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I hope I can hang in there for a couple months when my bandwidth gets better.
We are supposed to be getting ATT fiber gigabit service soon.
If so then I will just put it on one of my own servers.
So far I haven't got the "notice", I do have a paid account but I think it is like $40 per year not a month.
 
Posts: 22858 | Location: Houston, TX | Registered: June 11, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Giving my new Imgur account a shot now after getting the famed PB email myself:



Edited to add: seems a tad large. Will tweak but it's a first step out of PB.


An attempt here from Amazon Prine.



"The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli." - George Costanza
 
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Haven't gotten the notice and my avatar is still here for now.

Posted to see if I can link to a private facebook picture ... test ...

 
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^^^ I can see the picture after I posted. Anyone not able to see it?

One more just make sure. If it works, I'll just use facebook for free hosting ... test ...

 
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^^ Hobbs, the pics you posted look good.



"The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli." - George Costanza
 
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Throwin sparks
makin knives
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Just went through the same thing with them. What to, what to do.....
 
Posts: 6203 | Location: Nashville Tn | Registered: October 12, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Photobucket wants $399 a year to be used as a host for 3rd party images. I think they want to drive all the free storage users away to save space and if a customer pops for the $399 it's gravy for PB.
I copied all my photos to my computer but I am not deleting any, will leave my photos to be a pain in PB's side like they have been for me.
 
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Except you're not hurting them in any way by using their storage. It's their bandwidth that they want compensation for using.



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Regarding Facebook:

I used to use them exclusively, but one problem I tend to have is that occasionally your linked photo will post HUGE on SigForum.

Saddened that the cigar thread will soon see many photos removed.

6 page discussion on this in The Lounge:
https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...0601935/m/8270084624


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What a mess! Way to alienate your customers photobucket!
 
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If you switch to flickr like I did make sure you set your privacy settings - they default to being public to everyone and all public searches.
 
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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
Regarding Facebook:

I used to use them exclusively, but one problem I tend to have is that occasionally your linked photo will post HUGE on SigForum.

Posted 3 photos on SF linked to FB so far and they are the same size as when uploaded to FB. I do have some large photos on FB though and will have to be careful linking to them.

PB hasn't cut me off yet, and so I haven't gotten around to linking my SF avatar to FB.

EDIT: test to see if avatar (linked to FB) is correct size before changing SF profile link ...



EDIT AGAIN: Changed link in SF profile from PB to FB.
<<< Avatar still under SF member name and correct size. Will wait a few days to see if it sticks before deleting PB account.

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"The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli." - George Costanza
 
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That's just the
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Trying Flickr:
Vaquero1K by GaryBF, on Flickr
 
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Just set up an Imgur account, much easier than Photobucket. I'm moving photos and deleting the account today.




Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago.
 
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I moved my avatars over to Imagur yesterday, and will start hosting other images either there or on Postimage. Then I emptied and cancelled my Photobucket account. I hadn't received any notice about upgrading, but Photobucket had enough other annoyances that I went ahead and dropped it while there were all kinds of helpful alternative suggestions popping up in this thread.

I noticed my older posts on SF are still trying to reference the Photobucket image, but later ones are getting the new one from Imagur. Just the way the forum software works, I guess.
 
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Get my pies
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Originally posted by Todd Huffman:
Just set up an Imgur account, much easier than Photobucket. I'm moving photos and deleting the account today.


That's what I'm using now and now wonder why I stuck with clunky-ass PhotoPhucket as long as I did!


 
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Originally posted by Hobbs:
^^^ I can see the picture after I posted. Anyone not able to see it?

One more just make sure. If it works, I'll just use facebook for free hosting ... test ...



That looks like a happy dog! Smile




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Posts: 4075 | Location: The Great Lone Star State, Texas | Registered: March 08, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Thank you
Very little
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Testing IMGUR




 
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So let it be written,
so let it be done...
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That's lame



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