Photobucket ruining this site

[toolboxchev]

I am sure this has been mentioned before but I just noticed some threads over the fact section of bodywork have been jacked.

The kind folks whom have contributed to the well being of this site, encouragement of future generations into the hobby, and passing of knowledge from their own hard working hands is being ruined by photobuckets new policies.

It seems that they think they can try and capture other technologies and charge the givers of the wealth and ruin what the original posters had intended.

I find this theft in that aspect. What a crappy manipulation they are. I tried to contact them and convey that what they are doing is not in their best interest. Nope, no contact form, customer service, nothing.

Maybe the mods will help out and contact the original posters of all the photobucket threads, and photobucket themselves and get something done.

It really seems like plagiarism of some sort.

[franken]

Lol.

[dmjlambert]

1. it would be best if people didn't upload their pictures to photobucket and then when they post here, create a link to their photobucket picture. Just upload the pictures to the forum instead.
2. Forum members who are not deceased could download their pictures from their photo bucket site, where they have full access, and then edit their posts here on this site to upload the photos here. But that would require everybody who has used photobucket to be interested in that. Since they can see their own photos just fine, there is little motivation. I have gone back and done that will all the posts I have made that used photobucket pictures, as soon as photobucket messed things up, but I only had a handful of those.
3. There is a workaround, for each individual wishing to view the posts and see the pictures, they could use the Chrome web browser and an add-in for Chrome called "Photobucket Hotlink Fix" that allows the photobucket pictures to be visible. This doesn't work well for me, because I use Safari as my web browser and do not care to use Chrome. So I usually ignore the posts with broken pictures. If I feel a burning need to view a post, I will go into Chrome, but it is rare that I do that.
4. Using the same programming techniques from that Chrome add-in, an Admin on this forum could write a program to automatically go through all the posts and do a one-time download or scrape of all affected pictures, re-upload of the pictures to this site or to some other site such as imgur.com, and edit the original post, to permanently correct the problem in one sweep. But I think it would take superior programming skills to do that. This could be further enhanced by altering the forum to disallow new links to photobucket pictures. I would like to see that happen, and if I had the programming skills I would volunteer, write the program, and do the sweep once and for all, and divorce this site from photobucket.

I think instead of plagiarism it is best described as photobucket holding the pictures hostage and demanding ransom. They did this through a change in their policy that they find attractive. Perhaps they increased their revenue, or they are making a desperate attempt to stay afloat.

[BlouDon]

Dropbox did something similar. I also posted my pics to DB and then linked them to my forum submissions. And then DB pulled the ability to do so. Much of my internet tech contribution ruined.

Lesson: Post pics to forum where they are to be seen, nowhere else.

[special-K]

There is no way that hindsight at this time can help what happened in the past. Photobucket was a "free picture hosting site" that the administrators here suggested we use when I first got on this site and knew nothing better about where and how to store pictures. Photobucket had premium pay accounts available that cut the ads out and gave unlimited storage, along with other perks. Then, after all these years and thousands of MY pictures stored on THEIR site, they pull the rug out from under all of us by going 100% pay accounts. I have pictures stored there since '04 and even for me to go view my own pictures is such a pain, with constant pop-ups, I haven't been there in over a year. It is like Clockwork Orange torture, if you are familiar with that movie where they hold the guy's head, hold his eyes open and force him to watch constant violence on a movie screen for hours. I tried saving my pictures back to my folders. It appeared to work as usually, but going back to view they were blocked.

I wonder if I subscribe whether I could save them to my folders. Then, once I have them all saved into my computer, drop the subscription or just not renew because the transfer will take a lot of time. There was some big deal about subscribing by a deadline when they switched to 100% pay. So I don't know if that meant my pics were permanently locked there after that deadline. Or only unlocked with a current subscription. I don't know and to tell the truth this whole thing burns my hiney so bad it's hard to stay on the topic without getting violent urges against P-bucket.

That's the thing with them that is a thing I hate about the internet. Where the heck are they? Who are they? Ok, they are a website. Where are they located? On the internet. How do I contact them? Internet. I don't know, but if I'm giving money to someone they could let me know their address and phone number. I had issues on the site where I needed assistance. The only option for help and answers to questions is their help feature with standardized questions. How are these internet-only businesses, that can't even tell you what part of the country they are in, any different from the guy on the street corner selling watched from under his cloak?

[54blackhornet]

Amen ! The TNF site “ The Nostalgia Forum” was ruined by this garbage. Decades of contributions removed, post useless without them.

[LockDoc]

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I don't know if anyone has tried saving their images on PB by RIGHT clicking on the image when they have access to it and it is up on the screen, and when the box pops up click on "Save Image As". A box should then pop up that shows your computer that says "save image" at the very top of the window. You have to pay attention to where it is saving the image and the file name it has in the two windows for that. (see image below). After you have checked out those two items click on the "SAVE" button at the bottom of that screen. That should save the image to your computer.

Another way to do it is to use the Windows "Snipping Tool". I think it is an accessory in most versions of windows. It will copy and save any image on the screen. Here are the instructions for Windows 7 - 10. (Scroll down for the older versions of Windows)

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...re-screenshots

Once you use it a couple of times you will find it is really easy and quick to save anything on the screen.

The image below was saved with the Snipping Tool and I have noted in Red text the two items that you need to write down or change, the location of the saved file, and the name of the saved file.

Don't know if this will help anyone but if it does let me know and I will make a stand alone thread on it.

LockDoc

[The Rocknrod]

Or you can become a paying member and save your pics on site.

[1976gmc20]

Just upload the pictures to the forum instead.

