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:

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

Regards,

Aharon

TBH, I have never been able to see anyones images hosted on Photobucket. Over the years I have found it far to tedious to even try and solve the issue.

If I see Photobucket hosted links to images on forum Screenshots threads I know it's not even worth trying to see them. As Chock said, the page will display copious amounts of ads and the like but no actual users image.

Shame but there you go.

 

1 hour ago, Aharon said:

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

I'm not surprised, but I am also not particularly sympathetic. If you're using a product that you're not paying for, then you really have no control over your assets and how (if) they are served. I'm even less sympathetic if a VA does it.

At the very least, just get an AWS account and stuff everything in an S3 bucket. It's dirt cheap, reliable and you control the data.

Cheers!

Luke

Hi

I've never used photobucket or another such service to host screenshots. But I get it, that anyone using photobucket might be pretty upset now.

There's no lack of alternatives, but I decided to add yet another one for anyone who's interested. I've set up https://sharescreenshots.com primarily for simmers. It's free and so far experimental. Feel free to try it out and let me know if it's useful.

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Roman

Back in the day, PB put the squeeze on its users and I paid them for a (fairly reasonably priced) upgrade for a year. I see the linked images are now gone, too. I suspect the greedy ones might have forgotten their own terms of service for that period. Reminds me of one of the recent ransomware exploits, actually. I wonder if the Internet will revolt and hack their picture base in return.

4 hours ago, Luke said:

At the very least, just get an AWS account and stuff everything in an S3 bucket. It's dirt cheap, reliable and you control the data.

This no doubt will vaporise in due course, too, leading to the question: where shall I store my Precious Pictures Forever?

Meanwhile I am happy with Imageshack as it has a usable and forum-friendly interface.

 

 

1 hour ago, WingZ said:

This no doubt will vaporise in due course, too, leading to the question: where shall I store my Precious Pictures Forever?

I am pretty confident that S3 will outlive me and you, but the bigger point is that you're paying for storage, and using the same services and APIs as people and organizations who spend millions a year with Amazon. That's the advantage - your interests are aligned with people who have a lot more clout and who can ensure that your little photo stream survives.

If the service is free, you are the product.

Cheers!

Luke

4 minutes ago, Luke said:

I am pretty confident that S3 will outlive me and you, but the bigger point is that you're paying for storage, and using the same services and APIs as people and organizations who spend millions a year with Amazon. That's the advantage - your interests are aligned with people who have a lot more clout and who can ensure that your little photo stream survives.

If the service is free, you are the product.

Agreed. I know that not everyone can afford paid hosting, but I'll bet many are just taking advantage of "free" (with strings attached) when they could afford a small site hosting bill. We're all presumably paying for our Internet access anyway, it's just a small amount on top of that.

I've maintained a personal web site for years on hostgator. It's mainly just for some POP3 accounts, but there is enough web storage and bandwidth allowance to stash images I want to insert on various forums. It isn't a "forever" solution... I won't be around forever to continue paying the monthly, and hostgator might go under eventually. AWS is probably a better near-term bet. But at least I'm not hassled with ads, and nobody clicking an image link is hassled with ads. 

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.

Regards,

Aharon

Can also recommend http://abload.de - Used it for years. Free, no nonsense site, allows direct linking, can also resize your pictures during upload, creation of galleries etc. It's only in German but once you've learned what the few buttons do, it shouldn't be a problem. Most browsers have some form of real-time translations too I reckon. 

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

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.

Regards,

Aharon

Hi Folks,

Freak'n wonderful - used them for year - posted tons of images - including detailed tutorials - all rendered worthless... Won't ever use them again for anything - ever - since I have to go through the pain - I'll buy a disk array and host them myself from now on...

Regards,

Scott

Scott,

Yikes Sorry to hear that.  Millions of my screenshots from past 10 years also have gone up in smoke no thanks to Photobucket.

Regards,

Aharon

Add me to to list of people who now find PhotoF**kit to be more trouble than it's worth. It's slow and the interface is overcrowded to the point that I have often not bothered putting up screenshots just to avoid dealing with it. This is the push I needed to finally walk away. 

It's too bad we cannot publish a google drive image... it will show on the preview, but not in the post. 

 

Dick