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FREE 3rd party hosting

***super_nova*** — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:10:48 GMT

What do you guys use now that Photobucket has gone mad and wants $400 for the privileges?

Re: FREE 3rd party hosting

springyzone — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:33:39 GMT

imgur-it's not glitchy like photobucket was getting to be lately, it is currently free & it's fast.

PS I noticed that the only option for the 3rd party hosting with photobuckey was $399. Most of us would only have the occaisonal photo to put on a forum & the $59 option would be enough.. except it doesn't include 3rd party hosting? Obviously they are trying to clear out some of their users.

I know we can't expect everything free, but $399 is too dear.

I had an email from photobucket-selling coffee beans? They certainly are heading in a different direction, market wise.

Re: FREE 3rd party hosting

this-one-time-at-bandcamp — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:44:46 GMT

I pulled all my photos from PB, and downloaded them to my external hard drive.

Re: FREE 3rd party hosting

tasfleur — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 23:20:06 GMT

Wow! I'm thinking it's a sign of financial desperation when a company suddenly wants to start charging such a huge amount out of the blue.

Years ago I used photobucket, but only for a very short time as it broke down too often and I decided there were easier and better ways to go.

Re: FREE 3rd party hosting

***super_nova*** — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 00:00:59 GMT

Thanks I will give imgur a go. I only stayed with Photobucket out of laziness, and because I only used it for eBay and hardly ever list anything nowadays. I used to use it many years ago for putting photos on various forums when it was the way to do it. I did not even realise how many photos I had there - there were only couple of albums, eBay and others, but the others had lot of old pics that I lost when my computer crashed few years back. So, thanks Photobucket, I now found them and it took me whole night to to rescue them. 🙂 And then I delete them from PB, now I will see if I can also close the account, just in case they will start sending me demands for money. I have seen on some US boards that they totally messed up some people's eBay listings with notices plastered all over their listings demanding the $399. Would not trust them. Hope nobody is paying them.

Re: FREE 3rd party hosting

springyzone — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 00:10:51 GMT

I keep all my photos on my computer or external hard drive & only used photobucket to post photos on a few message boards I am on.

All the same, I probably had hundreds there. I am surprised they don't have a cheaper subscription option for those customers who only want to upload the occasional photo.

Re: FREE 3rd party hosting

***super_nova*** — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 05:11:30 GMT

Well. IMGUR did not do too well, they do not allow anything to do with selling or advertising, and when I tried to put the photos into my template it just did not work 😞

There must be something, so many sellers use templates with pics.

Re: FREE 3rd party hosting

imastawka — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 05:25:32 GMT

If you just want to store your photos with a 3rd party, just open an id specific

business Facebook page and just store the photos in there.

No problems importing them from there