3rd party photo host

[kyratshooter]

It appears that Photobucket has gone spastic and intends to not do free hosting any longer. I have been very dissatisfied with their product for more than a year and I am not going to pay them for a crappy product and inefficient service.

I do not do enough photo work or storage to make paying for computer photo service worthwhile.

Is there another host that is free and easy to use?

[Antonyraison]

imgur.com ?
google photos?

[crashdive123]

I'm currently looking around. I have had a paid account with them for quite some time due to the number of photos I had stored with them. Last year, without notice they changed their terms of service and locked my account. After a period of time, I paid the ransom but I did delete a lot of photos. Because of the service that I paid for I can still post on third party (here) sites.....but only for about a year and then I will have to buy their 400 dollar a year plan.

That ain't going to happen.

The company that overnight started holding millions and millions of pictures for ransom will not be getting any more of my $$$.

[madmax]

Yup. Waiting for our computer wiz down here to direct me to "A Better Way".

[hunter63]

I'm currently looking around. I have had a paid account with them for quite some time due to the number of photos I had stored with them. Last year, without notice they changed their terms of service and locked my account. After a period of time, I paid the ransom but I did delete a lot of photos. Because of the service that I paid for I can still post on third party (here) sites.....but only for about a year and then I will have to buy their 400 dollar a year plan.

That ain't going to happen.

The company that overnight started holding millions and millions of pictures for ransom will not be getting any more of my $$$.

Kinda in the same boat.....still showing up with my paid ad-free account....Then we will see.
Couple of forums have a direct pic post attachment....direct from your file.

[DSJohnson]

OOps..missed this one when I posted my own whiney post about them kicking me to the curb...

[kyratshooter]

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[kyratshooter]

http://i.imgur.com/EkbFa3w.jpg


Guess I got that straightened out. imgur seems the way to go.

[randyt]

yea, I miss the cooler weather too

[Antonyraison]

Cool. Glad the suggestion helped some what,
I am not a web developer, but I am in IT ( systems admin, project manager/ compliance/ high end server and networking support)..... have done some web design here and there.
The other option maybe to change the hosting of this site to one that has more space and remove old image files (if space is a problem).. Or get the actual forum users to be forced to use their own image sharing solution/ or external links.
I dont really know if there is any better way for hosting of images online via any service, as they all have their terms and condtions,
I mainly keep my images on facebook, or google photos and instagram. (as it suits my needs)
If I was running a site, it would have enough storage capacity to suit my need and I would implement a content management system (would have to have php, mysql, html, css support etc.) like Jaamola or wordpress, and I would customise my own templates and load whatever plugins needed for image galleries, and could even implement a payment gateway etc if It was needed. etc.
Unless you Have a static IP and and a good connection can actually run your own Webserver (for whatever need you desire) or even use dynamic dns off the webserver or router(where applicable) to update the dns record as the ip changes.. just takes a bit of config on routers to direct traffic to correct machine..etc etc.. but yeah just depends on exactly what you want to do.... (this I have also done in past for various companies)

[hunter63]

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.........
I know how to turn it on?


I don't need the hassle....I just won't buy a $500 buck phone.... and pay the ransom....

Don't like it.....but then again it cost me $100 bucks to do my weed wacking..........

[kyratshooter]

Storage will not be a problem for me. I had been with photo bucket for 6-8 years and had used up about 4% of my free space. Now I am wishing Photo-butt would allow me to delete all my material in their hands. Nothing I do not want seen, just general principles of them being butt-holes and having my photos.

I got a new phone with better camera than the real camera I own as well as video capabilities and it was free when I changed to a cheaper plan with AT&T. Now I just have to learn how to transfer photos from phone, to computer, to Imjur, to forum. Nothing could go wrong there, correct?

Hunter, that picture is about 4 years old. That tree branch cost me about $250 in repairs to the car and I did not even like the car in the first place. I traded the car and cut down the trees. They were too close to the house anyway and about 70 feet tall. We could not get to the top with a 50' cherry picker. It eliminated a lot of danger and worry, so what happens, big tree in the back yard blew down!

[hunter63]

I can't get pic's off my phone (flip phone w/camera) directly (fought that battle..lost).....so need to e-mail to myself...but Earthlink e-mail won't receive them?...(fought that battle...lost).....
But I can e-mail them to my self on a Yahoo account.(WTH).....Then copy and past to My Pictures....then upload to Photobutt, then to forum.

With the camera (cheap) I can pull out the SD card save to my pictures file....and drag to Photobutt then to forum

At one point I lost a lot of older pic's...... so Photobutt is the only place I have them saved.

What ever happened to shoe boxes?

