Photobucket no longer allows hotlinking from free accounts...

[Strandperle]

I was spared until now, but now my collection website is broken too. Have to upload every single photo again somewhere else... oh my.

[Duenia]

Mine worked until today - linked a new image for the first time in quite awhile (I haven't had time to pick a new host) and boom.

[Taffeta]

Still getting emails from them telling me that my account will have features disabled or whatever. It's too buggy a site for me to try and delete everything so they are welcome to do it for me at this point. I don't have anything else I need to save.

But I love that in this "we are restricting your account, pay us money" email they tell you they are the world's number one 3rd party hosting site.

I think that's before they started shutting down many of the accounts using it because of this, but anyhow...

So weird how inconsistent this shutting down process is, because I don't know why I've had the emails twice and I haven't even checked if my images are or are not affected :/

[lostpony]

I don't think they've ever been #1 at hosting.  They're clearly a foto printing business and their focus has never been the hosting.  They added commercials for ad revenue as a secondary business when it was clear that their platform was being used for free web hosting by lots of people, and they should have stuck with that.

Unless they mean #1 most hated, that could be true now.

[sailorstitch]

Unless they mean #1 most hated, that could be true now.

 

[Ringlets]

Unless they mean #1 most hated, that could be true now.

 

this so much!!         

[Hannah66665]

It's really sad seeing so many broken pages all over the internet now... some that are maybe even a decade old and there's no way to fix them because the original posters have moved on to other things... and so many old sites will be broken too. 

[tulagirl]

I just closed my Photodunkit account today.  They finally hit me and I only had 17 photos shared in various places.  I am glad to be done with them.  It takes an hour to do something on that site that should take 5 minutes because the ads take up the entire screen.  Epic failure on their part.

[Ponyfan]

Still getting emails from them telling me that my account will have features disabled or whatever. It's too buggy a site for me to try and delete everything so they are welcome to do it for me at this point. I don't have anything else I need to save.

But I love that in this "we are restricting your account, pay us money" email they tell you they are the world's number one 3rd party hosting site.

I think that's before they started shutting down many of the accounts using it because of this, but anyhow...

So weird how inconsistent this shutting down process is, because I don't know why I've had the emails twice and I haven't even checked if my images are or are not affected :/

I keep getting those emails too about once a week since I tried to log in to delete my account.

Ponyfan

[QuestorStar]

WOW I was wondering why I kept seeing so many of those 'please enable third party hosting" images in people's signatures. wow. I don't know if I've gotten any emails from them. I have 2 email addresses and one is a "catch all" and it recently had 500+ unread emails. I love the features Photobucket has...editing within the site, the ability to quickly rotate multiple pictures, how they format urls for you...but yea, I logged in recently after being gone a few years and holy pony! ads, ads, ads on top of ads...like....is photobucket taking lessons about ad pop ups from porn sites?? O.O fo' real.

I never figured out flikr either. They were not friendly for uploading multiple pictures and easily sharing quickly. Am about to look into Imgur.

I could not get anything to download through Photobucket. I click "Download" and literally nothing happens. I tried it with several folders. I'm using Windows10 and Chrome

[lostpony]

I didnt know how to use download when this first happened and stayed up most of a night using right-click save image as from library view. I had 577 images.

Flickr works easy for single images so if you find a good solution for larger volumes please be sure to let us know here, thanks so much!

[Kiwi]

I still haven't had any emails from Photobucket. I did save my photos though, just so they are backed up. I didn't really use my Photobucket much anymore anyways, so that's good.

[The_Loner]

I never figured out flikr either. They were not friendly for uploading multiple pictures and easily sharing quickly. Am about to look into Imgur.

Flickr works easy for single images so if you find a good solution for larger volumes please be sure to let us know here, thanks so much!

You can uplodad 200 pictures at a time to your Flickr account, just a FYI

[lostpony]

Good to know, The_Loner.

While Flickr is linked to a Yahoo account, it does allow me to have my regular email account open while still being logged into my pony yahoo account for flickr.  So it's more flexible than google accounts that way.

So far Flickr is quite satisfactory for me and much quicker and easier than using the clunky ad-soaked photobum interface was.

I hope they switch out that ugly gauge with something more attractive because I think we are going to see their image in a lot of places around the Internet for a long long time.  Maybe a gold coin or the Monopoly man or something?  Ugh I hope they don't sell the space to Trump and put his picture there instead...eeeeeeeeeeeks.

[Duenia]

Is there an easy way to get the src URL for a picture on Flickr without having to extract it from the embed code? I didn't notice one when I was in there the other day.