Photobucket just nuked the internet

[Mark Blanchard]

Photobucket today started charging $399 to link images from its site.  And images already linked to Photobucket are no longer viewable.  They host 1.5 billion images, many of those images were linked to forums and websites.  And there are many good threads on TFL with images hosted by Photobucket that are no longer viewable. :(.

[oilmagnet477]

Bastards!

[Barrykearley]

Boo hiss. Never trust anything on the net.......

unless it's on here of course 

[oilmagnet477]

Come on TLF - photo hosting for TLF full members?

[Barrykearley]

@Bibs won't host my pictures.....

[ChrisJ]

I moved away from using Photobucket a couple of years ago when it became one annoying advert after another - and it is so much slower than my other cloud sites

However, just checked a couple of where I've posted links and the photos are still being shown.

Still showing here as well

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bibs]

Our software grabs remotely linked images and they go onto an Amazon S3 server we pay for so anything posted in the last 18 or so months will never disappear from here.

[ChrisJ]

Having just been onto Photobucket for the first time for a while for the above - I really can't believe how crap it is, slow, and bloody adverts all over the place - so have just deleted everything from it - including the piccy above.

[Vulcan Grey]

I use google photos...

I have ~160GB of storage, and I'm paying $5/year.  if you let google compress the images a little, then you can get unlimited photos.

[ramjet]

7 hours ago, Mark Blanchard said:

And there are many good threads on TFL with images hosted by Photobucket that are no longer viewable. :(.

Who is TFL? 

[Mark Blanchard]

Transport For London obviously.  Did you think I was talking about this place?

[ramjet]

 

Well at least I do read things.

[johnpwalsh]

12 hours ago, Barrykearley said:

@Bibs won't host my pictures.....

Be fair Barry, unless Bibs got a preview, I wouldnt chance posting your photo's either. He would never know what was going to be shown.

[Mark Blanchard]

On 30/06/2017 at 21:50, Bibs said:

Our software grabs remotely linked images and they go onto an Amazon S3 server we pay for so anything posted in the last 18 or so months will never disappear from here.

Hi Bibs,

the Photobucket images on this page seem to show the "please update your account to enable 3rd party hosting."

Is there anyway I can edit the old posts on this thread and link the images I posted from my website or flickr instead please?

Also just been reading this.  The comments make for interesting reading.

https://petapixel.com/2017/07/01/photobucket-just-broke-billions-photos-embedded-web/

 

[Kimbers]

Time to find a different site then. Anyone recommend any?

[Mark Blanchard]

I've switched over to Flickr.  Seems to work fine and it's free.

[silverfrost]

Does this photobucket catastrophy have a cut off date when they remove your pictures ? 

As I checked some photos the other day after reading this thread, some of my pictures hosted by them and they are still on the Web ? 

[robington]

All my photobucket pictures are still showing ok.

[Mark Blanchard]

Have you deleted your internet history? 

[The Pits]

Bar stewards, I had tons of stuff on there.

[Mark Blanchard]

Photobox is a different company.

I've just deleted 12 years worth of pics off Photobucket.  Pointless them being on there.  Real shame

 

[Bibs]

20 hours ago, Kimbers said:

Time to find a different site then. Anyone recommend any?

https://www.thelotusforums.com/forums/gallery/

[williamtherebel]

I take it after reading some threads that if I come cross a box that should have a picture in it that says Photobucket, I cannot view the photo? Also I have come across more "photos" with a picture of a cat. I cannot see these photos either. Anything I can do to view them? Cheers.