Photobucket 3rd party hosting not allowed??

[gordonv]

I get back from InZane, and see my pictures aren't showing. Has a link,

http://photobucket.com/p500/

Go on there, and it seems photobucket wants me to subscribe to have my pictures on their site, and then to link them other places, like here. Followed the link. $399 annually!!!

B*S#! I've been doing this for close to 10 years now. 1st I've even heard we where not suppose to link our pictures to online posts, like forums/ebay.

What pisses me off now, is I have all my pictures in one folder that I have ever posted online, so that the posts will always have the picture to accompany it. This means I would almost never be likely to restore my old posts. Some where how-to.

Has anyone else seen this from photobucket?

Any suggestion of somewhere else to host my pictures at no cost? Maybe on my own service providers website, but that would only last as long as I deal with them.

[Serk]

Here's some alternatives discussed in this thread:

http://www.valkyrieforum.com/bbs/index.php/topic,95790.0.html

[gordonv]

Thanks. I did a search on the 3rd part, but not just photobucket, and I hadn't looked at my computer in over a week with the Valhalla and the InZane Rally, for General Posts and another 150 personal emails.

I tried the imgbox, so far don't like the picture. google looks promising, and will try that next.

[hubcapsc]

Thanks. I did a search on the 3rd part, but not just photobucket, and I hadn't looked at my computer in over a week with the Valhalla and the InZane Rally, for General Posts and another 150 personal emails.

I tried the imgbox, so far don't like the picture. google looks promising, and will try that next.

Google 

They have google photos... here's the icky computer-generated URL from a gif animation I made there:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/SfquiPMzCci1Cae8a1l9wORYpc0dutdFb4f5Jz0E6j21nrw__zgwn9AEH-jafSyTHOXpM55VMZvIRzxc6wzrl1XzgzzF8JbdmeqKgOxqBdlwJQDLJcyWtKLEVMLR90tm6RzK8ud8YYDuKxqtZH5-HNORJ3r-9EOrStK8y18Xgs0iWaf4M7qnnyHr9b02l25VkNIRuf_rEQCvBfg9_e1jRlZfSOFHcYFeKARu_dntHqJ8HTVewDhsfwshdVNSoLOhAZASH02ASvacAyTUwodjfowDmBJQlibb9K7r4dFYMLiNRcs3k_ARwSslS_5D-ZOw-oaawxhbja46051P9hyV6jg26lEENsql6GwQT_TNuGZ8s5ZWAimt9yFjzzT7lB1nigYXEmRrJTs0V1_qrlDVIa5Fup8pQtxb9FrXRtbAx70bsMIqihz5IOwK2hPCcLdNn-ZLbxQD0iOm30QyoWgCQPvhrHpw3RSTWcONWE9mkyt2VBFRpzAir0HMd9A8r1yP8l1SnWEcUg4nt88jEZaOesdl1Mn2SDDEULmJUhMM-UMtQWd7LJXvogbe-_SkKdsL32PbNf-01xk9G1O5NWkyShdGjnLbsLN0mh8a8chieE4nmFbq=w436-h245-no

I mostly use google sites, though... when one of my google sites fills up, I just make another one. I'm on
hubcapsite3 now. On my site, I make web pages for each "topic", and I keep a "misc" web page around
for random pictures. URLs are sane. Organization is easy.

Click on this to see how hubcapsite3 is organized:

https://sites.google.com/site/hubcapsite3/

URLs are sane, you can tell what this is by looking at the URL...

https://sites.google.com/site/hubcapsite3/roan_ride/bridge.jpg

Like all photos posted on this site, whether you do it by typing it out,
clicking on the VRCC "insert image" icon, or some other clicky-magic
provided by your hosting site, URLs turn into pictures in your
post like this:



... turns into this when people view your post:



I like to deal with sane URLs instead of those computer generated ones...

Google sites is open-ended, you can do a whole bunch of things with it,
they intend that you'll be setting up web pages there. I just think of it as
a photo organizing place. I had to fiddle around there some to get the hang
of it, now it is just click-click-click and a whole ride's worth of photos are
on-line, ready for me to include in a post, or an email, or whatever...

I'll bet you a dollar that I'll be dead-and-gone before google is, not so with
photobucket, imagebloop or some other fly-by-night kooks-R-us.com site

-Mike

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

I like the one Serk posted very easy to use.    https://postimages.org/     Still curious if I can get my 350 plus pictures off photobucket . I've got a few but it took forever to go through the song and dance ... They have loaded it down with pop-ups to piss you off when getting the pictures.

[John Schmidt]

Joe, great logo/picture of the Southern Mtn. Riders.  

PS: Here's what I did as an experiment to move stuff off Photobucket. I have a file on my hard drive loosely named BIKE PROJECTS, under which I file just about anything dealing with bikes and put stuff in separate folders within that "projects" file. I opened Photobucket and clicked on "library" so each album was listed down the left side, then choose your album. It should then open that album with all the pics you have in it. Then off to the far right scroll about halfway down to "Actions" and under that is "download album." Click on "download album" and it might take a few minutes(only a few seconds on my trial) and Photobucket will prepare the album for download and shows it going to the "Downloads" section on your computer. I changed that to a new file under my Bike Projects. When PB says the album is ready to download just click on the download box showing on screen. It will proceed to move copies of all those pics off PB into any file you've created to receive them. You now will have your photos on your own hard drive. Sounds long winded but in practice only took a couple minutes.

In my case, all the pics I have in PB came from my hard drive so I'm not losing anything. Did it that way purposely in case PB crapped out on us....which it has. I just did the download as an experiment to see if it was possible as in your case so you didn't lose that history. Give it a try, let us know how it goes.

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Joe, great logo/picture of the Southern Mtn. Riders.  

PS: Here's what I did as an experiment to move stuff off Photobucket. I have a file on my hard drive loosely named BIKE PROJECTS, under which I file just about anything dealing with bikes and put stuff in separate folders within that "projects" file. I opened Photobucket and clicked on "library" so each album was listed down the left side, then choose your album. It should then open that album with all the pics you have in it. Then off to the far right scroll about halfway down to "Actions" and under that is "download album." Click on "download album" and it might take a few minutes(only a few seconds on my trial) and Photobucket will prepare the album for download and shows it going to the "Downloads" section on your computer. I changed that to a new file under my Bike Projects. When PB says the album is ready to download just click on the download box showing on screen. It will proceed to move copies of all those pics off PB into any file you've created to receive them. You now will have your photos on your own hard drive. Sounds long winded but in practice only took a couple minutes.

In my case, all the pics I have in PB came from my hard drive so I'm not losing anything. Did it that way purposely in case PB crapped out on us....which it has. I just did the download as an experiment to see if it was possible as in your case so you didn't lose that history. Give it a try, let us know how it goes.

I'll give that a try later .... Thank you