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Photobucket woes.
on: October 27, 2016, 01:04:03 PM
Anyone else using Photobucket? I have so many photos posted on this forum...that I have exceeded my free storage, and am a paying customer for the past year. For the past few days, I have been locked out of Photobucket. Whenever I try to access the web page, It times out and tells me that I cannot reach the web site, and that the connection was reset.

Anyone else having issues with Photobucket?

I am thinking that if I had to, I would cancel Photobucket and go to some other image file service...but not sure what. What really worries me however, is that if I had to do something like that...what would it do to this website? That is my biggest fear...and because of that, I feel like I am stuck with Photobucket.  :think:
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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #1 on: October 27, 2016, 01:09:45 PM
The only solution would be to shrink your images, in photobucket, so that you gain storage and the links will still work.  I do not know if it is possible.

Many years ago I started uploading smaller sized photographs just to avoid these storage issues.

a few days ago photobucket was down, but it seems OK now.


I did try other sites too, but they did not seem to be any better (a few years ago)

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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #2 on: October 27, 2016, 01:21:51 PM
I recently joined Flickr after problems with photobucket, and have no complaints. They give you 1 terabyte for free and after a couple of months of daily uploading I'm still on less than 1% of that.
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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #3 on: October 27, 2016, 04:18:00 PM
PB has had some issues the last few days.

For me a few months ago It became unusable unless you pay for the 99 cent a month ad free service. It is so loaded down with ads that it freezes up. When I was using ad blocker it showed over 150 ads blocked.


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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #4 on: October 27, 2016, 04:30:57 PM
PB has had some issues the last few days.

For me a few months ago It became unusable unless you pay for the 99 cent a month ad free service. It is so loaded down with ads that it freezes up. When I was using ad blocker it showed over 150 ads blocked.

I find it unusable these days too. I haven't  signed up anywhere else yet, but I will.


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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #5 on: October 27, 2016, 05:03:44 PM
Photobucket has been having issues for weeks.  I'm not pleased with it, but haven't taken the time to find anything else.  I have tons of photos stored there.

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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #6 on: October 27, 2016, 05:29:43 PM
I recently joined Flickr after problems with photobucket, and have no complaints. They give you 1 terabyte for free and after a couple of months of daily uploading I'm still on less than 1% of that.

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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #7 on: October 27, 2016, 05:32:06 PM
I've been using imgur for about a year, it works great.


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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #8 on: October 27, 2016, 06:12:01 PM
Just tired to go to Photobucket and the connection timed out for me too. :-\  I'll be looking at other photo hosting sites as well I think, though I'll just leave my 'bucket account open so as to not break the links on the forum.
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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #9 on: October 27, 2016, 10:00:38 PM
The ads and not being able to connect have gotten worse in the last work or so :facepalm: I have been having a very hard time uploading things lately and have been thinking about using another service as well :-\

I am not sure what would be a solution for you Chako unless you tried moving some of the pics off photobucket until you go back to a free account and then abandon but not cancel the account.  Still it would mean broken links here :oops:


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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #10 on: October 28, 2016, 12:51:46 AM
Everything works fine now...but I couldn't post for 2 days.  :facepalm:

I have a ton of space on it...but then I am a paying customer.

I know, if something ever happened, broken link city. I do not want to chance that.
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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #11 on: October 28, 2016, 02:41:19 AM
Everything works fine now...but I couldn't post for 2 days.  :facepalm:

I have a ton of space on it...but then I am a paying customer.

I know, if something ever happened, broken link city. I do not want to chance that.

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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #12 on: October 28, 2016, 03:09:15 AM
Yes. I have them all saved on my HD as well. However. it would take forever to re-post the thousands of photos I have posted on here.  :ahhh
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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #13 on: October 28, 2016, 04:38:26 AM
I have had so many problems with photobucket I swore them off forever. Went to Flickr and never looked back. They give you a Terabyte of free storage.
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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #14 on: October 28, 2016, 05:56:18 AM
Anyone else using Photobucket? I have so many photos posted on this forum...that I have exceeded my free storage, and am a paying customer for the past year. For the past few days, I have been locked out of Photobucket. Whenever I try to access the web page, It times out and tells me that I cannot reach the web site, and that the connection was reset.

Anyone else having issues with Photobucket?

I am thinking that if I had to, I would cancel Photobucket and go to some other image file service...but not sure what. What really worries me however, is that if I had to do something like that...what would it do to this website? That is my biggest fear...and because of that, I feel like I am stuck with Photobucket.  :think:
I think the site would be absolutely fine. I mentioned this the other day, but have to ask. Are you guys taking photos with digital cameras and then loading them into photobucket on a desktop or laptop computer and then pasting the link here?

Because if you're taking the photos with a cell phone, which I may be incorrect in guessing that most people are, you can simply load it from your camera roll. Easy peasy! No multi step process and takes seconds...


Hope that helps. It did for me
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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #15 on: October 28, 2016, 05:59:10 AM
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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #16 on: October 28, 2016, 05:53:13 PM
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Re: Photobucket woes.
Reply #17 on: October 28, 2016, 06:34:14 PM
The sad truth of these services is just that, here today, gone tomorrow. This is why it's important we publish reviews on the main site as well as I typically copy the images to the site storage so that we don't lose worthwhile information. (Yes, we're a bit behind currently... isn't that always the case!)

I've been hunting for a while for some personal photo storage/gallery thing that works... for now I've been using Google photos to backup offsite, but it's a useless platform for forum linking. That being said if you allow them to limit your images to 16MP you have unlimited storage for free instead of using up your google drive/account space.

Many services seem to have all sorts of neat tools, and storage is unlimited if you commit to some sort of subscription, something I can't afford atm. And a lot of the self hosted options we've tried until now are severely lacking in comparison...
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