Off Topic Damn shame... (Photobucket)

Would love to see a graph the overlays the data usage trends for PB & IMGUR...just for the last 24 hours.
 
The adds have completely bogged down the site for a long time now. Every time I move the mouse a video, or image pops up. It didn't bother me because thats how they make their revenue, even though the site was getting more and more bogged down and slow. Now I cant get to my library and they want to extort me to get my pics and use their slow barely functional site!
 
I just got into my library and transfered this test pic...for free.....Only took 5 popups adds and 3 video adds to do so. I am going to check out imgur

 
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The adds have completely bogged down the site for a long time now. Every time I move the mouse a video, or image pops up. It didn't bother me because thats how they make their revenue, even though the site was getting more and more bogged down and slow. Now I cant get to my library and they want to extort me to get my pics and use their slow barely functional site!

If you cannot get your images backed up and off PB by the 5th, contact me please. They're holding a portion of mine...images in my albums replaced with their placecard image. Customer service immediately responded...now ignoring me. I gave them til the 5th to show forward progress in releasing my IPP to me by allowing a total account backup to a different host (or my device)...if not then I'm involving a lawyer. Tired of corporate crap.
 
Thanks to Thurin for pointing out...
Whelp...if you are using..
Using IMGUR is a risk!

I have been seeing a lot of people stating that they use it and will be using it to post photos to forums. As Thurin points out, the Imgur TOS specifically mention this
http://imgur.com/tos

Stuff not to do
If someone else might own the copyright to it, don't upload it. Don't upload gore, "hate speech" (i.e. demeaning race, gender, age, religious or sexual orientation, etc.), or material that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, or that encourages violence or crime. Don't upload illegal content such as child porn or nonconsensual ("revenge") porn. Don't hotlink to adult content or to file-sharing, gambling, torrent, warez, or Imgur rip-off sites. Don't impersonate someone else. 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.

With the influx of ex-Photobucket users using Imgur to link photos to forums, I'll bet the bandwidth spike will be enough to draw some attention.
 
Ugh, they are a pain to try and retrieve now let me know what you do Jaxx or if anyone knows a quick way to pull all the photos at once off of PB

been a frustrating few days

If you cannot get your images backed up and off PB by the 5th, contact me please. They're holding a portion of mine...images in my albums replaced with their placecard image. Customer service immediately responded...now ignoring me. I gave them til the 5th to show forward progress in releasing my IPP to me by allowing a total account backup to a different host (or my device)...if not then I'm involving a lawyer. Tired of corporate crap.
 
You should be able to download your pics still (I grabbed mine last night after all my links went pear shaped). Took a while, but the download album button grabbed them all in a zipped file.

~Chip

Ugh, they are a pain to try and retrieve now let me know what you do Jaxx or if anyone knows a quick way to pull all the photos at once off of PB

been a frustrating few days

David Brown David Brown , WValtakis gets credit for this :thumbsup::
You'll need a device with enough storage...tablet, phone, 'puter. Fast connection a bonus. 1. Open your Phuckobucket app. 2. Open first album. 3. Tap the three vertical dots. 4. Select "Download album". If you try sharing to say Dropbox, you'll only get the placecard image shared repeatedly...Must be download. 5. Repeat with every other album in your account. Each one. 6. Verify you got your downloads.

You can select more albums while downloading the first chosen to queue up for D/L as they will download to a newly created folder per album, i.e. on your device it'll be folder Photobucket_xxxxxx (..._Your Bucket, _Sheaths, _Busse, etc.).

All .gif files are not downloading, that's partially my issue with them right now. Instead, that damn placecard image gets d\l'd over & over...
 
I recommend you make a backup of everything you have now, while you can directly share to dropbox or another storage option in addition to direct download. They'll get to you, be patient. ;)
 
If worse comes to worse, viewing your photos and screen shot & cropping them works fairly well.
 
how do you download your library to pc or other hosting site?
 
how do you download your library to pc or other hosting site?
See post #29 for instructions for album(s) download to computer, phone, tablet.
To other hosting sites: 1. Open Photobucket app. 2. Open album. 3. Click the 3 angle dots next to 3 vertical dots. 4. Select " Share Album". 5. Select your site to receive (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.). 6. Repeat with each album. 7. Verify you got your pix in the destination hosting site.
 
Never really liked PB and hate IMGUR but I think at this point free image hosting is about gone Google might be the only one but with Google nothing is free. For those downloading images why didn't you have the copy already saved to PC or something? I have every picture I have ever had on PB and I don't know if or what happened to my PB account as I haven't used it since 2005 or 2006. I haven't needed or wanted to share images on-line in over 10 years with limited exceptions and those exceptions had their own means. I thought that this board had its own image hosting of sorts for certain tiers I would likely be most interested in it for this place so would probably look into that.
 
Just set up a Imgur account. How did you post this in Imgur. I just opened an account. Im used to photobucket with the img link. All i can do in Imgur is post the link
Test
PgNStks.jpg
 
figured it out. Copy from BB code, then directly paste on post.....first world problems
 
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