Photobucket hosting change may affect the look of the forum

[campism]

This is happening on a bicycle forum I frequent. Evidently, Photobucket has a new policy regarding third party hosting that will cause all your pix to be blanked out here until you pay PB more money, and I have seen the result here. There's a screen that looks like a speedometer where your pix used to be. I upload my pix here so it's not a problem for me, but I know lots of users link to PB. Sorry for the bad news.
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'87 Westy in Wolfram Grey Metallic

[djkeev]

Yep, there is a moderator discussion on this now.

All of my photos of non VW content are gone, what a stupid thing to do, piss off happy customers.

Dave
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Stop Dead Photo Links how to post photos

Ghia
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=392473

Vanagon
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6315537#6315537

Beetle
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=482968&highlight=74+super+vert

[Ahwahnee]

PB had been causing me all sorts of performance problems as well as presenting an unbelievable number of ads and pop-ups you have to wade thru to get to anything. This is the last straw - they can keep the pix and I'll start over elsewhere.

[tristessa]

Oh goody, I get to migrate all my pictures again! Just did that a couple of years ago when Google "improved" Picasa into utter uselessness.

I get that they need the ad revenue to keep the lights on, but pissing people off to the point where they leave seems .. counterproductive in the long run.

[Gnarlodious]

Very slow loading, I usually just close the page. If you do click on a picture you get a page of crud with a little picture.
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Vanagon ’83 diesel AAZ w/Giles injection, 5spd 4.57R&P+TBD and a '78 diesel Rabbit

[syncrodoka]

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=681847

[Gizmoman]

I've been using postimage.org and it seems to work well.
I tried using the forum servers but got confused (easy for me to do). I would rather have them here though - the van related ones anyway
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82 Vanagon Westy - AAZ 1.9 TD, HE200 Holset, WAIC, 27.75 dia tires, Electric power steering, 5-speed AAP w/.078 5th
Oversize spare carrier - stock location (no longer for sale).

[E1]

We are just discussing this on another forum I frequent.

Previously, I used ImageShack until they pulled the same crap. Every image I'd ever posted disappeared, and it has a really bad effect on Forums!

Can't help but wonder if FarceBook is somehow behind such things, as this drives people to FB in droves.
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‘84 Westy, 2.1L with Digijet, 5.43 R+P, GT Gears
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
— Colin Chapman

[atomatom]

there is a solution: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6

however, it would be awful nice if you could copy paste photos into a post. ye olde phpbb is behind the times. but so is my van.
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84 Vanagon Westy, 1.9L, California raised but defected to Canada.

[kamzcab86]

If you wish to vent your frustration over the new Photobucket CEO's insanely greedy decision, continue doing so in the below thread :