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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Webby the Bear on 01 July 2017, 17:40:31

Title: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: Webby the Bear on 01 July 2017, 17:40:31
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  ;D

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

TIA  :y
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: Mister Rog on 01 July 2017, 18:07:11

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

(http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j74/Old_Mosher/PhotobucketTest_zps4ht40ow7.jpg)
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: aaronjb on 01 July 2017, 18:37:11
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.
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 01 July 2017, 18:44:56
Photobucket is so clogged with ads that it's almost unusable anyway.  :-\
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: Mister Rog on 01 July 2017, 18:48:11
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 ?

 
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: omega2018 on 01 July 2017, 19:01:57
i found photobucket awful to use, so many ads

now use https://imgbb.com/ too, free,  no ads that i noticed and really straightforward
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: STEMO on 01 July 2017, 21:25:08
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  :o
So I farted, closed the tab and I'm still alive. ;D
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: STEMO on 01 July 2017, 21:29:06
All my lovely pictures of Gixer....... :'(
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: STEMO on 01 July 2017, 22:03:32
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  :y
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: Mister Rog on 01 July 2017, 22:07:30


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.

Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: STEMO on 01 July 2017, 22:17:13


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.
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: omega2018 on 01 July 2017, 23:11:08
aaronjb beat me to it :)
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: Mr.OmegaMan on 01 July 2017, 23:22:50
imgbb.com seems to work ok, There is a 16mb limit. Although this won't be a problem 95% of the time though.  :y

(https://thumb.ibb.co/b6kSNv/DSC_0738_HDR_2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/b6kSNv)
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: TheBoy on 02 July 2017, 10:11:42
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.
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 02 July 2017, 23:28:07
$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! :o
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: TheBoy on 03 July 2017, 08:12:34
$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! :o
There are a lot of sites, particularly in the blogosphere and forums, where all of a sudden, images will just disappear.  So its not unreasonable to assume a 10% take up...  ...users are held by the short and curlies  >:(

Imagine, for a second, if all our guide images were on PB...  ...we'd have to pay, and certainly would be less willing to move to another free provider in case it happens again   (although that would be Jimbob's problem :P ;D)
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 03 July 2017, 10:40:03
$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! :o
There are a lot of sites, particularly in the blogosphere and forums, where all of a sudden, images will just disappear.  So its not unreasonable to assume a 10% take up...  ...users are held by the short and curlies  >:(

Imagine, for a second, if all our guide images were on PB...  ...we'd have to pay, and certainly would be less willing to move to another free provider in case it happens again   (although that would be Jimbob's problem :P ;D)

Well, if you've built a site around images hosted on a freebie provider then you deserve a good fleecing but the vast, vast majority of PB subscribers must be punters who post the odd image on a forum such as this and who probably wouldn't give a toss if the images disappear at some time in the future, so I think 10% is slightly optimistic.
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: TheBoy on 03 July 2017, 17:01:12
You'd be surprised how many do it.  Even real businesses, who should know better...
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: Jimbob on 04 July 2017, 16:36:40
Upsetting a LOT of people...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40492668
Title: Re: Photo bucket and the like...
Post by: Mister Rog on 04 July 2017, 17:36:04
$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! :o
There are a lot of sites, particularly in the blogosphere and forums, where all of a sudden, images will just disappear.  So its not unreasonable to assume a 10% take up...  ...users are held by the short and curlies  >:(

Imagine, for a second, if all our guide images were on PB...  ...we'd have to pay, and certainly would be less willing to move to another free provider in case it happens again   (although that would be Jimbob's problem :P ;D)

Well, if you've built a site around images hosted on a freebie provider then you deserve a good fleecing but the vast, vast majority of PB subscribers must be punters who post the odd image on a forum such as this and who probably wouldn't give a toss if the images disappear at some time in the future, so I think 10% is slightly optimistic.

That's me.

I've just gone and pretty much emptied my PB library, I'm not bothered about any links that still exist to those images. In fact, those that are here on OOF are probably better gone !  :y