Photobucket -3rd party linking -anyone else Screwed
 

Anyone else screwed over with the new photobucket policy change - all image links - replaced with their Buy P500 upgrade?
Free for all these years and all images embedded from past crash unless you pay $400 a year
http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...psv1pm7cwq.jpg
Started downloading all my albums to host them else wear, what a pain. :mad:

I have another photobucket account that is not effected; but it has my older outdated images.
Ken

Ken, yes the same thing happened to me. Super frustrating! I tried starting accounts with a few other image hosting sites, but none of them seem to have the ability to resize large images. Somehow photobucket automatically does it perfectly for forums. So I started a new photobucket account to continue posting my pictures. Still very upset that all my past threads with photos are now useless :mad:

Pb
 

I started a imgr and Flickr account neither are optimal. I can see using Flickr for now basically the images are"posts" as they call them and i can get to the img links, takes me a few more clicks. You can get to the the links to up-post to ebay If backspace some of the link path out.

The Flickr will generate an embed album like a click through slide show -only works on Pelican site.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-924-944-968-used-parts-sale-wanted/962519-fs-array-83-944-engine-parts.html

K

really ballsy on their part but i think this is the end of photobucket...lol

Use imgur, I've used it for years, no issue and it links all of my photo's in bulletin boards and I can pick which one's I want and it autobuilds the html code for any site you want to post to. Love it.

Best of all, it's free and imgur is not going anywhere. You can build an album, then create a link to it, publish the album like any image below, or embed it into any bulletin board.

Once you sell something, delete it from imgur and it's gone from any site you had it linked to. I have it linked to my google account, so it's ez-pz when taking photo's, and uploading them to the site with the smartphone app.

http://i.imgur.com/rkq7SrKh.png
http://i.imgur.com/jPmSwQUh.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/rXmwWrqh.png

Yep ... just started happening with me. Not an issue on Rennnlist where you can drag image into post but on sites that require IMG/URL code it is a pain. Annoying.

thanks for heads up re imgur

I never download directly to photobucket. I use software that came with my Nikon D2X, Picture Project. Nice program, has automatic correction on individual pics or bulk. And, it's easy to crop and resize, byte-wise, pictures for Ebay or Craigslist ads. Just missing that all-important URL part! Damn you Photobucket~!

Just testing wheter I can embed via microsoft onedrive ... it says you can create url but I suspect it won't work.

Ok ... seems to work from OneDrive ... well I can see it. Anyone else able to see this image?

[Now amended using onedrive embedment url gnerator which now has option to select size. In this instance - medium 660px]

https://5vaj1g.bn1303.livefilestore....&cropmode=none

In fact it seems even to support embedmebnt of pdf ... can anyone see this?

<iframe src="https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=38CD0CC04DAC3406&resid=38CD0CC04DAC3406% 2140569&authkey=AJ4POIDFdUsbdQw&em=2" width="476" height="288" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

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Images shows up but its supersized.
K

So you can see the pdf? That surprises me .. is the pdf file super sized too? If the photo is super sized it just means that you would need to reduce the file size/resolution before embedment which is a hassle but not too bad. I'll try and see if there is an easy way of doing that.

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The PDF showed up fine but seems to be linked to word online so prob not a true .pdf but a hosted image of a .pdf as far as whats being shown. It worked fine earlier and now seems to be locking up- but now back up , and probably why some admins limit scripting... :eek: .
I guess we see what happens here. Admins SmileWavy , only trying to do good.
The 944 image clearly shows 2034 and 1453 in the image link, that is why its coming on so large needs to be closer to 600 x 400 to display with out needing to scroll .

Thanks Ken for the feedback. I was amazed that the pdf worked. I'll look at how to reduce the res on the photo. What is good to know is that Onedrive url embedment links are working. They didn't used to ... so Microsoft must have added a little value at last. Would, be even better if they automatically adjusted to the res to suit forum posting like pbucket used to. Small steps :)

Just for info for those with access to the slowly improving MS onedrive ... if you highligt the file and right click you get an option to embed which creates a URL code ... there is now an option to adjust image size - Medium = 660px which seems to work well. I have edited pics above. :)

Regarding those photo hosting sites: they will all go the paid route someday.

In my forums the admins and moderators have a one-click-button in every post that copies the external hosted images to my servers and changes the imagelink in the posts.

Only a problem on every posting board I visit. ;)

Well photobucket finally got me today. So I am transferring all my photos to Flickr however I am having trouble posting photos using flickr.

When I click share the only one that works is the BBCode. The BBCode is a huge thing of text. I have to delete most of it so only the image shows up. Is there not a direct link that I can use for my flickr photos?

Here is a just the photo after I delete the other stuff.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4432/...6b2fd521_b.jpg[/url]

Here is the full code

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4432/...6b2fd521_b.jpg1507707477264052034 by jarrod vanwinkle, on Flickr

Flickr
 

Yea I battle with the same on Flickr- That image - its content looks awesome thanks for the inspiration as I am needing to do some work on my 911...

I normally need to delete everything on both sides of the
[img] your image.jpg[/img]

Right now I am keeping all my albums on my hard drive and only loading specific images to Flickr as a testing ground. The album slide show works pretty good in Flickr but only on the Pelican forum , Rennlist / 944.com / SPEC /924.org the Flickr slideshow album fails as they are blocking scripting

I also started an imgur account and plan to see how that linking works for me The post in this thread looks like it may be better for single image posting

Same thing happened to my photobucket account. They wanted $300+ a year to link my photos to third part sites. I've had that account for well over 10 years. It took me about 30 seconds to delete the whole thing.

Yep... That's brilliant!

A linode costs $5/mo for 20gb of storage, 2tb transfer, etc. OS needs 3-4gb, so figure 15gb of storage. Images, videos, whatever.

Use my linode reference code to sign up, and I'll configure it for you free of charge ... send me a PM for more details.

FWIW, imgur has blocked hotlinking on some of the forums

This is actually becoming a big problem... I see this in multiple threads on the different forums I use.
I'm guessing most people aren't willing to pay the money to hot link their photos.

The Instagram effect? :rolleyes:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1503900614.jpg

Of course not!
Register your own domain for a few bucks a year and upload your photos there.

Have had a domain and been hosting my own photos since 1991. Also have email and web.

Provide hosting, push based email that can include web site with ftp. ftp includes a feature called Drop Ship where you can email a link for someone to click and download the photo/file/movie etc.

Share photos with a web ste. For posting have always just cropped and sized my photos for posting, uploaded them via ftp, then type in the web server link in the post.

Suppose I could install software on the web server to make it work like flicker. Have one user that added web gallery to share their family photos. After the new wore off they don't use it much. Especially with the apps that manage photos on your computer. They just ftp upload the photos and email links to the people they want to share them with using Drop Ship. Have a desktop app you can drop photos on and it uploads the photos via ftp and puts a copy of the link on the clipboard. Paste it in an email and send it. Can be one photo or a directory of photos.

Ony charge to help support the software licenses, business internet connection, storage, and server upgrades.

If there is enough interest could setup photo hosting. But would have to charge a meager fee to help cover hardware/storage, internet connection, and maybe software depending on what works best.