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For those using Photobucket....
I've been trying to post pics this am for an update on my STORM, and Photobucket has been all buggered. WTF?
Did a little searching, and it appears that they are in the middle of some big changes.
Unless you want to pay big bucks really soon ($100 or $400 annually), all your pics hosted on Photobucket (and seen in threads on every site on the internet) are very soon going to disappear from where you posted links to.
If you want only spend $100 annually, it appears you can provide a link to Photobucket, but no pics will be displayed on the site you post to.
$400 annually will pretty much give you what you have now.
Seems a shame to such a wealth of data... build threads, tech stuff, just cool pics... all gone. This will affect most forums on the internet. I used to get pissed when trying to find details on some arcane topic, find something in a forum, then find out the pics that actually showed the system were gone. Now imagine that being 100X worse.
This is not a joke. Check your Photobucket account for details.
DAM.
Edit: Big thread over on ADVRider on this.
http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/the-big-photobucket-hate-mergefest.1236609/
Edit 2: More from PC Mag:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/354711/photobucket-breaks-image-links-across-the-internet
Consensus: Photobucket has sh!t the bed. They have been hosting pics for sites since 2003. Estimated currently at 10 billion photos. Yea, billion, with a B.
Edit 3: Thousands, if not more of DIY forums just got forever fucked up. Imagine all the rebuild threads on all the forums that no longer work. A Decades worth of knowledge destroyed.
I've been trying to post pics this am for an update on my STORM, and Photobucket has been all buggered. WTF?
Did a little searching, and it appears that they are in the middle of some big changes.
Unless you want to pay big bucks really soon ($100 or $400 annually), all your pics hosted on Photobucket (and seen in threads on every site on the internet) are very soon going to disappear from where you posted links to.
If you want only spend $100 annually, it appears you can provide a link to Photobucket, but no pics will be displayed on the site you post to.
$400 annually will pretty much give you what you have now.
Seems a shame to such a wealth of data... build threads, tech stuff, just cool pics... all gone. This will affect most forums on the internet. I used to get pissed when trying to find details on some arcane topic, find something in a forum, then find out the pics that actually showed the system were gone. Now imagine that being 100X worse.
This is not a joke. Check your Photobucket account for details.
DAM.
Edit: Big thread over on ADVRider on this.
http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/the-big-photobucket-hate-mergefest.1236609/
Edit 2: More from PC Mag:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/354711/photobucket-breaks-image-links-across-the-internet
Consensus: Photobucket has sh!t the bed. They have been hosting pics for sites since 2003. Estimated currently at 10 billion photos. Yea, billion, with a B.
Edit 3: Thousands, if not more of DIY forums just got forever fucked up. Imagine all the rebuild threads on all the forums that no longer work. A Decades worth of knowledge destroyed.
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