The sooner Henk can get rid of 'PHOTOBUCKET' the better!! I F*CKING hate them! And now they seem to be deleting peoples pictures and holding them to ransom for $400. Ron
The sooner Henk can get rid of 'PHOTOBUCKET' the better!! I F*CKING hate them! And now they seem to be deleting peoples pictures and holding them to ransom for $400. Ron
No they are not holding you to ransom nor stealing your photos.
Everything you put there is still there and any one can access them if they go through the Photobucket portal
All they have stopped was viewing them through 3rd party portals like this one.
Simple reason.
They are storing trillions of images and that costs a lot of money.
Unless some one buys printing rights from them the only way they make money is for displaying adds to you while you are looking at the pictures.
However if you are looking at the pictures here they make nothing .
The only beef I have is the way they went about it.
An email to your registered address 3 months out would have been nice and of course the fees ar a touch on the touched up scale.
Further to that there are a lot of web hosting companies who charge you for hosting a commercial web page on a £ / Gb rate.
Then they load all of your photos & graphics into photobucket so you are paying $ 500/ yr, they are spending $ 20/ yr and photobucket are out of pocket $ 400/ yr.
We run around 20 small . org web sites in 100Gb blocks for small sporting clubs @ $ 200/pa each.
We pay $ 3000 for our 3000Gb.
All of them have well over 200Gb in total on their sites because they all link to photos held in various free hosting sites.
We do not do it but they do .
Nothing to have 300 high res photos of a netball game posted after it is over.
In reality they all should be paying for a terra bite of web hosting but few actually have the resources to do it.
So image hosting sites like photobucket are carrying the can.
I bow to your better knowledge of running such a company Trevor. But guys on other forums are losing all the pictures they've posted unless they cough up $400, after being told they've exceeded their free quota. But most have nowhere near even reached that quota.
Never the less I just hate the palava of posting a single picture lately, let alone multiples. I used to post far more pictures than I do now, usually in an attempt to help someone with a project or query.
Photobucket offered me a free service and I'm now waiting for them to ask me to start paying for it. I already lost all my pictures for a week or so until I complained. I for one would be more than happy to chip in for a site that enables me to post pictures directly from my own folders like the other forums I visit ...I'll just have to see what happens. Ron
I don't know what business model Photofucket were following when they began but what they've done now is to turn the world of specialist forums on its head as many of us have used it exclusively for years.
Like Ron, I've posted more help than queries and have shared information and photos from my collection with the wider community. The question is, How much would I be prepared to pay in order to continue with that ? Something in single figures per month probably but certainly not US$400 per year.
I fear that this will hasten the end of decent forums and increase the flight to Arse-about-facebook where photo hosting is a click of the mouse away.
Me too Rob. All my Photobucket pictures are in other folders on my computer. But it's as I feared today they've deleted all the pictures I ever posted on here. Ron