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    Quote Originally Posted by Keith_1 View Post
    Hi Guys

    Trevor (Repliconics) told me he used photobucket all the time for his different threads

    Regards

    Keith
    Keith, see here

    Photobucket users held to ransom

    and here

    Why I use Photobucket


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    On my UK Workshop forum entries they have even managed to change my avitar to their demand for cash and as far as I am awaire that's sod all to do with them!
    My ambition is to grow old disgracefully. So far my ywife recons that I'm doing quite well! John.
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    John, if your avitar is linked to Photobucket, then it is no surprise.

    At this time I suspect that it is only the free accounts that are being affected. I appear to have regained full use of my Photobucket account (my account is the cheapest - $59 p.a.).

    Regards from Perth

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    Read their statements, don't guess at what they are doing.
    Timing for subscriptions/memberships may carry on for some to 2018.
    Others with free accounts like me are asked to pay $399/year for what used to be free.
    They claim this is fair market pricing. At the same time, they claim 100M subscribers.
    They couls have the loot in a minute if they asked for less than $100 each.
    Stupid is as stupid does.

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    You know you can get a virtual hosted webserver to put your images on for $20 a year?

    I run 5 full on websites, plus email on one that costs $5 a month and I think thats expensive.

    What photobucket is offering is utterly obscene.

    They will be gone in 6 months. They are already being hammered by LOIC DDoS's.

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    Today received an email from Photobucket that I will no longer be able to link my photos on a 3rd party website.

    Checked a couple of my older threads back to the time I used to link to my photos on Photobucket and yes they have gone.

    Thanks for nothing Photobucket.

    SP32-20170711-124748.jpgSP32-20170711-124801.jpg

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    In light of the above, I checked repliconics' (Trevor) Indian thread and his Photobucket photos have not as yet disappeared, so those of you that want to keep his photos would be well advised to start downloading them now.

    The other thing you could look at doing is printing each page of the thread, or only those wit Photobucket photos, using the Print option under Thread Tools at the top of each page.

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    Hi Fred

    What type of account have you with Photobucket? (paid?)

    Regards from Perth

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Shed View Post
    In light of the above, I checked repliconics' (Trevor) Indian thread and his Photobucket photos have not as yet disappeared, so those of you that want to keep his photos would be well advised to start downloading them now.

    The other thing you could look at doing is printing each page of the thread, or only those wit Photobucket photos, using the Print option under Thread Tools at the top of each page.
    If someone were to do this and could save me a copy I would be in your debt and most appreciate.

    Flat out with work atm and not sure I could do the above from a phone

    Thanks

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    Quote Originally Posted by derekcohen View Post
    Hi Fred

    What type of account have you with Photobucket? (paid?)

    Regards from Perth

    Derek
    No Derek, I have had their free account since about 2005 and they always made a big thing about it being free.

    I haven't used it for some years, except that some of my photos on forums were linked to it.

    I will not be held to ransom by these people.

    Even if I did pay their $US400 ransom for a years' use, what guarantee would I have that they wouldn't double or treble that next year?

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    Fred, I understand and agree. As mentioned before, I have a paid account, and my links appear intact. However there is no assurance they will remain so. I have switched to Post Image. It has taken a little time to copy the data across, but it was not too painful.

    Regards from Perth

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    Went to do this directly with Photobucket, write a script for here and another friend.

    Jesus Christ - its a spam hell!!!!! So many popups, filth and social media scum. What a shithole.

    37 separate advertising and tracking modules IN ONE PAGE!!! 51 on the Album download page. FIFTY ONE!!!!

    No wonder its dying - its been taken over by the very lowest scum of the internet.

    These people are harvesting your soul and selling it to whatever scumbag/villain/pornographer who cares to pay.

    I give them a fortnight before they are gone as a service... its AOL, IM, Friendster, Napster, Yahoo death all over again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodPixel View Post
    Went to do this directly with Photobucket, write a script for here and another friend.

    Jesus Christ - its a spam hell!!!!! So many popups, filth and social media scum. What a shithole.

    37 separate advertising and tracking modules IN ONE PAGE!!! 51 on the Album download page. FIFTY ONE!!!!
    I noticed that too. They certainly don't make it easy to script up either. Anyway, the other day this thread spurred me to go read through Repliconics various 2/3 scale threads, which were posted when I wasn't actively reading the forum.

    Wow!

    But I digress, as I was reading through them I was running a replicating proxy on my Mac, so I now have a copy of 731 photos that Trevor posted to photobucket. I can make them available to the site admins should the need arise. I can't guarantee that is all of them, but it was more than I could find while poking through the cesspool with a stick, err I mean browsing the PB site.

    Cheers and good night,
    Iain

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    Seems that I recall that Woodworkforums cleaned off all the old pictures for old threads.
    Nobody whimpered about that. Why was that? I put dozens of good illustrations in a very long thread about free-hand sharpening.
    All that could have done would have been to spur the purchase of a variety of sharpening and honing products from this site's advertisers.
    But to Hello with the profits. Let's just obscure the educational values instead.

    Photobucket needs a nut-grab but I predict that the profits will be very slim at $399 a pop.

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    I'm pretty sure there was a lot of complaints about the loss of the pictures from old threads after a forum upgrade?

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