The Great Photobucket Purge

[sauroid]

i also can't see my pics in STS. i hope this is temporary. what is weird is certain people can see my posts while i can't. i can't be my connection because i see other members' pics. (also if it is a connection issue on my part, i wouldnt be able to view other images in social networking sites and websites). hope to hear from Reptilia soon.

[Reptilia]

My problem isn't solved at all. I'm a registered member at Postimage, and I have (had) four albums uploaded: one for the ATF, one for the DTF, and one for Rebor's stuff. All of them disappeared. I checked my posts and 90% of said pics now have been replaced by Postimage warnings saying the picture has been removed. Only five or six pictures still show up, but if I copy and paste in my browser the actual links for them it does redirect to a Postimage blank page. There's a "contact us" function on the site, so I dropped them a message a day since I noticed the removal, no answer whatsoever. Frankly I'm fed up with those image hosting sites, never been a Photobucket user, thank God, but I used https://imgsafe.org/ for my first uploads, and the site was down so frequently, with the images consequentially unavailable, that I had to switch to Postimage, and now happens this. As I said before no more uploads by me, thanks Postimage.

[tyrantqueen]

My problem isn't solved at all. I'm a registered member at Postimage, and I have (had) four albums uploaded: one for the ATF, one for the DTF, and one for Rebor's stuff. All of them disappeared. I checked my posts and 90% of said pics now have been replaced by Postimage warnings saying the picture has been removed. Only five or six pictures still show up, but if I copy and paste in my browser the actual links for them it does redirect to a Postimage blank page. There's a "contact us" function on the site, so I dropped them a message a day since I noticed the removal, no answer whatsoever. Frankly I'm fed up with those image hosting sites, never been a Photobucket user, thank God, but I used https://imgsafe.org/ for my first uploads, and the site was down so frequently, with the images consequentially unavailable, that I had to switch to Postimage, and now happens this. As I said before no more uploads by me, thanks Postimage.

That's very strange, and I can't really say I blame you for leaving.

Perhaps I'll look for another host, too. I do not like that dodgy behaviour from PI.

[Jose S.M.]

Now I can't see my photos! I went to postimage and there was a message warning that the site wasn't secure, I don't think that is a problem like PB that is taking down pics to make us pay for the service, but a malfunction of the site, maybe they were hacked or something?

[DinoToyForum]

Now I can't see my photos! I went to postimage and there was a message warning that the site wasn't secure, I don't think that is a problem like PB that is taking down pics to make us pay for the service, but a malfunction of the site, maybe they were hacked or something?

This seems to have affected all of the postimage-hosted images on the forum, none of which are appearing at the moment. Hopefully this is a temporary glitch!

[Takama]

I do not know if it just me, but Everytime im on the forum, i need to Refresh the page in order to see the images. Somtimes i need to do this more then once

[sauroid]

i got a feeling that PB had something to do with the PI issue (sabotage?)

i can see my pics now too.

[Jose S.M.]

I can see my photos again, and others too.

[docronnie]

I am on the process of transferring some of my photos to Post Image and even replaced around 1/5 of my photobucket photos here.

Hope everything goes well in the future.  Seems to be working fine at the moment. 

[postsaurischian]

I have purged Photobucked from all my museum threads now.
All pictures can be seen again now .

Karlsruhe  http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=1320.msg33182#msg33182
Zürich  http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=809.msg18168#msg18168
Holzmaden  http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=4547.msg134260#msg134260
Berlin  http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=1694.msg41869#msg41869

I'm not sure if there's anything left for me to do here at the DTF.
What I have to do now is repairing all those walk-arounds over at the ATF .... phew!
It takes time, but I will.

[DinoToyForum]

I have purged Photobucked from all my museum threads now.
All pictures can be seen again now .

Karlsruhe  http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=1320.msg33182#msg33182
Zürich  http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=809.msg18168#msg18168
Holzmaden  http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=4547.msg134260#msg134260
Berlin  http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=1694.msg41869#msg41869

I'm not sure if there's anything left for me to do here at the DTF.
What I have to do now is repairing all those walk-arounds over at the ATF .... phew!
It takes time, but I will.

Wonderful! I know it eats up so much time, so thanks very much! Your threads are a great resource.

[Fembrogon]

If anyone is looking for another alternate image site, I've been using Imgur for quite a while now. You can post images/albums privately to share on other sites, the urls are short, and you can control what size the image is shared at.
https://imgur.com/

[sauroid]

thanks Fembrogon

[Ravonium]

I've noticed recently that a lot of formerly dead Photobucket images have reappeared. If anyone else here is curious as to why this is, I link you this article: https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2018/05/17/photobucket-drops-pricing-that-angered-millions.html


TL;DR Photobucket has a new CEO who realised the over-excessive fee didn't work and has decided to scrap it, and in the process bring back the dead images affected by the people not paying the fee.

[DinoToyForum]

They removed the fees entirely, or just reduced them? (Too busy to read article!)
Is it a coincidence that this news comes in just as all postimage-hosted images happen to be down? (I'm getting a can'f find server message from postimage).

[Ravonium]

They removed the fees entirely, or just reduced them? (Too busy to read article!)
Is it a coincidence that this news comes in just as all postimage-hosted images happen to be down? (I'm getting a can'f find server message from postimage).

To answer your question, I'll directly quote the article here:

'The new prices start at $1.99 per month for 10 gigabytes of images stored and rise to $3.99 monthly for 20 gigabytes and $8.99 for two terabytes of storage. All the plans enable third-party hosting for a $2.49 monthly add-on price.'


So, in short a reduction, albeit a massive one.

[DinoToyForum]

They removed the fees entirely, or just reduced them? (Too busy to read article!)
Is it a coincidence that this news comes in just as all postimage-hosted images happen to be down? (I'm getting a can'f find server message from postimage).

To answer your question, I'll directly quote the article here:

'The new prices start at $1.99 per month for 10 gigabytes of images stored and rise to $3.99 monthly for 20 gigabytes and $8.99 for two terabytes of storage. All the plans enable third-party hosting for a $2.49 monthly add-on price.'


So, in short a reduction, albeit a massive one.

OK, thanks. So, presumably images associated with free hosting have not reappeared.

[Ravonium]

OK, thanks. So, presumably images associated with free hosting have not reappeared.

The article also says this:

'Photobucket on Wednesday also turned back on millions of users' images that were still linked to around the web.'

Me personally, I interpret this as them turning back on the formerly dead images temporarily, to entice people to pay the new fee. My only question at this point is this: Is it too late for Photobucket at this point?

[DinoToyForum]

OK, thanks. So, presumably images associated with free hosting have not reappeared.

The article also says this:

'Photobucket on Wednesday also turned back on millions of users' images that were still linked to around the web.'

Me personally, I interpret this as them turning back on the formerly dead images temporarily, to entice people to pay the new fee. My only question at this point is this: Is it too late for Photobucket at this point?

Oh, of course it is too late, how they held their users hostage was despicable and no amount of back-peddaling will undo that. They are untrustworthy. Forgive them at your peril!

[Ravonium]

They are untrustworthy. Forgive them at your peril!

Don't worry, I already use a service that isn't Photobucket or PostImage, so I'm not forgiving them either