What to do now that Photobucket is not an option ?

Hi, all !

We need to do something now that Photobucket has [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], and it is ridiculously expensive to use for forums.
I fear that this forum may slowly die, if we do not take action  

My suggestions :

First : Will it be and idea to erase all Photobucket manuals in the forum  ASAP ?

And then, - we need to list all alternatives

What do y'all say ????

I always use deviantart to upload my pictures.

Ay. I just paid $60 to fix mine...which i was not happy about. Started to notice a lot of those "update your account" pictures all across the forum and knew I wasn't the only one to have the problem. So I will have to stick with Photobucket for at least a year since i paid the ridiculous price. But please do list the alternatives! That would be so helpful!

I will be on holiday for two weeks on saturday. Nevertheless I will spend my freetime on august to find a solution for our forum. Is anybody here have a global solution?

Of course finding individual image hosting sites would be easier but we can't prevent we will have the same problem soon. I would like to find a place where every member could load his own pics. I guess it is possible but I would like to find a cheap solution.

I used to pay 40€ each year on Photobucket, I think I can use this money in a more useful way for all of us.

Kikimalou wrote:

Is anybody here have a global solution?

I have no global solution Christophe, but i will thought about it too.

Kikimalou wrote:

I will be on holiday for two weeks on saturday. Nevertheless I will spend my freetime on august to find a solution for our forum. Is anybody here have a global solution?

Of course finding individual image hosting sites would be easier but we can't prevent we will have the same problem soon. I would like to find a place where every member could load his own pics. I guess it is possible but I would like to find a cheap solution.

I used to pay 40€ each year on Photobucket, I think I can use this money in a more useful way for all of us.

Deviantart is free, unless you want core membership, but that doesn't prevent you from uploading pics

Gwaine wrote:

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Deviantart is free, unless you want core membership, but that doesn't prevent you from uploading pics

I will try it

SUSANNE wrote:

Gwaine wrote:

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Deviantart is free, unless you want core membership, but that doesn't prevent you from uploading pics

I will try it

The basic registration is free and uploading pics is not very hard.

Me, this week:
Find old harddrive.
Find old pictures.
Compare pics, posts and photobucket.
Create account at Postimg.
Upload old pics to Postimg.
Edit most recent posts and walkarounds with new links.
Delete pics on Photobucket.
<repeat 500+>

All my walkarounds and recent posts are now via Postimg.
For now i can not realy be bothered to chance a my old new-addition pics.

Photobucket sure is causing mayhem all over forums worldwide.
Bastards!  

I've replaced some of my broken Photobucket links by reposting the pictures through Postimage as well.
That seems to work quite well.
But yeah, it's going to be a lot of work for some people to replace all of those broken links.

Deviant is an art site, not a - upload your photos here for forum use- site.
I am not going to upload my walkaround photos on a Deviantart account...

That is my main reason why I am using my blog!
I notice not many members are replying on my new addition topic on STS, but I myself find it very easy, handy and safe to use my blog that way.

I have no solution at the moment, for photos on forum.
But I very much agree to take down the 'how to use' photobucket topics!
400 dollar a year... seriously... bastards...

Dear friends, that is a big problem amd I am sorry that I am out for several days amd I still don't know when I will be back. i am between fight to solve some personal problems amd a kind of false holidays. No computer meanwhile. Photobucket issue is killing loads of forums around but we won't let STS die. We could use the chance to performe a good clean on forum. First, it is important to discourage the use of photobucket, either deleting topics about how to use it amd creating topics about how to use other free picture hosting services.Then, we can create a section called archive amd move the interesting topics that lost their pictures to that section. With that method we can recover our topics, às always às possible, replacing the code of the lost pictures. a kind of restoring of the historical buildings after an earthquake.Im this process all members are required.Other topics may be deleted.I think photobucket is also taking a risky strategy amd they are doing it im a very unfair way. We may consider to excluedde completely PB from the forum. I will delete my PB Account amd migrat the few pictures i have on it to another service. If PB is successeful, other free services will follow the same strategy. I think postimage.org is a good amd easy alternative amd we may study to use it às the standard hosting service on forum. I cannot do any relevant until be back home but I can read your suggestions. Later, the moderation team will get some ideas amd articulate to make the best possible. The show must go on!

