Photobucket disaster…

Updated on February 5, 2013 By Ken Begg 9 Comments

Photobucket has indeed forced account holders over to their new format. Despite all evidence, I do not in fact want to use Photobucket to tell a fucking story, whatever the fuck that means. I want to be able to do the same shit on their site that I’ve been doing for years now. They’re literally made that impossible. I REALLY want to cancel my paid account, but then I’m sure all my previous links will disappear. So I’ll have to continue to pay them to make it a caretaker site, which really, really sucks.

The lack of a thumbnail on today’s MotD is part of this. You can’t do that anymore. I guess the idea is that I’d have to edit each Photo–once I can figure out their retarded new editing system–and store it was a second image, and then link to that. That’s way too much work.

I guess I’ve got to find a new home for my photos to work from for the future. Any suggestions? I swear, this is so disheartening I feel like weeping.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    I wish I had an alternative; someone in the comments on the previous thread suggested SlickPic. I use my own website for the most part to host images, so I don’t really know if SlickPic or imageshack or any of the others would do what you want them to do. This is really, really bad news though.

  • Gamera977

    I’m getting used to the new PhotoBucket, course I don’t post anywhere near as many photos as you do Ken. Still don’t really like the new format either.

  • Arthur

    imgur is pretty good.

  • Ken_Begg

    OK, the new site sucks ass in pretty much every way. The PROBLEM, though, is that they no longer allow you to drag an image to the desktop. You can only drag a link to the original image. That doesn’t comport with WordPress, which may be by design. The design garbage is awful enough, but removing functionality is what makes Photobucket completely useless to me now.

    Chances are I’ll have to establish another paid account somewhere else, which means I’ll be paying for two accounts instead of one, one of which I will no longer be using.

  • Ken_Begg

    Yeah, it looks better than Flickr or whatnot. It allows downloading from URLs, and you can drag a photo onto the desktop. The best of the ones I’ve looked at so far. Thanks!

  • Arthur

    Glad to be of help. I’ve never known imgur to go down, or randomly decide it’s going to block hotlinking for a while, or stop serving images if you’re browsing from a particular country, or what have you, which is a point in its favour more or less no over online photo album-type sites of my acquaintance can boast.

  • Ken_Begg

    Plus it seems to be a community based site, and thus (hopefully) less likely to decide that the preferences of the customer don’t matter.

  • Gamera977

    Sorry I can’t be more help, PB works for what little I use it, I can’t imagine the hassle of using it everyday for a blog like this.

  • Ken_Begg

    It was no hassle up until today; now it’s instantly unusable.