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Tommy Williamsen

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Photobucket
« on: January 22, 2018, 09:30:25 AM »
I know a number of us have lost pictures because of Photobucket's new policy of charging for third party hosting. Initially they were going to charge $399 a year for the privilege. They have revised that a bit and now charge $99 a year for third party hosting at non-commercial sites. I pulled the trigger on the deal. Now all the previously deleted pictures are back, including my hole by hole of Ballyhack.


http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,59848.0.html


I did it as much to free up my old pictures. I'm not sure I will renew after this year because my old pictures have a get out of jail free card.
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Cal Seifert

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Re: Photobucket
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2018, 10:14:02 AM »
Another trick to view the pictures, though painstaking is to right clock on them and open them on the photobucket website and view them from the authors account. 
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Kalen Braley

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Re: Photobucket
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2018, 12:20:16 PM »
Tommy,


Thats good to hear and that rate is at least reasonable at ~$8/month.  I've done a whole bunch of course reviews myself, but they're all so old as its been at least 3-4 years since my last one...
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Garland Bayley

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Re: Photobucket
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2018, 02:05:46 PM »
I'm not sure you can say people have lost pictures to Photobucket. For me the pictures were still there. I downloaded them and uploaded them to flickr. I still have a few I haven't downloaded, because the photobucket site is so slow, and flaky in operation. Eventually I will get them all downloaded hopefully. What I don't understand is that even though I have downloaded and deleted perhaps 80-90 percent of my pictures, the indication of storage used doesn't change.
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Marty Bonnar

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Re: Photobucket
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2018, 02:42:09 PM »
I used to love Photobucket. It was such an easy way to post photo threads here, that I used it all the time.
However, even before they started charging, it was getting clunkier and clunkier. So much so that I haven’t posted a photo using PB to GCA in at least a couple of years now.
Google Photos and Apple Photos are so easy to work with, that I’m posting everything I shoot there automatically.
Unfortunately, the linking process on the iPad is so poor that it’s almost impossible to share them here. My minor plea on this, our 20th Anniversary, is for an update on the photo-linking process to re-enable simple sharing of our trips and visits to the world’s great golf venues - and, ehm, ass shots from Bathgate GC, obviously.
Cheers,
F.
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Tommy Williamsen

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Re: Photobucket
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2018, 06:26:16 PM »
Quote from: Garland Bayley on January 22, 2018, 02:05:46 PM
I'm not sure you can say people have lost pictures to Photobucket. For me the pictures were still there. I downloaded them and uploaded them to flickr. I still have a few I haven't downloaded, because the photobucket site is so slow, and flaky in operation. Eventually I will get them all downloaded hopefully. What I don't understand is that even though I have downloaded and deleted perhaps 80-90 percent of my pictures, the indication of storage used doesn't change.


They were lost in the sense that they were no longer visible on GCA threads.
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Garland Bayley

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Re: Photobucket
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2018, 10:37:42 PM »
I went to substitute photos from my flickr account for the same pictures on photobucket in my thread on Salem Golf Club, but low and behold photobucket has quit blocking the display of my photobucket pictures. Suppose they have found they may have made a mistake, and rescinded their new policy? Or, has Tommy and others coughing up to their ransom attempt got them able to fund the display of others photos?
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Erik J. Barzeski

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Re: Photobucket
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2018, 11:30:26 PM »
An alternative, which can be particularly good if you don't upload too many photos per day: https://www.getcloudapp.com . Free and paid plans, and the free plans are reasonably good.
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Garland Bayley

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Re: Photobucket
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2018, 02:05:12 PM »
Apparently the ability to view pictures on photobucket was short-lived as this morning, they are again blocked, so I substituted the ones on Flickr and deleted the ones on photobucket.
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BCowan

Re: Photobucket
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2018, 02:48:09 PM »
I prefer Imageshack over photobucket.  I feel its much better interface.  I recall only paying about $40 a year for it too. 
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Mike Sweeney

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Re: Photobucket New
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2018, 11:41:27 PM »
Update: Actually this only works Apple to Apple.




It is amazingly complicated for Apple. Their iCloud does work:

https://www.imore.com/how-set-and-use-icloud-photo-sharing


« Last Edit: February 15, 2018, 03:45:44 PM by Mike Sweeney »
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Sean_A

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Re: Photobucket
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2018, 04:47:59 AM »
The big issue (for me anyway) is that so many old pix are now lost...I wish I was more proactive in downloading these images. 

I have slowly been deleting albums from PB and moving to flickr.  For some strange reason I am stuck on 21% over the limit regardless of how many pix I delete.


I never paid the extra cost at PB...so I can't figure out how they decide which pix display....its a black art.

Ciao
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Steve Lang

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Re: Photobucket Superceded
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2018, 07:46:04 AM »
 8) 
I don't see gca.com ever hosting pics, linking so much easier and much less hassle on use and copyright issues.


I've started looking into just developing a simple personal website to host my pics and provide the url's needed to post, i.e., link into gca.com... Looks like it could be very cheap, as not needing commercial functionality type interfaces, just pic folders on topic.  There are a bunch of hosting sites from Free to x to xx $/yr, just need to create a domain name...


Anyone doing this???
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Kalen Braley

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Re: Photobucket
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2018, 12:05:03 PM »
Steve,


If setting something up like this is in your wheelhouse, it'd be perfect for GCA.


We could upload pics there, and 3rd party host off there and then not have to worry about other sites coming and going.  And I'm sure peeps would be much more willing to donate $$ to keep it going as opposed to paying ransom prices for PB.  I'd be willing to chip in some time to test it a bit and provide some feedback on the design..


Kalen
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Erik J. Barzeski

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Re: Photobucket
« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2018, 02:24:36 PM »
The free plan at CloudApp is pretty generous:
https://www.getcloudapp.com/pricing


I have a paid plan so I don't know what the "branded" looks like, but I can't imagine it'd be too bad.
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Erik J. Barzeski @iacas
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