So this definetly impacts people on this site. Photobucket changed the terms of service to block sharing from 3rd party sites on free accounts. As a matter of fact the cheapest account allowing it is almost $400 a year.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/4/15919224/photobucket-broken-images-amazon-ebay-etsy-paid-update
I skimmed through a few threads and there are definetly images missing... first epic ski and now photobucket.
What are others using to host images? Does google, amazon, or iCloud have something that allows you to share images via third party, those 3 options seem like the least likely to dissapear or change the terms and conditions out of nowhere. Even if photobucket reverts this I will likely be closing my account once I move my photos...
I use Facebook for some of my pics that I share with family and friends as well as here.
I stopped using PB a few years ago when their upload tool stopped playing nice with my main leisure PC. Sucks what they're doing. Changing what was allowed for nearly a decade in a ransomware type extortion to get $400 from everyone. That said, there is really nothing to stop Facebook and Instagram and everyone else from doing the same thing, suddenly changing their policy to demand money from everyone sharing links across other forums.
Not sure what's worse, site collapsing in bankruptcy or site extorting money from people to keep their links active..
I use PB on this and other sites. My recent pics embedded in the State of Shoe thread seem alive and well.
Bonzski wrote:
I use PB on this and other sites. My recent pics embedded in the State of Shoe thread seem alive and well.
There is a data limit threshold where they stop allowing the links to be shared. When you pass it ALL your links get blocked, even theones you already had there before you pass the limit. And, it's lower than the total limit before they start charging you to upload additional things. I was at 67% of the total allowed when the policy change put me over the limit for sharing links. I deleted my account today. Hadn't done anything there in three years anyway using MS OneDrive, FB, and Google for all my other cloud storage and back ups.
For a number of years I used EpicSki as a free host for hundreds of my high res ski photos including many posted here in the DCSki forums.........that didn't turn out so well when EpicSki went defunct earlier this year:-( All those photo links broke.
I can still make new posts of some of my photos from there by using photo URLs from the portion of Epicski pages that made it to the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20161202223217/Caution-http://www.epicski.com , but it's very tedious to go back and "patch" missing photos to old posts or articles.
For better or worse I was never a user of photobucket. I've found a couple of other ski-related sites that might serve as photo hosts in the future, but the EpicSki thing taught me a lesson to do a better job backing up and archiving my old photos on a personal hard drive. I've been grateful for all the years Scott has run DCSki and hosted photos in my articles, but I know the continuation of this site is totally out of the goodness of his heart and not something to take for granted.
Blue Don 1982 wrote:
I use Facebook for some of my pics that I share with family and friends as well as here.
Would people who aren't Facebook Friends with you be able to see those? Do you have to share the photos in some special public way in Facebook to make that happen?
camp wrote:
Blue Don 1982 wrote:
I use Facebook for some of my pics that I share with family and friends as well as here.
Would people who aren't Facebook Friends with you be able to see those? Do you have to share the photos in some special public way in Facebook to make that happen?
I just open the pic on FB. left click it, then copy paste the image link here. Here's a drone pic I posted yesterday.
You have to have the album or individual photo set to "public" on facebook for non friends and non facebook people to be able to see it when linked.
I deleted my photobucket account when they changed the terms and conditions.. Now use both Google + and facebook for online photo storage and sharing.
crgildart wrote:
You have to have the album or individual photo set to "public" on facebook for non friends and non facebook people to be able to see it when linked.
I don't think you have to set to public. I have all my pics and videos set to "friends" only and I am able to share them here. I just posted this one as "only me" meaning only I can see it. I'm assuming others can see it here.
Blue Don 1982 wrote:
crgildart wrote:
You have to have the album or individual photo set to "public" on facebook for non friends and non facebook people to be able to see it when linked.
I don't think you have to set to public. I have all my pics and videos set to "friends" only and I am able to share them here. I just posted this one as "only me" meaning only I can see it. I'm assuming others can see it here.
Wierd and not intuitive since if you share that same friends only photo on facebook people not on your friends list won't see it there.
crgildart wrote:
Now use both Google + and facebook for online photo storage and sharing.
Can you share from G+ without adding people, etc?
Bonzski wrote:
crgildart wrote:
Bonzski wrote:
crgildart wrote:
Now use both Google + and facebook for online photo storage and sharing.
Can you share from G+ without adding people, etc?
Can you see this photo from my G+?
Sure can! So how do you do it?
Hover cursor over the photo opened up in G+ or Facebook. Right click and then click "copy image". Put cursor on DCSki post and paste it (control+V) or right click then click "paste". Done..
