Post by MCDemuth on Jul 4, 2017 18:39:42 GMT -5
Fellow Gingerologists...
I have just been informed of this discouraging news...
Photobucket Is Planning To Stop Their Free Photo Hosting...
From: petapixel.com/2017/07/01/photobucket-just-broke-billions-photos-embedded-web/
Well Gingerologists...
Many (not all) photos that I have posted in our discussion threads and on the website itself here, are hosted by Photobucket. As far as I know, they are all still be displayed for FREE.
I am not going to pay $399.00 per year to host my photos with them. As much as I love Miss Ginger Rogers, I just can NOT afford that ridiculous amount. To be honest, I am surprised that they think anyone will pay that huge amount.
I have some other accounts at other ProBoards websites and I post photos on those websites too... So, It seems that I will have no choice but to find another place to host photos. As soon as I find a new place, I will re-upload my photos to the new hosting website, and then I will work hard on fixing my posts here.
I need to find a great and trustworthy photo hosting website, so It may take a while to do that, and to get all my photos uploaded again...
I want to be sure to do a good job, so please be patient with me.
Thank You All.
I have just been informed of this discouraging news...
Photobucket Is Planning To Stop Their Free Photo Hosting...
"Since 2003, the popular photo hosting service Photobucket has been letting users upload and host images for free on their servers. They have over 10 billion images stored by 100 million registered users. But now they’re going to start charging, and that means billions of images around the Web are now broken.
Hotlinking (AKA inline linking) is when someone takes an image file hosted on a server and embeds it on a different webpage elsewhere. Since the new webpage continuously requests the file from the original source server, it saps the server owner’s bandwidth (and storage space).
Photobucket allowed hotlinking photos uploaded to and stored on its servers for a long time. This was their business model, and they made money from ads on their own site, which users would be exposed to when they went to upload content.
Unfortunately for Photobucket users, things are about to change in a big way as of June 26th. Now the service is rolling out a $399 per year subscription fee for those who want to hotlink images from Photobucket’s servers to display elsewhere. That means that billions of images across the Web now display an error message instead of the image in question."
Hotlinking (AKA inline linking) is when someone takes an image file hosted on a server and embeds it on a different webpage elsewhere. Since the new webpage continuously requests the file from the original source server, it saps the server owner’s bandwidth (and storage space).
Photobucket allowed hotlinking photos uploaded to and stored on its servers for a long time. This was their business model, and they made money from ads on their own site, which users would be exposed to when they went to upload content.
Unfortunately for Photobucket users, things are about to change in a big way as of June 26th. Now the service is rolling out a $399 per year subscription fee for those who want to hotlink images from Photobucket’s servers to display elsewhere. That means that billions of images across the Web now display an error message instead of the image in question."
From: petapixel.com/2017/07/01/photobucket-just-broke-billions-photos-embedded-web/
Well Gingerologists...
Many (not all) photos that I have posted in our discussion threads and on the website itself here, are hosted by Photobucket. As far as I know, they are all still be displayed for FREE.
I am not going to pay $399.00 per year to host my photos with them. As much as I love Miss Ginger Rogers, I just can NOT afford that ridiculous amount. To be honest, I am surprised that they think anyone will pay that huge amount.
I have some other accounts at other ProBoards websites and I post photos on those websites too... So, It seems that I will have no choice but to find another place to host photos. As soon as I find a new place, I will re-upload my photos to the new hosting website, and then I will work hard on fixing my posts here.
I need to find a great and trustworthy photo hosting website, so It may take a while to do that, and to get all my photos uploaded again...
I want to be sure to do a good job, so please be patient with me.
Thank You All.