jalalski
Date Registered: 02-2004
Location: SUTHERLAND, SYDNEY
TOTAL POSTS: 29100
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PhotoBucket became a paid Photos Hosting Service
Hi Guys,
As you would have already noticed, some photos and icons on our forum have stopped working and are displaying a PhotoBucket error message asking us to upgrade the PhotoBucket account to a paid service.
The change in PhotoBucket terms and conditions is pretty recent and they're now forcing all forums and website who host and share the hosted photos to upgrade to paid service costing US$399.99 a year to enable linking and sharing on forums and websites.
I think the cost is pretty high for such a service, so I am now looking for another free image host website but that task will be huge to change over the thousands of shared photos from PhotoBucket to another provider.
I am now only fixing the main forum icons and smilies and re-hosting them on the forum server, but most of the images in the DIY Guides section and others have stopped working already.
If you do know of an alternative hosting provider that offers free image linking and sharing, please do let us know.
For the time being, I ask you all to stop using PhotoBucket, as you won't be able to share your photos on the forum for others to see.
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2/Jul/2017, 9:50 pm
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jalalski
Date Registered: 02-2004
Location: SUTHERLAND, SYDNEY
TOTAL POSTS: 29100
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Re:
PhotoBucket is under fire for their ransom demands. News article HERE
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6/Jul/2017, 4:23 am
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jalalski
Date Registered: 02-2004
Location: SUTHERLAND, SYDNEY
TOTAL POSTS: 29100
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Dave,
I see nothing but junk adverts when I click on your thumbnail above, so the PhotoBucket linking is not working and this is impacting every single old and new image hosted on their website worldwide.
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6/Jul/2017, 1:33 pm
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Revhead Kev
Date Registered: 10-2006
Location: Mona Vale, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
TOTAL POSTS: 6249
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Re: PhotoBucket became a paid Photos Hosting Service
Hi Dave,
I can see both the thumbnail and the actual pic when I cli8ck it and get directed to Photobucket.
Seems odd.
Might be a "bandwidth" thing where the more pics you have being viewed the more likely links won't work.
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6/Jul/2017, 3:50 pm
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Revhead Kev
Date Registered: 10-2006
Location: Mona Vale, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
TOTAL POSTS: 6249
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Re: PhotoBucket became a paid Photos Hosting Service
It seems to be a date related thing.
If you see my relatively recent post in the Rear Fog Light thread
RFL thread
then you will see all my recent pics are OK but the avatar and signature pics which have been hosted for quite a while are not.
Even pics in my ride thread back from 2009 here are OK.
Last edited by Revhead Kev, 6/Jul/2017, 4:20 pm
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6/Jul/2017, 4:10 pm
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