Please Don't Put Photos On Photobucket

[bob_hayden]

 

There is a load of work from me published here all via Photobucket.

 

What must I do to re-link my photo's easily.

 

I doubt there is anything simple you can do. I do not see an alternative to hosting the photos elsewhere and then manually editing each old post to change the link -- assuming FPN will even let you edit ancient posts.

 

I have my own web site and have created a number of online courses. On a UNIX server one could run search-and-replace over a whole file tree to change, say, every link to PB to something else. But what? That would vary from user to user, and many will not still have the photos or find a new online home for them. However, it's possible that FPN could have them all link to the same place with

 

1. a helpful error message
2. this thread
3. an organization protesting PB's behavior
4. the site of one of PB's competitors

 

It was an ad based model - they sold ads and made money when we loaded up pictures that people viewed.

 

Ah, but we did not see the ads if we viewed the content at FPN. No wonder they discontinued that feature!

 

 

I haven't been able to upload images to FPN for months. The message I get is:

 

"You can upload up to Uploading is not allowed of files "

 

First, there is a site bug that causes the bold face part of that line to overwrite the message under it that tells you what is wrong. And what is wrong is that there are two internal routes to uploading photos to FPN. You are using the one that limits how much you can upload and you have hit the limit. You need to use the other one (but I am not the person to explain it;-)

 

I would also like to speak against deleting images you have uploaded to FPN. If you delete the pix from your review of Pathological Ink's Profound Depression Blue nobody reading your review will be able to see the pictures that went with it. In fact, I wonder if this is why we cannot delete -- because it could leave holes in the site much as PB has done to us.

[apvm]

I use postimg for all forums' posting.

[bob_hayden]

I am starting to suspect that hosting other people's images for free is not economically feasible, so that if anyone offers to do that for free I want to know, "What's the catch?" Here is a link to another such hosting site that is moving to a paid model like PB did (though they seem to be handling it much better).

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/327736-please-dont-put-photos-on-
+photobucket/?view=getnewpost

 

And here is a link to a thread re imgpost that I'd want to consider before signing up.

 

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/225144/blacklist-request-for-image-upload-site-postimg-org

[Wahl]

After receiving the ransom note from Photobucket, I started using Imgur, it works fine.

[MuttonChew]

Imgur really is the best option. It's straightforward, allows unlimited file sizes, and most importantly, it's free (and most likely always will be).

I always hated Photobucket anyway!

[AAAndrew]

I haven't been able to upload images to FPN for months. The message I get is:

 

"You can upload up to Uploading is not allowed of files "

 

So it seems there is a limit to what FPN allows you to upload.

 

Worth asking the moderators about, unless you're trying to upload a file format not supported. Standard images files are supported.

[Noihvo]

Edited October 15, 2017 by Noihvo