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Re: Photobucket
[Re: Nigel]
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02/07/2017 05:51
02/07/2017 05:51
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barnacle
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I expect to see this kind of thing happening more and more as people get really peeved with adverts and block them.
The financial models whereby advertising pays the bills aren't working any more, and the companies are getting desperate. In the past, the cost of storage, processing, and networking connection has decreased pretty much on par with increased usage, but that's pretty much bottomed out.
However, I don't believe that ten dollars a month is in any way representative of their current costs. For example, Facebook's income divided by their number of users comes out at around twenty bucks a year. I don't have numbers for image hosting, but it can't be twenty times that. This is taking the mickey.
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: Nigel]
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02/07/2017 08:47
02/07/2017 08:47
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Nigel
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Just a word of warning about imgur... Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it. So this means that if someone using Imgur to host photos, some of which are linked to threads on this forum, and said person annoys Imgur, they could turn off ALL image links to FCCUK. We would be even worse off than we are now - at least at the moment, some of the Photobucket images still work (presumably because the image poster has a paid-for account, or maybe because PB haven't got round to killing the account off yet - they appear to be doing it gradually) I would urge the forum Admins to consider using a paid for image hosting facility for images that are held in important threads such as 'How-To's
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: Nigel]
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03/07/2017 12:13
03/07/2017 12:13
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Well - there goes all the old how to stuff I wrote!
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: barnacle]
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03/07/2017 12:40
03/07/2017 12:40
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It's the end times for free internet services, I think, Nigel. I don't think its quite that bad, but I think there will be a significant differential between free and paid-for. The business model of free services to the masses in order to encourage a subscription service for a few that want a better service / more space / no ads etc is failing. The only way to make it work is to come up with a service that people want at a price they are more than happy to pay. If Photobucket had said "give us $10 a year", I reckon the vast majority would have had a little whinge at the realisation of the inevitable, then input their credit card details. However, at $400 pa, its difficult NOT to come to the conclusion that PB wanted people to close their accounts I'm worried enough that Flickr will eventually do the same that I've now signed up for Flickr Pro - its only $50 pa ($35 with a current promo code), so a small price to pay for a terrabyte of storage, decent speed and a really nice UI
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: Nigel]
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03/07/2017 12:40
03/07/2017 12:40
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But if you wrote it, you still have access to your PB account so it's just a matter of downloading them and uploading them somewhere else like Flickr, Imgur, whatever? (but may be a lot of effort)
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: DaveG]
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04/07/2017 21:59
04/07/2017 21:59
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Nello's way of doing it seems quite simple Only downside for some forum fossils is that you need a facebook account but hey everyone has one right A Smashing run out yesterday to a great little event - we'll be back! FB Photos Nice pictures too Nello
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: barnacle]
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05/07/2017 13:46
05/07/2017 13:46
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Works fine for ephemeral images but less well for things you want to last as long as the forum (bearing in mind that many people may have a coupe for a year or two and provide many useful how-to images in that time, but then sell up and potentially erase the lot.) You are of course right Barnacle. I was just thinking of the immediate problem as usual We definitely need a hosting solution for how toos and any other archival stuff
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: Nigel]
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11/07/2017 15:41
11/07/2017 15:41
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I found this thread after looking out for how to get past the incredible PB issue?
It seems (like others) I have to all intents and purposes, lost a host of images telling the story of my Coupe journey (such as Porto to do list)?
Has the forum put together any sort of action plan or recommendation to people on;
a) How to recover photos "stored" on PB and b) How we might continue to post photos?
As a "third party" host, can the forum itself subscribe to PB, perhaps via an increase in annual membership, rather than people registering individually?
To whom do the actual images belong? Presuambly the individual account holder?
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: paulw]
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17/07/2017 20:38
17/07/2017 20:38
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If the Admins would like to get in touch, I may be able to supply an answer to this problem, or at least a home for the 'How To' information and images.
Possibility of a dedicated location - depends on the amount of data / bandwidth, but I would think possible.
It would be a managed location.
Paul Sounds good Paul. Have you put you're idea to the admins on here?
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: Nigel]
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17/07/2017 22:34
17/07/2017 22:34
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You must have more than the basic freebie account given the number of albums/photos you have, maybe a low cost subscription in the past that has entitled you to host pictures in the way that most of us can't?
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: Nigel]
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17/07/2017 23:23
17/07/2017 23:23
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magooagain
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Just today I have lost my avatar photo,so that means(I think) that all my previous posts here or anywhere else with pb photos now have thier 3rd party non sharing logo.
I hated the rigmarole of posting pics on here when I had to use pb and the codes. So other than that it's no real loss I suppose.
It's just that my adventures with my coupe go unrecorded on here. I do realize that may be a good thing in parts.
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: magooagain]
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21/07/2017 18:47
21/07/2017 18:47
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Theresa
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Does anyone know how to get all their photos off Photobucket easily? I tried the other day and they said they'd send me an email when ready. Email arrived, clicked on it and it said nothing was available to download ffs I already have Google photos, so would like to try and get everything onto that, but just an easy download of all Photobucket photos to the computer would be good to know for now.
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: Nigel]
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21/07/2017 19:27
21/07/2017 19:27
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I got an email from them today. Shysters the bloody lot of them.
I think you have to download your own photos one at a time.
Last edited by PeteP; 21/07/2017 19:28.
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: Nigel]
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21/07/2017 22:37
21/07/2017 22:37
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PeteP
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Has the Admin team come up with a solution to ensure 'important' photos are safeguarded? (E.g. How-to threads etc) Yes we are working on a solution. In the meantime please would anyone who has their own images which are linked to a How To, please save them to their own PC to keep them available to rebuild the guides in the near future. Thanks. I will have a dig out and send onto admin this weekend if I can find them. Thanks Reuben, If you can find them could you send them to spaitalia@fiatcoupeclub.org where I can pick them up please?
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: Nigel]
#1604981
23/07/2017 09:24
23/07/2017 09:24
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coupedummy
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Ive sent the pdfs i have over. I will go through all the how to guides and see if i can get to the pictures and make the pdf's up of the guides if you want?
If not i will see if i can get hold of the author and the images.
Last edited by coupedummy; 23/07/2017 09:26.
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Re: Photobucket
[Re: Nigel]
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23/07/2017 14:23
23/07/2017 14:23
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PeteP
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Thanks Reuben, that's brilliant.
The PDFs came through fine.
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