Alternative to photobucket?

Dennis E. Taylor · Jun 25, 2017

Can anyone recommend an alternative to photobucket, that doesn't so constantly spam you with ads? Photobucket has become literally unusable, since most of the bandwidth is now taken up by ads, and I'm constantly fending off the new html5 popups, which apparently can't be blocked.

MaeZe · Jun 25, 2017

I use IMGUR.

Anna Iguana · Jun 25, 2017

I use Flickr.

AW Admin · Jun 25, 2017

I quite like Flickr. Many people like Google Photos (check the privacy issues). If you're an Amazon Prime user, there's Amazon photos.

Ed_in_Bed · Jun 25, 2017

I'd vote imgur. Photobucket is so slooow. Never had a problem with imgur, and I use it quite often.

Dennis E. Taylor · Jun 25, 2017

Thanks. I'm sure any of the above will be orders of magnitude better than <*mumble*> :Hammer:

Filigree · Jun 25, 2017

Yep, I'm getting ready to switch from Photobucket. I hadn't used it in a year, and it's horrible now.

Stephen Palmer · Jun 26, 2017

Likewise.
Thanks for the Imgur tip!

Melanii · Jun 26, 2017

I use https://postimage.io/

EMaree · Jun 26, 2017

IMGUR over here for uploads, Google Photos for personal pics. Agreed that Photobucket has gone to pot.

Jan74 · Jun 26, 2017

photobucket used to be great but it's been horrible for years now

AW Admin · Jul 3, 2017

An alert member (thank you!) has alerted me to the fact that in addition to being overly ad-driven, Photobucket has stopped supporting hotlinking for free accounts. This means members using Photobucket to link images in posts or sigs will see those images disappear from sigs and posts on AW.

Dennis E. Taylor · Jul 3, 2017

AW Admin said:
An alert member (thank you!) has alerted me to the fact that in addition to being overly ad-driven, Photobucket has stopped supporting hotlinking for free accounts. This means members using Photobucket to link images in posts or sigs will see those images disappear from sigs and posts on AW.

Oh, brilliant. Yeah, that'll increase membership rates. :e2smack:

MaeZe · Jul 3, 2017

The images popping up everywhere saying, upgrade to get 3rd party hosting are like ads saying this service sucks.

I would bet this tactic fails big time and it will set an example: extortion is not a successful way to increase revenues. Photobucket users are going to flee in droves.

mrsmig · Jul 3, 2017

Last week Photobucket changed its terms of service (without notice, I might add) so that in order to hotlink from its site, you must subscribe to the tune of $399.99/year. You ought to have a look at the furor this is causing on Twitter.

I had already upgraded (to their cheapest plan) to avoid the plague of ads and popups on the site, and I'm about to unsubscribe and demand my money back. Right now if you try to access the site, you get a bunch of HTML junk instead of the usual homepage. I think the site is very likely circling the drain.

Good to know there are other alternatives out there.

Filigree · Jul 3, 2017

Ugh. Sorry about my loss of images, folks. I guess I'll spend some time migrating images.

Filigree · Jul 3, 2017

Imgur's TOS seems to be against book covers and other marketing content from a personal website. Hmm. I'll have to think about that.

Noizchild · Jul 12, 2017

Photobucket Has Screwed Up Big Time!

$400 a year just to have your pictures on a 3rd-party hosting site? This is a joke, right?! Nobody wants to pay that much. I bet there are going to be some lawsuits coming!

Helix · Jul 12, 2017

Noizchild said:
$400 a year just to have your pictures on a 3rd-party hosting site? This is a joke, right?! Nobody wants to pay that much. I bet there are going to be some lawsuits coming!

Why would there be lawsuits?

BenPanced · Jul 12, 2017

And I understand there's free will involved so you don't have to pay the fees if you don't have that much content or generate that much traffic or even use the site.

Ambrosia · Jul 12, 2017

They've ticked me off, but whatever. I kept thinking they would come to their senses, but that hasn't happened yet. So maybe not. Eventually I'll find a work around. Take the time to search for another site to use. Maybe. Someday.

Ari Meermans · Jul 12, 2017

There's already a discussion of Photobucket's new paid model in Alternative to Photobucket (which, of course, I had missed). Sooo, now that Google has retired Picasa I'm looking over Imgur tonight. I'll need to get up to speed on it, but I think I'll like it well enough.

Cindyt · Jul 13, 2017

If you have a regular website, you can host your own images. That's what I do. When I want to use one I click over, copy the location, and put the URL in the image box. You can fix it up for public visitors, if you want or keep it private.

AW Admin · Jul 13, 2017

Noizchild said:
$400 a year just to have your pictures on a 3rd-party hosting site? This is a joke, right?! Nobody wants to pay that much. I bet there are going to be some lawsuits coming!

Get over it. It was free for years, with a really low subscription fee; people wanted free.

People objected to ads.

Running a site is expensive.

mrsmig · Jul 13, 2017

I totally get that. And as I mentioned above, I'd already upgraded to the "ad free" version. The site was still glitchy as hell (still is).

I think the issue is that they changed their TOS and added the hefty price increase without notice.

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