The issue: I can no longer see most Photobucket postings on AR . . . because I recently joined Photobucket. (kind of incongruous, is it not!)

Here's what I think I've been told: Photobucket now charges a fee for "Third Party" viewing. If you were a Photbucket member prior to June 1, 2017 you will be left alone until the end of the year. If you joined after June 1, 2017, you must pay a monthly or annual fee for "Third Party" viewing.

Has anyone heard a different story?

Is there a way to post photos on AR without using Photobucket?

Regards,

I use picture trail for image hosting.
Let photo bucket choke to death on their greed.

I have many years of photos on photobucket, and all of those links are gone -- and no reasonable or simple way to go back and fix that. PB could have at least grandfathered the old stuff and started charging for new uploads, but they went with a butt-head decision, in my opinion. I wouldn't mind a nominal fee, but $40 a month or $400 a year to share a few pictures via PB? No way they'll ever see a dime of my money.

I tried flickr and imugr but had issues getting photos to show instead of links to click on, and then I tried tinypic.com. So far, it works perfectly.

I've been happy with imgbox.com so far.
Photobucket is dead to me.

I just got some hate mail today from PB telling me that they found that I had been doing third party hosting and I need to now pay $399 a year. That makes each picture I post about 8 bucks. I ain't going to do it, and I am going to call them; maybe if they get enough complaints they will set up a less expensive plan for like, 100 pics a year or something. Don't know what to do now.

I'm considering setting up a simple hosting site for folks like us. Basically extending what I already do for myself. Won't be free, but it'll be 100% feee of ads and ransoms.

Tom, ask them what they think their ad rates will be worth when they lose 85-90% of their membership?

I'd definitely be interested in that. Keep us posted, please.

I don't think this is quite correct. I had a membership in Photobucket for years, and I cannot see pictures on AR hosted from photobucket, either.

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Originally posted by slugslinger:
The issue: I can no longer see most Photobucket postings on AR . . . because I recently joined Photobucket. (kind of incongruous, is it not!)

Here's what I think I've been told: Photobucket now charges a fee for "Third Party" viewing. If you were a Photbucket member prior to June 1, 2017 you will be left alone until the end of the year. If you joined after June 1, 2017, you must pay a monthly or annual fee for "Third Party" viewing.

Has anyone heard a different story?

Is there a way to post photos on AR without using Photobucket?

Regards,

Thanks for the clarification. The Photobucket website said the would grandfather members (prior to June 1st) until year-end. Apparently not! I think they made a dumb move - we shall see if they re-think this.

Regards,

Guys,

I've been on Photobucket for many years and they shut me down over week ago. Got Picture Trails and so far love it. Much easier and faster to use than PB ever was.

Mark

Every person that pays for internet service should get free space from their provider. I kept my old address after moving to verizon so pay $10 a month for 8 e.mail addresses to my old provider which includes 10meg of space each = 80meg, that is not enough space to leave pics forever (that's why my pic disappear once in a while) but it's a start.

The only problem is you need to manage it yourself.

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Originally posted by richj:
Every person that pays for internet service should get free space from their provider. I kept my old address after moving to verizon so pay $10 a month for 8 e.mail addresses to my old provider which includes 10meg of space each = 80meg, that is not enough space to leave pics forever (that's why my pic disappear once in a while) but it's a start.

The only problem is you need to manage it yourself.

Managing this stuff is easier than you think. Which is why I'm thinking of offering something to folks - I already had the steep learning curve years ago.

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Originally posted by richj:
Every person that pays for internet service should get free space from their provider. I kept my old address after moving to verizon so pay $10 a month for 8 e.mail addresses to my old provider which includes 10meg of space each = 80meg, that is not enough space to leave pics forever (that's why my pic disappear once in a while) but it's a start.

The only problem is you need to manage it yourself.

But when you change providers, as we are wont to do with any service, you lose your pictures there and have to load them to a new site, then fix any post you ever made with the link. In the time I've used PB to host my pictures, I've used several ISPs.

PB was nice because it was free, but I'd rather pay a modest fee to a reputable picture hosting site, knowing that they'll be there for the long haul, than have to worry about moving hundreds of pictures each time technology advances in my area or I get tired of putting up with one ISPs crap.

Baxter, if you get something going, I'd be interested. Meanwhile, I'll look into one or two of those mentioned for alternate hosting. Maybe someday I'll actually have the time and interest in moving a bunch of pictures from PB to one of them.

I've had the same email address since 1995. The company was bought 3 times.

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