Photopucket extortion

StrayAlien · Jul 22, 2017

Just a warning all. Photobucket now wants $100 US per year to permit me to do what I was doing for free. That is, hosting pictures in threads like this:

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/south-bend-lathes/early-10l-rebuild-teardown-inspection-290320/

Gone. I spent *ages* resizing those pics to make them large and clear and 'in the text' so you did not have to click through pics as attachments.

Sorry all, but I am not going to pay that. They can go to hell.

Admin, can I get editing rights to my posts so I can go back and make them photos attachments and not links?

Greg.

Ken-Bergen · Jul 22, 2017

StrayAlien said:
Just a warning all. Photobucket now wants $100 US per year to permit me to do what I was doing for free. That is, hosting pictures in threads like this:

....

Greg.

I do believe that you don't understand the extent of the problem.
For what you were doing it would cost you $400USD per year. :eek:

For $100USD you can only post links not embedded photos.

From the reaction on other forums what Photobucket thought would be a cash cow could well be the end.

Big B · Jul 22, 2017

I hope they go under for this move to extort money from us. They can suck it.

traditional-tools · Jul 23, 2017

Yet another thread on how PB is extorting people after letting them host images for free, for years.

Now that they want money, they are bad evil people... :rolleyes5:

Host your images on your own servers for yourself and see how you like maintaining them, it really is that simple. :cheers:

CarbideBob · Jul 23, 2017

Somebody Call The Wambulance! - YouTube
Sling your own code son and host your own high bandwidth servers, or is this too hard and now you feel left out.
Guessing you have no idea what it takes to move this amount of bits in real time to lord knows how many places.
Text here is simple, images are big time stuff.
At least "50 ways to leave your lover" here even if you do not know what java-script or C is.
Sorry but I can not feel for those left in the dirt here.
Deal is ante up or go somewhere else. Yet many do not know what to do which brings us to the Duh factor.
Yes it was free, now it is not. Now you need other freebies. You are officially a freeloader.
There is no free lunch. Someone always antes up.
You have ridden on others and now.............Oh shit, my free ride has been turned off. They are terrible monsters. My gasoline should be free...
Bob

Monarchist · Jul 23, 2017

traditional-tools said:
Host your images on your own servers for yourself and see how you like maintaining them, it really is that simple.

BTDTGGTS. A major online magazine for the gaming game, Macau @ $3,000 + a month in fees and "maintain" the content we did not. Just keep redundant RAIDs and Virtualized images synced and backed-up. Their own staff did the content management, remotely.

Server side and storage were easy enough.

Bandwidth loading and costs, exactly ONE hop off HKIX over glass, were.... let's just say "interesting ....", shall we?

Most especially the "firewall wars" to prevent entire site-rips thru "portals" in Japan and other Asian nations from eating every crumb of it all.

And PM HAS been a target of exactly that as well.

traditional-tools · Jul 23, 2017

Monarchist said:
Most especially the "firewall wars" to prevent entire site-rips thru "portals" in Japan and other Asian nations from eating every crumb of it all.

I don't think Japan is such a problem, not like China, Russia or the likes.

It certainly requires work to run a server, it ain't free...however the general consensus seems to be that PB is screwing them for wanting to charge a fee.

Just for the record, I'm not taking a side either way. I don't host images on PB and never have.

Just to add some salt into the wounds, I'm going to post an image that I'm hosting on my server. :rolleyes5:

Monarchist · Jul 23, 2017

traditional-tools said:
I don't think Japan is such a problem, not like China, Russia or the likes.

In our case China was the actual target market, so NOT a problem. Japan was a problem because not enough tourists actually CAME to Macau's casinos to offset the international bandwidth cost of a nation of entertainment-hungry dreamers banging on the portal.

Not a lot of stills. "Many" full-motion video teasers of performers, rather.

As to the other.. after "Easy Rider" - then reinforced by "Counselor" - I was left with the impression that folks acquired motorsickles for the PURPOSE of running drugs, so they could afford to run motorsickles... must admit there might be some "circular logic" in there...

StrayAlien · Jul 23, 2017

Traditional-tool, Bob,

All feeling better now? Got that out of you system? Ahh ... good.

