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Knotty
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 9:58 pm • # 1 |
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All my Photobucket images on this forum are no longer visible, replaced by Photobucket with a notice saying that "3rd Party Hosting has temporarily been disabled."
Following the PB link takes me to a page where they say 3rd party hosting is against their terms of service for my free account and I need to upgrade to Plus500 to get the linked pictures to work again. The price...$400!
I only use PB for this forum, so this problem was triggered by my fishing pictures alone.
Photobucket's new policies may be putting all the images on this forum at risk!
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mbarker68x
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 10:17 pm • # 2 |
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Hmm, I also use photo bucket free account for all my fishing fixtures on this forum and others. Mine appear as usual. Wonder what the difference is?
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mbarker68x
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 10:20 pm • # 3 |
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Maybe, new ones won't post?
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mbarker68x
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 10:22 pm • # 4 |
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I copy the IMG link and paste it in the reply, apparently mine is still working not sure why. Hope they fix it soon for you guys!
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preast
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 11:21 pm • # 5 |
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I've had a lot of problems but it's because the site is just bogged down with garbage. I think it must be a Flash app which is universally a terrible user experience IMO. It flat out wouldn't let me copy the IMG code yesterday until I messed with it a lot, but my pics still show up when linked. Been looking for another solution but laziness...
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jkurtz7
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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 11:42 pm • # 6 |
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Well crap, not sure what I can do about this. Unfortunately I can't get around to doing anything till Friday or Saturday. I'll see if there is a way to allow other photo hosting sites to be used.
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Knotty
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 12:09 am • # 7 |
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Same thing is happening to Ajcarricktx in his posts.
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Knotty
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 8:55 am • # 8 |
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Here's an example. I used the forum's built in PB tools to paste the image link. It should be a pic of fish caught on my CGR 2 wt. Here's their definition of 3rd Party Hosting Alternatively refered to as inline linking, "hotlinking" is the action of linking to an image or object on another server. An example of hotlinking would be using an <img> tag to display a JPEG image that you uploaded to your Photobucket account so it will appear on a different website like Etsy, eBay auction listings, blogs, forum messages, etc.
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TXH2Oman
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:37 am • # 9 |
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Joined: 02/14/17 Posts: 380 Location: Georgetown, Texas and Corpus Christi, Texas
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I think Photobucket is off its rocker. What do they think people use Photobucket for, and why the heck do they offer so many inline linking formats?
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linecaster
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:51 pm • # 10 |
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I have a lot of photos on that site and nowadays nothing but advertising blocking it up.
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strummer
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 7:58 pm • # 11 |
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I found that if you left click and hold on the blocked picture, drag it up to the top of the screen, it will open the picture in a new tab. I stopped using that site years ago. It became agonizingly slow.
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SWCR
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 11:56 pm • # 12 |
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They just did the same thing to me
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mbarker68x
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:52 am • # 13 |
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TXH2Oman
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:07 pm • # 14 |
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Whelp. There goes the visual component of the ULFF.com archive. Here's a story about what happened: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/30/photo ... ed-images/Even if I had $400 and thought it was worth paying that to host images, I don't want to have anything to do with a company that resorts to that sort of extortion. https://imgur.com/, I'm thinking? And ... Jeremy, would this be a good time to migrate to bbpress, discourse, or something else? I bet forum members would donate to fund that ....
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preast
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:24 pm • # 15 |
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Maybe they just haven't gotten to me yet but mine are still showing up on all sites I've linked them. How are you guys linking? I don't use the PB button from within the forum so maybe it's those that are linked that way?
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mbarker68x
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:18 pm • # 16 |
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Mine was working fine until last night. Then they got me. It has also effected every forum that I post pictures on, this one, TFF, Warmfly, and Texas Kayak.
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preast
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:46 pm • # 17 |
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I just saw you mentioned already that you copy and paste. Guess I should read more better...
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Sasha
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 6:59 pm • # 18 |
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I'm on a free account currently, I guess they haven't gotten to mine yet. Man its going to be a real pain in the ass for me to move all of my photos. Any suggestions on an alternative? 400 bucks to post pics on an online forum?!?!? LOL photobucket can go suck it!
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linecaster
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 11:08 pm • # 19 |
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I have backed up all my foto's onto a separate entitie. I will not pay one cent to Google/Photobucket. They are just plain greedy.
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TXH2Oman
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 11:41 pm • # 20 |
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Joined: 02/14/17 Posts: 380 Location: Georgetown, Texas and Corpus Christi, Texas
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