Hostage of Photobucket

[garyahouse]

garyahouse posted:

Well, Gary, a LOT of folks have been posting that exact same photo, and feeling just as blue.

Sorta like beemerdons posting the same photo of Salma Hayek a hundred times. Except that was appreciated by everybody.

You lost me, Uncle H.

A lot of folks have been posting this photo I just posted above? They have? Since when? It's just a random picture I have of my daughter's 72 Cb350 four that I have in my PB account.

Gary

 

[Tyler]

garyahouse posted:

Well, Gary, a LOT of folks have been posting that exact same photo, and feeling just as blue.

Sorta like beemerdons posting the same photo of Salma Hayek a hundred times. Except that was appreciated by everybody.

You lost me, Uncle H.

A lot of folks have been posting this photo I just posted above? They have? Since when? It's just a random picture I have of my daughter's 72 Cb350 four that I have in my PB account.

Gary

Look again, Gary... it shows up in this thread with PB's "announcement" to update your account to enable third party hosting... at least that's what it looks like to me...

 

[Old Guy]

Well, it happened to me. Their issue with me is third party hosting. I've been doing it for years, but now they want money. It's ironic in a way. They service has steadily gotten worse and worse over the years. That doesn't seem like something you'd do to generate paying customers.

Photobucket defines 3rd party hosting as the action of embedding an image or photo onto another website. For example, using the <img> tag to embed or display a JPEG image from your Photobucket account on another website such as a forum, Etsy, eBay auction listings, a blog, etc. is definitively 3rd party hosting.Photobucket defines 3rd party hosting as the action of embedding an image or photo onto another website. For example, using the <img> tag to embed or display a JPEG image from your Photobucket account on another website such as a forum, Etsy, eBay auction listings, a blog, etc. is definitively 3rd party hosting.

 

[Bounce]

does anyone have any idea what the incremental cost would be if this forum decided to host relatively low-resolution photos (i.e. 250 kb max)?

In the never-ending administrative overhead of trying to explain to people how to shrink their photos before uploading them?

 

[RossKean]

does anyone have any idea what the incremental cost would be if this forum decided to host relatively low-resolution photos (i.e. 250 kb max)?

In the never-ending administrative overhead of trying to explain to people how to shrink their photos before uploading them?

[img=[URL="https://barfblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/inconceivable.jpg%5D"]https://barfblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/inconceivable.jpg][/URL]

No worse than the administrative nightmares of:

Explaining how to do a search.

Explaining how to avoid NEPRT.

Explaining how to avoid multiple postings.

Explaining how to post (or link) photos in the first place.

 

[garyahouse]

Now I see how the new Photo bucket mess works. I can indeed post on this forum from my photo bucket account (surprise, surprise). But it gets deleted soon enough. That's OK. I'll figure something out. At the moment, I have a new account with Flickr. Though it seems to work great with the Challenger forum that I joined, it's not working here. Error message pops up "you're not allowed to use that extension here."

Good grief.

Gary

 

[Uncle Hud]

I suspect -- and that means 100% my opinion as a non-IT guy -- that PB figured out the FJRForum URL and is sending out a bot to delete any links that reference our IP address.

When they figure that out about your Challenger forum, I'll bet pics will start disappearing from there, too.

Bounce posted: In the never-ending administrative overhead of trying to explain to people how to shrink their photos before uploading them?

Now that there's funny. I would have "liked" it, but I'm outta likes .... again. I guess I'm pleased way too easily.

 

[mcatrophy]

... Error message pops up "you're not allowed to use that extension here." ...

Gary

Depends on how Mr Challenger presents the photo link to the forum. For instance, the forum won't accept ".jpeg" ending to the link, it only likes ".jpg" (it also is happy some others such as ".gif", but it's most likely your picture link is ".jpeg").

One problem is that these sites never link directly to your picture, the call is trapped by the site's software that then presents your picture indirectly, maybe even resizing it in the process, even if the call looks like a direct url.

As an example, with my web site, these two links (without the space after the "http:") result in the same image being presented to your browser.

http: //atrophy.lock.net/pi/20170218_bikewash/tmp/0_P1000299.JPG

http: //atrophy.lock.net/pi/20170218_bikewash/index.php?image=P1000299.JPG&sz=0&show=1

The first is happily accepted by the forum software:

For the second, I get the "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community." message, although the image does show whilst editing. Nor is it sufficient to simply have the last 4 characters of the image url as ".jpg". For instance, I can alter the order of the parameters on my "invalid" link above to be:

http: //atrophy.lock.net/pi/20170218_bikewash/index.php?sz=0&show=1&image=P1000299.JPG.

This ends in ".JPG", makes no difference to my web server, but isn't accepted be this forum's software.

Regardless, even if it's a direct link to your image, it must have the ".jpg" extension. As an extension, ".jpeg" isn't accepted here, even though it's perfectly valid as far as all of your computer software is concerned.

Edited to add, I noticed your post in the test area, the url has a ".png" extension, that in itself is perfectly valid.

Of course, even when I try to view it directly from PB, I only get a glancing view of the car, followed by a "remove your ad blocker" message.

 

[RossKean]

Now I see how the new Photo bucket mess works. I can indeed post on this forum from my photo bucket account (surprise, surprise). But it gets deleted soon enough. That's OK. I'll figure something out. At the moment, I have a new account with Flickr. Though it seems to work great with the Challenger forum that I joined, it's not working here. Error message pops up "you're not allowed to use that extension here."
Good grief.

