Photobucket announced new plans again

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Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but just noticed that photobucket has announced new plans as of 1st of June. Free plan includes a decent 2,5 gb of free storage, but annoyingly only 250 pictures. I'm over the limit by about 1250 pictures so unable to upload more.

It has been said many times on here, but it really would be nice if we were able to upload photos to go with our posts in a more user friendly way.
 
scubaman said:
Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but just noticed that photobucket has announced new plans as of 1st of June. Free plan includes a decent 2,5 gb of free storage, but annoyingly only 250 pictures. I'm over the limit by about 1250 pictures so unable to upload more.

It has been said many times on here, but it really would be nice if we were able to upload photos to go with our posts in a more user friendly way.
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I am in a similar position. Only using about 1/10 th of the 2.5GB but have 1390 pictures. I don't now seem to be able to download any, otherwise I was downloading those I want to use and either re-uploading them to Tiny Pic or using the forum's attachment method which is not too bad now that the storage has been increased.
I don't find the forum attachment method user un-friendly
 
not really tried it as I have a server to upload pics, but is google photos capable of "serving" such a task? I know you have unlimited photos if you allow them to resize/compress to under 16Mpix (or something like that) but tbh, pics look just fine!

V.
 
That’s what I was using on the other thread. It doesn’t serve automatic links though, you must get the image url with a few clicks and manually insert that with img -tags. Not a biggie, but not as handy as photobucket was/is.

The image quality is very good, although on one picture I noticed the sky looked a bit funny, with a smooth gradient blue turning into a ‘stepped’ gradient, if that makes sense.
 
I simply wouldn't trust photobucket not to screw me over again.

I have found Dropbox works very well and the process isn't that difficult.

1 Copy paste the desired photo into Dropbox somewhere you can find it.
2 Right click on the file and then "Copy Dropbox link".
3 Paste the link provided into the thread post.
4 Type immediately before the link.
5 At the end of the link change "dl=0" to "raw=1"
6 Type at the end of the link.

Post the reply as normal.
 
Free Image Hosting

Been using Photobucket for years,my meagre collection of photos appears to be well under their limits.
Able to load/download (and delete) for basic forum use without problems.
Using Postimage as alternative.
 
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Another one for Postimages. It was the first hosting site I was able to understand. Great for imbedding photos once you master the few basic steps
Log on
Upload
Don’t resize
Choose photo library
Tick photos
Wait
Choose Hot Links for Forums
Click on tag at end of the Hot links for Forum line
Log out
Paste into our forum
 
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We had this kind of thing with Photobucket about 2 years ago.
IMO, a leopard doesn't change its spots.
PB, well and truly, screwed us last time.

At that time, I chose to change to a more controllable method by bouncing my images through my own domain name.
Using careful URL naming and directories, I have made it possible to switch to other hosting services if I ever need them.
At the moment I am using my own constructed LAMP server (Linux, Apache, MSQL and PHP) connected to my household broadband.
I have been careful to connect the server outside my firewalls but it effectively gives me an internet resource where I can store large amounts of data for free.
The server hardware is a cheap "Barebones PC" (a Gigabyte Brix 2807 in fact) which cost me about £80 new.
I added some memory and a cheap 1Tb hard drive.
I then map all my photographs from a domain name to this server.
The photos are stored in their full res versions and I have written a script that scales them "on the fly" to posts on this forum.
I'm not a very accomplished programmer so you will sometime notice where my scaling software doesn't always work very well - repeats some images.
In fact, having an internet server with lots of space is REALLY useful - for example, sending/storing large files etc that can be accessed from anywhere/anyone.

If anyone likes this idea but you don't like the idea of hosting your own server, you can have the whole lot hosted (no hardware to buy) for about £2.95 per month plus a domain name for about £10 per year.
There are lots of providers out there that will host your own domain name and provide you with this kind of service - the £2.95 per month above is for 20Gb which would be enough for images for these forums, especially if you reduce the image resolutions.

YBW were very helpful a couple of years ago and let some of us "patch" our old threads so that our old posts that contain photos can work from another provider.
I took this opportunity to patch the links in most of my threads through the domain name to my home LAMP server.
If I decide to drop the idea of the home server in the future, I can simply redirect the domain name to another host and upload the images to the new resource.

For people looking for a Photobucket alternative, www.imgur.com seems to be a good alternative.
The big disadvantage with imgur is that they rename your image so if the link breaks in the future, you would have to "patch" any previous (forum) links to get the photos back.
 
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Is it just me that notices this, but the guys in the bigger boats are actually smarter than us
 
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Bouba said:
Is it just me that notices this, but the guys in the bigger boats are actually smarter than us
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At last, reality dawns. Deleted User has been telling you that for years:D:D:D

And I still can’t post photos on the forum.
 
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Bouba said:
Is it just me that notices this, but the guys in the bigger boats are actually smarter than us
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Well, there's some logic in that, i.e. smarter people have better chances to become wealthy, hence capable to afford bigger boats.
Being a Russian oligarch, a drug smuggler, or very good at playing football, are all valid alternatives, of course... :rolleyes:
I don't think these categories are so interested in boating forums, though. :encouragement:
 
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@Hurricane, have you looked at using AWS CloudFront for hosting images? First year is free and after then the pricing is based traffic which probably wouldn't amount to much. Guys at the office set it up for a client for hosting ecommerce product pics, but I haven't yet tried it myself.

That Postimage does look very handy indeed, but googling about it a bit returns also some less favourable results.

Dead easy to use, though. The ability to resize upon uploading is handy.

IMG-1150.jpg
 
Re: Free Image Hosting

scubaman said:
@Hurricane, have you looked at using AWS CloudFront for hosting images? First year is free and after then the pricing is based traffic which probably wouldn't amount to much. Guys at the office set it up for a client for hosting ecommerce product pics, but I haven't yet tried it myself.

That Postimage does look very handy indeed, but googling about it a bit returns also some less favourable results.

Dead easy to use, though. The ability to resize upon uploading is handy.

IMG-1150.jpg
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Last year, I did look at AWS type of hosting - mainly for www.scmchat.com (the Sant Carles Marina Forum).
I quite liked the idea of "spinning up" a virtual machine and installing my own operating system etc onto it.
But I ended up using a known technology of a LAMP server with Cpanel - simple and low cost.
I ended up using www.hostingUK.com and keeping the costs to a known figure.

IIRC, we used to use Postimage on www.scmchat.com - the CHAT forum software had an interactive module that allowed our members to post images without creating their own accounts.
I think that all disappeared last year when I did the SCMCHAT upgrade to www.hostingUK.com because that interactive module now seems to use imgur.com
 
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