Change in PhotoBucket Policy

alvin · 10-01-2017, 01:10 PM

In another forum, we always used www.tinypic.com. No registration required. Have not used it for years, but just tried it, it still works. After uploading, they assign a http link, just for example

http://oi65.tinypic.com/11qqqtv.jpg
http://oi64.tinypic.com/a0fm07.jpg

Video also works. No registration required.

gunbugs · 10-01-2017, 06:11 PM

I don't understand the advantage of using an outside sever to host your personal photos. I just keep mine on the computer and periodically back them up on a thumb drive. If someone needs to see one of my photos, I just download it from the computer. Seems simpler to me. But what do I know.

flydive · 10-02-2017, 02:26 AM

Like I and probably a lot/most people do. I used Photobucket only few times.

The use of Photobucket is/WAS to load pictures to link in posts on forums(fora).
Not all forums have a gallery available and sometimes you might want to link the same picture to more than one forum, and having only one repository made it easy.
For that Photobucket was good.

The plugin allows you to see pictures on old threads that were ruined by Photobucket new policy.

Unfortunately it will probably not last long, but till then...

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10-01-2017, 01:10 PM	#1
alvin User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: US Posts: 3,843 Thanks: 132 Thanked 729 Times in 438 Posts	In another forum, we always used www.tinypic.com. No registration required. Have not used it for years, but just tried it, it still works. After uploading, they assign a http link, just for example http://oi65.tinypic.com/11qqqtv.jpg http://oi64.tinypic.com/a0fm07.jpg Video also works. No registration required.

10-01-2017, 06:11 PM	#2
gunbugs Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Fairbanks, Alaska. Home of the best moose. Posts: 683 Thanks: 375 Thanked 1,230 Times in 415 Posts	I don't understand the advantage of using an outside sever to host your personal photos. I just keep mine on the computer and periodically back them up on a thumb drive. If someone needs to see one of my photos, I just download it from the computer. Seems simpler to me. But what do I know.

10-02-2017, 02:26 AM	#3
flydive User Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Switzerland Posts: 63 Thanks: 1 Thanked 45 Times in 23 Posts	Like I and probably a lot/most people do. I used Photobucket only few times. The use of Photobucket is/WAS to load pictures to link in posts on forums(fora). Not all forums have a gallery available and sometimes you might want to link the same picture to more than one forum, and having only one repository made it easy. For that Photobucket was good. The plugin allows you to see pictures on old threads that were ruined by Photobucket new policy. Unfortunately it will probably not last long, but till then...