
This shows the potential problems with links to images on branded photo sites.
I have not used the "Gallery" feature here, put photos here on RFF, then link to them in our posts. Those links will last as long as RFF is around. Anyone with experience, pros/cons?
I have not used the "Gallery" feature here, put photos here on RFF, then link to them in our posts. Those links will last as long as RFF is around. Anyone with experience, pros/cons?
cz23
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For years I had very nice custom web sites on Wordpress, Squarespace and others. But comparing the cost over the years with the views and feedback, that approach just did not seem justified for what is a hobby for me. If I was making money from my efforts, that would be different.
But I'd rather put those funds toward paper, ink, books and such. Flickr and tumblr, at least for now, are free with no ads, which is pretty great. Sure hope they stay that way.
John
But I'd rather put those funds toward paper, ink, books and such. Flickr and tumblr, at least for now, are free with no ads, which is pretty great. Sure hope they stay that way.
John
user237428934
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My assumption is that most users of this service are not affected by this change simply because they don't link their photos outside of this service. If they want someone to look at their photos, they send those persons a link to the webpage of the service.
I'm always amazed about the high expectations some people have in the long term availability of a free service.
I'm always amazed about the high expectations some people have in the long term availability of a free service.
Pioneer
Veteran
It is a spinning top.
Pioneer
Veteran
Thanks RichC.
willie_901
Veteran
Transmit rocks! So does gnuyork's minimalistic yet effective solution.
ColSebastianMoran
( IRL Richard Karash )
My approach, might serve as a quick tutorial:
- Register a domain name at https://www.networksolutions.com
- Obtain a hosting provider at DreamHost.com or Netfirms.com or whatever
- Set up DNS to point your domain name to the hosting provider
- Take their default template for the home page. Don't mess with WordPress or anything else.
- Figure out how to upload files and create directories. I do so through an FTP client. I use Fetch on Mac, but there are many. Provider may have a web interface for uploads.
- Create a directory named images
- Move image files, usually .jpg with sRGB profile, into the images directory
- On RFF in a posting, hit the picture icon, then paste http://yourdomainname.com/images/filename.jpg
Hope this is helpful to someone.
- Register a domain name at https://www.networksolutions.com
- Obtain a hosting provider at DreamHost.com or Netfirms.com or whatever
- Set up DNS to point your domain name to the hosting provider
- Take their default template for the home page. Don't mess with WordPress or anything else.
- Figure out how to upload files and create directories. I do so through an FTP client. I use Fetch on Mac, but there are many. Provider may have a web interface for uploads.
- Create a directory named images
- Move image files, usually .jpg with sRGB profile, into the images directory
- On RFF in a posting, hit the picture icon, then paste http://yourdomainname.com/images/filename.jpg
Hope this is helpful to someone.
ColSebastianMoran
( IRL Richard Karash )
Just posted on the PhotoBucket Facebook page:
Pioneer
Veteran
It won't matter to me if they change or not. I am not only done with them, there is no way I'll trust any of their genre any more. In my opinion, what Photobucket just did has tarred all of the photo hosting sites with the same brush.
And just to head off the comments about expecting free services to last forever, I personally was paying, and so were many of their subscribers. But it didn't matter whether you paid or not. If you didn't subscribe to their premium, top of the line, super expensive package you were all tossed together in one pile and treated with the same lack of respect.
gnuyork
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This is exactly what I do and what I tried to explain less clearly a few posts above. Except I use BlueHost for my provider and Transmit for my FTP client.
Glad you got something to work, Pioneer.
Pioneer
Veteran
Thanks gnuyork. Still working on the ftp transfer process. I don't think it hurts to have more then one solution.
fireblade
Vincenzo.
fireblade
Vincenzo.
May i add, before deleting your Photobucket account you can download your whole Photobucket images into one folder. May make life easier.
tunalegs
Pretended Artist
Photobucket Hosting Changes
I've noticed that a few user's photos on this forum have all disappeared. They're users who're hosting their photos with Photobucket. If you host your photos on photobucket, you might want to read this and check on them.
In this day and age Photobucket isn't exactly a hot commodity anymore, but I know some people have been using it since way back when, as many did years ago, and a few still use it today.
The problem is Photobucket decided a few days ago that they will no longer allow users to embed their images on 3rd party sites (such as this forum) - unless users pay them $400 a year. For that price one does get unlimited uploads, etc (edit: unlimited was stated in some articles, photobucket's own site states 502GB of storage). If you don't pay them, all your embedded images show up as dead images on any site you posted them on (yes this is retroactive, so even all your images you uploaded years ago will no longer show up where you posted them on forums, your blogs, etc.). For all practical intents and purposes, Photobucket as an image hosting site has essentially shut down. Theoretically though, you could pay them the $400 to get your low res jpegs to show up again.
With sites like Flickr offering 1TB of hosting for free - you might see how photobucket has just tightened the noose around their own neck and jumped off the platform with this business plan. I'd really hate to be anybody on their PR team right now.
For the news story: http://nypost.com/2017/07/05/how-photobucket-is-now-shaking-down-its-users/
So if you're hosting images on Photobucket, you might want to start looking for a new host.
I've noticed that a few user's photos on this forum have all disappeared. They're users who're hosting their photos with Photobucket. If you host your photos on photobucket, you might want to read this and check on them.
In this day and age Photobucket isn't exactly a hot commodity anymore, but I know some people have been using it since way back when, as many did years ago, and a few still use it today.
The problem is Photobucket decided a few days ago that they will no longer allow users to embed their images on 3rd party sites (such as this forum) - unless users pay them $400 a year. For that price one does get unlimited uploads, etc (edit: unlimited was stated in some articles, photobucket's own site states 502GB of storage). If you don't pay them, all your embedded images show up as dead images on any site you posted them on (yes this is retroactive, so even all your images you uploaded years ago will no longer show up where you posted them on forums, your blogs, etc.). For all practical intents and purposes, Photobucket as an image hosting site has essentially shut down. Theoretically though, you could pay them the $400 to get your low res jpegs to show up again.
With sites like Flickr offering 1TB of hosting for free - you might see how photobucket has just tightened the noose around their own neck and jumped off the platform with this business plan. I'd really hate to be anybody on their PR team right now.
For the news story: http://nypost.com/2017/07/05/how-photobucket-is-now-shaking-down-its-users/
So if you're hosting images on Photobucket, you might want to start looking for a new host.
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