Photobucket gone to pot!

pepperami · Super Spammer Joined: 17 Jan 2010 Karma :

Well that didn`t turn out to well Evil or Very Mad

I had a little tour out on the bike and was going to post on here.
I went to my Photobucket account to upload the pictures so I could put them on here.

And I find that all my previous pictures are all gone and when I try to upload new ones, they`re all HUGE! and it wont let me reduce them to upload to another site (here)?
This isn`t the first time that I`ve had issues with Photobucket.

So can anyone recommend a picture hosting site that is easy to use by someone who is not very tec savvy please.
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Wafer_Thin_Ham · Super Spammer Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Karma :

resize before hosting online?

Postimage and IMGsafe are both quicker than photobucket, don't know if they allow resizing though (I know post images resizes to thumbnails.)
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Banana_B1 · Banned Joined: 09 Sep 2016 Karma :

Deleted my Photobucket account last week, it was immensely slow and was always down needing maintenance Thumbs Down

https://postimg.org/ Thumbs Up

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pepperami · Super Spammer Joined: 17 Jan 2010 Karma :

Hmm? thank you Smile

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doggone · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 May 2004 Karma :

postimage are as good as any just now, if you create an account you can make galleries too but use the thumbnail and link to larger and they do have some *interesting* adverts not suitable for everywhere you might want to post an image. Rolling Eyes

I think they are based in Russia so might be wise not to use your main email.

Eventually no doubt things will go wrong and they'll get greedy.

stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Photobucket, I'm sorry to say, is the only photo hosting site I've tried that's kept my images up and working for the long term.

There are articles I've posted on here that are nearly 10 years old and the images still work.

Flickr used to let them drop off the bottom (doesn't now, but I lost a lot of images that way) and is a pain in the arse to hotlink from.

Picasa became google and broke all the hotlinks.

Google itself can break a hotlink within minutes of posting it.

Imageshack. Nope.

Dropbox kicks you off after a period of disuse.

So yeah, annoying though it is, I'm still paying for a basic photobucket account. The thing that really annoys me is its habit of ordering pictures by EXIF date and time instead of upload date. Also no ability to search by filename (what sort of weird-arse system is that?). If I upload an old picture. It's a bastard to find it again.

What I should do is rent some webspace/bandwidth and host images myself. With an intelligent approach to backup, even if the whole lot goes down, any hotlinks should be able to be resurrected. I'm just too lazy to learn how.
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Feck feck feckidy feck!
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CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

Why hasn't anyone mentioned https://www.imgur.com yet?

I've been sing it for years and the pic size limit pretty huge.

MahatmaAndhi · Traffic Copper Joined: 10 Jun 2015 Karma :

I hate to admit it, but I agree with CaNsA. Imgur is great for hosting images.
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Suntan Sid · World Chat Champion Joined: 07 May 2009 Karma :

Never had a problem with PB, not had any resizing issues, never paid them a penny either!
Mind you, I don't take super high resolution, massive file size, photos.
The other thing I've noticed is, PB is shite if you're using a mobile device, (phone or tablet), it's much easier to use and less crash happy if you're using a desktop or laptop!
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Howling TerrorOutOfOffice · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Karma :

I upload via the PB phone App as it's less laggy than PC...and the website is slower than it was a few years ago.

The PB website doesn't like adblocker.

Used it since I started on here and all links still work.

Storage is 27% full

Me doing the clearances for the 1st time.

https://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/howlingterror_2006/IMG_0246001.jpg
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Fizzer Thou · World Chat Champion Joined: 06 Aug 2011 Karma :

Not had a problem with PB.My first account is 87% full and I keep getting reminders to do something about it via email.So I started a new account as I am not about to start paying.

I now have four PB accounts Thumbs Up

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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Anyway. Why are you resizing them after uploading?

So you're uploading the full size picture file then shrinking it after upload. That seems arse about tit.

If I want to resize images, I use GIMP with Davids batch processor addon.

Very simple and super quick. You select the files, choose how much you want to resize by, specify the file output type (or it'll default to .bmp) and modify the file name if you want to save them in the same folder as the originals. I find adding a 1 prefix groups all the resized images together.
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CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

Why bother resizing them?

When using imgur, add a single lower-case L before the file extension to the URL and it will auto resize to a large thumbnail.

https://i.imgur.com/picname.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/picnamel.jpg

Handy for when BCF skews the pic and throws it all out of whack because BCF can't auto resize correctly.

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CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

Example 1.

From this thread
https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=4339599#4339599

https://cdn.bcf.44bytes.net/files/skwiff.png

how the pic should look.

https://i.imgur.com/fOCufqp.jpg

stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

My laptop res is 1366x768

on my 1920 x 1080 monitors it looks fine.

blurredman · World Chat Champion Joined: 18 Sep 2010 Karma :

Photobucket went shit when they unveiled their new website. Was pretty much perfect concerning speed 6 years ago on the old website.
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