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Post by PiercedOff on Aug 9, 2017 12:17:21 GMT
This has been mentioned in a couple of threads, and you may have seen it elsewhere, or seen older posts on here with broken links, but just an FYI - Photobucket no longer allows you to use links to embed pictures on forums. If you want to use it for third party hosting, you have to pay them $400/year or something equally ridiculous.
If you want to include pictures in your posts, I recommend Imgur or TinyPic (though IME TinyPic is occasionally temperamental)
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Post by PiercedOff on May 23, 2018 21:27:38 GMT
Looks like Photobucket restored broken images about a week ago after everyone bitched about it. Just FYI.
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Post by lishd on May 24, 2018 16:37:46 GMT
i don't know what they thought they were doing. infuriating your customer base with thick ads is one thing, but ending hosting cold like that ruined their reputation. no one's going to pay them $400/yr with their arm being twisted.
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Post by PiercedOff on May 24, 2018 16:49:47 GMT
Even before they started charging it was getting impossible to use. Especially on mobile, it was SO bloated with ads and spyware it was horrible to try and upload anything. I doubt they'll get many people back.
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Post by lishd on May 24, 2018 17:44:33 GMT
yeah, i understand making revenue with ads, even those annoying "one picture per page so we can give you 10 new ads with it" sites, but if you need so many ads that it takes literally ten minutes to view A Photo... maybe your business model is failing.
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Post by starlight on May 24, 2018 20:17:40 GMT
They must have lost so many customers with the $400/year thing, and I can't imagine many will bother to return now we've all gone and found other services that do the same thing without eleventy billion ads or ridiculous annual fees.
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Post by lishd on May 24, 2018 20:22:40 GMT
seriously. this whole thing was an experiment in How to Alienate Your Entire Customer Base.
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Post by rawrchicken on Jun 6, 2018 15:43:35 GMT
I haven't used photobucket in years... They made uploading & sharing such a pain about 3 years ago I just gave up.
Luckily, at least on desktop, proboards allows you to upload attachments. Makes your photos tiny until you click them but it's easy.
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