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Phew, this was posted on Imgur. So all is not lost and you can continue to keep the new blood cowed...



Remind me again, who's who in the picture? Is that Kid_Kyoto on the left?

 Alpharius wrote:

 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!)

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/513517.page#5382199

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

Wow... With all the ads slowing down their site, you should be done downloading by the end of the year if you're lucky...and have them in large folders. :(

 Verviedi wrote:

Spoiler:

 Alpharius wrote:

 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!)

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/513517.page#5382199

Thanks!

I fixed it...!

Hooray! Order is restored!

Well I am moving images over to Imgur now for some of my older PLOGs. Downloading the albums and then uploading them into Imgur (not a fan of the interface, but beggars cannot be choosers).

CB

Photobucket has always been exceptionally clunky and painfully slow. There is now even less reason to use it but it makes no real difference at this point to me.

It was actually pretty good when I started using in in 2004..... but it's certainly been horrible for a long while now

Whelp, guess I'm moving my stuff to imgur.

Yes. Photobucket will lose a load of accounts and still come out of it smelling of roses.

Let's face it. They are driving away the people who are 'sponging' off them by using free and cheap accounts. People like me, who has used a free account for years. the ads don't bother me, and I have still only used 5.7% of the 2GB limit, but more and more of what I had on there was for blogs on forums, so there was certainly more bandwidth being used than I was paying for.

However, they have gone about this the wrong way. If they had said "Due to bandwidth usage, we are no longer able to offer free accounts. If you wish to continue to use this service, then you will have to upgrade your account to $25 a year for an ad-free, 3rd party host account." then I suspect everyone would have paid up. Going from free to $400 a year is just too much of a jump for most people to put up with. Especially when you don't want or can't use the extra 500GB of storage space.

 Conrad Turner wrote:
Yes. Photobucket will lose a load of accounts and still come out of it smelling of roses.

Time will tell, but my guess is PB is in their death throes and this was a move to extract some quick cash from it before it dies.

I find it hard to believe this was a well calculated move for long term success in a company that was already going strong.

Moving images is taking me a long time. :(

CB

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Time will tell, but my guess is PB is in their death throes and this was a move to extract some quick cash from it before it dies.

I find it hard to believe this was a well calculated move for long term success in a company that was already going strong.

OH, I don't see it as being calculated at all. It seems to be particularly brainless to the point of Palladium Books stupidity.

I'm just saying that to make themselves more profitable in the face of rising costs, they seem to believe they had only two options.

A. Drive down costs by reducing the number of accounts which use their bandwidth [I.e. reduce the number by making it only accessible to paying accounts]
or
B. increase revenue by charging for the hosting service.

Unfortunately, they seem to have had a problem making up their mind and have gone for .................. Both! Instead of catering for all their users by just increasing the base cost to have any account [thereby doing away with all the free accounts] they have restricted hosting to their most expensive type of account, and it seems to me that this is more expensive than before. $400-480 a year for the only account that will now let you use them as a hosting service. I don't think they did the math on that. It should be a very quick and easy calculation for their accountant to do.

Number of top level accounts multiplied by increase per account per year equals increase in revenue.

However, I suspect that a higher increase in revenue would be obtained from the following.

Total number of accounts, multiplied by $25 per year.

This is what they would get if they charged EVERY account $25 for the hosting service, on top of whatever you were paying now. If they were to have done that, I'd probably have stumped up for the add free service too. A possible increase of $40 a year for [say 50% of the current 'free' accounts, $25 for the rest] them to get. Should be a fair chunk of change, and more than enough to keep the lights on. Certainly enough to get Palladium drooling and thinking "If only!"

While Imgur crashes a lot and takes a long time to load...it is free so that is where I have been moving.

CB

Anyone know how to get folders that Photobucket seems intent on not letting me copy them back? It let me copy eight of my folders over two weeks, but the last 4 it keeps saying something went wrong, please try again and then it hangs. It will not even give me the option to get an email to download my remaining folders (over 2000 images).

