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They must have adopted their business plan from CNN...

I'm gonna wait till the dust settles and pick one of the alternatives that our experts here will undoubtedly recommend and explain how to use. Yesterday I signed up for Flickr and Imgur and can't figure out how to post a pic on this forum from either of them. Flickr is much more complicated. Imgur is astoundingly easy to open an account and load pics onto their site, but has zip info that I can decipher on how to post a pic to another site.

I have little tech knowledge nor interest and if I have to start finding and typing in stuff like httbsa:,//mysterycode.giflsbgmtpeekaboo//,,:gs then I won't bother to post pics. No great loss to me or anybody else.

I don’t mind paying a fair price for service rendered. Photobucket has harassed me while it worked and then blindsided me with the latest, so if I pay I will pay somebody else.

You don't have a f*cking clue


Mike

I'm also going to wait. I suspect that when PB comes to their senses, they'll retreat from this nonsense. If they again offer a limited free account, I'll already have my photos there. If they offer a low-cost option, I may opt for that. Emphasis on "may" because this kind of strongarm robbery tactic really irks me.

I tried it. Amazon changes the file name. There is no jpg or png extension on the file name so they can't be linked to a forum. If you click on 'share', it gives you an obscure file name that's unusable. I can't get it to display the properties to see what they've done with it. It appeared to upload it in it's original size rather than reducing it like PB does. That means that you can't post it unless you use a photo editor to reduce it before putting it on Amazon.

If I'm missing something, please post it.

Fixt.

But, by then the mass exodus will have occurred.

Okanagan, from another forum, this is how to post from Imgur:


From your photo screen, go to the bottom right and select which size you want. (Large Thumbnail works fine) Then go up to the box that says "BBC Code" and click Copy.

Now go to the place you want the photo to appear and Paste. That's it.

Tried that. All that shows up is a line of computer code. It is a link and if you click on it, then you can see the photo, but no photo has shown up in the half dozen times I've tried it on this forum and on one other. Thanks for the info. Will try it again. Maybe it is something in my old computer.




Rocky, Thank you! For some reason, this morning Imgur gave me different options and buttons to click than it did yesterday. Maybe my account was too new. Anyway, now it works. Thank you!

Maybe you clicked on the box that says Linked BBC Code. That's the wrong one.

Works fine for me...

Deleted my PB account. I had intended to anyways because of the obnoxious pop ups, but also because they made the user interface more convoluted than it once was.

STILL WORKING ON THIS FORUM

Sammo

Mine also worked till this week. In reading threads, others have been 'seized'
as well.

I'm guessing here but I think it MIGHT be based on the # of pix you transfer to
a single site. MOST of mine are posted in the 'fire'. Might be all wrong.

Get ready.

Jerry

Mines all jacked up. PB is pretty danged corrupt trying to get 400 bucks.... ridiculous

I've had a Flickr account for a number of years. It's never been as user friendly as PB, but of late, I can't use it at all. There seems to be no sign-in but yet I can see my own account. Pics will appear and disappear seemingly at random. Doesn't seem to be any way to post from it. Anyway, to summarize, Flickr seems unusable. Anybody else having these problems?

I asked around and lots of folks now use Picturetrail. It's free and, while it's a little different format, it's problem-free.

https://www.picturetrail.com/

I've used it in the past to complete satisfaction.

kd

Yep.....all and any of my pics with photobucket are gone

Even my avatar

My Account has been locked up for almost 2 years couldnt get in or out, and was just spinning guess its gone by now, would have liked to got some of my pics out tho, tried to contact them a bunch of times , they were no help! Screw em!

I only had 350 photos on PB so I deleted them all and went to Imgur. It works very easily, although their instructions are tough to find and follow.