Pepper-Head Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 (edited) I don't know if anybody uses or has used photobucket in the past, but here's an important update for you all. Photobucket recently updated without warning, disallowing third party hosting ((which is basically what photobucket was built around)). Any images uploaded to photobucket and linked with an [ img] or <img> tag to any website besides photobucket itself will now display as an ugly image prompting you to upgrade your account to allow third party hosting. Their new paid plans that support this are either a whopping $40 a month, or $400 for a year. Read more about their change and upgrade here: http://photobucket.com/p500/ I don't know if this change will stick around for long, but if you use photobucket, look for another image hosting service! Edited July 1, 2017 by Pepper-Head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kami Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 That explains a lot x'D God damn. They used to be my go-to years ago too, but then they made their site unuseable and ads were just everywhere. Guess they wanted to try and find a way to make it worse LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper-Head Posted July 1, 2017 Author Share Posted July 1, 2017 @kami I know what you mean For a while there, it was the most convenient for me to do mobile uploads, but always impossible to navigate on the desktop due to ads. It's only gotten worse. I honestly don't see how they thought this was a great move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hare Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 (edited) They've been going downhill for years, so I'm not surprised Lol I remember using photobucket for everything back when I played Neopets. That was before the site was rendered practically unusable by ads. That's fine, there are plenty of other free image hosting sites that are less ad-ridden. Edited July 1, 2017 by Hare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Ouch! I recall this being the go to place for hosting pictures for MySpace back in the day. After it died down the service has just floundered and the company has been living off of ad revenue and now they seem to feel ransoms are in order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 I deleted my account i don't really use it that much because the ads cause it to load annoyingly slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoua Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 Aw man that is too bad. Looks like I will have to switch then. And those prices are really high. $400 a year is crazy and a lot more than my full web host cost which holds two games. Guess I will need to add some image uploading functionality to my site or switch image providers then. Thanks for letting us know. Probably would have been a while before I noticed on my own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper-Head Posted July 4, 2017 Author Share Posted July 4, 2017 @Anoua No problem! I'm really glad that posting this helped someone (and confirmed that it wasn't just me having issues with their ads!) I honestly don't know where they pulled $40 a month/ $400 a year from. If they're trying to appeal to businesses or what, since that price is NOT obtainable by the mass of their users when they could very easily move to a free site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zrcalo Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 I'd encourage anyone who owns their own server to use FTP to upload to a folder on their site. I've been doing it for years, and have screenshots etc dating back to 2004. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runeowl Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 RIP photobucket. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bingo Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Ugh, great. I use Photobucket almost daily to host quick WIPs for clients and just today shut down my ability to use them 3rd party. Looks like Dropbox doesn't work for image hosting, anyone have any recommendations? I've used Photobucket only for maybe 10 years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kami Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 9 minutes ago, Bingo said: Ugh, great. I use Photobucket almost daily to host quick WIPs for clients and just today shut down my ability to use them 3rd party. Looks like Dropbox doesn't work for image hosting, anyone have any recommendations? I've used Photobucket only for maybe 10 years now. Imgur is basically my go-to now. I've also used tinypic as well, but Imgur is much more organized and nicer to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bingo Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 6 minutes ago, kami said: Imgur is basically my go-to now. I've also used tinypic as well, but Imgur is much more organized and nicer to use. I'll check out Imgur, thanks for the suggestion! It seems Stash on DeviantArt works too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kami Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Just now, Bingo said: I'll check out Imgur, thanks for the suggestion! It seems Stash on DeviantArt works too. Sure thing! Stash is nice if you don't upload much, clean out often, or have premium. 2GB fills up pretty fast (Least it does for me, haha.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bingo Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Just now, kami said: Sure thing! Stash is nice if you don't upload much, clean out often, or have premium. 2GB fills up pretty fast (Least it does for me, haha.) Good point, for me at least I post WIPs and keep them up a few days then delete, so Stash might work for me considering I don't keep much up. I'm still going to consider Imgur and others though if it doesnt work out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zrcalo Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 google drive is another good one to use as well. With the combination of imgur, google drive, st.ash, tumblr, and others, it should be fairly easy to keep a lot of things up online. I also use discord and dropbox as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chutkat Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 My friend and I are already switching to somewhere else. It's going to be a pain to modify all the websites and everything but $400 is way too out of our budgets x__x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corleone Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 I recall having two accounts in it, and I have to say I haven't used either in years, but I still have my stuff uploaded there. It's a choice that I find to be a "shooting your own foot" type of thing, but then again there are so many similar services nowadays that I don't think it would be too terribly inconvenient to migrate to another service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverwulfess Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 Wow, this is horrendous. I used to use photobucket back in the day, now just use my own host if need be. They're dead in the water now with those prices especially. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mew Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 I'd be surprised if people actually spent that amount of money for an image hosting website when there are so many free alternatives. I've used Photobucket for many years; even some of my first VPS stuff is on there. It's quite unfortunate that they're going this route... I'd think it would lead to less people using it, therefore less ad revenue etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foam Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 Not sure how, because I certainly haven't paid them anything, but my photobucket seems to work ? Still, going to spend this weekend downloading everything as there is a lot of history I have on there and no where else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Design1online Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Google drive is incredibly affordable and the free account gives you lots of storage, i think its like 1GB. Upgrading is only $1.99 a month and gives you close to 1TB. You can also use digital ocean for several GB on their cheapest cloud server is only $5 a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 I refused to use Photobucket cause of how their site felt, it didn't feel like it was made for the consumer to enjoy freely. At least this now confirms my worst fears that it was going that way, I prefer Imgur for image hosting anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mew Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 I was super bummed when Tinypic closed down. Photobucket was an alternative; (I used to use it back when I was 11)... but I am not willing to pay that amount of money to upload images, and idk who would either tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoua Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 This is old news, the $400 pricing didn't stick. Their current plans seem to be from $5-13 a month which isn't anywhere near $400. Plus they do allow some access for free again with blurring and watermarks if you go over that limit (but not broken). Not saying it's great, there are a lot of cheap and free alternatives out there anyway, but still very different than the 400 with broken images that was happening before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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