Got an email from Photobucket

They're not happy that I've been posting to a forum. Third party hosting was their wording. They want $400 a year to allow me to continue. If I wasn't posting to forums, I wouldn't need them. I certainly wouldn't pay more than the $15 that a USB costs.

I know a lot of people just post straight from their computer but I'm always on my phone. Full size pics don't work so what do y'all suggest?

 

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If you don't have a backup of images you have stored there, it's time to do so. Right now you can still download them. These emails have been going out for some time.

 

Oh dear......haven't received any emails from the ruffians. Their site of late, stinkos big time. I've used them in the past to post here. Don't cave in to the extortion, and follow Larrys' (ldhair) advice.

 

Why can't you post full picture from your phone?

 

They may be the worst website on the internet. Takes like 20 minutes to get to the picture you want it's like being on the internet in 1998

I use imgur but am wondering if they are the same and don't want you sharing pics on forums, anyone know?

 

Do what I did...uploaded all my coin pics to my Facebook account and have never had a problem since, and it's free.

 

I received the email and just deleted it. I better check to see if there are any images I need to save.

 

Mine doesn't take very good photos

 

I use iPage to store my image for quick online usage.

 

Have to agree with Rob about Facebook, I'm just not on it. It used to be that the file sizes were too large to upload straight from my phone. A long time ago someone suggested Photobucket and it worked so I kept using it. The only reason was so I wouldn't have 15,000 coin pics on my phone. I use my iCloud storage for family/important pics.

 

You have a couple choices...

Other cloud storage providers. The problem here is that we are transitioning from a free to fee model. And nobody really knows what a realistic price is. PhotoSuckIt is just the latest to explore (and at $400/year they've definitely gone off the map).

It's also a sucky business, with people entering and leaving frequently. And the resultant churn to us as users.

The big ones are Google (GoogleDrive), Microsoft (OneDrive) and Apple (iSomethingOrOther). The costs are roughly $100/year/TB.

The gallery here is basically cloud storage, but at least it's all or nothing - if CT goes belly up, the loss of you cloud secondary photo storage isn't the biggest deal.

CollectiveCoin is just another cloud storage provider. It's nice to have an option that is focused on our peculiar photos. But I really have no idea how they can cover the costs w/o fees or adverts (which is the slope PhotoSuckIt went down). For now, I guess SB is covering it as a loss leader...

Your own hosting. Any of the hosting companies (I use 1and1 but that's more stare decisis than any good reason) offers a low end $1/month plan with around 100GB of storage, a website and an SSL certificate. This lets you put up a couple pages, store photos and link back to them via https:// links. You can use a tool like WinSCP to move photos via drag and drop.

 

I dropped a phone in the water recently and had to back up all my photos before it completely crapped the bed, I used Google photos and it is great. It will go straight thru your Gmail account and will back up and sync all your photos to a device, and it is free!

 

Make sure you check the resolution setting. Google's free storage only includes optimized photos i.e. reduced resolution. If you think you might ever want the full resolution of your images, you need to change the setting and that storage is what you get charged for.

I'm just mindful that years back a lot of people optimize photos for 640 x 480 on the 14 inch monitor. Now those same photos on a 1920 x 1080 monitor quote the standard unquote look pretty small.

 

Ah, interesting, I'll look into that. I've only had it for a few weeks now so I wasn't aware of any down the road pros and cons.
One thing that is good about it is that all you have to do is log in with Gmail, it's difficult to remember so many usernames and passwords nowadays. I definitely get what you're saying though, I have many photos that have been transferred from here to there over the years and the picture quality seems to get worse each and every time it's transferred from one place to the other.

 

I stopped using PB a year after they debuted. Even back then they always had server issues, stupid hotlink blocking/rules and whatnot. I stopped using them mainly after the downtimes they still seem to experience to this day.

I pretty much laugh at everyone who continues to use them, let alone PAY! They're horrible and should have closed ages ago.

 

Another option. You can use my site: www.yourwebimages.com. Upload 50 Images free. It has an editor if you need one. The site also has many other features that you may or may not want to use.

 

Chuck, thanks for the lovely offer. But it's the same problem in the small as we had with PB (I say small, because even as a modest user only putting images to share in posts over the years I've accumulated a couple hundred images in PB)

• Who is paying for the site
• What's the business model that allows us free access
• What's the longevity plan

Specifically for your site:

• Who owns the copyright in the images, or what rights am I granting by uploading?
• Are you making people's images publicly available?

I do love the affiliate program: "Affiliate Program of Your Web Images
Sign up with Your Web Images affiliate program today. Refer visitors to our site. We will pay you 0% of the plan rate purchased by the referred user at Your Web Images. Just simple as that."

 

I'm not sure I understand why there's a worry about posting images here (or almost any forum) when the site itself will host them for you. Whether they're hosted here or remotely, the act of posting them (by accepted practice across the Internet) gives the site a non-exclusive license to use them as they wish. If you're going to let CT reproduce them if they want, the least they can do is host them for you.

Is there anyone here who actually hosts their images only online, and not locally on their own computer also? If every image I ever posted online disappears tonight, it doesn't matter....

An image posted online requires resources provided by the host. Disk space to hold it, bandwidth to display it. It's not reasonable to expect that to come for free. You couldn't set your own image server up and host for free, either.