[kyratshooter]

This young bunch of tecno-nerds never heard of storing photos in shoe boxes. That is for us old geezers.

Do you remember back when we used to go to school first day of the year and one of the supplies you had to have was a new cigar box?

Used to be everyone had a cigar box laying around. The country store would keep a pile of them and give them to the kids at school start up.

[hunter63]

I still have some,,,,kinda beat up....but still hold old treasures that I still don't know what to do with.

Some were saving photos on DVD's from Walgreens......
friend bought a new Mac Book....no player on it.....
DVD going away like CD or small floppy disc's.....Then what?

Save to the "Cloud"?...Not comfortable with that.
Sooo

[randyt]

there is a way to download your photos from photobucket, I downloaded some and have another batch to download.

[hunter63]

Are you down loading your pic"?....or a Photobutt short cut?

[randyt]

I downloaded my albums from photobucket back into my files on my computer. I will still need to upload them back into imgur in order to share them but I didn't lose them all.

here's a link
http://support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us/articles/201892970-Downloading-Albums

[Antonyraison]

I can't get pic's off my phone (flip phone w/camera) directly (fought that battle..lost).....so need to e-mail to myself...but Earthlink e-mail won't receive them?...(fought that battle...lost).....
But I can e-mail them to my self on a Yahoo account.(WTH).....Then copy and past to My Pictures....then upload to Photobutt, then to forum.

With the camera (cheap) I can pull out the SD card save to my pictures file....and drag to Photobutt then to forum

At one point I lost a lot of older pic's...... so Photobutt is the only place I have them saved.

What ever happened to shoe boxes?

People of today (younger people, i would guess my age and younger which I dont kow if I qualify for "young" i am 36)
but most people these days have really good smart phones, as in an iphone or samsung with high quality cameras, the take pics, then simply upload them directly from phone to instagram or facebook. They do not even bother with traditional type of "photo hosting site" as instagram and facebook are the largest social networks for them to share and let everyone see what goes down in their life, and then its evaluated to them by the amount of "likes" they get and the amount of followers they get.
The higher those are the greater their sense of Self becomes...whereby if its very very low, they feel not validated ergo a depressed terrible person. Just my general observations of things.

[Antonyraison]

I can't get pic's off my phone (flip phone w/camera) directly (fought that battle..lost).....so need to e-mail to myself...but Earthlink e-mail won't receive them?...(fought that battle...lost).....
But I can e-mail them to my self on a Yahoo account.(WTH).....Then copy and past to My Pictures....then upload to Photobutt, then to forum.

With the camera (cheap) I can pull out the SD card save to my pictures file....and drag to Photobutt then to forum

At one point I lost a lot of older pic's...... so Photobutt is the only place I have them saved.

What ever happened to shoe boxes?

FLIP phone? you about 10-15 years behind.
Camera phones now have easy to use usb interfaces plug into pc copy photos, others have removable mirco-sd card remove put in card reader.
And older phones, blue tooth, or wi-fi (with 3rd party aps)
Kinda going like going to the moon to get to the store.... by emailing it from phone...
Time for a new phone or a small nice Canon digital camera. with sd card.

[Antonyraison]

I still have some,,,,kinda beat up....but still hold old treasures that I still don't know what to do with.

Some were saving photos on DVD's from Walgreens......
friend bought a new Mac Book....no player on it.....
DVD going away like CD or small floppy disc's.....Then what?

Save to the "Cloud"?...Not comfortable with that.
Sooo

yes, a lot of laptops, including the one I am using at work (which already over 2 years old) No longer come with a DVD/CD drive as a standard,
all software including OS is loadable via USb, and bios have been supporting the booting from USB for at least 10 years, it was always going to go away with dvd max capacity of around 4gigs. USB thumb drives far exceed that now..

I have lived through the 80ies to now and watch the big floppy's become small floppies, then floppies gone, cd drives became faster then cd/dvd drives usb arrived and that tech became better faster smaller, now cd/dvd are getting phased out, video renatl places went from VHS (and likely late 7oies beta max was a thing also but was limited in length in comparsion) DVD replaced that, now video rental places dont exist people stream and buy subscriptions to things..
Things forever change..
I had a 286 with likely 2mb ram and a 20mb hard drive when I was a kid,
now I have a phone with an 8 core 2ghz processor, 3 gigs ram, 32gig Storage on board and not 1 but 2 16 mega pixel cameras (far more tech than they ever could imagine or dream of and 1000 X more than what they used to put people on the moon), and to do what with Take stupid duck face photos and share with friends, only to see if they will like it or not like, and to watch cat videos...

