To make their crappy site even worse, Photobucket has been deleting all uploaded content with no warning, and "offering" new accounts for $100+ a year!! WHAT A DEAL! This means thousands of pictures in our threads here, that were linked to a PB upload, are disappearing. Just deleted my account, and will never return there. The absolute WORST site on the WWW!!

 

They have been real bad for a while and this is extortion

 

Ya. I got that third party hosting bs crap email as well. Too bad all the linked photos here are probably already gone.
what a shame.

 

"Extortion" would be if they were holding my pics hostage -- but they just deleted them! I never got any emails. No matter, it had become such an unstable site I deleted most of it a month ago.

 

 

This sucks. I haven't used photobucket for several years, but my early pictures posted in threads are now gone.
I have them on my pc, but it would be a pain to upload them again. Figuring out what ones were would be next to impossible.
Since pictures are so helpful, people needing help may have to resurrect old threads and ask for the pictures again.

 

After a couple of months, you can't edit old posts anyway.

 

Well that's just great!! All my pictures that I have posted were usually from Photobucket. They've been going downhill for a while, just never expected them to stoop this low.

 

and not even a reach around

 

Well that kills all the pictures I have on this board. Now I have to try to rebuild any threads I have on other sites as well.

 

Can you imagine the 1000's of forums that have "how-to's" with PB pics inserted, that are now near worthless?? I'd say PB is toast.

 

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I've seen a few of them on here now..

 

We'll that sucks. I thought I lost my pictures since I hadn't gone into my old account in a while. My 45 page thread on my F1 is basically worthless, along with the various other build threads I have for other projects. I just went to that link, and the want $400 a year to be able to post to 3rd party websites! It's a shame to lose all that work, but there's no way I'm paying that much just to post pictures on an internet forum. Like others have said, I think this might be the end of photobucket. How many people actually use that site for anything other than posting to forums?

 

Thanks for the warning, this is also why I take the time to attach all photos now. No dealing with photo hosting sites.

 

So sorry for you guys and the rest of us that RELY on these pictures. As they say "A picture is worth a thousand words" Around here that is definitely true. I have shared this before but I use Goggle Photos (Free and unlimited cloud storage). They are instantly viewable on your phone and laptop automatically when you take a picture. Then all you have to do is download them to a hard drive. Back it up of course. The bad thing, you still have to up load them to FTE site when you post.