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Photobucket just...

Postby Silverin » 07/12/2017 12:48 AM

Ok soo... New thing with PB. Uncool.

I am kinda upset with this. We can't post images on other web pages now without paying for an account.

400 bucks for a yearly subscription.
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Re: Photobucket just...

Postby Mojave » 07/12/2017 2:28 AM

Yeeeeep. :/ I haven't even started moving all my junk to a different host because I've just been too tired after work to give a damn about much. I was wondering if the current Evelon pb costs that much a year, because if the price is gonna jump, does that mean all of our breedables and stuff that aren't going to be hosted on the Evelon server gonna have to be moved?
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Re: Photobucket just...

Postby Silver » 07/12/2017 8:26 AM

For those of you having trouble with your personal Photobuckets, you can use Dropbox in a similar way to create 'named' files. I know that's why a lot of people use PB over other hosting sites which just spit out a random unchangeable url.

How to:

Upload the image to Dropbox. Click 'share' then 'create a link'. Copy the link. This gives you a link you can click to view the image:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/az673ay0ske00xs/Dej.png?dl=0

Change the '0' at the end to a '1' to embed the image:

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[img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/az673ay0ske00xs/Dej.png?dl=1[/img]

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Re: Photobucket just...

Postby SpringsSong » 07/12/2017 8:46 AM

Silver, you just made life that much easier for me.  The only thing keeping me on PB was my adoptables, and now, Dropbox is that much more appealing again.

But yeah, this is going to blow up massively in PB's face.  Their cruddy, ad-riddled service isn't even worth $4 a year, let alone $400 (even if the ads go away when you pay; what's to stop them from increasing the price whenever the mood strikes them...) >>
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Re: Photobucket just...

Postby Thunder » 07/12/2017 2:21 PM

We've been talking about trying to move Evelon images to something else, cause....yeahhhh Photobucket is just super shitty now. I have no idea why they thought this was a good idea. They're just going to lose all their business : \
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Re: Photobucket just...

Postby Freezair » 07/12/2017 2:50 PM

Yeesh. I've had my Photobucket account for something like fourteen years. I made it in high school when the site's design was still Geocities-chic and haven't moved any of my images off it simply because it was too much work and everything I needed was already in one place. But this... I'm pretty sure they've actively forgotten what the point of an image hosting service is. They have made themselves literally unusable. I cannot fathom WHAT they think they're accomplishing with this move.

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Re: Photobucket just...

Postby Middy » 07/12/2017 4:08 PM

They've basically commited "business suicide" a term used in the business world. They surely have no idea how to even run a business at this point, and even if they did fix this issue, I don't see them recovering too well after. The damage is done.
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Re: Photobucket just...

Postby Redd » 07/12/2017 9:00 PM

Mojave wrote:Yeeeeep. :/ I haven't even started moving all my junk to a different host because I've just been too tired after work to give a damn about much. I was wondering if the current Evelon pb costs that much a year, because if the price is gonna jump, does that mean all of our breedables and stuff that aren't going to be hosted on the Evelon server gonna have to be moved?


They will be moved, just... eventually. x'D I just need to work out an elegant way on storing them and accessing them (and letting mods upload things) because goddamn there's like 2-3k Lucian alone 8'l
But yeah, I mentioned it in my journal/discord but I'm in the process of moving everything to our own hosting, because honestly, I had a feeling this was going to happen 8'l It... is just going to need to happen a lot sooner than I had anticipated.

Still though, that much money (granted the other plans are... slightly more reasonable) for extremely unreliable service? What were they honestly thinking?

Dropbox is actually a really good idea but! Another alternative for temporary files is puu.sh, since the software it's bundled with (ShareX) allows for file uploads, and it's good for screenshots on the fly. And also I think Zap uses Tumblr drafts if that helps people work out where to move their hosting to.

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Re: Photobucket just...

Postby zapdragon555 » 07/13/2017 12:49 AM

Yep, I use tumblr drafts!! It's very reliable--though occasionally, links may expire and lead to an odd error screen if they've been around for a long long long time. If this happens all you have to do is change the little number at the start of the url. For example:

https://41.media.tumblr.com/0bb96920dd8cd8858f3fe9388fc979cf/tumblr_osweh6YzgZ1ry7oxoo3_250.png

https://40.media.tumblr.com/0bb96920dd8cd8858f3fe9388fc979cf/tumblr_osweh6YzgZ1ry7oxoo3_250.png

The top URL is broken (I broke it on purpose for example) but the bottom one works. All I did was change the little number from 41 to 40. It takes a little guesswork but it's pretty easy to fix, and only happens to some files maybe once every year or so.



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