[Antonyraison]

This young bunch of tecno-nerds never heard of storing photos in shoe boxes. That is for us old geezers.

Do you remember back when we used to go to school first day of the year and one of the supplies you had to have was a new cigar box?

Used to be everyone had a cigar box laying around. The country store would keep a pile of them and give them to the kids at school start up.

I dont know I cant speak for all techno Nerds, I can only speak for myself hahahahah.
But No, I grew up with a dos based terminal pc and only had got a decent pc in 1998 (but after that I built my own pc every 2-3 years with whatever was good spec for price) only got internet around then too, as it only sorta came to SA around 1992/3?
But I do self procliam as ALFA-nerd, as I can talk down any tech and spot any bs they try to pull.. which is often surprising to them as I do not fit the General decorum of a techno-nerd, I do not look like a nerd , i dont dress like a nerd , In fact I really hate IT and my JOB, I am just really damn good at it, and it annoys me cause it takes me freaking like less than 5% brain power to do it. (just patience) people are stupid, and lazy.
I just wana get outta here and burn this mf down..
but no I do know the old school photos and albums and various storage means of doing them (benifit for being born in 81)

[crashdive123]

36? I've got socks older than you. :whistling:

[Antonyraison]

My prediction for IT technology for the next2-3 maybe 5 years is:
No home pc will come with a hard drive,cd,rom or software or os on it.
all pc's will come with built in web browsing software and every single thing else will exist on the cloud to which you pay subscriptions for.
Your opperating systesm, softwares, files,etc etc.. all on line.

[Antonyraison]

36? I've got socks older than you. :whistling:

so Do I cause I am quiet poor like that.

[Rick]

I've been known to wear hongs that long.

[kyratshooter]

Anthony, if you lived over here you would probably be in the top 15%-20% if the wage earners of your age group. IT is a good paying skill over here, nearly as good as medicine.

My wife combined the two and made a very comfortable living debugging and calibrating the medical analysis machines in hospitals all over our region.

Yes it is dull and dry and she wanted to be a history teacher all her life. Marrying me, a history teacher, and seeing the amount of work I did and the pay I got cured that.

I did not have a computer in my home until 2004. I used them at work but did not know how much communication I was missing until I was set down smack in the middle of it. The computers at the schools I taught had very intense filters and the internet,such as it was at the time, was filtered and monitored. Lots of people do not realize that school computers are allowed only to search places and sites approved by the school, not as much for protection of the innocent young minds as to insure they are learning what the system wants them to learn and nothing else.

[Antonyraison]

Anthony, if you lived over here you would probably be in the top 15%-20% if the wage earners of your age group. IT is a good paying skill over here, nearly as good as medicine.

My wife combined the two and made a very comfortable living debugging and calibrating the medical analysis machines in hospitals all over our region.

Yes it is dull and dry and she wanted to be a history teacher all her life. Marrying me, a history teacher, and seeing the amount of work I did and the pay I got cured that.

I did not have a computer in my home until 2004. I used them at work but did not know how much communication I was missing until I was set down smack in the middle of it. The computers at the schools I taught had very intense filters and the internet,such as it was at the time, was filtered and monitored. Lots of people do not realize that school computers are allowed only to search places and sites approved by the school, not as much for protection of the innocent young minds as to insure they are learning what the system wants them to learn and nothing else.

Statics show I am even in the top earners for southern Africa, but yeah no.. its a darn struggle just to make ends meet every month.
I did upon a time consider immigration, to like UK when that was a thing.. Although I do actually have family in Tampa Florida, and have in my earlier years tried green card lotteries (when I had no attachments)
I decided that well, the grass is greener where one waters it.
I love my country and have hope for it to succeed.
I try to be apart of the solution rather than run away and ignore a problem (but kinda how I was brought up)
I love my Africa. :)
Thanks for the light shed.
I may at some stage just change my career to something that fuels my soul more than this though..like perhaps Survival instructing and such adventure tourism that goes with it. Time and opportunity will tell.

[hunter63]

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I did not have a computer in my home until 2004. I used them at work but did not know how much communication I was missing until I was set down smack in the middle of it. The computers at the schools I taught had very intense filters and the internet,such as it was at the time, was filtered and monitored. Lots of people do not realize that school computers are allowed only to search places and sites approved by the school, not as much for protection of the innocent young minds as to insure they are learning what the system wants them to learn and nothing else.

First computers I mess with was in the 1970 at a Tech school....Fortran and Cobol....with key cards.
That was an interesting time (later)

Later when to Tech school for Windows....and as a student...you could buy any of the MS products at student rates for pennies ....

Get a kid used to a Windows OS....got them by the huevos for ever.....it worked.

