picture hosting - Photobucket sux

[photogdave]

[theastronaut]

I have about 25 build threads and a few "how-to" topics on multiple forums that are now all dead. Some were very popular with over 200k view. I usually posted the same project on multiple forums, so it was nice to be able to upload the pics to one place, then copy/paste the whole update to multiple forums and have the pictures show up on each site. I'd have to fix thousands of dead pic links, most of which I'm not able to due to the age of the post (past the limit for editing). I'm not deleting my PB account yet, hopefully they'll come to a reasonable fix for this mess they've made.
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[cseay1]

PB ceo finally speaks:

[kinkerstinker]

sucks to think that all of my old build threads on other sites are screwed. I liked to go back and look through them from time to time to go down memory lane. i guess all I have is the samba now.

[IN2VWS]

Even if you could download all your pics from PB, and wanted to modify the links in your build threads, you can't because the of the time limit if the post is older than 86400 minutes.....
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[EverettB]

Yes, I can possibly give you control to do that once you have reposted them all here.

I already did this for one person.
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[skills@eurocarsplus]

ok, so as of now, you can go to a thread that used PB as the host. when the "upgrade" icon shows up instead of the photo, click that. it will open a link to the PB "bucket" and show the image that was once there.

it may open in another window, so look for the pop up. as long as the bucket/folder is set to public you can view the photo
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[Brian]

Kudos to the people who are going back and fixing their links. Any effort to retain information is pretty rad.
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[Dake]

I noticed that the two other sites I go to a jeep site ad a Harley one all pics are working and when you click on them it takes you to photo bucket

[KingOfAces]

If you have the ability, I highly recommend moving your photobucket pictures here or somewhere else. This is not a decision that a company on good financial ground makes. Once Photobucket goes under those pictures will be forever unrecoverable.
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[John Moxon]

If you are now looking to other "off site" photo hosting after this Photobucket debacle the always free option exists...and that's here.

That's why a lot of us have been carrying this link in our Samba signature for a long time. The message was always relevant, now doubly so: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=289807

If you want to carry the message too just copy and post this code into your signature:

[didget69]

PB's free service was worth exactly what users paid for it. Nothing is free...

But the way in which PB handled the change sounds like a playbook page from the airline industry.

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[modok]

I am not a expert on these matters in the least, but it seems to me that facebook offers unlimited free image hosting.

If using facebook in this manner is a bad idea, perhaps someone could explain to me why that is?

[photogdave]

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[John Moxon]

[modok]

I would be highly skeptical of the notion that anything about facebook is "private"

Threaten your ex-girlfriend on facebook? Busted
Repo man will use it to track you down, so, make those car payments!
Pose as being police or military when you are not, busted
Make insurance claim for back injury....insurance denied based on pics of you skiing on FB.

I've seen all that happen. Private? HA! No way

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