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Photobucket Officially Sucks!
« on: June 30, 2017, 07:07:07 AM »
I've had an account there for years. They have been progressively going to hell. Slow, too many pop ups, etc. Now they want money to "upgrade" so I can post photos I've already posted. I'm done.

So now I've got hundreds of pictures stored there I can't use. I just opened an account at Flickr. That's a PITA. I can't get URL links to post photos. Just a http link that will lead back to my account there. I want to be able to post photos like I did at Photobucket before it went to hell. What do you guys recommend? I'm already getting aggravated.  >:(

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Re: Photobucket Officially Sucks!
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2017, 08:39:47 AM »
I had same issues trying to post photos from OFASTS just this week.  Slow as molasses and huge ad exposure...
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Re: Photobucket Officially Sucks!
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2017, 09:04:50 AM »
I just opened an account with Imgur. (www.imgur.com). It uploads fast, and all of the editing features and links to post your photos are easy to use. And it's free.

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Re: Photobucket Officially Sucks!
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2017, 10:01:13 AM »
Flickr works for me.  You can upload full-size images and they give you 1 terrabyte of storage for free.  Not perfect but much better than Photobucket ever was.  Now that Verizon bought Yahoo we'll see what they do with it (Yahoo owns Flickr).

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Re: Photobucket Officially Sucks!
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2017, 11:03:27 AM »
Flickr works for me.  You can upload full-size images and they give you 1 terrabyte of storage for free.  Not perfect but much better than Photobucket ever was.  Now that Verizon bought Yahoo we'll see what they do with it (Yahoo owns Flickr).

I have a Flickr account as well. But I'm having problems getting a url link to post pictures. All I can get is a link that links it back to my Flickr account to see the photo there. I'm not very computer literate.

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Re: Photobucket Officially Sucks!
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Re: Photobucket Officially Sucks!
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2017, 11:12:44 AM »
I am removing almost 200 gigs of pics from photibucket bow.
I always break all the clay pigeons,  some times its even with lead.

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Re: Photobucket Officially Sucks!
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2017, 11:27:48 AM »
Unless I want to show really high detail, I usually just make a "smaller" copy (under 300k in file size) and attach it to the post as a file.
If I want a full sized picture in the post then I've always used photobucket....but have also been thinking about switching and deleting my account because of all the crap involved now.
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Re: Photobucket Officially Sucks!
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2017, 11:28:15 AM »
I am removing almost 200 gigs of pics from photibucket bow.

How? Can you give me "step by step" instructions when you have time?

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Re: Photobucket Officially Sucks!
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2017, 12:05:42 PM »
Right click save as.
I always break all the clay pigeons,  some times its even with lead.

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Re: Photobucket Officially Sucks!
« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2017, 12:16:02 PM »
Right click save as.

I tried that. I used, "Save Target As". But when it went into, "My Pictures" it won't open.

 

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