Besides the tech school....did start using them for work.

The factory had up graded the IBM system to a RS 6000.....with crt's......Mosty data entry...and those IT people were in the secret clique .

Engineers used early PC mostly DOS...and had their own little clique taking in a secret language, as well...The old "I know and I won't tell you"...BS (engineers are like that)

Lots of big floppy disc's and smaller floppy disc's......
And my Vic 20 used a cassette for data storage.

I had to get involved with PC running MS-NT and a early Windows...then MS windows -95.

That's about where I came in....My boss at the time didn't want to be bothered...and no one else wanted the job.

So...I took it on ....working directly with it guy for buying installing, loading and running a Manufacturing System.
Really cool stuff....

Because of this....the first 3 Gateway PC's with a modem...were bought for the company..thinking about 4 g ......
I had one...the it guy had one, and had a scheduler lady had one to play solitaire on.
We had gotten to get the interwebs to download up dates.....but I used my Earthlink account at work and at home.

When all that bying loading running was up and running....I ended up with the Inv and Prod job......No one else wanted the job,.. again...

I loved that job....I was king of the world, all knowing all seeing, and if wrong...could change it to be ..right...LOL
Had my minion doing my bidding....

Had also bought the fastest at the time Gateway for home...was like $3500 back when.


We, the IT guy and I had blown by all the IBM and Dos guys .engineers and finance guys...and were off and running.

When the factory closed....I was shutting down production and just messing around on the interwebs....
Was Looking for jobs...President of the company came in....asked what I was doing...told him I was looking on the interwebs for a job...Normally I would have panicked ....But WTH, I was a dead man walking. as was he....

He looked over my to see if there were any CEO openings......LOL

So after a bit of rambling, I digress...

After my working years, and having to fight thru all that stuff... back when....downloads took over night.....and printing was SLOW.

These days I just was to PLAY...not work at it.

Was transferring all my saved pic from this old computer to a new one...and the "pinch zoom" was driving me nuts.....125% to 480% to 20%
Had my Geek Squad guy turn it off.....What a PITA

Still like to get my pic's back from Photobutt.....

[Antonyraison]

Dude, I am qualified in MS-NT (hahahahahahahaha) havent borthered to upgrade it. Just have a ton of experience
I have worked on pretty much everything from unix/linux os/2 warp, various Apple OS (which usually is similar to bsod unix)... dos, win 3.1 win nt win 95, win 98 and win 98 sec edition windows long horn windows me windows xp, windows 7 windows 8 win 8.1 win 10. win server nt win server 2000 win server 2003 win server 2008
linux webservers linux mail server linux firewalls... banking systesms as400's ibm main frames. raid systems Sans, the damn works.. I done it seen it know something about it.

[crashdive123]

I don't know what you just said, but it sounded sexy......in a weird ones and zeros sort of way.

[Rick]

Personally, I think he just started hitting keys on the keyboard.

[Antonyraison]

that's usually what happens when I am asked to explain things. People hear static.
I find it easier to point at something and say hey, this this here no worky work. need new one GET. k thanks bye.

[hunter63]

My IT guy that I worked with thru most all of that....was kinda a free thinker....and didn't get along with the the old IT department running IBM.

WE teamed up with VP...to ram thru all the steps for the new scheduling system...so learned a lot with those two.....
IT guy knew the computer end, I knew the operation end....VP knew how to clear the way to make it happen.

IT guy had a sign on his door of the cubical "Before entering here.....RTFM"
Words to live by...except most new units do not have one these days.

Had a bad time getting him to "let me drive"...he had to keep his hands off the keyboard when I was on.......LOL

This whole Cloud idea make me nervous......Ever see "Person of Interest" TV show?....Yeah, I know fiction....OR is it?

[Antonyraison]

My IT guy that I worked with thru most all of that....was kinda a free thinker....and didn't get along with the the old IT department running IBM.

WE teamed up with VP...to ram thru all the steps for the new scheduling system...so learned a lot with those two.....
IT guy knew the computer end, I knew the operation end....VP knew how to clear the way to make it happen.

IT guy had a sign on his door of the cubical "Before entering here.....RTFM"
Words to live by...except most new units do not have one these days.

Had a bad time getting him to "let me drive"...he had to keep his hands off the keyboard when I was on.......LOL

This whole Cloud idea make me nervous......Ever see "Person of Interest" TV show?....Yeah, I know fiction....OR is it?

sounds like you done the rounds and know the career. hahaha.
No I have not seen that show.. although I have watched Mr. Robot.
I will need to have a look at that show to comment..

[Wise Old Owl]

I went with imgur.com In the process of moving stuff over for now... Just do it!