Steph Posted July 3, 2017 Report Share Posted July 3, 2017 Can you see this? It's hosted at Photobucket. I'm noticing some Photobucket pictures disappearing and some still here ... for now. I _wanted_ to start a thread about Indian Blankets and other marbles where purists have strict definitions but others may let more marbles into that name. But now I just want to know if you can still _see_ the marbles ... whatever they're called. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted July 3, 2017 Report Share Posted July 3, 2017 I see it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2017 My main marble account seems still to be in the clear. My general purpose account is a goner. For example:http://marbleconnection.com/topic/15429-lolcats-and-other-critters/?do=findComment&comment=133120 Now I'm in limbo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted July 3, 2017 Report Share Posted July 3, 2017 Boy, that sucks. Photobucket did not have any kind of back-up itself? What do they say is the reason? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2017 They're not missing. You can still see them in the albums if you can get past the avalanche of ads and glitchy page-loading. But photobucket says it will cost $400 a year in order to be allowed to post photos directly into threads such as this. $10 a month will supposedly free you from the new obnoxious ads. But it won't be enough to give you the ability to post your images on other sites. https://petapixel.com/2017/07/01/photobucket-just-broke-billions-photos-embedded-web/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'llhavethat1 Posted July 3, 2017 Report Share Posted July 3, 2017 yeah, ironic that when the performance of the site really slowed down from ads, the pop-ups for ad-free memberships appeared Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mibcapper Posted July 4, 2017 Report Share Posted July 4, 2017 ......... my solution ... deleted p.b. ............. ....... other sites .... bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2017 ya. I've been using pinterest today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese Posted July 4, 2017 Report Share Posted July 4, 2017 I thought it was really poor character of them to hold all our links that are intertwined throughout years of threads and discussions for ransom... pay $400 or lose all your content in archived threads and everywhere. Classless and greedy. They will not make another dime from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted July 4, 2017 Report Share Posted July 4, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted July 4, 2017 Report Share Posted July 4, 2017 Strange,nothing has changed with my photobucket. I thought they earned enough of the advertisements? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2017 Apparently they don't think they earn enough. I guess too many people were ignoring or blocking the ads. But they sure have gone overboard in response. Was no compromise possible? I still have mine on one account ... it's showing in the OP. But one of my accounts is gone. And Chuck's account is gone. So now I am worried about how long my good account will work, and so I don't want to add more photos to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted July 7, 2017 Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 Been using Imageshack for a while now. Easy and free so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryG Posted July 11, 2017 Report Share Posted July 11, 2017 They're pissing a lot of folks off. Amazon, Etsy and Ebay users are up in arms. See how long they resist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoody Posted July 13, 2017 Report Share Posted July 13, 2017 Hi, I learned here in this forum on photobucket when looking for a place to 'park' my pics on the web. Things worked for a couple of weeks and then refused. So I cursed on it, scraped my account there and started using imgur.com. Handling pics and navigating mine is not super-intuitive there but it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2017 Got an email warning saying that the account hosting the Akros above will be affected soon too. Apparently it takes time to make 15 billion photos useless. But they're working on it. (15 billion is how many they say they have.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migbar Posted July 20, 2017 Report Share Posted July 20, 2017 I deleted my entire Photobucket account a few days ago, so all my pictures here from the last ten years may disappear soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2017 They turned into a p-i-the-a practically overnight, didn't they. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 Does anyone else see this 7/8" Alley? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted July 30, 2017 Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 My account will be deleted too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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