*BIG* Photobucket Problem...

Yeah Rico mine are two but they are rolling it out. I pay for a pro license but Im not paying $400 a year to host pictures which is what they are asking when I need to renew it... it will be the same for you.

I think it would be cheaper to just use the site uploader and if we need to expand the space we spend money doing that rather than us all splashing out $400.
 
Types of Accounts, Pricing and Limits

  • Visiting : There is no cost to visit the Site or to register as a Member.
  • Free account : Each individual Member gets one free account that provides 2 GB of free storage or space available for your original photo files, or videos under 10min. The free account does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting. If a free account Member exceeds their Content Limit, their account will be immediately suspended and they will need to become a “Paying Member” (defined below) in order to continue accessing their account. You can upgrade to a Plus account at any time.
  • Ad-free Account : The Ad-free Account offers Members the ability to use the Site without seeing any third party banner advertisements when logged into your Ad-free Account (note, viewers of your images within Photobucket will see ads unless they, too, have Plus accounts and you will continue to see Photobucket offers and announcements). This account level is available for $2.49 / month, payable by the Member on a monthly recurring basis.
  • Plus Account : The Plus Account offers several paid options that may give the Paying Member more storage, bandwidth, 3rd party image hosting, image linking and/or other services as outlined below. Once and during such period of time in which you subscribe to and pay for a Plus Account, we will consider you a "Paying Member." Please note that all Plus Account subscriptions are billed annually at the commencement of the service. Photobucket may also offer a monthly billing option for its Plus Accounts (see terms and restrictions, below).
  • Available Plus Account Plans : Photobucket offers the following Plus Account Plans:
o Plus 50 Plan: 52 GB of Storage for $59.99 / Year. The Plus 50 Plan does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting.

o Plus 100 Plan: 102 GB of Storage for $99.99 / Year. The Plus 100 Plan allows for unlimited image linking but does not allow 3rd party image hosting.

o Plus 500 Plan: 500 GB of Storage and unlimited bandwidth for $399.99 / Year. The Plus 500 Plan allows for unlimited image linking and unlimited 3rd party image hosting.
 
MQHfhee.png
 
I have hated using Photobucket for a long time because of all the ads, spam mail, and user unfriendly site, so this is a good reason to change. Too bad about all previous pics here, in my signature and over at BFC. I'm going to try Imgur.
 
"....There's hope this is a mistake, or that Photobucket's management will realize the scale of the problem they have created with this change...."

I hope this happens, otherwise I will have to start removing broken images of my own and others in the different galleries.

@Shane ... How long do you think I should wait to clean the galleries?
 
I use Smugmug for hosting my photos......not sure if it suits the needs of this site, but it works for me.



Steve
 
Louis said:
"....There's hope this is a mistake, or that Photobucket's management will realize the scale of the problem they have created with this change...."

I hope this happens, otherwise I will have to start removing broken images of my own and others in the different galleries.

@Shane ... How long do you think I should wait to clean the galleries?
Click to expand...

We can give it a week. Problem will be mine as I have thousands of pictures up....

Sounds horrendous but best thing may be to just empty all the galleries and we start again using imgur?
 
This has given me such a problem... I have literally thousands of images linked into the forums.
Allowing image uploads direct to site will eventually slow us down so Ive disabled it.
However this also gives us an opportunity if I do move all the pics to a storage area and each topic is clean we can then start putting up pics of real substance... with detailed info on the pictures etc.
I would actually be happy to go with this as soon as.

@Louis Im leaving the decision up to you as you are the caretaker.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom