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Is anyone else having issues with photobucket.com? It's disabled all of my photos on here and is holding them "hostage" for $400 to allow them on third party hosting sites. This is BS. Anyone have a workaround?
1982 Wagoneer Limited 5.3L Vortec 4L60E swap - finished/restored - sold - bought back - sold again
1979 Wagoneer 360 TH400 1339 QT - built into perfect daily driver - sold
1981 J10 Sportside Honcho - finished/restored - sold
1979 Cherokee Golden Eagle - 5.3L Vortec 6L80E swap - finished/restored - sold
1967 Super Wagoneer - sold, too much work
1978 J10 Golden Eagle - finished/restored - sold
1962 Rambler Classic Cross Country Wagon - current project, wife's daily driver - she'll never let me sell it
So far my 25$ish plan is still working but I'm not paying $400 at renewal. I guess I and every other subscriber should be letting them know that.
What's needed is some utility that will go through the thread and change all the links to the new host's address. Is there such a thing?
Sic friatur crustulum
'84 GW with Nissan SD33T, early Chev NV4500, 300, narrowed Ford reverse 44, narrowed Ford 60, SOA/reversed shackle in fornt, lowered mount/flipped shackle in rear.
SJTD wrote:So far my 25$ish plan is still working but I'm not paying $400 at renewal. I guess I and every other subscriber should be letting them know that.
What's needed is some utility that will go through the thread and change all the links to the new host's address. Is there such a thing?
That's a tall order. First, you would have to make a file mapping. For example here is a photobucket link
It's in a specific album and has a randomly assigned name by Photobucket. So you would have to copy it over with the exact same name and then put them all in the same place (no subfolders to organize) for it to have a chance to work. This assume the new site allows you to specify the underlying name. Which it probably doesn't.
FWIW, I'm being held hostage by Photobucket as well. Over on Tacomaworld there is a discussion about this and the consensus is that most people are switching over to Flikr or Imgur. I don't know what I want to do. I have 5 builds and over 2000 photos on Photobucket and I don't have the energy or time to switch everything over and relink my old stuff. It's a shame because the forums all over are going to loose a lot of good information because of this...
1989 Grand Wagoneer - Rebuilt 360, 2" Alcans, 10" travel Gabriel Guadian shocks.
1996 Land Cruiser - 1HD-T Diesel, Gturbo (23psi), Wholesale Automatics 442f, F/R ARBs, 35" Duratracs, ARB Rear Bumper, OME 2" lift, home built sliders and aluminum belly skid
2000 Honda Civic - Integra GSR engine, transmission, shift linkage and axles, 200hp, 33 combined mpg
2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 9 - 437hp/447ft-lb
DustinLangston wrote:Is anyone else having issues with photobucket.com? It's disabled all of my photos on here and is holding them "hostage" for $400 to allow them on third party hosting sites. This is BS. Anyone have a workaround?
Their move does seem strange in the modern world of basically free image hosting in so many places.
I don't have a smartphone. Started using postimage.org about a week ago. Seems ok so far but, I use adblocker so not sure how bad they are for pop-ups and such.
I, too, find it very distressing that so much information is going to be lost because of this. Not too worried about my threads but all the other ones I may need, in the future.
Ron
2005 KJ, Hit-n-Run, 2am 6-17-2012, Totaled.
1977 SJ J10, 4v360, T18, D20, 37x14s, SOA & SF on tons, still ugly.
1978 SJ Wagoneer, 4v360, QT, 33x12.5s, lift by Sawzall NOT Running
1977 SJ J10, SniperEFI 401, QT, D44s, 31X10.5s
2006 KJ
Mars wrote:One man's trans leak is another's penetrating oil
PB has really gone downhill these last few years. So many damn ads my phone or PC will lock up. Some of my albums have a thousand photos so PB made it so all photos are in the same page, takes forever to load. So annoying!
82 J10
77 J10 Golden Eagle 401
88 GW
You know it's bad when your car is on the EPA's 10 most wanted list!
The photos are still there and if you right click on them you can see them by clicking on "Open in new window" or "Open in new tab" or my personal favorite "Show photo" but it's not always an option.
will e wrote:The photos are still there and if you right click on them you can see them by clicking on "Open in new window" or "Open in new tab" or my personal favorite "Show photo" but it's not always an option.
Not to rub salt in a wound, but it's funny that your avatar is the "Photobucket sucks and doesn't work" image, because all your other pics are the same thing.
79 J-10 (Honcho Mucho) KE0LSU
304/Performance Fuel Injection TBI/MTA1/SP2P/Magnum rockers
T18/D20/D44s&4.10s/33" Mud Claws
Grizzly Locker Rear
4" front spring drop, 5" rear shackle flip
Chevy style HEI (ECM controlled)
Dolphin "Shark" gauges in a fancy homemade oak bezel
3/4 resto, rotting faster than I've been fixing it.
Honestly, the cheapest way to have control over your own shared images is to just get some webspace, and a free image sharing site to run on it. And then just host all your own stuff on your own server. It will cost you about 75 bucks a year, but you never need to worry about some other company wanting to blackmail you after you have thousands of images hosted up there.
The big issue you will have is moving away from photobucket or the like is all your shared images have direct links to photobucket.
i have over 2600 images on photobucket, been using it for, eek, 11 years, and all my build threads across the internet will fail if this pull this crap.
somehow, imy images still show everywhere though.
Well it ain't just the smoke and the traffic jam that makes me the bitter fool I am But this four-wheel buggy is A-dollaring me to death.
For gas and oils and fluids and grease, And wires and tires and anti freeze....And them accessories, Well honey, that's something else.
Yeah I am one of the countless victims of this BS too. They are local to me. Maybe I should go tell em in person lol. Probably they are about to go under. They would have to be desperate (or really stupid,or both) to make this play, right?
It isn't overly worth it to me to hunt down myriad old forum posts but I have lots of blog posts that this probably goofed up
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Broken Photobucket image in my post? PM me.
'86 GW "Troubled Child" tc.wagoneer.org
360, TBI, 4" Skyjacker, 33" BFG MTs, WT D44+ARB, WT AMC20 + LockRight, CB 2m 6m 70cm, K0FSJ
The world's first Robotic Full Size Jeep!
shimniok wrote:... Probably they are about to go under. ...
My thought too. There are broken PhotoBucket pictures all over the Jeep forums.
You might put something in your sig about how to tell you about broken picture links, rather than try and restore all your old posts.
Let me also take this opportunity to suggest that when you see something on the net that is useful, save it yourself. Anything on the 'net is in danger of disappearing at any time. You can get some things back using the Wayback, but those archives don't replace hot links in the original posts with whatever the link is pointing to.
I use both Microsoft OneNote (cut and paste) and a scrapbook application (save the entire link to a specified depth) to save web pages that are of interest.
Tim Reese
Maine beekeeper's truck: '77 J10 LWB, 258/T15/D20/3.54 bone stock, low options (delete radio), PS/PDB, hubcaps.
Browless and proud: '82 J20 360/T18/NP208/3.73, Destination A/Ts, 7600 GVWR
Copper Polly: '75 CJ-6, 304/T15, PS, BFG KM2s, soft top
GTI without the badges: '95 VW Golf Sport 2000cc 2D
Dual Everything: '15 Chryco Jeep Cherokee KL Trailhawk, ECO Green
Blockchain the vote.