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[Webby the Bear]

So. It appears Photobucket has been taken over. And to allow me to publish photos on 3rd party sites (such as OOF) they want £400 

So I've heard of another site called postimage.org. Anyone use it? Other recommendations?

TIA 

[Mister Rog]

Seems ok to me, and I didn't pay anything. Uploaded and posted today just a few minutes ago

[aaronjb]

It will come to you, Rog. It is coming to all PB users.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/30/photobucket_charging_400yr_3rdparty_pgs/

I use imgbb.com (which I'm sure will also disappear or start charging in time) now.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Photobucket is so clogged with ads that it's almost unusable anyway. 

[Mister Rog]

It will come to you, Rog. It is coming to all PB users.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/30/photobucket_charging_400yr_3rdparty_pgs/

I use imgbb.com (which I'm sure will also disappear or start charging in time) now.

Hmmmmm, ok. Well, its not a huge deal for me as most of my stuff is irrelevant crap. $400 really is a lot, I can't see many coughing up, maybe not any, surely they must see that ?

 

[omega2018]

i found photobucket awful to use, so many ads

now use https://imgbb.com/ too, free,  no ads that i noticed and really straightforward

[STEMO]

I just went on to check out the site. Got the new terms of service and closed it to get to main site. Two ads in quick succession followed by a warning that my iPad had a virus and, unless I followed a link, my iPad would be wiped in five minutes. All flashy and dangerous looking like 
So I farted, closed the tab and I'm still alive.

[STEMO]

All my lovely pictures of Gixer.......

[STEMO]

i found photobucket awful to use, so many ads

now use https://imgbb.com/ too, free,  no ads that i noticed and really straightforward

Thank you 

[Mister Rog]

Well effittt.

It was useful some time ago, but in recent months it became very hard to use, slow, cumbersome etc. Attempts to "monetise" it were pathetic an unattractive. I can live without it.

[STEMO]

Well effittt.

It was useful some time ago, but in recent months it became very hard to use, slow, cumbersome etc. Attempts to "monetise" it were pathetic an unattractive. I can live without it.

I just set up an account with the one migmog recommended, Rog, very easy to use.

[omega2018]

aaronjb beat me to it

[Mr.OmegaMan]

imgbb.com seems to work ok, There is a 16mb limit. Although this won't be a problem 95% of the time though. 

[TheBoy]

Providing internet services is expensive.  In the case of image hosting sites, the provider has to pay for lots of storage arrays (an enterprise 500Tb SAN array is probably around $1m to buy, $10k pa support - yes you could go cheaper, but even with free services, you'll get brand damage if the service is unavailable, or loses data), networking, transit/peering, compute power, development, support and admin, datacentre costs including rental, power and cooling.

Obviously somebody somewhere has to pay these costs.  If you are using PB purely to host pictures for use on other sites, they have no income stream from ads, so what other income streams have they got?  They could analyse/sell your pictures, but MS tried a similar model and it didn't work.  They could put an ad on each image, but that model most likely wouldn't get the revenue from the ad providers, as the ad provider cannot prove its been displayed, as the ad model is all click-thrus.

$400 is probably based on them believing around 10% will take it up, as $40pa sounds about right for <500Gb online storage cost price.

[Kevin Wood]

$400 is probably based on them believing around 10% will take it up, as $40pa sounds about right for <500Gb online storage cost price.

I'll have some of what they've been smoking, please!