interesting. I'm wondering if it depends on where you are and when you set up your free account. Or perhaps how much data you use / hotlink.

In any case it seems to be time to move on.

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Bye bye Photobucket, nice knowing you.

It just flabbergasts me the price they want for all this, and boggles my mind anybody using the service casually like most of us appear to do, would pay it. I sure won't. Yikes.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

It is also causing a bit of a problem across websites and blogs where the website/blog has used pictures and bits of pictures in it's design.

Have a look here:

http://raloria.livejournal.com/

Scroll down a bit and you will see the effect.

Many are suggesting that Photobucket will rethink this as people will not pay for something that has been free for the past 10 years.

Many are suggesting that Photobucket will rethink this as people will not pay for something that has been free for the past 10 years.

It's just such a jump from free to $$$+!

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Not just any jump! They have 3 price plans with the 1st 2 no 3rd party hosting. The 3rd does but at £307.68 per year, no way Jose.

Many are suggesting that Photobucket will rethink this as people will not pay for something that has been free for the past 10 years.

Or NOT.
They may not give a rat's petoot.
If they are smart, they have done some very careful calculations..................

If they lose 80% of their customer base...........so what?
Non paying customers, actually a cost because Photobucket has to pay for storage and bandwidth to keep their accounts alive.
The only revenue from non-subscription users is whatever advertising revenue Pb gets for force feeding ads to their browser and any prints or other goods Pb offers that they might purchase. I suspect it's not much.

They probably figure that the percentage of users that stay onboard and pay the extortion will offset anything they may lose.

I am not saying that giving probably tens of thousands of internet users the high hard one is a good business model, but maybe they are looking for short term profitability.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

For that sort of money, you can buy some massive, high spec 'Enterprise' HDDs, with plenty of change. Crazy.

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Don't take life too seriously, as you'll never come out of it alive!

For that sort of money, you can buy some massive, high spec 'Enterprise' HDDs, with plenty of change. Crazy.

True. But for most people, at least initially, the site was not about storage. It was about a place that would host pictures on a server that others could access for sharing or posting online.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Over some 15+ years or so, I held a number of Domain Names and even the 'top end' of hosting on those domains for business, on a dedicated server, is still less than half the cost that Gutbucket want now. Perhaps they're relying on people thinking in terms of £/$X cost per month - some will think that cheap, for their 5 minutes of fame.

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Don't take life too seriously, as you'll never come out of it alive!

Over some 15+ years or so, I held a number of Domain Names and even the 'top end' of hosting on those domains for business, on a dedicated server, is still less than half the cost that Gutbucket want now. Perhaps they're relying on people thinking in terms of £/$X cost per month - some will think that cheap, for their 5 minutes of fame.

I know. https://www.powweb.com/ And for that price you can host all of photobucket, not just your little part.

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For that sort of money, you can buy some massive, high spec 'Enterprise' HDDs, with plenty of change. Crazy.

True. But for most people, at least initially, the site was not about storage. It was about a place that would host pictures on a server that others could access for sharing or posting online.

This is a sorry way to free up server space. Looks like I will be going to Flicker until they do this too. Just wish I could remember my Flicker password.
Pb will suffer I hope in they long term. Some ppl have voices and long memories.

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Looks like I will be going to Flicker until they do this too

I tried imgur for the first time, today, and it worked fine, but as everybody has said, it's just a matter of time if PB is leading the way...

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Seems like I can still post pics from photobucket.

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I just used the img link provided on the right when the picture is opened in photobucket

[URL=http://s664.photobucket.com/user/BiigCheeze/media/Link.jpg.html][IMG]http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv6/BiigCheeze/Link.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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Our Terms of Service does not allow 3rd party hosting with your current account level.

*What is 3rd Party Hosting?
Photobucket defines 3rd party hosting as the action of embedding an image or photo onto another website. For example, using the <img> tag to embed or display a JPEG image from your Photobucket account on another website such as a forum, Etsy, eBay auction listings, a blog, etc. is definitively 3rd party hosting.

Which I find rather amusing as that's pretty much what the internet is all about, links to other sites. Either to take you there, or to show you something from that site.
You have to buy the equipment to use the internet. You have to pay for the access/data. And now they want you to pay to use one of the most basic functions of the internet, embedding images.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Which is what was called: Network Neutrality

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.[1] The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems.

If you actually read that definition of Net Neutrality, you'll see that it has nothing to do with what Photobucket is doing.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Pics are content, and now to display them one is being charged to do so.

Net Neutrality is about not impeding or nor priortising different types of data that pass through the internet, not whether or not a web site wants to charge their users.
The charge is by the provider; not by an ISP, phone company or data backbone provider.
And as none of those 3 are impeding or priortising Photobucket traffic, hence it has absolutely nothing to do with Net Neutrality in any way shape or form. No matter how much you might think it does, it doesn't make it so.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Which is what was called: Network Neutrality

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.[1] The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which was used to describe the role of telephone systems.

If you actually read that definition of Net Neutrality, you'll see that it has nothing to do with what Photobucket is doing.

True.
In the case of Photobucket it's about distributing and storing data no matter what content it is.
I have always wonder why so many people thinks that "free information" is something that you can get without a cost.

I have always wonder why so many people thinks that "free information" is something that you can get without a cost.

Because so many companies give it away for free (until they realise that they can't make any money from the ads).

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Grant
Darwin NT