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Photobucket now wanting to charge for hosting images for a lot of us on this forum, and any other forum that uses the "img" tag (for those who haven't noticed yet).

I see it has been mentioned a few times on other posts, mainly in the "show us yours" section so I thought it might be a good idea to start a separate thread to keep all the comments in one place and not sidetrack the build threads.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

this is rather timly as I was trying to use PB the otherday and its now full of fucking adverst maing the whole thing an ordeall... do I'd like of F**** it off and use smthing else too

Flickr! No shoddy adds and is nice and simple to use.

I also use Facebook.

Most Internet Service Providers give you free webspace where you can ftp your photos to.

That's what I use. Alright until you change ISP!

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Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

Is Flickr the same as photobucket? So they could stop 3rd party hosting and charge for it as well?

Flickr could possibly stop it too but as it's more of a 'social networking' kind of thing I don't think they ever would. Photobucket is just a shit hosting site out to make money off bandwidth limits and holding people to ransom. Stopped using it in about 2006!

Flickr is the way I think.

on tm i use either the front page, sign in and upload (also to get a TM watermark) or the one built onto the bottom of the post reply page

Yes i moved to the darkside

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I've used Flickr for years. It's owned by yahoo so a different business model to pb.

From memory you get 1tb per month and it's for of a social site.

I can't see any of my old pictures in my account, but they remain visible in my threads - some for 10 years or so.

Checked my minis old thread to see if the pics would be gone as they all photobucket but theyre all there?

if you can access your photobucket ( I can) download your whole album now before it gets locked out. Likely Ill just start hosting my own as I pay for a webserver anyways. Photobuckets been so full of ads lately its completely unuseable.

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Denis O'Brien.

It's funny you mention about Photobucket, as I've paid for it for the last 5 years or so, but the time has come to move away from it for me too. There android app is rubbish, and there website isn't much better, plus sites like Flickr offer a better free service than PB seem to.

I set up a Flickr account last week and have been migrating all my photos across from my PB account and across my various storage mediums, and really like it so far. The app seems a lot better than the PB one, and the website seems to be geared more towards photo storage and editing which is fine for what I want.

Going to cancel my PB subscription once all the photos are moved over, but I have quite few albums to get through!

I lost a lot of photos when I changed ISP, so I started using photobucket over twenty years ago.

It's not the fact I need to download copies of all those pics, it's all the broken links that are going to be broken in all of my and other really interesting build threads .

Switched to Google photos last year for new images. They store the image in its original size. If you need to link to a hi-res image, you can edit the URL to reduce it any size or original size.

Edited by PhilR on 22nd Jul, 2017.

Seems the clever guys over on TMF have somehow managed to get a workaround the photobucket kerfuffle, all the build threads on there have pinged back into life, mine included.

you add something onto the end of the url and the photos work again, but itll just be a short term fix, soon as photobucket realise itll stop :/

turbo 16v k-series 11.9@118.9 :)

Denis O'Brien.

Just seen this on another forum but not tried it myself. Allows you to see any photobucket pictures as normal.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/c...her-info-dialog

Install and make sure it is enabled.

Once installed, Click on settings, then extensions

In 'custom stylesheet and Script' click options and add the below script in the javascript box then hit the 'update extensions' button


$(document).ready(function () {
$('img').each(function () {
var img = $(this);
var imgsrc = img.attr('src');
if (imgsrc.indexOf("photobucket.com") !== -1) {
img.attr("src", imgsrc + "~original");
}
});
});

Edited by Callum on 26th Jul, 2017.

Callum,
The link you posted doesn't work, do you know what the extension is called?
Cheers
Neil

Just edited the link Neil so ir it should work now

There's another chrome extension here as well that should do the same

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/p...pbifiaedg?hl=en

golly that seems to work !!! well done CAllum.

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