Gary

The following is from Flickr with no problems - at least not yet!!

I copy the embed code (Correction BBCode) and trim out everything on either side of the "img" tags and simply paste it in the reply box. Don't use any of the stuff at the top of the reply box ("Switch" turned off).

You can even pick image size!

 

[08FJR4ME]

Well looks like my pic's have been hit. So it looks like I will be deleting my PB account.

Sucks, Dave

 

[Fred W]

I'm not understanding why people are going in and deleting all of the hosted images and free account at photobucket. You don't have to do that.

Just host the photos again elsewhere and change your links to the new locations. Then never go back to your old PB account. In a few months when they experience the results of their stupid decision, when their advertising revenue drops substantially and almost nobody has bitten on their attempted $400 / year extortion, they may come back to their senses and offer a reasonably priced subscription rate ($20-30 per year) that includes 3rd party hosting. It will either be that or they will go belly up. Either way you don't have to waste your time deleting files.

 

[Old Guy]

I'm not understanding why people are going in and deleting all of the hosted images and free account at photobucket. You don't have to do that.
Just host the photos again elsewhere and change your links to the new locations. Then never go back to your old PB account. In a few months when they experience the results of their stupid decision, when their advertising revenue drops substantially and almost nobody has bitten on their attempted $400 / year extortion, they may come back to their senses and offer a reasonably priced subscription rate ($20-30 per year) that includes 3rd party hosting. It will either be that or they will go belly up. Either way you don't have to waste your time deleting files.

That was what I was thinking as well. I'll stop using them, and they can store my photos as long as they want. I don't really care if they keep them or not.

A side note:

One forum I'm on has announced that they'll no longer accept links to Photobucket. If many do that, PB may have just shot themselves in the foot.

 

[08FJR4ME]

It's a gut reaction. I do stupid **** like that when somthing pisses me off. I will deal with the consequenses later if any. May not always be the wisest but it feels better.

JMO,

I'm not understanding why people are going in and deleting all of the hosted images and free account at photobucket. You don't have to do that.
Just host the photos again elsewhere and change your links to the new locations. Then never go back to your old PB account. In a few months when they experience the results of their stupid decision, when their advertising revenue drops substantially and almost nobody has bitten on their attempted $400 / year extortion, they may come back to their senses and offer a reasonably priced subscription rate ($20-30 per year) that includes 3rd party hosting. It will either be that or they will go belly up. Either way you don't have to waste your time deleting files.

 

[Uncle Hud]

I deleted my photos, FredW, because I believe (based on no evidence) that PB will eventually lock me out of my account. That could happen after, say, 12 months with no activity.

They could also decide after 12 months of no activity to delete my account. Again, no evidence to say it will happen, just my normal cynical world view.

In either case PB could claim ownership of my photos, and I don't want them to have any claim on my property. Although, to be honest, how do I know they actually relinquished all molecules of my deleted photos? I'd expect them to have multiple servers and multiple backups, so even when I delete stuff, I bet they still have copies floating around somewhere.

Affectionately,

Hud, a fellow you all know to be crusty, cynical, skeptical, and ornery

 

[eflyguy]

I'm crusty, with HUD. I deleted all then closed my account.

I still get f'n emails from them!

 

[russperry]

I have to agree with previous posters regarding the change of terms that can affect every aspect of life on the internet. Though the current discussion is about PB, SmugMug has gone through the same thing already. I used SmugMug at one point as part of a small (and eventually closed) semi-commercial endeavor. I loved the service, the hosting, auto watermarking, anti "right click-save as" capability, and so on.... and all without a monthly fee.

After a couple of years, I got the "please upgrade to a professional account" and bye bye to free photo hosting. Needless to say I terminated at that point since the business volume no longer justified paying a monthly recurring fee.

For those of you that jump to SmugMug today, I'm sure you'll enjoy it as I orginally did, and you're going in with open eyes about $6/month for a basic account. But they're not immune to the siren call of growing revenue, so I'd advise you not to be surprised as that number starts creeping higher...

 

[bigjohnsd]

I just got Phucked by PB as well,

Why can't this site accept links to Google Photos or Amazons Photo Storage?

 

[mcatrophy]

I just got Phucked by PB as well, Why can't this site accept links to Google Photos or Amazons Photo Storage?

My guess would be it's a security thing to prevent loading of malware that's masquerading as an image.

 

[Bounce]

does anyone have any idea what the incremental cost would be if this forum decided to host relatively low-resolution photos (i.e. 250 kb max)?

In the never-ending administrative overhead of trying to explain to people how to shrink their photos before uploading them?

[img=[URL="https://barfblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/inconceivable.jpg%5D"]https://barfblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/inconceivable.jpg][/URL]

No worse than the administrative nightmares of:Explaining how to do a search.

Explaining how to avoid NEPRT.

Explaining how to avoid multiple postings.

Explaining how to post (or link) photos in the first place.

It may be "no worse than" but neither does it replace those. They are cumulative.

 

[Bounce]

I'm not understanding why people are going in and deleting all of the hosted images and free account at photobucket. You don't have to do that.

I did it because I don't host important stuff there. Food porn and such isn't worth the bother, so I deleted it.