Photo Bucket may have just messed up this site, and other similar sites, bigtime.

[Bill Dufour]

My post keeps disappearing as I type so I link to the message below.
Not sure how this relates to this site exactly but I have seen many nice explanatory photos on this site and others where the text alone is not very useful.
Bill D.

PS: I learned a new term today... "Link rot". were old embedded links lead to dead sites that no longer work.

It appears Photobucket now wants $ 399. A year from each person that uses or used their service for all the photos they host to show up on forums like this. I see that my photos of which there my be thousands on the PM are now blocked.

It will be interesting to see what a move like this does to their business, I'm sure it goes a long way towards making very unhappy customers.

[Rollie Meyers]

I am going to download my photos on Photobucket & delete them, their management can go play on the freeway as far as I am concerned, & yes, it's going to play havoc on a lot of websites.

[Frederick Skelly]

Yes, I think Julie Moriarty and a few others mentioned it this last week. It's a bummer and it WILL impact us. Lots of PB users here. (IIRC, TOS say to post to SMC rather than linking to photos elsewhere. Partially to protect against stuff like this, I suspect.)

Edit: Guess I remembered it right! Here's the thread if you want to follow both conversations.

[ken hatch]

Yep, I'm one of the, not sure what word to use, other than user of photobucket who has been screwed. The good news I have the photos on my hard drive as well and over time I will re-link most of them. Over the 12 or so years I've used photobucket I looked at a lot of bad ads which will no longer be clicked through. Whatever, other than being upset I'm not sure where the up-side is for photobucket.

ken

[Dave Anderson NH]

We have always asked members to post directly to SMC and not use photo sharing services exactly for this reason. Over time things change and to retain the integrity of posts with photos links to outside can become problematic as you are now seeing.

[Jim Becker]

There is already a discussion on this in the Forum Help forum

Jim
Forum Moderator

[Frederick Skelly]

There is already a discussion on this in the Forum Help forum

Jim
Forum Moderator

Yup. I linked to it in post #3.

[John Terefenko]

I just copied and pasted a photo from my account. Not sure what you are talking about.

[Alan Rutherford]

Here's how you can use Google to find your forum posts with Photobucket images. If your name is John Doe, in the Google search box enter:

site:sawmillcreek.org photobucket.com "John Doe"

Google will find pages on this site with your name and links to Photobucket. It will also find any pages with your name in one post and someone else's PB link in another, but it's the best I can offer. It will work on any site - just change the relevant parts. If you have a one-word user name or a unique first or last name, you can use that without the quotes.

You can't fix the links because you can't edit the posts, but at least you'll know where they are.

SMC: maybe you could loosen up on the editing cutoff for this?

[John Terefenko]

I just see my photo has now been erased and it is calling for an update. I am not paying any company for photo storage. I have been with photo bucket for many years and now they are going to start charging. Well they will not charge me.

[Yonak Hawkins]

I don't use PhotoBucket. I am wondering, however, if you don't pay for an account do you no longer have access to your photos ? Are they holding your photos hostage ?

[Don Kondra]

I still have access to my photo's on Photobucket, I just can't link/embed them into posts on forums anymore.

I can however post a link to whatever I want to share.

Cheers, Don