most photobucket-hosted images are dead.

[darkonaut]

i'd been seeing a lot of "upgrade your service" placeholders in the last few days and it turns out it's because photobucket was going for the long con. unless you pay them $400 a year your images will no longer show up on any other site. any how-to posts, show-off-the-bike posts, etc. originally posted using photobucket-hosted pix are now useless.



at least pelican hosts its own images. bmwsporttouring, among others, looks like it's gonna be "gently caressed" by the change.

change your links if you used photobucket? pretty please?

[sykospain]

Yes, what a money-grabbing scam. I've seen the repeated "Upgrade Your Account" messages in the past month or so.

Been a paid-up member of PhotoBucket for a few years, avoiding all the ads, so thank goodness all my images on their platform are copies of what's on the 2TB hard drive here.
¿ So which other platform should we switch to ? SmugMug, whatever ?
Trouble is of course that in the meantime any posted images in earlier threads will show that irritating 'upgrade-please' message with no foto.
What a shameless con.
AL in s.e. Spain

[darkonaut]

My worry is that many users won't bother with the tedium of changing all their links. So many good threads, now gone.

Can't blame a business for trying to have a sustainable business plan, but feck if money isn't damned expensive.

[motoyoyo]

Does anyone know if there is a time limit on editing a post in an old thread? I was going to try to update some failed Photobucket pictures with new ones in some classic older threads, so they aren't just worthless information now. I don't see any edit option anymore when I open these threads. It's been a while since I have been here, so I may be missing something. I'm definitely deleting my Photobucket account as well.

[darkonaut]

I just checked my first post here and can't edit it.

Looks like part of the vBulletin settings: https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-5-connect/vbulletin-5-connect-questions-problems-troubleshooting/vbulletin-5-support-issues-questions/4339794-post-edit-delete-window

Dunno whether this can be changed at the forum admin level or whether the Pelican bigwigs would need to get in on it. IMO a major image host dying is certainly an exceptional situation.

[Chris Canning]

Shame about Photo Bucket just simply jumped ship and start again using this lot if it works!!



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Hmmm too big!!

[Deans BMW]

Smugmug is an excellent image service. FYI

[ckcarr]

Originally Posted by Deans BMW

Smugmug is an excellent image service. FYI

I agree. The old saying is "You get what you pay for."

[wswartzwel]

You get what you play for....