RIP Photobucket...
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It's weird. I looked at a long-running thread I've got on another forum, and PB-hosted pictures don't appear, and I get the "3rd party hosting has been temporarily disabled" placeholder. But if I go to another site where I use PB to host the images, they appear, though that is with a different PB account. I wonder if it's based on how often the images are shown? I know there always used to be a bandwidth limit - I foolishly posted some on a popular thread on here, and nothing showed up until the thread reached another page.
CrutyRammers said:
Funk said:
I hate to think how many fora this will impact; think how many 'How To..' and build threads will now just be filled with the 'No 3rd party' image above...!
It brings back up an interesting conversation about how, despite living in an age where we can make/take and share more writing and pictures than ever before, we'll actually be a 'black hole' to future generations. We're able to read books, documents and look at pictures from hundreds or thousands of years ago; will people in another 500 years be able to see or read all the pictures and documents we've created? We no long print things out, we're storing digitally - think about documents you put on floppy disk only 20 years ago, it would be a challenge to recover that even today...
Very much so. We are creating more content than the rest of history put together, but it will all be lost in a generation.It brings back up an interesting conversation about how, despite living in an age where we can make/take and share more writing and pictures than ever before, we'll actually be a 'black hole' to future generations. We're able to read books, documents and look at pictures from hundreds or thousands of years ago; will people in another 500 years be able to see or read all the pictures and documents we've created? We no long print things out, we're storing digitally - think about documents you put on floppy disk only 20 years ago, it would be a challenge to recover that even today...
OTOH, most of it is nonsense, and I suspect that the important stuff will remain. I do wonder how many people born today, when they get to their 50s, will have any pictures left of them as kids etc, or of their parents.
Use it every couple of months to print off photos of events families etc and then stick them in an album.
I think stick the digital photo on the cloud to be forgotten about, if EMP Apocalypse happens I'll still have physical photo's to look at whilst living in a cave
ChemicalChaos said:
interesting.... just checked a couple of my old threads and everything appears to be working, definitely not cached images either as i've never had them open on this computer before
I've just visited another forum, there's a thread full of "show us your best X photos" and a whole bunch are now Photobucket's holding image stating this person has exceeded their allowance.eliot said:
I've owned my own domain name and run my own web server since 1997, mainly because i'm a techie but mainly because the URL and my email address will never change as i own it (the domain) and nobody can hold me to ransome.
That's fine if you're self-hosting just for personal use or friends/family viewing. I run my own blog which is photo heavy and the blog typically sees around 800 hits per day. That quickly becomes quite costly when you're paying for the bandwidth and it only takes one idiot to hotlink your photos on a high traffic website or forum thread for you to exceed your bandwidth and the need to buy a bigger hosting package from your web host. I used to self-host pics before I saw the light. These days I use Flickr and Imgur and both have served me well. Flickr has an excellent automatic html thumbnail embed link for blog posting if you enable it in the settings.NoIP said:
eliot said:
I've owned my own domain name and run my own web server since 1997, mainly because i'm a techie but mainly because the URL and my email address will never change as i own it (the domain) and nobody can hold me to ransome.
That's fine if you're self-hosting just for personal use or friends/family viewing. I run my own blog which is photo heavy and the blog typically sees around 800 hits per day. That quickly becomes quite costly when you're paying for the bandwidth and it only takes one idiot to hotlink your photos on a high traffic website or forum thread for you to exceed your bandwidth and the need to buy a bigger hosting package from your web host. I used to self-host pics before I saw the light. These days I use Flickr and Imgur and both have served me well. Flickr has an excellent automatic html thumbnail embed link for blog posting if you enable it in the settings.eliot said:
NoIP said:
eliot said:
I've owned my own domain name and run my own web server since 1997, mainly because i'm a techie but mainly because the URL and my email address will never change as i own it (the domain) and nobody can hold me to ransome.
That's fine if you're self-hosting just for personal use or friends/family viewing. I run my own blog which is photo heavy and the blog typically sees around 800 hits per day. That quickly becomes quite costly when you're paying for the bandwidth and it only takes one idiot to hotlink your photos on a high traffic website or forum thread for you to exceed your bandwidth and the need to buy a bigger hosting package from your web host. I used to self-host pics before I saw the light. These days I use Flickr and Imgur and both have served me well. Flickr has an excellent automatic html thumbnail embed link for blog posting if you enable it in the settings.Mine still works, but then I've paid for Photobucket membership for a while. Trouble was, I had so many photos on it by the time I hit the limit (duh. obviously...) that it was a pain and I was unwilling to start again with a different host. Besides, I find the Flickr menu systems more of a pain in the arse than photobucket ever was/is. And arguably my photos are too s
t to justify mega-resolution hosting. Dunno how much my membership costs, it's like $30 a year or something, which is hardly a lot even in real money
t to justify mega-resolution hosting. Dunno how much my membership costs, it's like $30 a year or something, which is hardly a lot even in real money
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