photobucket holding almost all free hotlinked images ransom for $400

[Nicepoint]

I like how fstoppers uses this as an example to get people to pay for image services

[Ad Bot]

[Sylvanor]

i pay $1 a month for imageshack its ok, but $400 a year, wtf pls wat

[MrApophis]

ImageShack did the same general thing where they forced you to pay monthly fees to even upload stuff anymore. I understand that businesses need to make money, but for the vast majority of people they never upload more than like 15-30 pics on average. They say anything you put on the internet is there forever but that's total bullstuff. It's only there as long as the service is, or if someone mirrors your stuff

[crazies alt]

real nigas attatch photos
posts from 11 years ago STILL have images attatched to them.

[MrApophis]

real nigas attatch photos
posts from 11 years ago STILL have images attatched to them.

Attatch is incorrect dog its supposded to be spelelt attachded

[Køtt]

good thing i don't use photobucket at all lol

imgur and xomf

[LeetZero]

Photobucket: Upload images - 100gb for $100 (no hotlinking) / 500gb for $400 + hotlinking
Dropbox: Upload whatlovingever - 1tb for $100

Who the forget in their right mind would choose Photobucket. Photobucket is a disgusting joke at this point.


So even if you do for some inexplicable reason pay that mindboggling price, you might still be limited if Photobucket decides to screw you over.

[Shift Kitty]

Dropbox isn't a good idea either. They will eventually stop you from hotlinking or letting others download. It's meant to be a syncing service, not a file upload service.

I don't know what's worse though. That there's enough people still using photobucket so that this news gets spread around and people are shocked, despite that it's been going down a hole for many years now.

Or that I've seen people still hotlinking photobucket images, successfully, as if they paid.


Edit: oml, it's hilarious. There's OTHER image hosting sites responding to people on photobucket's posts. They're milking this moment.

[Tactical Nuke]

immmmmmmmmgurrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[siba²]

https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?action=profile;u=146512;sa=showPosts

That's a lot of advertisement for an 'upgrade' that has an absurdly low chance of convincing anyone besides their biggest users to pay up.

Perhaps they knew these links were hotlinked all over the internet, and therefore no matter how ridiculous the deal seemed, someone was going to be convinced.

[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]

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

not really lol

[Headcrab Zombie]

Photobucket: Upload images - 100gb for $100 (no hotlinking) / 500gb for $400 + hotlinking
Dropbox: Upload whatlovingever - 1tb for $100

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

Edit: oml, it's hilarious. There's OTHER image hosting sites responding to people on photobucket's posts. They're milking this moment.

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.]

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

wait how is it stuff at all

[Decepticon]

wait how is it stuff at all

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