Photo bucket just committed suicide

[2kool4skool]

I don't see any difference in my plus 20 acct. Price is 34.99 yr. Price went up but what hasn't.

[Nomadiana]

Why would you need PhotoBucket (which was always sucky) when you can create albums here at skoolie.net?

And there's always Google Photos.

[EastCoastCB]

Photobucket were probably on the way out anyway. This is just a last "cash grab".

[cadillackid]

EC - do my pics still show up in my threads? reason I ask is i have an OLD paid version of photobucket.. so my pics always show up to myself.. i need a 3rd person to see if they show up or dont.. if they do, ill keep my OLD paid account.. its $20 a year and isnt offered anymore...
-Christopher

[EastCoastCB]

Originally Posted by cadillackid

EC - do my pics still show up in my threads? reason I ask is i have an OLD paid version of photobucket.. so my pics always show up to myself.. i need a 3rd person to see if they show up or dont.. if they do, ill keep my OLD paid account.. its $20 a year and isnt offered anymore...
-Christopher

I just quickly went through a thread of yours and the pics show up fine.

[cadillackid]

so it appears that if people were lucky enough to get on the old $20 a year plan then links still work... will be interesting to see if after the year expires so does the poman or if its forever and grandfathered as long it doesnt lapse.
-Christopher

[Tootalltechie]

I just tried to search some of natster's posts and most of his images have been changed to some photo bucket crap begging for funds.

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[wunderhut]

Originally Posted by EastCoastCB

Awww that's too bad. poor lil guy.

[Njsurf73]

Originally Posted by Tootalltechie

I just tried to search some of natster's posts and most of his images have been changed to some photo bucket crap begging for funds.

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That stinks. Nats posts are really good.

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[WanderWoman]

I found uploading to this forum via Tapatalk is super simple. I add to a message directly from my phone's photo album. It's like uploading a pic to facebook. Easy peasy

[Tootalltechie]

Originally Posted by WanderWoman

I found uploading to this forum via Tapatalk is super simple. I add to a message directly from my phone's photo album. It's like uploading a pic to facebook. Easy peasy

Totally agree but I think there is a limit.

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[Elliot Naess]

What would I need to be self-sufficient -- to host my pictures myself? A "server"?

[Mark_In_MA]

Originally Posted by Elliot Naess

What would I need to be self-sufficient -- to host my pictures myself? A "server"?

To host your own photos on your own website would run you about $9 per month.

You would need two things (which you can usually buy as a package from any number of providers) :

1. A web hosting package. Essentially, you're buying digital space on someone elses web server. You can upload whatever you want - just a folder of photos, an actual website, whatever.

2. A domain name / web address-the "Www._______.com" part. You register the domain name - so when you type in Skoolie.net, the computers that run the internet direct you to the folder on the server where Skoolie.net is posted.

If you're just hosting photos, you don't even need an actual web page - you just upload a folder, and upload the photos you want to host to it. Copy and paste the link to the photo, and you can share it. You're stuck with the domain name you choose the first time (because the links will forever have it in them), but you can move/change hosting companies in the future. (The advantage here is that you create the link to the photo once, and it will pretty much stay available forever, as long as you keep paying someone to host it.)

You would have to re-upload and re-link ALL the photos you've ever uploaded to photobucket, in each and every forum post.

Photobucket wanting $400 is NUTS.

There's Flickr, which is free (for now anyways. . . .)

I can copy a forum link to pictures and embed it here, or I can copy and paste a text link.

IMG_1912 by Mark Sylvester, on Flickr

Google photos is also an option, and is also free, as is Imigur and probably a few others.

[cadillackid]

Originally Posted by Elliot Naess

What would I need to be self-sufficient -- to host my pictures myself? A "server"?

and an ISP that doesnt cap on data limits.. Web crawlers eat up a ton of bandwidth as they are bots or compiuter programs that go out and read web sites, sometimes every file, I dont think this forum blocks them so every photo you link to is going to get read a bunch of times.

I used to host my own photos on forums years ago.. it was a PITA making sure my front end router was capable of warding off DOS attacks, and hackers just trying to gain exploit to my apache machine, etc..

while I still have a big Server at homne I no longer host my photos..

evidently people still do read old forums.. we see it here.. so it does suck that pics get banned.. also sucks for those people who happened to like NAT's threads but somehow he ended up Banned and all those threads he created are now useless..

-Christopher

[family wagon]

Way back in the prehistoric days hosting of images by skoolie.net itself didn't work very well (at all?) and photo bucket et al were suggested as alternatives. But since socialknowledge.com assumed control of skoolie.net, I thought the image hosting here was fixed. Is it not? I'll attempt to attach an image to this post.. I do see the resolution limits of 1600x1600 might be judged to be low. Most images taken from cellphone or other semi-modern camera would have to be resized before uploading to fit within that limit.

Granted, inline images are nicer especially for a long post than attached-at-bottom images are.

[Tootalltechie]

Originally Posted by cadillackid

and an ISP that doesnt cap on data limits.. Web crawlers eat up a ton of bandwidth as they are bots or compiuter programs that go out and read web sites, sometimes every file, I dont think this forum blocks them so every photo you link to is going to get read a bunch of times.

I used to host my own photos on forums years ago.. it was a PITA making sure my front end router was capable of warding off DOS attacks, and hackers just trying to gain exploit to my apache machine, etc..

while I still have a big Server at homne I no longer host my photos..

evidently people still do read old forums.. we see it here.. so it does suck that pics get banned.. also sucks for those people who happened to like NAT's threads but somehow he ended up Banned and all those threads he created are now useless..

-Christopher

Totally agree about having a server. I didn't realize that nays got band, I thought he got fed up and quit. He had a lot of information on Old blue bird buses. But anyway it's all water under the bridge.
Gordon

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[EastCoastCB]

No one was banned. It doesn't say banned anywhere.
Trolling somewhere else, no doubt.

[Janet H]

Originally Posted by family wagon

Way back in the prehistoric days hosting of images by skoolie.net itself didn't work very well (at all?) and photo bucket et al were suggested as alternatives. But since socialknowledge.com assumed control of skoolie.net, I thought the image hosting here was fixed. Is it not? I'll attempt to attach an image to this post.. I do see the resolution limits of 1600x1600 might be judged to be low. Most images taken from cellphone or other semi-modern camera would have to be resized before uploading to fit within that limit.

Granted, inline images are nicer especially for a long post than attached-at-bottom images are.

You should be able to add images into your post. Type out post text and then attach images as usual and upload.

Next click on the place you want to insert an image within your post and then choose the paperclip icon.



Select the image you want inserted and click.



Repeat for subsequent images.



They should appear in your post rather than at the end.

[Tootalltechie]

Ooo yummy donuts lol

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[cadillackid]

Originally Posted by EastCoastCB

No one was banned. It doesn't say banned anywhere.
Trolling somewhere else, no doubt.

oh i thought NAT got banned.. sorry.. its just what I had heard. I was not active on the forum when he was here..
-Christopher