Sorta-OT, but it affects a lot of users in forums... Photobucket has new terms of use

[wolf_teeth]

For those of you whom have used Photobucket Free and Legacy accounts, they updated their terms of use on 7/6/17. '3rd party Hosting' or usage of embedded photos on other websites linked back to Photobucket via img file direct links will no longer be allowed with these 2 account formats.

Plus Account subscribers in good standings as of 6/1/17 will be allowed the 3rd party usage until 12/31/18. So, you get another year and a half before it affects you.

So- if you do not purchase at minimum the new 'Plus 500' account status to keep your current usage abilities, you will be limited to either direct links on the Plus100 account or virtually NO USE except truncated album links for anything below that. http://photobucket.com/pricing (If the link is inappropriate, I can remove it.)

Later,
Wolf

[Face]

Check out Imgur, it works fine and is free.

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[Jim Holtz]

I've been using Flicker (free) for the last few years and its worked well with lots of storage space and the ability to store and download full size images. However, with changes at Yahoo, who knows what will happen in the future. There are many image hosting services for under $50 a year so there are other pay options too.

I've used Google in the past but it was to restrictive for my needs.

Jim

[JonMarsh]

I have always had a Photobucket Pro account, but didn't like how hosted images look (too down-rezzed)Still have it, to maintain images on posts.

Added a paid Flickr account, and like that a lot, as it's easy to control the displayed resolution and the have better visual quality for those of us using retina type displays.

The old stuff is all on a hosting service I still use, Virtual Avenue.

[TEK]

Hmm...
That explains all of the images in old posts that is no longer available.
From my perspective I would have liked everyone to just upload images to the forum when posting instead of using links to other sites.
That way the forum posts would be imutable and not affected by external changes like moving sites, changing usage conditions, sites going out of business, internal reorginization, accounts beeing deactivated and so on and so on...

The best would probably be if the forum software could create a local copy automatic when a picture is included in a post.

[Norm]

Hmm...
From my perspective I would have liked everyone to just upload images to the forum when posting instead of using links to other sites.

What?!?? Pardon my uselessness but I was unaware HTGuide supported image upload. TEK's comment led me to RIFM (or FAQs in this case):

https://www.htguide.com/forum/faq.php?faq=vb3_user_profile#faq_vb3_albums

I missed this because as a lurker and then new member I observed it seemed all the power users using personal photos hosted them off forum.

[CraigJ]

What?!?? Pardon my uselessness but I was unaware HTGuide supported image upload. TEK's comment led me to RIFM (or FAQs in this case):

https://www.htguide.com/forum/faq.php?faq=vb3_user_profile#faq_vb3_albums

I missed this because as a lurker and then new member I observed it seemed all the power users using personal photos hosted them off forum.

Hi Norm,

Yes, you can add images through "manage attachments" in the additional options below on your screen. Unfortunately, the attachments have to be very small in KB, which is a pain to resize and a no go for most of us. Tek is correct, but this is all after the fact as Photobucket has let a lot of us down.

[PMazz]

I found an easy way for Windows users to resize their pics so they can upload them to the forum. First download a little utility called Image Resizer. After it installs, open the folder where your pics are stored, highlight as many as you want, right click and select "Resize Pictures" in the pop up box. You should see this:






Choose the Medium setting. You can set it to replace the originals or keep them and create new ones, labeled with (Medium) after the original filename.

[Kevin P]

You can upload photos here, just click the Go Advanced button if you're in quick reply, then click the Attachments icon.

The size (in MB as well as pixel dimensions) is limited, to conserve server space and bandwidth, but the forum will automatically downsize images to meet the requirements. You don't have to do it yourself, though if you're uploading 5 MB files, they'll take a bit of time to process.

[theSven]

If you haven't noticed yet or tried the photo size limit has been greatly eased now! Please upload photos to the site now instead of using external image hosting. I have spent countless hours trying to salvage photos from external places to preserve posts.

[JonMarsh]

The new capabilities at HTG for local imaging are like dying and going to heaven, compared to what we had to accommodate previously.

[theSven]

Today is big day for the HTGuide DIY section of the forum, there are no more photos linked to photobucket! I've spent the last 9 months downloading the original photo from photobucket and then uploading it to the post. This all started with getting annoyed with the watermark and trying to see details in some build photos. While also removing photobucket photos from the forum, I was also updating other photos in the posts that were recoverable, or removed and left the Image not available text.

I still need to go through the other sections of the forum to continue the removal of photobucket, but I can sleep much better knowing that the DIY section is completed. If you're interested in the search string, use this url:

https://www.htguide.com/forum/search?searchJSON=%7B%22keywords%22%3A%22photobucket%22%2C%22channel%22%3A%5B%22929057%22%2C%2251%22%2C%2223%22%2C%22926008%22%2C%22926009%22%2C%22926217%22%2C%22926010%22%2C%22926011%22%2C%22926012%22%2C%22926013%22%2C%22926014%22%2C%22926216%22%2C%2255%22%5D%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22relevance%22%3A%22desc%22%7D%2C%22view%22%3A%22topic%22%2C%22exclude_type%22%3A%5B%22vBForum_PrivateMessage%22%5D%2C%22has_answer%22%3A%22-1%22%7D&btnSubmit=

Off to work on fixing more posts 😂🤣😂

[Steve Manning]

Very nice Sven .... thanks for all the hard work you've been putting in.

[technodanvan]

I appreciate all the work you've done and I'm sure one or two of my own posts were fixed in the process.