Photobucket FYI

[ajkula66]

A while ago I was notified by Photobucket that the amount of my images - many of which are linked to this site - has gone significantly over the bandwidth limit (25MB you've got to be kidding me... ) allowed for "free" accounts.

This past Friday (09/06/2019) I got notified that as of Monday (09/09/2019) all of my images would be watermarked and blurred unless I get a paid account. Sure enough, they followed up on their promise/threat.

My apologies to everyone reading the posts containing those images, BUT I am not paying for the service which was free when I signed up for it and I simply don't have the time to upload the images to a different host and re-link them to this forum.

[dr_st]

They only now got to you?

This saga has been going on for more than 2 years. They first were breaking the links of all free accounts (got to me in August 2017), so I just went and found an alternate hosting (Cubeupload.com) which allowed me to upload in bulk, while keeping most of the file names. Then it was a simple (although a bit tedious) matter of editing my existing posts and doing global search&replace.

Then again, most of my images of Thinkpads were concentrated in several threads, of which I had an exhaustive catalog. In your case it may be more work than it's worth, I dunno.

A few months later when Photobucket partially backed off and restored the hotlinks (with watermark), it was too late. I moved all the stuff I cared about and bid them farewell.

[ajkula66]

They only now got to you?

I've gotten a few warnings over the past year or so but now they actually pulled the plug.

TBT, I wasn't about to do anything. It's way too much work to move the stuff around and re-establish the links. I'm an old man and the time is the most precious commodity in my existence.

[tfflivemb2]

I just revisited PB in the past few days, and it was a NIGHTMARE to use! Ads galore and nonsensical loops...

[RealBlackStuff]

I left PB donkeys years ago and switched to https://imgur.com/
Never had a problem there.

[tfflivemb2]

I left PB donkeys years ago and switched to https://imgur.com/
Never had a problem there.

Thanks! I will follow suit. I haven't had a need, prior to now.

I thought about google images, but that would direct back to me personally, so I'd rather not use that.

[Iron-Merc]

Hi Folks

I have long since abandoned my photobucket account.

Over the past year or so I've been using ImageBB, its free, easy to work with and forum friendly.

[olex126]

I'm an old man and the time is the most precious commodity in my existence.

Thanks George...Again you hit the nail squarely on its' head

To those of you on the Forum who have more years ahead of you than behind you.... Take Heed!

Someday, You too will understand the unyielding truth and wisdom of that statement!

(Trust me... that day sneaks up on you soooooooo unsuspectingly!)

Regards.

Dave