Photobucket Snaps: No Hotlinking (img tags) and Subscriptions Are Now $400/year - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE=download;52417915]I don't even know how a paid photo hosting site can compete when you have free Deviantart and Imgur.[/QUOTE] The problem with imgur is they recently removed the option to upload images on the mobile website and replaced it with a Get App! button. If you're using android, you gotta request desktop site and hope your phone can handle it, or download more bloatware wannabe social media shite just to use it as an image host.

I guess I will be using imugr then.

[QUOTE=ubersoldier;52418350]It was always meant to be a sharing site though? That was and still is Imgurs intended purpose. It certainly could be used as a personal image backup/host if someone wanted to for whatever reason, but it was never created for that. It was also [url=https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting/]built almost entirely for reddits own use[/url], so of course it's going to go the same way.[/QUOTE] It was originally just meant to be a "drop images here and post them wherever" service, in 2009-10 that's all it was [t]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zgIxFUws8RI/WVaGc4qjLOI/AAAAAAAAQmQ/a1X-dlhci447OAakJggv0xg4zzz0LnK5gCHMYCw/s0/2017-07-01_03-12-18.png[/t] Around 2011 they added the public "sharing" part [t]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4E6Wb-ZBraU/WVaGwVbH66I/AAAAAAAAQmU/2MRgB8NolAM5vMUoacZVYbSK9OBUc6yrQCHMYCw/s0/2017-07-01_03-13-36.png[/t] By 2013 that became the main focus of the site [t]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XGkkW_HZ_wg/WVaHB_SuJ-I/AAAAAAAAQmY/Lxob-NnYUFwPL_V8wgh2Zc_Wm3EQF3eSwCHMYCw/s0/2017-07-01_03-14-40.png[/t] And that just progressively became more and more forced, with the upload button being crammed into a single tiny spot (2015) [t]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L2v6_nCvIsc/WVaHSsqzrwI/AAAAAAAAQmc/x_8-r_DpnOIS240NNIu8ejUwcYFaO9yEwCHMYCw/s0/2017-07-01_03-15-45.png[/t] Now they're starting to force out people who still want to use the site as a simple image sharer, the way it was originally designed

Photobucket had its issues but it stayed up and functional long after a lot of the better sites people were recommending me to switch to. Seems like it's finally dead now, but I haven't used photobucket much for a long ass time anyhow, steam community took over for games and facebook is where most of my photos for friends and family go. Is there any hosts other than imgur that are likely to stick around forever? [QUOTE=TacticalBacon;52418370]The problem with imgur is they recently removed the option to upload images on the mobile website and replaced it with a Get App! button. If you're using android, you gotta request desktop site and hope your phone can handle it, or download more bloatware wannabe social media shite just to use it as an image host.[/QUOTE] People trying to force you to get an app to use their shitty site is easily one of the most frustrating technology trends

I honestly had no idea Photobucket still existed, and why would you even use it in 2017.

[QUOTE=kaze4159;52418408]It was originally just meant to be a "drop images here and post them wherever" service, in 2009-10 that's all it was Around 2011 they added the public "sharing" part By 2013 that became the main focus of the site And that just progressively became more and more forced, with the upload button being crammed into a single tiny spot (2015) Now they're starting to force out people who still want to use the site as a simple image sharer, the way it was originally designed[/QUOTE] No money to be made in just being a simple image host, imgur is going to eventually go the same way as photobucket and imageshack.

I wonder, where did imageshack go?

at least photobucket isnt imageshack christ what we had to go through before cloud based storage became viable

Aside from occasional deletion, is imgurs compression really that bad if you have an account? It's always looked fine to me.

[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;52417980]I wish we had a timeline of prominent image/file hosts for comparison's sake. It'd be nice to be able to compare how long different holsters lasted for, and to know the amount of users they handled, etc. I remember when 90% of the stuff you wanted was posted on imageshack and megaupload before IS went private and MU was taken down; We saw the rise and fall of Dropbox's public links, and for the last 6 years we've been toying with Google Drive, Imgur and Mega (with a sharp increase of decentralised hosters like mixtape.moe et al) and I wouldn't be surprised if one of them went bust in the next 5 years.[/QUOTE] I have a shitton of images on IS from back in the day :v:

Well, time to put my grandfathered free account to rest, it was a nice run Photobucket.