Oh and my poor Border Collies!! Gone!!!!

Roger wrote:

..The show must go on!

I also deleted my PB account, with this comment:

"I used to use this account for a forum called STS. A great, friendly and helpful forum for animal model collectors. I shared my new additions, my personal photos, my walkarounds and reviews, all trough this one site... But now, STS looks like a text-block forum, all because you decided to let us pay 400 dollars a year to share your photos! I understand that maintaining such a big uploading site costs money, i sure do. but 400 dollars a year? No, to much, to much for many members. Now all our photos uploaded from PB are gone. New members can not enjoy our animal model photos anymore. That is the only reason why I am deleting my account, it is useless now. Thank you for that!"

Friends, this forum will survive if we decide it will. This place isn't a Photobucket place, it is ours, a village for a lot of collectors and nice fellows all over the world. I'm sure we have enough brains, hearts and energy to make it better.

It's disappointing because now I have to transfer all my photos to a new hosting account site and then go through my collection thread and figure out where they all went. So my one suggestion is not to delete any topics yet using PB (unless I misunderstood the above) while members get reoriented with new accounts after suggestions are made. I'm sure we can figure something out with all our brains put together.

Saarlooswolfhound wrote:

It's disappointing because now I have to transfer all my photos to a new hosting account site and then go through my collection thread and figure out where they all went. So my one suggestion is not to delete any topics yet using PB (unless I misunderstood the above) while members get reoriented with new accounts after suggestions are made. I'm sure we can figure something out with all our brains put together.

Of course we need to take time to migrate

Kikimalou wrote:

Friends, this forum will survive if we decide it will. This place isn't a Photobucket place, it is ours, a village for a lot of collectors and nice fellows all over the world. I'm sure we have enough brains, hearts and energy to make it better.

YES; YES...hurray christophe

Please don't delete topics that are using PB or ban the use of PB on here! While it is unfortunate as to what is happening and many don't agree with PB's new ways, I think it would be bit rash to completely boycott it. Sooner or later other image hosting sites are going to take the same route eventually.

Everyone is free to use whatever image hosting site they please anyway. Banning and boycotting the use of one just because of some changes isn't completely fair to members like me who paid $60 for a year subscription. All my topics are photobucket based and to be honest, it would be a huge and very time consuming pain to reupload all my photos elsewhere and then retrace all my topics and replace the photos in them with new links.

I don't have the time for that and I also don't have the amount of internet access needed to accomplish such a task. I live on 18 GB of internet a month through my phone. I don't have any internet access in my home at all except when I use my phone. And if I overstep my boundry of 18GB a month through my phone, it is an automatic $30.00 fee for every GB I go over.

I am not taking PB's side...it's just the fact that I already paid the $60.00 for a year subscription and I can't get a refund or cancel it.

Please take these points above into serious consideration.

Don't worry Fallon, STS won't do anything against PB or PB user  We are just searching emergency solutions and safer solution for the future.

For example I moved the banner to Flickr so it is already available now.

For my pics I will move my wakarounds on Flickr too.

For the future, I am looking at a STS solution, maybe having a big storage where we could all upload our pics. I hope I will succeed

Kikimalou wrote:

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For the future, I am looking at a STS solution, maybe having a big storage where we could all upload our pics. I hope I will succeed

SUSANNE wrote:

Kikimalou wrote:

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For the future, I am looking at a STS solution, maybe having a big storage where we could all upload our pics. I hope I will succeed

That would be absolutely perfect!


Just to clear up things

We are not going to ban PB on STS. If you have paid for services on PB, you are still allowed to use it on STS.
What Susanne means by deleting PB topics, are the topics that help new members posting their photos, trough PB.
If you are new here, and you want to post photos, it will not help them by directing them to a website that ask money now to host to fora, blogs, etc.

We will give you all the time you need to replace photos trough an other hosting website if you feel the need to do so.

The thing is, many walkarounds, collections, and other important photos are gone, heck, even our banner was gone.
Some walkarounds are even linked on TAI! (Thank goodness TAI has his own uploading thing! Otherwise it would be a disaster )
So we need a stable solution for those walkarounds, collections, etc to make sure they stay on STS (for a very long time).

Do not worry, if you want to use PB, you can :)

I use servimg
It's free and easy to use, there are only some advertisement browser windows popping up when logging in...