Photobucket no longer allows hotlinking from free accounts...

[Mirnyj]

Boo photobucket. I never liked it to begin with.
Moving this to OT

[JazzMatazz]

well good thing I said good riddance to them ages ago. I don't think I'm attached to anything I had on there. their site has so many pop ups it was worthless to use when there are better sites now like imgur.

[Luxrayx]

Oh, wow. I can't view my library, although it could just be my slow wifi.
Good thing I didn't have anything important on there... Right?

[Carrehz]

For anyone else trying to save their pics - here's a quick way of doing it:

Go onto your library. On the right side there should be a link that says "Download album", click on this and after going through the whole "are you a robot" process, you'll be given a link to a .zip file of all your pics. (the more pics you have to download, the longer it'll take to create a .zip file of them)
Two things: you'll need to do this for each folder you have, and this method of downloading does NOT include videos or animated .gifs (non-animated gifs *are* included in the .zip file), you WILL have to download those manually.

I hope this helps!! This is just awful I'm trying to get stuff off there as quickly as possible - tough since I had a lot of stuff on there.. I'd mostly swapped to using my own site to host pics, but I was still using PB for older pics I'd already uploaded there and whatnot. Plus it was just nice to have a backup option, you know? I really can't believe they're doing this. I hope everyone can save their pics before it's too late!!

*edit: If your pics have been taken down and replaced with the "no third party linking" image - here's how to get them back*

[Harmonie]

Ugh. I have pictures up there from 2005. Pictures that only exist there and on old PCs that probably don't even work anymore.

I don't even know where to begin.

[Chrissytree]

The page is barely working for me. It's all broken up except for the adverts. I did get into my album for a bit but nothing was happening when I tried to download the album. Wondering if the site is slow with everyone trying to save their pics. I've got less than 1000 pics in there but some aren't stored anywhere else.

[lovesbabysquirmy]

Good grief it took far far far too long to figure out how to upload and share with Flickr!  Good news though, if you already have  a Yahoo account, you also have a Flickr! 

[sailorstitch]

I opened an account with Drop Box. How do I embed the pictures into a message board? Or can I?

sailorstitch

[Baby Sugarberry]

Put your picture in your Dropbox folder.
Right click on it, choose 'Copy Dropbox Link'
Bam, you have a URL.  Put it in [] img tags the way you'd normally do.  There's a button for it on this forum and most others to make it easier.

[sailorstitch]

Not as easy as PB was..... But I'll give it a try. Thanks!

[Icicle]

Aw crap. I had stuff come up when trying to download my albums and the links expired and now the stupid site doesn't work, I really hope I don't have to save up to get my own dang images. I really shouldn't considering, but I have important pictures on there that I'd like to have backed up in case I can't find them on my hard drives (like the picture of my mother, who passed away over a decade ago, and I only have the one picture of).

Like, I hadn't used Photobucket in a while because I didn't like the direction it was going, but the principle of the thing and them being my images and all. Right now I use imgur and have for a few years, works pretty well for what it is and has shorter URLs which I personally like a lot.

[Loona]

The page is barely working for me. It's all broken up except for the adverts. I did get into my album for a bit but nothing was happening when I tried to download the album. Wondering if the site is slow with everyone trying to save their pics. I've got less than 1000 pics in there but some aren't stored anywhere else.

I was also wondering if it's because so many people are trying to rescue their stuff from there now...
I haven't yet been hit by the overwritten pictures yet, so I wanted to proactively go through my account and download everything, but I can't even log in, it just makes me wait - until the connection times out.

[Tropical_Sunset]

I used Photobucket for all of my hosting too.  I've been trying in vain all morning to get my icon to work.  I used imgbox to download it but it just shows up as a broken link. 

Same for flickr. I have a huge headache right now from all of this.  I really don't know what to do.

With flickr I'm going to "share" and copying the link that's provided afterwards but it does not work.

[Hannah66665]

I've never used flickr but I think I'll be sticking with imgur.
It took me several tries to download my albums on photobucket. Sometimes it would let me download an album of 500 pictures in less than two minutes... other times I'd wait ten minutes and nothing happened and so I'd just try again and again.

[frizzycat]

I used Photobucket for all of my hosting too.  I've been trying in vain all morning to get my icon to work.  I used imgbox to download it but it just shows up as a broken link. 

Same for flickr. I have a huge headache right now from all of this.  I really don't know what to do.

With flickr I'm going to "share" and copying the link that's provided afterwards but it does not work.

I use Flickr a lot, so maybe I can help? Where are you trying to share to? There are several link options provided after you press the 'share icon'. If you're posting to the forum, after clicking on the share icon, click on BBCode on the pop up and use that link. There will be a variety of sizes for you to choose from too.