Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations photobucket ransom

is photobucket holding you all's pics for ransom like me? they say i have to pay $400 to share my pics now. I just added two links from google photos. i have added google photos before, but it seems like it was the image instead of a link. anyone no the easy way to just add the image without making everyone click on a link?

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Scott, I am searching for a way around the photobucket ransom demand too. I don't know of an easy way.

just pay the $400 for you and i and let's see if that helps.. haha.

i like google photos, but i don't know how to just add the image instead of the link. i think some people are leary of clicking links. never know, it could be a virus.

I am using IMGUR now to display photos. It seems to work fine and is a lot faster than Photobucket. Some things just get me angry!

I uploaded all my Photobucket pictures - would not let me upload my videos however. Now when I go to Photobucket to try to see my videos it says I removed them! Afraid I may have lost them all - what a croc from this company - they will go under IMO

those are pretty shepherds. i have 2 myself. i just had to get rid of my 5 year old male-solid black. he bit my best friend that has played with him forever. it seemed like a game of fetch that went bad. he chewed his hands and arms up. he never acted up once the entire 5 years i had him. i hated to see him go

Guys, not trying to be a wise***, just trying to understand. Are you using photobucket as the sole storage source for all your photos, are you just concerned with the ones posted here?

Aside from reposting the photos using another source, I'm not sure anything can be done. Photobucket was the hosting source, now they want paid.....sucks, but I would probably want paid if it were me also. All the photos I ever utilized photobucket for are still stored on my hard drive also, so I haven't lost anything. If I wanted to go back and repost them, I could. Yes it would be a royal pain, and I'm not going to do it, but it's still possible so I'm not sure why so many think it's so devestating?

If it were that important to me, I would have to roll up my sleeves and get started.

Yes the Photobucket free ride seems to be over...until now we could store, edit, and share our Photobucket images all over the world basically for free...while Photobucket I assume had increasing costs relating to storing millions and millions and millions of images....it sucks...but I guess they had little choice. We and them gotta move on...it is what it is.

So we have to find other entities that will allow us to attach a URL to our images and then we can post them directly into our posts.

I recently found a free site ( www.Ezimba.com ) that has been working and allowing me to take images on my computer and attach a URL to them so I can post my images directly on to message boards. Not sure about Ezimba privacy or where and how the images are stored...so you might not want to use it for personal stuff...but it's working for me to post pictures of fish, docks, birthday cakes, non-private type stuff.

Tony, I have all my photos on the hard drive of the computer. I'm specifically concerned about the ones on here, particularly the archives and any photos that members who don't or can't frequent the forum have posted in the past.

We have 3 shepherds right now and have always had this breed although occasionally others at the same time. We train our dogs pretty rigorously and are very careful when we have visitors. Some folks do not understand when a dog has had enough or how to read their body language. The one with her teeth out is actually just playing with the puppy. They play like this all the time and she takes some pretty aggravating nagging and nipping from the puppy. All of our dogs get along very well and we plan to add one more, perhaps from a litter from the one with her teeth out. We are keeping them about 2 years apart in age so we don't lose them all at once. We once lost 4 in a single year ranging from 14 to 15 years old. The staggered ages also lets the older dogs train the younger ones which really speeds the training. They understand when its time to play and when they need to get in touch with their inner wolf. This is why I prefer this breed.

!@#$% Photobucket. What a failed business model. First they made that site almost unusable with all the popups, then they try to strong arm $400.00 out of people. I suspect a very small percentage of folks are going to pay $400.00 when there are so many free options out there

I am trying imgbb.com out now.

i haven't lost anything, but pictures all over the internet are not showing up now. i look at gun forums and such and there are many pics that are gone and replaced with the photobucket thingy ma jig.

android phones and google work well together. everywhere i go i can log on to google and see all of my pics. it is easy to attach a link, i just wish i could add a pic instead of the link. i am computer dumb, but i will figure it out sooner or later.

Behind Denver-based Photobucket’s unpopular decision to go from free to $399

I read the article. I still think they will be out of business by 2018.

So far they haven't changed, or charged me any different. I pay $2/month. I can live with that. I guess they just haven't caught up to me yet. If they want, even $100, I'm gone. Hard to believe they thought this through. Millions of customers paying $25-50 per year. Or, a handful that pay $400..

They had about 35 million customers. Say less than one in three stayed and paid $2.08 per month ($25 per year).

Ten million customers paying $25 per year = $250 million.

Maybe ten thousand business and heavy user customers would pay the $399/yr.

Ten thousand customers paying $399 per year = $3.99 million.

Even with the hosting costs, the ad revenue would have been substantially more than with vastly fewer customers.

It's a no brainer. Someone wasn't thinking this through at all.....

Maybe someone wants to run it into the ground. If you can crash a company bad enough, let it go into bankruptcy, the shareholders get basically nothing, the company is sold off for a song to insider investors and then taken private. THEN they come up with a plan to make money with a very low investment in the company.

I have owned more than one small company stock that ended that way. Another company that raiders tried to do something similar (but different because it was a profitable company) but fortunately the board was comprised of principled people and kept it from happening.

Weird stuff goes on with public owned common stocks. The companies are not always managed for the benefit of the shareholders like they are supposed to be.

Like they said in the movie The Godfather when they whacked somebody, "It's just business" and they were losing $$ by providing a free service. And this is different that the guy who is charging big bucks for life saving meds. So, after years of giving away storage space, they now want to increase or even make some profits. Can't really say that I blame them for that. There are alternatives but, I expect those alternatives won't be free for long.

yes the article certainly seems to indicate there are
real questions as to whether they can recover from this.

I still maintain that this validates my philosophy. Anytime you depend upon anyone else, you put yourself at their mercy. Certainly we all rely on others, everyday, but we should take strides to place as much as possible under our direct control. It may not be cheap or easy, but it is very satisfying.

My business and personal philosophy for years.

Perhaps a computer science expert can help me understand how cutting off the forum-posting function by Photobucket saves them money unless they actually free up storage space by deleting the stored photos?

+1

The voice that seems to be absent from this discussion is that of the PBF owners. This photobucket fiasco has had a huge impact on the forum. Is there a plan going forward to make the forum more self sufficient?

Why isn't the forum compatible with 8-track players:) Where is the hitching post? Self sufficiency is a relative concept. Its a myth for most folks, especially those with a life that includes computers.