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Well, that sucks. I've been less than impressed with Photobucket in the last months, but this is just stupid. I'm glad I opted for Dakka's gallery when posting here. Luckily I'm not as involved with blogs and stuff as others, and have a backup folder for my pictures, so it's not a terrible blow for me.

Any word on if Photobucket is feeling the heat and perhaps backing off in the near future?

Even if they do, I can't see how they can recover from a PR nightmare this bad. I just need to try and get all of my stuff recovered/rehosted/reposted before they go out of business. They won't be around in a year's time, and I'd hazard how many months they'll last at this point.

It seems some of my older content is available again, and I only needed to update newer (as in the last years) photos on my blog. I have no idea if this was intentional or not on PB's part or it other shennanigans are afoot.

No, even my older stuff is still down and I was one of their early members and even paid to remove adds to support the site...that is stopping now.

CB

Salvation?

How to Automatically Download Linked Photobucket Images, by Sven Arild Helleland (The Red Terror)

This has probably been posted, but you can download whole albums as zip files. Open the album and click on the Downlad Album link. After downloading a bunch of albums in a row it did start requiring "verification" with each download.

Have been looking at Imgur and Flicker as alternatives. One problem with Imgur is that you can't have sub-albums.

timd wrote:
This has probably been posted, but you can download whole albums as zip files. Open the album and click on the Downlad Album link. After downloading a bunch of albums in a row it did start requiring "verification" with each download.

Have been looking at Imgur and Flicker as alternatives. One problem with Imgur is that you can't have sub-albums.

I think you can?

I set up an Imgur account yesterday and it certainly looked like I could set up different albums...

Yeah, you can set up albums. Unfortunately you can't view your stuff in them via grid, so it's a long-arse scroll down to see all of your stuff.

Yeah, but if you click 'rearrange images' you can see them in a grid, at least temporarily.

It might be best to have a separate album for every project or theme?

Keep them relatively small-ish?

 Azazelx wrote:
Even if they do, I can't see how they can recover from a PR nightmare this bad.

Which is why I think this is intentional. Instead of just closing shop and getting hit with people suing them or forcing their hand to remain open (ala how MS had their hand forced when they wanted to end support for Win XP); they are instead simply making the service unaffordable to maintain for the average person. The average person is not going to pay hundreds for image hosting and they know this, even those who hardly know how to use the internet are not going to just pay up that sum of money. So everyone hates on them; everyone rages; everyone leaves. In a few months time Pbucket closes its doors and no one fights to have them remain around because anyone who is still current and active has moved on at that point.

Indeed, Overread. I read it that way too. This move is just too suicidal.

However, I resent Photobucket for launching this in the midst of sunny summer. That means it's now or never, and to save golden image material from inactive users one has to sacrifice time one would rather have spent outside... There simply is no choice. Summer weeks have to be sacrificed if the goldmine of hobby inspiration is to be salvaged for future hobbyists.

Please, mods, note the link above. The tutorial can save lots of pictures for you from inactive members.

 Alpharius wrote:

timd wrote:
This has probably been posted, but you can download whole albums as zip files. Open the album and click on the Downlad Album link. After downloading a bunch of albums in a row it did start requiring "verification" with each download.

Have been looking at Imgur and Flicker as alternatives. One problem with Imgur is that you can't have sub-albums.

I think you can?

I set up an Imgur account yesterday and it certainly looked like I could set up different albums...

You can set up multiple albums, but not albums within other albums. Can't have a 40K universe album with sub-albums for 40K, Necromunda, BFG and Space Hulk inside. Can't have a Necromunda album with Escher figs, Orlock figs, scenery and gaming pics sub-albums in it.

From Imgur:

Sarah Schaaf (Imgur)
Jul 5, 14:41 MST

Hi Tim,

That's a great question! Thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately sub-albums are not possible on Imgur.

Please let me know if you have any other questions; I'd be happy to help.

Best,
Sarah Schaaf
Director of Community, Imgur

 Azazelx wrote:
Yeah, you can set up albums. Unfortunately you can't view your stuff in them via grid, so it's a long-arse scroll down to see all of your stuff.

