Just me, or is Photobucket rubbish ?

[J4CKO]

Pay for it each month as was kind of stuck with it, but it seems really poor.

Photos in different order to what you ask for, slow and clunky.

I sort of manage but went in today, just got a spinny thing and no photos, tried to upload and got an error.

[Tony1963]

On which device are you doing this? It’s ok on my iPhone and using the app.

[thebraketester]

It’s been rubbish for as long as I can remember.

[miniman]

Not sure why you would pay for it when virtually unlimited Google / iCloud is a couple of quid a month.

[Funk]

Ditched Photofkit after they destroyed massive amounts of forum posts with a switch to paid accounts which broke image links. Huge amounts of useful info and guides were lost. I maintain my free account there (over capacity) just to cost them money now.

[Tony1963]

I’ve tried other services, but I’ve never found one that is so easy and quick to use. I can take a photo on my iPhone and have it appear on a forum in under a minute with photobucket. Yes, at times they’ve been bloody awful, but for now at least it’s slick enough for me.

[Evoluzione]

miniman said:

Not sure why you would pay for it when virtually unlimited Google / iCloud is a couple of quid a month.

Because all his pics were already in there.

[Evoluzione]

Tony1963 said:

I’ve tried other services, but I’ve never found one that is so easy and quick to use. I can take a photo on my iPhone and have it appear on a forum in under a minute with photobucket. Yes, at times they’ve been bloody awful, but for now at least it’s slick enough for me.

I found Dropbox to be much better.

[Tony1963]

Evoluzione said:

I found Dropbox to be much better.

On iPhone, and for hosting images for forums?

[J4CKO]

Evoluzione said:

miniman said:

Not sure why you would pay for it when virtually unlimited Google / iCloud is a couple of quid a month.

Because all his pics were already in there.

This, but loads have disappeared.

Need to bin it, always been rubbish, just hard work.

Will look into he Google option.

[thebraketester]

Evoluzione said:

Tony1963 said:

I’ve tried other services, but I’ve never found one that is so easy and quick to use. I can take a photo on my iPhone and have it appear on a forum in under a minute with photobucket. Yes, at times they’ve been bloody awful, but for now at least it’s slick enough for me.

I found Dropbox to be much better.

Cant hotlink to forums from Dropbox anymore which is a major downfall.

[Evoluzione]

Tony1963 said:

Evoluzione said:

I found Dropbox to be much better.

On iPhone, and for hosting images for forums?

No idea, it's on my Android. It's like any though, soon fills up and then they want money.

[dapprman]

I dropped my sub (the smallest) when they implemented the (high) sub required to link pictures in to forums policy. Was already tempted to drop it before then as it was unreliable, the windows uploader as PITA and uploading from a PC using a web browser felt like a kludge. When the free account was hamstrung I deleted all my photos on it, not just enough to keep under the limit.

[robbocop33]

Can't remember if it was photobox or photobucket who had a major update to their site a few years back,resulting in all my pics on their site getting wiped!!I was gutted and there was no apology or effort to give me my photos back or recover them,sods!

[rigga]

Funk said:

Ditched Photofkit after they destroyed massive amounts of forum posts with a switch to paid accounts which broke image links. Huge amounts of useful info and guides were lost. I maintain my free account there (over capacity) just to cost them money now.

Also pissed off when they royally screwed a lot of internet sites, lots of threads ruined because all the associated pictures disappeared when nobody wanted to pay the exorbitant price they were asking to host.

Moved all mine to Flickr, pay a small subscription yearly, which I would have happily done with PB, but they wanted more than that.

Didn't realise they were still going, as I thought they were going under at one point.

[Tony1963]

Not long after the episode with the horrific price increases, the company was bought out and sanity returned. When I’ve had a couple of issues they’ve responded to my Twitter messages.

I’m no geek, so there’s no way I can set up my own image hosting server like some have.

I tried Flikr, couldn’t work out how to share images on forums, nobody could help, ditched it.

One nice thing about Photobucket is that there’s no social media aspect to it.

[eccles]

J4CKO said:

Pay for it each month as was kind of stuck with it, but it seems really poor.

Photos in different order to what you ask for, slow and clunky.

I sort of manage but went in today, just got a spinny thing and no photos, tried to upload and got an error.

You can change the order in which the pictures are displayed. I think you get options like date taken, date uploaded etc. There was an update recently and afterwards they were all in the wrong order, but I just changed the setting to most recently uploaded and it was back to where it was before.

[The_Jackal]

Tony1963 said:

Not long after the episode with the horrific price increases, the company was bought out and sanity returned. When I’ve had a couple of issues they’ve responded to my Twitter messages.

I’m no geek, so there’s no way I can set up my own image hosting server like some have.

I tried Flikr, couldn’t work out how to share images on forums, nobody could help, ditched it.

One nice thing about Photobucket is that there’s no social media aspect to it.

Loads of people post from flickr here. I'm surprised no one could help. I could google in two minutes what option to choose.

Photobucket is a prime example of a company sitting on its old time laurels, caught on the hop because they never moved with the times.
Its the Netscape of image hosting.

[Tony1963]

The_Jackal said:

Loads of people post from flickr here. I'm surprised no one could help. I could google in two minutes what option to choose.

Photobucket is a prime example of a company sitting on its old time laurels, caught on the hop because they never moved with the times.
Its the Netscape of image hosting.

Well, I asked on a photography forum, two or three years ago, and nobody could help. I googled it, obviously, and it looked like there was a problem.

I just want to take a photo with my iPhone, load it onto an image hosting site/app with my iPhone, then share the image on a forum with my iPhone. Any issues at any point, it’s a non-starter.

Edit to add: usually, people would eventually admit that they were using the desktop version, not iPhone.

Edited by Tony1963 on Wednesday 18th August 21:14

[miniman]

Tony1963 said:

Well, I asked on a photography forum, two or three years ago, and nobody could help. I googled it, obviously, and it looked like there was a problem.

I just want to take a photo with my iPhone, load it onto an image hosting site/app with my iPhone, then share the image on a forum with my iPhone. Any issues at any point, it’s a non-starter.

Edit to add: usually, people would eventually admit that they were using the desktop version, not iPhone.

Edited by Tony1963 on Wednesday 18th August 21:14

I would recommend trying Imgbb then.