CB

just keep reloading and retrying. It's gakky, but eventually it will work.

Been trying for days. Keep getting "Oops, something went wrong. Try it again."

CB

You could try moving/copying them into sub albums and then downloading those

it might help if the issue is the file size getting too high with them as they stand

Tried that already. Still does not work. Have started just downloading the individual images.

Cheers,

CB

I ended up moving my most important stuff picture by picture. Or at least downloading them from PB singly, then boosting them in albums to Imgur.

Done all I want to save for build logs done, now it's a case of either double-checking that I have saved anything even remotely interesting, or just bombing the lot and re-creating from back-up where necessary.

Double checking [or for that matter, just downloading everything else] will take some time, but re-creating will involve diving back into the media of the past. I dread to think how much I used to have on Zip drive. And all of the newer stuff was shot with an EOS 700D, so that's some serious storage I will have to run through Irfanview again.

Sob,

I've just been researching some old minis on the Lost Minis Wiki and Stuff of Legends

so many blank spaces, I bet that's down to photobucket, it's something I hadn't thought about but it's an even bigger loss than images from individual blogs

Stopgap fix to Photobucket images under lockdown (my emboldening), from Warseer's Captain Brown:

Gentlemen,

As some long term PLOGers and cornerstones of some of the Painting Log areas, the member Ash has come up with a fix.

"With the Photobucket pictures not showing; if you go into edit post and insert ~original between .jpg and [/img] as in .jpg~original[/img] then the original picture will show again..." and it works!

I have asked him to share that in the stickies at the top of each painting forum, but thought I would pass that on to you who had large PLOGs blocked in the meantime.

Cheers,

Phil

Those who have not yet replaced their own Photobucket pictures with identical pictures hosted elsewhere, may want to scour their army blogs and other hobby threads. However,  adding ~original to the address lines will not make the linked images compatible with more advanced solutions!

Note however that we cannot consider this a permanent solution, only a stopgap option. It is possible that Photobucket may come to block this fixture, transform itself beyond recognition or go down altogether as a site.

Sounds like once the news gets out that that fixes the issue Photobucket will change it. At least if they are in any way serious.

It's a huge pain, and yeah a lot of older sites which are not updated often or have users who haven't been around in ages are going to suffer.

Their weird download feature hasn't worked in months now, and I'd be very surprised if they'll care two figs about getting it working again. (they have to know this ass-hattery has made their brand completely toxic, and they're just a husk, raking in a bit of cash from those unfortunate enough to have too many pics linked to a pb account to realistically move)

I downloaded their android app to get my pics down to my phone, but the app didn't support downloading albums either. Forcing you to download the contents of each sub-folder separately, clicking on each individual photo.

I downloaded a few albums, cut my losses and then deleted my account in disgust :(

Chrome extension so you can see the photos on your browser: http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=463140

Found this on another forum:

"If you're using Google Chrome, go to the three dots on the right side of the screen and click them. A drop down should appear. Hover your mouse over "More Tools," and when the next drop down appears, click on extensions. Go to the link towards the bottom that says "Get more extensions." In the search box, type "Photobucket Fix," and hit enter. Click the install button and once it's done, you should be able to see photobucket pictures again.

For FireFox users, click on the three bars on the right side of the screen, then click on add ons. Click search for "photobucket hotlink" and click install. Same result."

Thanks for the tip!

I've been trying to upload to photobucket since saturday morning and the site has been down for the last 20 hours or so. Why would anyone pay for this garbage? I contemplated giving the sick bastards the money come january to buy myself a year until I can sort out the 12k plus images I have hosted with them and find a new host but honestly, if this is what I'm currently paying for, I'll take the extra inconvenience. I doubt they'll even last the year at this point.

So any good sites I should consider? I seen a few and don't know what would be a good free site.

For forum hosting, I'm now using Imgur.