How does one do that ??? All I can ever get is a popup that asks for a URL, no "browse" to a folder option. Maybe one has to be a special paid member or something?

I don't host my private pictures anywhere.

[kipps]

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

How does one do that ??? All I can ever get is a popup that asks for a URL, no "browse" to a folder option. Maybe one has to be a special paid member or something?

I don't host my private pictures anywhere.

Don't use the "quick reply" box at the bottom of the thread. Instead, click on the "go advanced" button right below that box.

This will bring up a more in-depth reply window, including a button labeled "Manage Attachments."

If you click that, it pops up another window, that allows you to browse for files. After you've designated which files to attach, you click the "upload" button, and close the window.

When you click "submit reply", the pics should be included in the post.

Go ahead. Try it here. Now.

[1976gmc20]

Thanks!

[KQQL IT]

I have several thousand pics on photobucket and a paying member and pics are gone.
I struggle even saving my own pics.
Photobucket is junk

[richard2717]

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

How does one do that ??? All I can ever get is a popup that asks for a URL, no "browse" to a folder option. Maybe one has to be a special paid member or something?

I don't host my private pictures anywhere.

here is a detailed description

.https://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/...d.php?t=712252

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[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by richard2717

here is a detailed description

.https://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/...d.php?t=712252

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"at least 2 characters"

[Killer Bee]

Originally Posted by BlouDon

Dropbox did something similar. I also posted my pics to DB and then linked them to my forum submissions. And then DB pulled the ability to do so. Much of my internet tech contribution ruined.

Lesson: Post pics to forum where they are to be seen, nowhere else.

??? had a completely free dropbox account for several years and never a glitch of any kind..

what exactly are you referring to that dropbox changed?

here's a picture uploaded 5 years ago;

* btw, 1971 Ruger 10/22 Sporter (finger groove) NIB



and here's a picture uploaded this morning;

[special-K]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

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I don't know if anyone has tried saving their images on PB by RIGHT clicking on the image when they have access to it and it is up on the screen, and when the box pops up click on "Save Image As". A box should then pop up that shows your computer that says "save image" at the very top of the window. You have to pay attention to where it is saving the image and the file name it has in the two windows for that. (see image below). After you have checked out those two items click on the "SAVE" button at the bottom of that screen. That should save the image to your computer.

LockDoc

This is what I had no problem doing before the siege. Since pictures 'were' stored safely on Photobucket, when a laptop would crash I could right click/save them to my folders in my new computer. Since the siege I put some time into doing that, did complete folders, only to have them be locked or something. It's been a while. I'll get up the nerve and go try it again to refresh my memory. But I know it's going to be a painfully frustrating experience.

I'm wondering if my pictures will be restored in the threads if I do subscribe and if I can right click save them to my computer and have them remain after cancelling

I think it's wrong, criminally wrong, that Photobucket would make all pictures shared during the time no subscription was required unviewable. That's going back on a handshake in my view of the world. That is corrupt and a total breach of trust. I can see making third party sharing only possible with a subscription from the day of the change forward. We wouldn't be having this conversation. I would have been disappointed that I needed to find a new place to host and share pictures but I wouldn't be so upset a want to hurt somebody!

[1976gmc20]

Sure, Tim - you can park your pickup at my place for as long as you want for free, but you can't have it back.


Isn't that about what photosuckit is doing ???

[FleetsidePaul]

Picture kidnappers. Pay the ransom and you get your pictures back.

[67ChevyRedneck]

I've never hosted pics through dropbox, but I did get a notification that my "free storage" was going to go from 20 GB to 3GB.

I use it for work all the time (CAD and some PDF files are too large for email), so I use dropbox. I had to clean out a ton of old files in order for it to be usable again.

[Killer Bee]

I'm still barely scratching the surface of my freebie account..

it's 100% FREE, and NO ads or annoyances of any kind in the years I've used it..

no secret I post a LOT of pictures, all from this dropbox..

and I have lots and lots of pictures in there, matter of fact, without regard for space so far..

I take pictures in high res and shrink to 640x480 in photosizer app..

resized files go in dropbox for forum posting, full size automatically back up in free google account..

important pictures get backed up on external harddrive on pc..

guess there's a lot of ways, but this has worked just peachy for me

[Tom]

Don't expect free stuff to be free forever and you won't be so disappointed anymore. Interesting this upsets someone who also hasn't paid this site for its free services.

[dmjlambert]

Originally Posted by special-K

I'm wondering if my pictures will be restored in the threads if I do subscribe and if I can right click save them to my computer and have them remain after cancelling

If you primarily used photobucket for posting to this site, and you can find the posts where you posted pictures, I believe you can simply use the Chrome web browser with the "Photobucket Hotlink Fix" extension, and go view your pictures in the posts and right click and save them to your computer. Then edit the posts in the forum to save the pictures as part of the post instead of linking to photobucket if you want to for the benefit of everybody else being able to see the valuable information you've posted.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Tom

Don't expect free stuff to be free forever and you won't be so disappointed anymore. Interesting this upsets someone who also hasn't paid this site for its free services.

The internet is like the free papers they toss in my driveway. It's about advertising. The publisher of that paper brings in enough from advertisers to run the paper, pay to have them distributed, and make a profit

[YBNORML]

I’d like to see the forum stop, ban or block photoshop links. It is completely inevitable that the threads will be ruined if photoshop links are used to post pics.

[bloo]

Don't use Photobucket for anything, ever, period. This is at least the second time they have tried to ransom the entire Internet. Imgur.com seems to be the best choice for offsite hosting right now, or you could just upload pictures to the forum.