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| photobucket holding almost all free hotlinked images ransom for $400 |
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| Decepticon:
this is pretty forgeted up, i came across a really cool-sounding gta sa modpack project on the day they started doing this and every single image of the project was wiped out with that notice. also am i the only one who sees a slight similarity in the design with the speedometer theme between photobucket and those fake 'GET YOUR PC CLEANED FOR $24.99/MO' ads/rogues? just thought that was kinda funny as for me, i pretty much just use imgur because as stuff as it is it's the best for image storing/organization but i try to avoid the community at all costs |
| Køtt:
--- Quote from: Decepticon on July 20, 2017, 07:22:21 AM ---also am i the only one who sees a slight similarity in the design with the speedometer theme between photobucket and those fake 'GET YOUR PC CLEANED FOR $24.99/MO' ads/rogues? just thought that was kinda funny --- End quote --- not really lol |
| Headcrab Zombie:
--- Quote from: LeetZero on July 19, 2017, 04:07:24 PM ---Photobucket: Upload images - 100gb for $100 (no hotlinking) / 500gb for $400 + hotlinking Dropbox: Upload whatlovingever - 1tb for $100 --- End quote --- Those are two very different services intended for two very different uses. Dropbox is intended to sync your own personal files between your own devices, and share with a few people. It will stop serving the file if it's requested by more than a handful of people --- Quote from: Shift Kitty on July 19, 2017, 04:21:43 PM ---Edit: oml, it's hilarious. There's OTHER image hosting sites responding to people on photobucket's posts. They're milking this moment. --- End quote --- I saw a lot of Smugmug tweets on threads of people discussing Smugmug starts at $48/yr, for unlimited photo uploads, plus you're getting your own gallery website, not just an image host. The Photobucket price is completely outrageous and nowhere near competitive. The only reason for such an outrageous price is exactly what the thread says: it's a ransom. People have important things like ebay and Amazon listings linking to Photobucket photos, and their only options to restore them in order to be able to sell anything are either a) spend a ton of time going through every listing/page, try to find the same photos from somewhere else, reupload them elsewhere. Or b) cough up some money |
| Maxwell.:
--- Quote from: Decepticon on July 20, 2017, 07:22:21 AM ---as for me, i pretty much just use imgur because as stuff as it is it's the best for image storing/organization but i try to avoid the community at all costs --- End quote --- wait how is it stuff at all |
| Decepticon:
--- Quote from: Maxwell. on July 20, 2017, 11:37:33 AM ---wait how is it stuff at all --- End quote --- because it occasionally has these dumb random issues like random images you uploaded/upload becoming randomly corrupted for others, the one time they tried making it so you couldn't direct link someone to an image, the other time they tried making it so the background was white with an imgur logo and view count and options n stuff rather than just letting you view just the image, or the more recent issue where images wouldn't upload at all until you tried uploading a second one, and then that second upload would get stuck until you uploaded another image, then it just repeated on from there, etc thankfully they've reverted a lot of these inconveniences but there's still some issues like how they broke image viewing for links like 'imgur.com/x,x,x,x,x,x,x#n' (x being the image's digits and n being what i believe was the number of images) and i'm still having the occasional problem with the previously mentioned bug with images requiring a second upload to upload, then that second upload needing another upload, etc. also i guess this is more subjective but i hate that they changed it so that pressing arrow keys instead sends you to some random dude's album rather than just sending you to the next image in the album you were looking at. also didn't they have a slideshow function and removed it for some reason? i may be remembering wrongly there it's not that good but i'll acknowledge it's probably the best option out there |
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