Change in PhotoBucket Policy

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, 06:11 PM	#1
gunbugs Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Fairbanks, Alaska. Home of the best moose. Posts: 684 Thanks: 375 Thanked 1,231 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	#2
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...