Photo Bucket has broken the links to all hosted images currently in forums ...

[rnvinc]

I know this is the main fishing forum but I thought it necessary to put this here to get the most exposure ...

Photobucket (free image hosting site) has has decided to break all the links to pictures held on their servers until users now pay a $399 per year fee ...

https://petapixel.com/2017/07/01/pho...-embedded-web/

This basically means every picture I've ever posted here (and in many other forums) no longer will display in the forums ... i.e. - our "Big Sonar Quiz" sticky thread, Fisherman's sunrise/sunset thread, etc ... are now trash ...

This will be a long and difficult task of getting my pictures away from Photobucket and into another venue that works with the software here at CDC and other forums ...

It is very doubtful there will be a way to fix the previous images already posted in the past ... My images alone in the electronics forums is 1000+...

New links to another image hosting site would have to be created and offered to mods (or Slab) to insert into previously posted threads ... That would be simply unreasonable to ask any mod to undertake - especially with the 1000's of images I (and others) have already posted in the past ...

I'm not sure of the path forward for images I (and others) have already posted ...

This thread is open for discussion for options for users wanting to post images without using Photobucket and their new policy ...

While it is very frustrating ... and this thread could easily morph into a Photobucket bashing thread - that it NOT my intention for this thread - but hopefully to find our best option(s) for users posting images without using Photobucket ...

I haven't even decided what image hosting site I want to use going forward ...

Rickie

[pab1981]

Rickie I have no idea about your images but for me and this forum, I ditched photobucket a long time ago and just use my phone with Tapatalk. Screen captures from electronics I e-mail to myself and save to my phone long enough to post on here. May not be practical for you but to me Tapatalk is the easiest way to go on forums like this that use it.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk

[Redge]

That's really bad business, fortunately I have always let CDC host my photos.
As pab1981 stated above, with tapatalk or on my computer it uploads to CDC.
At least I think that's the way it works.
Hopefully someone more computer literate will chime in "Slab"?

[RMGeorge]

If the ransom were paid once would there then be a way for you to remove the images from photobucket and place them somewhere else?

["G"]

I never use a host....i got burnt on photobuck several years ago

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["G"]

I just post pics from photo gallery on my phone and computer

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk

[rnvinc]

If the ransom were paid once would there then be a way for you to remove the images from photobucket and place them somewhere else?

Photobucket still allows downloading photos to one's PC (which I'm in the process of doing - takes some time to download 1000's of pictures) ...

Photobucket no longer allows "hot-linking" (without buying the new $399/year fee) the images stored on the Photobucket servers to another website or forum ...

Rickie

[Slab]

I've always recommended to upload photos direct to crappie.com for exactly this reason. Tapatalk could do the same thing, so upload to my server is still my recommendation.


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[CrappiePappy]

I have the "free" account (2GB space), but am only using 11% of that space. I can still post pics from my account.

When is this "link breakage" supposed to take effect ?? Or is this just for those that have exceeded the free space limit of 2GB ??

There are more options besides the $399/year unlimited. I believe the cheapest option is something like $60/yr for 52GB space.

[dbowling]

Gave up photo bucket 6-7 years ago at least, use tiny pic or put them on my computer to save/post from..