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Jackalope

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So it appears as though the wonderful people over at Photobucket have decided to start charging their users to link images. If you upload an image to Photobucket and try to post the IMG tags here you will receive the lovely notification below.

While we believe that everyone has a right to run their business the way that they see fit, we see this as an absolute shit move by Photobucket.

Actions such as these cause considerable issues on sites such as ours. For example let's say one of our users post a very informative thread with pictures they uploaded to photobucket. The images show up because that user is paying Photobuckets ransom. 2 years from now the user decides to stop paying Photobucket their monthly fees and all of a sudden a very informative and helpful thread has all of its images ripped out from under it. To a user who is searching online trying to find information and who may come across that thread it is largely useless without the images.

It is for that reason that once our site upgrade is complete we will no longer allow the posting of images from Photobucket regardless if the user pays photobuckets monthly ransom.

As a reminder you are always welcome to upload images directly to TheOhio Outdoors. The new version of the site will even have a pretty fancy album structure.

This article gives quite a few alternatives to Photobucket. We are not promoting them and I have not actually used them myself. However if you are looking for an alternative this would be a good place to start.

http://www.topbestalternatives.com/photobucket/

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MK111

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So that's why I got the email notice from Photobucket. I'm computer challenged to say the least. What would be the quickest and easiest photo hosting site to use?
 

CJD3

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Ok.
Well fuck photo bucket.
I'll find one of the others.
Thanks for the thread Joe!
 

Jackalope

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I take all my pictures with a camera. Need a system to transfer those pictures to a forum site.
You can upload them directly to TOO for posting here, or explore some of the other hosts in the article above. As of now Photobucket will not let you link them to anywhere without paying them ransom.
 

Fletch

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I can't even get into Photobucket anymore...Which sucks cause I have a lot of photos on there...I might have to throw them a bone just to get my pics...
 

Jackalope

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I can't even get into Photobucket anymore...Which sucks cause I have a lot of photos on there...I might have to throw them a bone just to get my pics...
Huh. You should still be able to get to it.
 

Fletch

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Huh. You should still be able to get to it.

It looks entirely different and when signing in it just hangs there... So I just gave up.. Thats why I asked recently for another way to post pics....
 

giles

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Tapatalk doesn't always work either. I've tried posting multiple picture lately and it didn't work. Seems to be touchy, as some threads it works just fine.
 

Jackalope

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Tapatalk doesn't always work either. I've tried posting multiple picture lately and it didn't work. Seems to be touchy, as some threads it works just fine.
If it's hit or miss I would first look at connection speed. Tapatalk is picky with a weak signal. I have noticed that depending on signal quality sometimes it will display a picture, sometimes a box with a broken square, but if I click on it the pic displays. The same for uploads.
 

Dustinb80

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So it appears as though the wonderful people over at Photobucket have decided to start charging their users to link images. If you upload an image to Photobucket and try to post the IMG tags here you will receive the lovely notification below.

While we believe that everyone has a right to run their business the way that they see fit, we see this as an absolute shit move by Photobucket.

Actions such as these cause considerable issues on sites such as ours. For example let's say one of our users post a very informative thread with pictures they uploaded to photobucket. The images show up because that user is paying Photobuckets ransom. 2 years from now the user decides to stop paying Photobucket their monthly fees and all of a sudden a very informative and helpful thread has all of its images ripped out from under it. To a user who is searching online trying to find information and who may come across that thread it is largely useless without the images.

It is for that reason that once our site upgrade is complete we will no longer allow the posting of images from Photobucket regardless if the user pays photobuckets monthly ransom.

As a reminder you are always welcome to upload images directly to TheOhio Outdoors. The new version of the site will even have a pretty fancy album structure.

This article gives quite a few alternatives to Photobucket. We are not promoting them and I have not actually used them myself. However if you are looking for an alternative this would be a good place to start.

http://www.topbestalternatives.com/photobucket/

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Do you have an ETA for the rollout of the new layout for the site?
 

MK111

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I guess we should have seen this coming with Photobucket.
14 yrs of free hosting, over 100 million members worldwide.
Now charge a fee to use the system.
I'll be using something different.
I would think looking at their ads was enough payment.
 

Fletch

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I guess we should have seen this coming with Photobucket.
14 yrs of free hosting, over 100 million members worldwide.
Now charge a fee to use the system.
I'll be using something different.
I would think looking at their ads was enough payment.

Ads were getting insane... When I did get in it was like slow motion loading a pic..... Joes linked works great when first creating a thread... BUT... how do you add photos to an existing thread??