Photobucket problems?

[Mark Sawyer]

Like at least a few other members here, I've been using Photobucket as a site to host my images, and posting hot-links to put photos on the forum, as in the Pixie thread. Now Photobucket is embroiled in a mess of its own making, pulling a "pharma-bro" Martin Shkreli sort of maneuver, suddenly demanding $400 per year to keep their service going:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoo.../#7d3d0ff34a38

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/4/15...sy-paid-update

But as far as I can tell, all he Photobucket hot-links are working. Has anyone noticed any problems with their image hosting?

[Leszek Vogt]

Indeed. I read the same thing. Hmmm, a reminder to build a wall (as high as possible) between 'bucket and me....that's my mo.

Les

[Randy]

Something similar a while back with using dropbox, which I have been using their free service for a few years now. After much searching I managed to find a very easy work-around for hot-linking to my images while still using their very generous service...of course, no guarantee how long that will work.

[hendrik faure]

Has anyone noticed any problems with their image hosting?

extreme advertising terror in the free version, links still working as far as I can see.
I do not rely on such services. My fear is, that some day they all, inclusive Icloud, ask for money

[Mark Sawyer]

extreme advertising terror in the free version, links still working as far as I can see.
I do not rely on such services. My fear is, that some day they all, inclusive Icloud, ask for money

The advertising terror started about a month or so ago. The "pay us $400 a year or all your links will disappear" started a day or two ago. The pixie thread is pixie-less:

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...-your-Pixies!-)

As are all my other images, such as the old Velostigmat thread:

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...nfo-and-Images

And I've noticed some other folks photos are gone. They say everything lives forever on the internet, but I've found it's not so. Things vanish in the blink of an eye...

[hendrik faure]

The pixie thread is pixie-less:

that is not quite true
hendrik

[Mark Sawyer]

that is not quite true
hendrik

You can see them?

[hendrik faure]

You can see them?

only one, see yourself

[Mark Sawyer]

only one, see yourself

Ah, got it.

[Graham Patterson]

It really hit people using Photobucket as the image source for Ebay, Amazon Store, and Etsy sales.