Yes, that has been one of the more painful discoveries so far, especially for Painting Logs with over 600 images...:(

CB

Well that's all my images rescued from photobucket and the account closed after a very tedious weekend with lots of computer crashed (which is clearly what they wanted)

Now I've got to decide threads here and elsewhere it's worth hunting down and restoring the images in,

sigh

Fixing your signature would be a good place to start!

Photobucket was never a good hosting service.

There is nothing you can't do with Photobucket that you can't do with Imgur, and it won't try to give your computer AIDS. Alternately, you can use Google Photo, or Amazon Photos. I've used all of these services and can personally vouch for them - I'd go with Imgur first.

I do use the Dakka gallery for my wargaming images, but only to embed them. In a world of 4k monitors, I can't be peering into a tiny 800px porthole. It's the biggest problem with the gallery IMO.

Just out of curiostiy, wasn't Photobucket a good hosting site some ten years ago? At least it was the go-to site for wargaming hobbyists, and always recommended when people uploaded tiny attachments or wanted to know how to upload pictures. I don't know if Imgur was around back then, but I only heard about it first some years ago.

Still waiting for a chance to get back online at home to save my first Nerdfest09 PB photo's but i've saved the good ones from my current nerdfest account and now i'm just using postimage.org to link them and it's damn fast to use too! much better for how I put images up on Dakka.

Karak Norn Clansman wrote:
Just out of curiostiy, wasn't Photobucket a good hosting site some ten years ago? .

Not really. It was the go-to for a while back when there weren't really any decent alternatives, but the limited bandwidth was eternally frustrating.

Ah ha ha ha today I get a super aggressive all caps email from them. After I've already closed my account.

Unsubscribed.

Back when the first Raging Heroes kickstarter was going on I lost use of my account due to excessive bandwidth usage. It was supposed to be reset the next month, but for some reason to this day my account is still flagged as having exceeded its allotted amount.

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Ah ha ha ha today I get a super aggressive all caps email from them. After I've already closed my account.

Unsubscribed.

What did they say?

 BrookM wrote:
Back when the first Raging Heroes kickstarter was going on I lost use of my account due to excessive bandwidth usage. It was supposed to be reset the next month, but for some reason to this day my account is still flagged as having exceeded its allotted amount.

Man, that thread really did require an inordinate amount of animated GIFs though. There was nothing you could have done about that. It wasn't your fault.

 Alpharius wrote:
Fixing your signature would be a good place to start!

Project fixing my Sig is Go!

 alanmckenzie wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Back when the first Raging Heroes kickstarter was going on I lost use of my account due to excessive bandwidth usage. It was supposed to be reset the next month, but for some reason to this day my account is still flagged as having exceeded its allotted amount.

Man, that thread really did require an inordinate amount of animated GIFs though. There was nothing you could have done about that. It wasn't your fault.

I do wonder how much bandwidth was used for all of those. It must have been....



(Also, love how you actually put that the thread required those animated gifs! )

The original The Bane from that one "thank the mods" thread is gone. Let us have a moment of silence for the origin of a great meme.

 zedmeister wrote:

 alanmckenzie wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Back when the first Raging Heroes kickstarter was going on I lost use of my account due to excessive bandwidth usage. It was supposed to be reset the next month, but for some reason to this day my account is still flagged as having exceeded its allotted amount.

Man, that thread really did require an inordinate amount of animated GIFs though. There was nothing you could have done about that. It wasn't your fault.

I do wonder how much bandwidth was used for all of those. It must have been....



(Also, love how you actually put that the thread required those animated gifs! )

It's a tradition I suppose.

I just hope whoever does the thread for their terrain KS will do the same.

So I just checked, I have 11409 image hosted with photobucket... sigh

 Verviedi wrote:
The original The Bane from that one "thank the mods" thread is gone. Let us have a moment of silence for the origin of a great meme.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

What was it?

Can we fix it?

Retroactively edit the post?!?

I still have this one:



(Now hosted on Imgur - natch!)