Gosh, you sure told me. I sure learned my lesson. I must be one of those guys that doesn't think about his posts and are really just here for you to assert over.

Pop on those 'better-than-though' slippers on and move onto the next thread. Please.

Greg.

StrayAlien · Jul 23, 2017

CarbideBob said:
Guessing you have no idea what it takes to move this amount of bits in real time to lord knows how many places.

Oh, and Bob, I set up my first internet connected server in 1996. I code for a living, and have been doing so since the 80's.

And, you have missed the real point entirely. I posted those photos here as a pictorial record for other people to enjoy. Not for me. I am not left 'in the dirt'. I am not inconvenienced. And I care not for your 'I've had a hard day day and am stressed so I'll swipe blindly at others' opinion.

I did the same type thread for an Alba 1A shaper teardown in the vintage forum. Why? Because I could not find any other information on how to disassemble an Alba A1 - so I created a thread with lots of large nice photos so that other A1 owners had a reference. Like the 10L thread. It was for other people and it made me feel good giving back something to these communities.

You know, I was really considering what it might take to get those threads back to action again - hence the admin request. But, people like you just don't make it worth while, I hope that makes your day. I bet it does.

Greg.

Monarchist · Jul 23, 2017

StrayAlien said:
Oh, and Bob, I set up my first internet connected server in 1996. I code for a living, and have been doing so since the 80's.

Your coming along 20-25 years late will not become our problem.

Older and wiser folks are already trialing technical solutions rather than f*****g about with spoilt script-kiddie tirades.

Some of the contributors of the graphics are no longer living. That is a challenge.

Shut up and go help grab and preserve content BEYOND your own patch if you want to do something USEFUL with your alleged skillset.

promacjoe · Jul 23, 2017

As I understand it, You can still story your photos on the site for free, You just can't link to them, without paying. Obviously, there were too many people linking to their photos on the site. The band with Must have been getting out of hand. In my opinion they could have done It differently, Instead of charging this kind of exorbitant fee, all at once, they should of set bandwidth limits for each user. And charge fees, Based on the usage of each member. And make sure people using It as a business, Were charged accordingly. For a business to get a free ride like this would be Unacceptable.

I don't know if this corporate decision will be a problem or not for them. They will definitely have fewer people storing images on the site. this includes companies as well. Only those companies that cannot afford The initial cost of a small server and static IP address, will consider using the service. individuals will just find other ways to post their pictures. and it may open the door for someone else to start doing a similar service, at a more reasonable cost.

only time will tell.

traditional-tools · Jul 23, 2017

StrayAlien said:
All feeling better now? Got that out of you system? Ahh ... good.

You've got to be kidding me...after you whine like a f#@$ing baby, then you have the nerve to say that to me and CarbideBob?

You deserve what happened. What a POS...who's getting it out of their system in this thread? LOL

Monarchist · Jul 23, 2017

promacjoe said:
individuals will just find other ways to post their pictures. and it may open the door for someone else to start doing a similar service, at a more reasonable cost.

only time will tell.

There are already alternatives. Bigtime.

It has been "cycling" that way ever since pre-DARPA, when a nailed-up DS2 was the "king" of broadband links, only NORAD could afford even those, and "graphics" were still being "built" with TTY characters.

BTDTGTTS, NYADS AN/FSQ-7 SAGE, AN/GSA-51 BUIC, NASA OSO-G.

We'll find a fix this time, too.

promacjoe · Jul 23, 2017

I just want to clarify something, from what I have read, The price is $399 per year. This allows you to Directly link your photos to other websites, Or post a link to that Pic. Otherwise you have to have a username and password to see the image. My question is, is the price $100 or $399, Per year. either way photo bucket has created a big problem for a lot of people. And they could have done it a little differently, making it easier for the customer to accept.

plastikdreams · Jul 23, 2017

What's a photo bucket?

DM · Jul 23, 2017

plastikdreams said:
What's a photo bucket?

History to many.

plastikdreams · Jul 23, 2017

Lol...that was the shizz when it came out.

dkmc · Jul 23, 2017

plastikdreams said:
What's a photo bucket?

I think it's kinda like a band with.... :scratchchin:

plastikdreams · Jul 23, 2017

Maybe potato bucket?

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