What's with this photobucket?

[Kolsch]

What happened to the old page?

[53driver]

It started this about 2300 CDT last night.
I'm hoping it is an effort by the web master(s) in getting our picture upload capability restored.

Cheers,
Steve

[F6B1911]

Found this info on a site regarding embedding images, not sure what's happening now??? Seems like we not only lost our local images but our linked images as well. Seems like Photobucket now wants $$ to restore the embedded images.
Time to take up a crowdfunding gig, then we can move the forum to a hosted site that has backups and the required space for images??
Feel free to send me the URL to the donation page....




If you have visited a website recently that displays images hosted on Photobucket, or are embedding images hosted on Photobucket on your own, you may have had a rather rude awakening one day as Photobucket decided to block these images from being displayed on third-party sites.
All Photobucket images hosted on third-party sites, at least from what we can tell, are replaced by a dummy image. It reads: Please update your account to enable 3rd party hosting. For important info, please go to www.photobucket.com/P500.
According to some users that we spoke with who are affected by this, this happened without prior notice or any form of warning on Photobucket's part.
Photobucket defines third-party hosting (what is with using 3rd instead of third?) as embedding an image or photo on another website. This includes embedding photos on forums, eBay, Etsy, Craigslist or another other site on the Internet that is not Photobucket.com.
When you open the referenced page on the Photobucket website, you are informed that you may restore the third-party hosted content by becoming a Plus 500 subscriber.
A Plus 500 plan allows for unlimited third-party hosting, and provides members with other benefits such as an ad-free browsing environment on the Photobucket site, priority customer support, or full resolution photo storage.

[2wheelsforme]

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f90/2wheelsforme/bald-headed-haircut1.jpg (http://s45.photobucket.com/user/2wheelsforme/media/bald-headed-haircut1.jpg.html)

[F6B1911]

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f90/2wheelsforme/bald-headed-haircut1.jpg


that works fine, it's a personal album.

[Kolsch]

Thanks for the heads up!

[53driver]

Seems we're all better now....

[RickW]

Found this info on a site regarding embedding images, not sure what's happening now??? Seems like we not only lost our local images but our linked images as well. Seems like Photobucket now wants $$ to restore the embedded images.
Time to take up a crowdfunding gig, then we can move the forum to a hosted site that has backups and the required space for images??
Feel free to send me the URL to the donation page....




If you have visited a website recently that displays images hosted on Photobucket, or are embedding images hosted on Photobucket on your own, you may have had a rather rude awakening one day as Photobucket decided to block these images from being displayed on third-party sites.
All Photobucket images hosted on third-party sites, at least from what we can tell, are replaced by a dummy image. It reads: Please update your account to enable 3rd party hosting. For important info, please go to www.photobucket.com/P500.
According to some users that we spoke with who are affected by this, this happened without prior notice or any form of warning on Photobucket's part.
Photobucket defines third-party hosting (what is with using 3rd instead of third?) as embedding an image or photo on another website. This includes embedding photos on forums, eBay, Etsy, Craigslist or another other site on the Internet that is not Photobucket.com.
When you open the referenced page on the Photobucket website, you are informed that you may restore the third-party hosted content by becoming a Plus 500 subscriber.
A Plus 500 plan allows for unlimited third-party hosting, and provides members with other benefits such as an ad-free browsing environment on the Photobucket site, priority customer support, or full resolution photo storage.

They don't want much, the plus 500 plan is $399 a year. We have had a paid account on photo bucket for years, but does not look like they really want business now.