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Offline Mr_Orange

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Photobucket image hosting?!? :-(
« on: 30 June 2017, 22:30 »
So it seems photobucket has just pulled the plug on image hosting.
Sad times


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Offline o`Neil

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Re: Photobucket image hosting?!? :-(
« Reply #1 on: 01 July 2017, 10:57 »
I read about this too, although I don`t use photobucket much anyway.

What are the options?

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Re: Photobucket image hosting?!? :-(
« Reply #2 on: 02 July 2017, 21:21 »
Copy your entire picture collection over to another hosting website then trawl through your posts (over the last 12 years in my case) and change every single image link

Yeah like I've got time for that, greedy b*stards


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Re: Photobucket image hosting?!? :-(
« Reply #3 on: 03 July 2017, 11:04 »
As stopped using photobucket as soon as they changed the layout and couldnt figure it out. Imgblur is where its at.
But i neither have the time to go through 8 years of posts to change what is gone.
Good job i have pictures of my old cars though

Offline Mr_Orange

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Re: Photobucket image hosting?!? :-(
« Reply #4 on: 03 July 2017, 19:43 »
It's OK. Pay them $400 ransom and you get all your image links back.
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Offline Simeon

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Re: Photobucket image hosting?!? :-(
« Reply #5 on: 04 July 2017, 12:59 »
Such a shame, think of all the now redundant build threads and useful info that has been lost :(

Offline Wazzzer

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Re: Photobucket image hosting?!? :-(
« Reply #6 on: 09 July 2017, 12:21 »
Yep, they've effectively killed off historical topics on forums


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Re: Photobucket image hosting?!? :-(
« Reply #7 on: 09 July 2017, 14:48 »
Yeah I just come back to this

Fecking stupd!!  I think most people would pay £40 per year but £40 a month??!!!  :angry:

Offline Mr_Orange

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Re: Photobucket image hosting?!? :-(
« Reply #8 on: 09 July 2017, 18:57 »
I just created an account with imgur. Might replace all my image links one cold, quiet, dark evening :-/


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Offline mike1990

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Re: Photobucket image hosting?!? :-(
« Reply #9 on: 10 August 2017, 05:58 »
I used to use Photobucket, I've been using Dropbox for a while now