PHOTOBUCKET (time to move on)

Uploading to the forums directly is the best way period. The forum will never lose a photo due to a 3rd party site holding your pics ransom. Here's the real rub. You spend all this time and effort to document your project/skill/instructions/problem/whatever for all to see and benefit from, and then have the most important part dissapear... It sucks. Please upload to any forum that allows it. It's just so much better. You preserve this valuable content and info when you do that.

The problem is that most forums will stop allowing it because they cannot afford to have enough drive space to save these files. They will then start to charge for access to the site to post and participation will go down dramatically. The real problem is everyone is used to having free space on things like Google, not realizing it is all done as a way to datamine.

If each person would spend a little money to store their photos, we will keep free access to a lot of the sites run by people as a service to help us. Most of these site owners are not making money from these sites.
 
I help run several forums. Space today on a server is cheap. That has never been an issue but on the earliest days of forum ownership. Check out the price of 1TB hard drive. It's nothing. Part of doing business.
 
The problem is that most forums will stop allowing it because they cannot afford to have enough drive space to save these files. They will then start to charge for access to the site to post and participation will go down dramatically. The real problem is everyone is used to having free space on things like Google, not realizing it is all done as a way to datamine.

If each person would spend a little money to store their photos, we will keep free access to a lot of the sites run by people as a service to help us. Most of these site owners are not making money from these sites.
I have not seen picture space issues discussed for 10 to 15 years now. As mentioned, server space, and band width costs have dropped dramatically. If they were an issue, the forum can implement several methods, like photo size limiting, automatic resolution, or size reduction, ect. The two forums that I help moderate, would rather see the pics be hosted on site, over having to go through, and remove great posts that are useless, because the photos are linked from elsewhere on the web.

If you are going to spend the money, why not donate it to the forums, to help them? With off site storage, if something happens to you, and you stop paying the yearly fee, all the pics disappear from the web, and anything you have used them for, is gone forever, erasing your legacy from the web.

Please do not feel like I singled you out, or that you have to respond. After seeing hundreds, if not thousands of well documented threads become useless, due to hosting on remote servers, I was wondering. I have asked this question 3 times, and yours is the most logical answer. Had one guy on a vehicle forum, say that he wants the ability to remove his pictures if he decides. I take it as he wants to be able to take his toys, and go home if the other kids do not play the game his way. Whatever.

Thanks for your viewpoint.
 
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This was posted on another forum im on by one of the forum Mod's. This mod said that he has used it and it works but he also stated that he didnt know if this will continue to work forever or not! He also stated that adding "~original" after the .jpg will also allow the picture to be seen...the photobucket address link should look like this .jpg~original

I personally haven't tried either of these options but if it works it should help solve this problem with the broken picture links.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...nk-fix/kegnjbncdcliihbemealioapbifiaedg?hl=en

Update : ive tried this, ~original, and it works nicely.
Ive yet to try the download patch but from what ive read by adding that patch to your browser you should then be able to see all the broken photobucket pics from that web browser.

Hope it works for you. Good luck.
 
Don't think it was me but : a couple weeks ago on a diferant fourm I was looking for pics/info for working on my truck that were there last time I looked, this time they were gone
I got pi**ed off and sent photo bucket customer service a explicit email of how dirty rotten lowdown pieces of s**t they all were for holding pics hostage, they should all be bankrupted
And I'll bet I wasent the only one sending them colorful messages :blue:
 
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