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This Can Ruin Everybody's Fun Of Creating & Post Screenshots

Manschy said:
Don't understand what's happen here so far So please help me to get it clear - in my case, I have 2 GB for free, means currently still 6% of aviable free size. Furthermore, the pricing on this site shows 6$/month up to 52!!!!GB and so on. Where do I have to expect problems, please?
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Let me repeat in my original post showing conditions clearly stated in red font:

Free account : 2 GB of free storage or space available for your original photo files, or videos under 10min. The free account does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting

o Plus 50 Plan: 52 GB of Storage for $59.99 / Year. The Plus 50 Plan does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting

o Plus 100 Plan: 102 GB of Storage for $99.99 / Year. The Plus 100 Plan allows for unlimited image linking but does not allow 3rd party image hosting.

o Plus 500 Plan: 500 GB of Storage and unlimited bandwidth for $399.99 / Year. The Plus 500 Plan allows for unlimited image linking and unlimited 3rd party image hosting.
 
Has anyone tried google photo's?

After reading this this I am glad I run my own website and can hide my photos there.
 
This isn't going to hurt screenshot hosting at all, it's just going to make people choose a different host. If you're not archiving the photos under your own account for personal use, you can even throw them on Imgur without even logging in.
 
Is there any comparison of the various image hosting sites?

I've stuck with PB for some time because I can group my images by subject. I've tried a few other sites, but they don't seem to have much in the way of managing or editing the uploaded images.
 
Aharon said:
Let me repeat in my original post showing conditions clearly stated in red font:

Free account : 2 GB of free storage or space available for your original photo files, or videos under 10min. The free account does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting

o Plus 50 Plan: 52 GB of Storage for $59.99 / Year. The Plus 50 Plan does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting

o Plus 100 Plan: 102 GB of Storage for $99.99 / Year. The Plus 100 Plan allows for unlimited image linking but does not allow 3rd party image hosting.

o Plus 500 Plan: 500 GB of Storage and unlimited bandwidth for $399.99 / Year. The Plus 500 Plan allows for unlimited image linking and unlimited 3rd party image hosting.
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Aharon, thank you - some time I am a little stupid in reading carefully, sorry. Now I am clear about it, thank you! :wavey: BTW: That is an insolence indeed!

I just have to edit: I checked my older screenshots in some other forums, and most shots are still there, instead of some other shots of several other users. So I am deeply confused. What's happen there? :mixed-smiley-027:

Another thought: What about hacking? Everything's possible these days.... No company can be that stupid to my opinion. I assume that may be an option...
 
My Photobucket hosted images still work as well, but I can't log in or recover my username and passwords.

Will probably save some images for nostalgia and then delete my account. I haven't used it in years anyway.
 
When you get something for free, not sure how much you can complain. "Hot linking"(what we are talking about here) uses a lot of bandwidth, that costs money.

As far as free photo hosting goes, Imgur would be my choice. They are the preferred photo hosting for popular social media websites like Reddit, so it would be the least likely to start charging for service, but as with any free internet service, it may not stay free forever.

You can get your own website and host your photos there for $35-$50 a year, about the price of one of these payware planes. Plus you can have your own internet kingdom.
 
I was able to rescue some photos that I did not have stored. I keep a folder of 99.999 I upload, so I didn't lose anything. They won't be around much longer with that action and that price layout.

Don
 
WARNING!! Earlier today a poster at a photo enthusiast website I frequent tried to upload some images hosted by Photobucket. The mix of images included some graphic porn! The poster is a respected member of the website, and members there have little doubt that he had nothing to do with the graphic content in the posting. Like Avsim, that website is family oriented, so please be cautious and careful if posting images from Photobucket.


Greg
 
Thanks all for very interesting comments.

I have been using Photobucket for almost TEN years for millions of my screenshots published in various aviation forums and NOW I have to look for a new image hosting site that can offer BBB code below each of 25 screenshots per page so that I can click on BBB img code and paste on forum post for fast work writing a flight screenshot report.

Got to evaluate Imgur and Flickr as well as FSFiles to see which one offers me painless and fast copy of IMG codes. Remember I publish an average of 45 screenshots per post.

While Photobucket is ruining all aviation forums' screenshot or photo subforums by replacing screenshots and photos with black boxes, Photbucket also is ruining many virtual airlines' websites and homepages by replacing screenshots or photos with black boxes as seen on example of the following link:

www.virtualaca.net/index.php/tour/category/3

When testing Imgur and FSFiles, I have discovered that those two image hosting website do NOT automatically resize my screenshots from 1920x900 to 1024x500 during uploadings that Photobucket can do.

I really need any image hosting website that can automatically resize DURING UPLOADING any number of screenshots from 1920x800 to 1024x500.

I am afraid I do not like Imgur and Flickr.

I am trying out FsFiles image hosting site. FsFiles seems to be interesting and possible solution only if there is function that I can put or re-sort screenshots' file names in file order in any album in FSFiles. Anybody knows how? I cannot find function for that in FsFiles.

When I tried to get my forum signature screenshot banners from my Photobucket account, I have right now discovered that it is blocked from allowing me to download!!! In other words, I cannot get or download my screenshots back from Photobucket without paying 399 buck ransom!!!!

That means I have to create many new signatures for my accounts in many forums!!

Regards,

Aharon
 
Aharon said:
I really need any image hosting website that can automatically resize DURING UPLOADING any number of screenshots from 1920x800 to 1024x500.
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Try a little program called Bimp lite; it is a really powerful tool to resize batches of images, and gives you a lot of control over size, file type and quality.
If you are using Windows 10, make sure to run it as administrator and use Windows 7 compatibility mode.
 
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