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Photobucket no longer allows 3rd party hosting without having a paid account at the $400 a year level. :/

Um. No. I don't have that kind of cash to lay out for fandom stuff that doesn't involve getting a hug from Sebastian Stan, and I don't really have money for that, either.

So, sadly, all the Aragorn-a-day posts made from photobucket are now just ugly placeholders advertising Photobucket, as are a few miscellaneous other photo posts and my DW journal header (which I was going to change anyway).

I haven't lost the photos... they're still stored on PB plus I have them backed up on a thumb drive. I guess I'll slowly go through my Aragorn-a-days and... delete? I hate losing all the comments, though none of them make sense without the corresponding photo. Thoughts?

Just another reminder that Things Change on the Internet, and often not for the better. :(

Date: 2017-07-14 08:26 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] claudia603.livejournal.com
Ugh!!!!! *yells in frustration with you*

I love how there appeared to be no warning for it, especially for those who don't have photos backed up anywhere else!

Date: 2017-07-14 08:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mikononyte.livejournal.com
They did but it was hidden deep in the last update and no one could possibly find it. :(

Date: 2017-07-14 08:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cairistiona7.livejournal.com
If one were to be a conspiracy theorist, one would wonder if all the glitches that made PB nearly impossible to access was by design so no one would even be able to look for the notification. :/

Date: 2017-07-14 08:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cairistiona7.livejournal.com
Yeah, it was very piss poor customer service. >:( The only thing keeping me from really howling is that the didn't delete my photos from their storage... they're all still there and I can download them and move them elsewhere eventually.

Date: 2017-07-14 08:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mikononyte.livejournal.com
Rubyelf had a head's up about that a week ago. I moved all mine yesterday finally.

I'd not get rid of them sweetie. We may not have the photos but honestly which of us cannot recall, just from words, what photo it was.

Up to you of course. I seriously thought of uploading what I had done to flickr or somewhat and re-connecting, but honestly to damned much work!

I thought you had read comments about this but I guess not. Sorry. Can you at least download the folders? Be warned though, the bigger the file the more likely to bomb out. I had to split my blogged photos into 3 sets. Pain in the butt!

Date: 2017-07-14 08:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cairistiona7.livejournal.com
That's a good point... anyone who does bother to go looking through the comments can remember what the photo was of.

I saw your post about looking for a new photo hosting service but I didn't make the connection that it was because PB was discontinuing 3rd party hosting... I thought you were just fed up with PB's continuing lack of functionality.

I have all the Aragorn photos on a thumb drive... I might go through and download some of the other photos and put them in dropbox. I might also look into the paid version of dropbox, if nothing else just to give that site my money as a "stick a thumb in your eye" to photobucket!

Date: 2017-07-14 11:05 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] epiphyta
I know that [livejournal.com profile] slaymesoftly was dealing with this; she might have written something useful about salvage/restoration?

Date: 2017-07-15 01:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cairistiona7.livejournal.com
I looked through some of the comments and didn't see anything especially helpful, but I'll keep lurking over there.

I'm not going to delete my photobucket account yet, because I have a feeling that, unless they're truly idiotic, the massive ire from all corners of the Internet (including Amazon and Ebay, where many images of items for sale are now broken) may make them roll back this idiotic decision. I really can see where a class-action lawsuit might not be out of the question with this... especially given that it's affecting people selling actual merchandise. It's affecting people's livelihoods and that's never a good thing.

Date: 2017-07-15 09:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elwenlj.livejournal.com
I empathise. I lost a whole slew of personal photo's when Hotmail changed a setting on its paid site some years back.

Date: 2017-07-15 01:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cairistiona7.livejournal.com
Frustrating, to say the very least.

Date: 2017-07-15 12:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrowe.livejournal.com
Oh, urgh:-\

I'd not delete the posts; there are some gems out there, even without the picture there

Date: 2017-07-15 01:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cairistiona7.livejournal.com
If I do ever bother to go back and adjust and/or delete, it won't be any time soon. I'm downloading all my PB albums as a precaution but leaving them up on the very off chance PB has a change of heart and grandfathers in 99% of its users and restores linkage. But honestly, I have a feeling the whole site will go belly up and disappear, probably sooner rather than later. I already have backups of the photos, or at least most of them, but downloading the albums at least keeps them in the same grouping.

Now to decide on a new 3rd party hosting site. I'm leaning toward imgur, but I might look into flickr as well. I wish DW had photo storage. Then I'd just upload things there and be done with it.

Date: 2017-07-15 01:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nefhiriel.livejournal.com
Arghhh, so frustrating! I understand that websites need to make a buck off their services, but some companies do it really well - baiting people over to upgrades with carrots, rather than beating people with sticks. :P

And then there are those companies that just spring awful updates upon you, figuratively pulling the rug out from under you.

*headdesk*

But I would definitely concur with everyone encouraging you not to delete any posts because of it. ;)

Date: 2017-07-15 07:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cairistiona7.livejournal.com
PB has really managed to royally piss off every single customer and a lot of people who aren't customers but who enjoy blogs and forums with photos on them. :/ Their FB page has thousands of comments complaining.

I really would have considered paying $5 or $10 a month, *if* they'd included 3rd party hosting and *if* they'd given everyone advanced notice, and *if* they'd not required the entire year's payment up front. But given how squirrely their website is and how hard it is to navigate, and how atrocious the pop-up ads are... nope. I was only there for the linkage and no reason to stay now, other than I'll likely keep my photos on there just as a backup.

So I'm spending all the odd moments of my weekend downloading all my photos to upload elsewhere. And then I'll have the same thing to do again with dropbox, most likely. Oh well, too hot to do anything outside anyway.

Date: 2017-07-25 08:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] layne67.livejournal.com
It's beyond annoying, this Photobucket business. Now if they were to say from now onwards, you can no longer link from their site, that's not so bad but for them to break the links of our old pictures ... grrrrrrr.

My LJ page is so very ugly now :((

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