The image hosting debacle is a nasty one if you can't afford hosting things yourself (For real, some people can't afford even sub $5 things a month) or you're not technologically literate enough to set such things up. Like what are you supposed to use then? A lot of those .moe and whatever sites hardly last more than a month and the bigger ones go to shit because you don't make money just hosting images for free.

goddammit, it was already bad enough that imageshack's bullshit resulted in countless posts/guides/etc. from years ago becoming unusable or severely crippled, now this too? [QUOTE=kaze4159;52418408]And that just progressively became more and more forced, with the upload button being crammed into a single tiny spot (2015)[/QUOTE] i mean, to be fair, you can just upload by dragging an image literally anywhere on the screen or just pasting from your clipboard which is actually really convenient

Photobucket has a lot of these old 2007-2009 photos of old games (such as runescape, gmod etc.) sucks they will be gone now forever.

I used to use Photobucket back when I did photoshopped Gmod pictures, many years ago. It was already crap back then, but now....holy shit I guess you could say they are about to kick the bucket

[QUOTE=glitchvid;52418282]Yeah, I dunno how people expect companies to provide free image hosting (with hotlinking) and not eventually turn to shit once legacy costs start to raise, and venture capital starts drying up.[/QUOTE] Imgur is actually pretty profitable right now IIRC. Although of course they might decline in the future if users don't keep paying for their service/donating as much as they do. Just the general corporate tomfoolery is enough to switch to doing it yourself since in that case it's pretty easy to keep your shit alive for even a decade or two. Like imgur is weird, you'll find images that have been up forever, and then some will inexplicably be gone. Like you'll find an old forum post, all images uploaded by OP, with only half actually working.

What's the hate for imgur? I use it constantly for posting my work. Save them as .jpegs with low quality compression and you'll be fine.

[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;52418828]What's the hate for imgur? I use it constantly for posting my work. Save them as .jpegs with low quality compression and you'll be fine.[/QUOTE] It kills image quality

Almost no love for cubeupload in this thread. That host has been consistently simple and easy to use for years on end.

[QUOTE=Milkdairy;52418889]Almost no love for cubeupload in this thread. That host has been consistently simple and easy to use for years on end.[/QUOTE] Don't put much faith in that lasting. It's good for quick shares, but small hosts like that will usually hit a point where they can't really justify running it and eating the costs anymore and then it goes down.

[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;52418485]The image hosting debacle is a nasty one if you can't afford hosting things yourself (For real, some people can't afford even sub $5 things a month) or you're not technologically literate enough to set such things up. Like what are you supposed to use then? A lot of those .moe and whatever sites hardly last more than a month and the bigger ones go to shit because you don't make money just hosting images for free.[/QUOTE] I think Patreon will keep the pomf clones alive. Mixtape is at 216% funding right now from donations alone.

This is something that's being rolled out. It's hitting those who use up a lot of bandwidth/space first. If you're a low impact user like me (hardly any activity), your account might still be able to do hotlinking. All my images are still up and running, but I"ll be working on transferring everything to imgur this weekend. It's gonna be a bitch remembering where all my images are being used since I mostly used my account to host role playing images for forums.

[QUOTE=milktree;52418012]I remember when everyone here used filesmelt[/QUOTE] I miss files melt.

[QUOTE=kaze4159;52418408] And that just progressively became more and more forced, with the upload button being crammed into a single tiny spot (2015) Now they're starting to force out people who still want to use the site as a simple image sharer, the way it was originally designed[/QUOTE] imgur supports drag and drop. the entire website becomes one bigass upload button if you are dragging an image

[QUOTE=MrBacon;52418845]It kills image quality[/QUOTE] Doesn't seem awful to me. It fucks it over if you directly paste from your clipboard but uploading a file works fine.

I remember using jesusfuck.me for a while but it seems its dead as well.

imo the imgur compression is totally acceptable if you have an account instead of doing it anonymously

I'm glad they have a way to download your files easily. I had some ancient gmod screenshots and screenshots of old programming projects up there.

fuck all these image hosts, i host my images on my vps that when linked to, people assume is a virus, so i've got that going for me.

Anyone else here use mixtape.moe?