I have a photo bucket account that’s been dormant for a while, recently went to go into it and was told to upgrade, pay money, or lose all of MY pics… I’m thinking pay, pull all of my pics then close it and cancel. Who’s had experience with doing this? My wife says send them all to shutter fly which she uses.
how is that even legal for them to do that?
Unfortunately, its legal, and was in the terms you agreed to when you signed up. But, since I used to have a Photobucket account, I also remember them sending e-mails to everybody to tell them they would have to subscribe by a certain date or they would lose access to their photos. Not sure about anybody else, but I have never thought of any photo hosting site as the one and only place to store my photos…let alone a free site…that’s just asking for trouble. So, it looks like you have the right plan for getting your photos back. Once you do that, make sure to keep a copy of them in local storage. I just use photo hosting sites when I want to share picture on forums like this one. I never use them as my primary means of storing photos I want to keep. A good one I can recommend is ImageShack. The subscription there is $3.99 a month, so its not bad at all.
I had that foul PB experience as well. Left and never looked back.
I’ve used Postimage for several years now with a completely free account. It’s been super reliable and dead easy to use. The link above goes to their FAQ page if you’d like to check it out.
Cheers
Hi;
Yeah, PhotoBucket was the one I was using when I tried to start. Then the fee thing.
Most of the folks have been recommending PostImage so when I can figure a few things out that’s where I probably end up.
I’ve been using postimage since photobucket started their extortion scheme. I’ve also got an iCloud account for a minimal fee to host images as well for a back up. Unfortunately, unlike Kitmaker and Scalemates, you can’t upload images from icloud accounts directly onto FSM. I’ve been slowly downloading images of my completed builds from photobucket onto both sites as insurance against postimage pulling such shenanigans as photobucket did.
I still use Fotki and am happy with it.
When the photobucket thing first happened, I immediately downloaded everything and then just ignored them. They still write me and threaten to take my images but I could care less.
Bill
They are still bothering me with messages to reactivate my account or lose my pics. They are only model pics so I just have been ignoring them.
Jim [cptn]
Stay Safe.
I have been using Postimage for the past few years,it’s free and really simple to use.
I’ve been using imgur and have been pleased. Free and has an app for your phone so you can take a pic and upload
I’ve been using Image Shack since I dropped Photo Bucket. They billed me the other day, nineteen bucks US for a year. It’s worth that not to deal with the constant ads of PB’s free service. I wish I’d switched years ago.
Me too.
After the PB fiasco, I used Google Photos for image hosting for a couple years, but that doesn’t work as it used to for posting to websites anymore.
Interesting, All my previous post using Google Photos still appear to work. I havent posted anything for a least 3 years, my opion on Google Photos may change.
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I really like it. It is easy and fast.
And your pic still works. (Great Corsair, btw!)
You know what? The steps to make this happen (go to a direct link with image only, as your example does) were a bit convoluted, and I had a bookmark saved with instructions how to do it.
I went to post something a bit ago, and the instructional link was dead. Of course, I couldn’t remember the steps.
So I might have been wrong in stating what I did about Google not working as a web-host anymore.
Imgur, Hobby photo, bublup, Shutterfly, post image, imgbb.com/ and post image are very capable of hosting your images and totally free unless you want to upgrade.
It’s too bad that photobucket (without warning) went from THE primary website to a has been that just can’t compete anymore.
Photobucket died several years ago and is only dead ghost to me.
Hey Greg, Whatever works for you. I got burnt like everyone else using the other platform and my free option was Google, but that may not work for others. P.S. Thank you for your comment on the Corsair.
Postimage is the winner for me.
I too went through the photobucket fiasco, and after re downloading all my pictures to postimages I left a VERY VERY NASTY 2 page rebuttal on their customer service ( HA) page.
I use Flickr, but you have to know what image url to grab to post an actual picture and not a link.
I also use Fotki, very pleased with it. When I look at photo’s on the various model sights, I click on them to get a better view but the PB logo comes up stamped all over them!
With Imageshack, you just click on the “get links” button next to the pic you want to share, then copy and paste the link in the “forum” box right into your post here. Its also easy to select the size of the pic, and whether or not you want to post it as a thumbnail or full-size pic. I pay a nominal subscription fee to get more storage space, along with the peace of mind of knowing I’m supporting people who are providing me a service. Helps to make it more likely they’ll be able to keep providing that service in the future. [H]