photo bucket wants $$$$$$$

Doe Shooter

Doe Shooter

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I've been using photo bucket for my 3rd Party Hosting for posting my pics in connection with postings on a number of boards.


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.

Now I get a notice that they want money for this service. I never would have signed up if I knew that it was going to go this way.

What are other people using?
 
I use Tapatalk and post everything from my phone (that's what I take pics with anyway... makes it really easy!).
In the meantime, I'm filling up as much photobucket space as I can with worthless pics.
 
I'm kinda old school .I use tracfone for $8.00 a month. It's a smart phone but is really primitive compared to the I phone or others. Anyway tap talk won't fit my usage pattern, but good to know.Thanks
 
I simply pull my pics off of my phone and use a clipping/snipping tool/program to take them to a paint program and save them as a jpeg I also then take those pics and save them to a thumb drive for later use if needed. It's not as handy I am sure, but it works. I do most of my "surfing" with my laptop so it isn't that big of a deal for me.
 
I started using imgur about year ago. It works pretty good. Photobucket always hung up and took forever. Now with the charge thing it is worse. I was there recently to retrieve an old picture to post some before and after shots. I was shocked when they hit me with the charge thing. SO, I brought up the picture, used Snipping Tool to take a snapshot of it, saved to disc. That method left the jpeg small enough that it will load auto into forum posting. IMGUR for all other pictures that have size
 
I belong to a jeep restoration site. Documented my entire restoration with pictures now lost the whole thing due to photobuckets new rule. They want 400.00 a yr.......it will happen here too
 
There's always a chance I'm going to write something here and appear to be - well, you pick the descriptions! LOL!

I don't get the whole string of stuff going on here. I don't use Photobucket. That makes me naive. For better or worse.

I looked at Photobucket and, yes, they will charge you nearly $400 for 500 Gigabytes of storage. How much storage do you need? As a rule of thumb 500GB stores approximately 100,000 digital photos taken with a 6-megapixel camera.
You might burn that much space if you are uploading full resolution photos, the kind you might take if you wanted an image on a billboard (he said in jest just to make a point).

Again, I'd didn't go too deep but I'd guess a site like Photobucket has an option to reduce photos to some acceptable resolution. If viewing on a computer screen is all you want a 300 kb resolution pic is plenty. For $400 a year, you can store 1-million-six-hundred-and-sixty-six-thousand 300 kb pictures (if I got my math right).

Photobucket offers 2 GB for free (with ads). Again, if I do my math correctly free gets you 6-thousand+ 300kb pictures. Anyhow, after all that I will tell you I use Google....for free. Unlimited storage for reduced resolution photos. If you want to keep full resolution you'll be back in the pay-for-storage market.

Maybe I misunderstand the whole thing!
 
X-farmerdan said:
There's always a chance I'm going to write something here and appear to be - well, you pick the descriptions! LOL!

I don't get the whole string of stuff going on here. I don't use Photobucket. That makes me naive. For better or worse.

I looked at Photobucket and, yes, they will charge you nearly $400 for 500 Gigabytes of storage. How much storage do you need? As a rule of thumb 500GB stores approximately 100,000 digital photos taken with a 6-megapixel camera.
You might burn that much space if you are uploading full resolution photos, the kind you might take if you wanted an image on a billboard (he said in jest just to make a point).

Again, I'd didn't go too deep but I'd guess a site like Photobucket has an option to reduce photos to some acceptable resolution. If viewing on a computer screen is all you want a 300 kb resolution pic is plenty. For $400 a year, you can store 1-million-six-hundred-and-sixty-six-thousand 300 kb pictures (if I got my math right).

Photobucket offers 2 GB for free (with ads). Again, if I do my math correctly free gets you 6-thousand+ 300kb pictures. Anyhow, after all that I will tell you I use Google....for free. Unlimited storage for reduced resolution photos. If you want to keep full resolution you'll be back in the pay-for-storage market.

Maybe I misunderstand the whole thing!
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I believe their new rule is you have to pay the 400.00 a yr to enable 3rd party hosting (posting pictures to a forum )
 
JohnL48 said:
I believe their new rule is you have to pay the 400.00 a yr to enable 3rd party hosting (posting pictures to a forum )
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Yep. You can still store photos for free but can't post them without paying $$$.

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X-farmerdan said:
There's always a chance I'm going to write something here and appear to be - well, you pick the descriptions! LOL!

I don't get the whole string of stuff going on here. I don't use Photobucket. That makes me naive. For better or worse.

I looked at Photobucket and, yes, they will charge you nearly $400 for 500 Gigabytes of storage. How much storage do you need? As a rule of thumb 500GB stores approximately 100,000 digital photos taken with a 6-megapixel camera.
You might burn that much space if you are uploading full resolution photos, the kind you might take if you wanted an image on a billboard (he said in jest just to make a point).

Again, I'd didn't go too deep but I'd guess a site like Photobucket has an option to reduce photos to some acceptable resolution. If viewing on a computer screen is all you want a 300 kb resolution pic is plenty. For $400 a year, you can store 1-million-six-hundred-and-sixty-six-thousand 300 kb pictures (if I got my math right).

Photobucket offers 2 GB for free (with ads). Again, if I do my math correctly free gets you 6-thousand+ 300kb pictures. Anyhow, after all that I will tell you I use Google....for free. Unlimited storage for reduced resolution photos. If you want to keep full resolution you'll be back in the pay-for-storage market.

Maybe I misunderstand the whole thing!
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Yes, you misunderstand it. As others have said, they have disabled the ability to post photos directly onto other sites. You can't embed Photobucket hosted photos without paying the $400.
 
I left Photobucket years ago for Smugmug. I pay $200 a year because I run a business partly using Smugmug.
 
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