Photo Bucket

[Sunny43.5]

Warning to all , I used to use Photo Bucket as it was free to upload photos to and then to this Forum , I posted a few weeks ago that my photos no longer were showing up on the Forum . Seems they do not want you to share photos to third party sites like ours , if you want to upgrade it will set you back and eye watering $400 to upgrade NOT this little black duck !

[The_Hawk]

I'm working on a solution so this doesn't happen again (basically a system that automatically creates a copy of posted images).

I'm also looking to see if there is any way to fix the current issues, although that isn't looking so great yet. For Chrome users there is this which is currently working, although for how long is anyone's guess.

Photobucket Hotlink Fix - Chrome Web Store

[Sunny43.5]

Thanks for the info seems like a greedy grab for money in my opinion , shame as I had quite a few photos that other Forum members have used for reference in the past .

[sssstew]

got worried so went and checked my photo thread and luckily it seems ok at the moment, sssstew's 3rd Polo GTI

[Sunny43.5]

If you go to their site there is an article about photos being used on 3 rd party sites and the mongrels want money to repost them .

[Hillbilly]

Put them on Google Drive and allow those who have the link to view them

[The_Hawk]

got worried so went and checked my photo thread and luckily it seems ok at the moment, sssstew's 3rd Polo GTI

Maybe if you're looking at your own photos it works?? I'm getting the error message (unless I'm running that plugin I linked earlier).


The fix I talked about earlier to ensure that all images are copied locally to ensure this can't happen in future is working away nicely, sadly the stats say that nearly 60% of all photo's posted before 2011 are now dead links... and that doesn't include photobucket at all since I'm currently skipping all those until a workaround can be found allowing me to get all those photos back... *fingers crossed*

[tigger73]

The fix I talked about earlier to ensure that all images are copied locally to ensure this can't happen in future is working away nicely, sadly the stats say that nearly 60% of all photo's posted before 2011 are now dead links... and that doesn't include photobucket at all since I'm currently skipping all those until a workaround can be found allowing me to get all those photos back... *fingers crossed*

Nice work! Hopefully an end to dead pictures forever. Though now we just need to get everyone back on the forums to post them...

[JustCruisn]

We really need a bot to look at all the posts with Photobucket links, use the tool to get the pic, then push the pic to a new host, then update the links in all posts.

[GeorgeMK1]

This happened to me too mate! 4 build threads all gone, and I certainly won't be re-uploading each and every picture too

What pricks photobucket are !!!