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Grab your photos while you can. Photobucket? I don't think so.
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July 23, 2019, 03:22 PM
6guns
imgur.com
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July 23, 2019, 03:27 PM
Jim Shugart
^ ^ ^ ^ Agreed. Imgur is da bomb. Photobucket sucks.
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July 23, 2019, 03:38 PM
RogueJSK
Free image hosting is dying altogether. Hosting images is bandwidth-intensive, and such high bandwidth websites can no longer support themselves solely off ad revenue, especially now with the proliferation of ad blockers.
Photobucket in 2017 was the first and most obvious death knell. Tinypic is just another death spasm. It's only a matter of time before all free image hosting is extinct.
Moving your photos from Tinypic to something like Imgur is only delaying the inevitable. You'll have to move them again at some point in the near future.
Get your images out of a free host while you can. Then find a reasonably priced pay service you like, or pay the nominal fee to set up your own domain and host your own.
July 23, 2019, 04:22 PM
doublesharp
I've been using imgBB and it's easy to use and free.
I was a 99 cents a month adfree paying member of photobucket before they made the foolish decision to charge $300 a year for their service. My service has continued uninterrupted still at the 99 cents per month. I guess they figure a little bit of something is better than a whole lot of nothing.
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July 23, 2019, 04:40 PM
LBAR15
Imgur is very easy and I have no issues with it.
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July 23, 2019, 04:45 PM
RichN
I just share them from a folder on my Microsoft OneDrive.
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July 23, 2019, 05:00 PM
ffips
quote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK: ...snip... or pay the nominal fee to set up your own domain and host your own.
Yup
July 23, 2019, 05:07 PM
AZSigs
quote:
Originally posted by 6guns: imgur.com
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July 23, 2019, 05:57 PM
r0gue
Honestly, I don't think I would consider a free image host. ImageShack is worth each and every dime. Dynamic resizing by link drop-down is worth the price alone.
July 23, 2019, 06:03 PM
RHINOWSO
imgbb.com
July 23, 2019, 06:31 PM
tatortodd
When photobucket lost their mind ($400 / year which was $388 too much), I moved everything to postimage. Worked great and still works great with the exception that they changed their position on avatar hosting (way more traffic than hosting regular image so they blocked their use as avatars).
Guess where I moved my Sigforum avatars? Yep, tinypic.com
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July 24, 2019, 08:15 AM
UTsig
I've been paying $24.95/yr for FotoTime, at least 15 years. Never a hitch, easy to use, password protected. I use tags and it's amazing how much I've sold off there without paying a dime extra.
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July 24, 2019, 09:14 AM
RogueJSK
quote:
Originally posted by r0gue: ImageShack is worth each and every dime. Dynamic resizing by link drop-down is worth the price alone.
Agreed. That's what I use. I pay ~$18 per year.
July 24, 2019, 01:28 PM
flashguy
I've been a paid subscriber to Flickr for 12 years, and at $49.99/year I think it's a great deal. I have 45,000 photos hosted there, they are viewable by the public (unless I want to restrict them), and they're stored at full size. Sharing them resized in web fora and e-mails is easy. The hierarchical structure possible makes it nice, too, because it simplifies the task of others wanting to see specific places.
I used to use some of the free hosts for putting photos in fora, but decided that since I was already paying for Flickr I'd just create an Album used only for that purpose. It works.
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July 24, 2019, 03:19 PM
Pipe Smoker
quote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
quote:
Originally posted by r0gue: ImageShack is worth each and every dime. Dynamic resizing by link drop-down is worth the price alone.
Agreed. That's what I use. I pay ~$18 per year.
Me too. The service has near 100% up time. And yes, ~$18 per year for unlimited storage. And avatar hosting is allowed. See r0gue’s and mine. Just press and hold on an avatar for a couple of seconds to get an offer to copy the avatar URL.
Serious about crackers.
July 25, 2019, 07:36 AM
Pipe Smoker
quote:
Originally posted by RichN: I just share them from a folder on my Microsoft OneDrive.
I asked the forum’s advice about using iCloud for photo hosting. Was advised that it would be a poor choice, so I decided to stick with ImageShack.
Don’t know if Microsoft OneDrive is a better choice.
Serious about crackers.
July 25, 2019, 12:28 PM
rusbro
quote:
Originally posted by AZSigs:
quote:
Originally posted by 6guns: imgur.com
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I've been happy here, too, as far as using a browser. I haven't yet figured out if it's possible using the iPhone app to save, edit, and generate links to images using the mobile app.
July 25, 2019, 12:55 PM
bigpond73
I moved over from photobucket to tinypic also. This is a bummer.
quote:
Originally posted by aguilar64: Free and works great:
I signed up there, but for the life of me, can't get an avatar to work. What code are you guys using? I was trying to use the direct link code, but the forum keeps saying the link is inaccessible.This message has been edited. Last edited by: bigpond73, July 26, 2019 03:15 PM
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