Photobucket

[KMcCullah]

What's up with Photobucket? It looks like they want to get paid for hosting pics now. This has probably already been discussed but is there any way to NOT pay?

Edit:Test 1-2-3- Posted a pic from the picture file on my pc.

[Barry_R]

I paid the ransom.

I just have too much stuff posted in all of the forums and such to let it disappear.

Kills me to do it because I think what they did is reprehensible.  But there simply are not any cost effective and time effective options right now.  For any private individual I would not pay them a single dime.

[cammerfe]

Some years ago, I paid them (I think $60) for a lifetime ultimate sort of upgrade. That doesn't seem to exist any more. One set of pictures on another forum is still visible but they were actually posted on my behalf by someone else.   

KS

[blykins]

I refused to be blackmailed by them.  I'll take more pictures and use Flickr.

[fekbmax]

at least here on Jays site you can post directly from your photo library .

[fe-starliner]

I refused to pay them.  I now use Postimage.....it's easier and quicker.

[BruceS]

I changed over to Flickr for photo posting.   

[BattlestarGalactic]

Screw them.  They THINK they can strong arm you into paying $400/yr to post pictures.  They think because you already have everything through them that you have to pay.  No freak'n way.   Granted, everything I posted in the last 10 yrs on a forum somewhere is not a red X.   Oh well.

I started saving them to Postimage now.  Now I know why some smaller forums are getting enough storage to hold pictures just so this kind of thing doesn't happen.

[cjshaker]

I haven't taken the time to figure out Postimage yet. Not trying to give bad vibes to Barry, but I hope Photobucket fails now. Strong arm tactics don't work with me, but I don't have a business to support like Barry does. IF they had made a reasonable request of something like $10, I would have considered it. But $400? Insert a string of profanity ending with the word "them" here....

The only drawback to FEPower's image hosting is that you should resize the image before you post it, otherwise, when you click on it, it comes up as FULL size. Then I have to right click and "view image" to get a decent look at the picture. Kind of a pain.

[Falcon67]

I've always owned my own web space - since like 1995 or so never had an issue except in the way back when we changed domain names.

I think Photobucket is asking for a way to exit the info highway.  The ARC compression format used to be the big thing for compressing and sharing files across limited bandwidth in the early days of the web.  The guy that developed ZIP share ware compression started by writing programs that were better/faster at handling ARC files.  Got sued by the ARC people then some legal things ensued.  The prompted the development of the ZIP format for general use - and that was even better than the older ARC.  So ARC goes commercial and ZIP goes shareware without legal impairment - anybody seen ARC files passed around lately? 

[jayb]

The only drawback to FEPower's image hosting is that you should resize the image before you post it, otherwise, when you click on it, it comes up as FULL size. Then I have to right click and "view image" to get a decent look at the picture. Kind of a pain.

Actually that's exactly what I do when posting pictures, I resize them to 30% of original size in Paint, and then post them.  At least you can see the whole picture that way, in the context of the post, rather than clicking and viewing separately...

[Barry_R]

Not trying to give bad vibes to Barry, but I hope Photobucket fails now. Strong arm tactics don't work with me, but I don't have a business to support like Barry does.

I hope they fail too - - and I have a couple places to host images from.

It's just the time requirement to move and re-link things.  Time is something I just do not have right now....

[Falcon67]

Yes, that is keyboard intensive work, and boring as hell LOL.  Huge time sink for sure.

As above - Paint is the easiest way to resize a cell pic or anything else.  Example:

This is a 4.3m file, 5312 x 2988 pixels.  In Windows, you can right click the file and Open with Paint.  (usually LOL)  Click Resize, select the Pixels button and pick a decent width - 800 is usually good, 1024 is another good number that will leave in a lot of detail and not blow the forum thread off the earth.  Then click OK.  Here, I used 800 x whatever - the program will keep the aspect ratio if the Aspect box is checked.  Use Save As to save under a new name to preserve your original file. 

[cjshaker]

The only drawback to FEPower's image hosting is that you should resize the image before you post it, otherwise, when you click on it, it comes up as FULL size. Then I have to right click and "view image" to get a decent look at the picture. Kind of a pain.

Actually that's exactly what I do when posting pictures, I resize them to 30% of original size in Paint, and then post them.  At least you can see the whole picture that way, in the context of the post, rather than clicking and viewing separately...

Jay, do I understand correctly that if you make the picture the correct size, that it won't give a jpeg to click? And regular forum members can do this? Since I always saw the jpeg pic, I just assumed that you were the only one who had full posting privileges.

If that's the case, then I don't see any reason to find another image host, at least for this forum. I always resize my pics anyway so that they fit the size format here, so if I did as normal and posted the pics here, you'd get what you'd normally see, bad pictures of a slow car

[jayb]

It will still give you the jpeg to click, but if you click on the picture, not the link below it, the picture will blow up and stay contained in the post.  You will only go to a separate window if you click on the link - Jay