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jaazaniah1jaazaniah1 Posts: 5,431 Arc User
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So, now that Photobucket has screwed us all over I need a new image sharing service. What are others using that they can recommend?
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    themightyzeniththemightyzenith Posts: 4,599 Arc User
    Yeah, I second imgur.
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    doctorevilfacedoctorevilface Posts: 91 Arc User
    jaazaniah1 said:

    So, now that Photobucket has screwed us all over I need a new image sharing service. What are others using that they can recommend?

    What happened with Photobucket?
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    themightyzeniththemightyzenith Posts: 4,599 Arc User
    edited July 2017
    doctorevilface said:

    What happened with Photobucket?


    They decided that to have third-party hosting for your images, you will have to subscribe for $400 a year.

    They sneakily implemented it without warning too.

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    ealford1985ealford1985 Posts: 3,582 Arc User
    imgur and it's been much easier
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    flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    Seems to be working free for me.
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    They limited the storage space? And put it behind moneywall?

    Yup. Fckd up my pictures also. trying to save what i can and move somewhere else.
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    themightyzeniththemightyzenith Posts: 4,599 Arc User
    edited July 2017
    flyingfinn said:

    Seems to be working free for me.
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    They limited the storage space? And put it behind moneywall?

    No, they stopped you from embedding an image or photo onto another website unless you pay a $400 yearly subscription.

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/30/photobucket_charging_400yr_3rdparty_pgs/
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    spinnytopspinnytop Posts: 16,450 Arc User
    imgur is great because it loads really fast.
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    bluhmanbluhman Posts: 2,410 Arc User
    While Imgur's super good and lightweight and fast and everything, it's not usable for uploading and sharing costume files like these since it erases the extra costume metadata in the jpeg when it's uploaded:



    imgbb.com seems to perserve the metadata and seems pretty minimalistic, so I recommend using them for any costume file uploads.
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    themightyzeniththemightyzenith Posts: 4,599 Arc User
    bluhman said:

    While Imgur's super good and lightweight and fast and everything, it's not usable for uploading and sharing costume files like these since it erases the extra costume metadata in the jpeg when it's uploaded:



    imgbb.com seems to perserve the metadata and seems pretty minimalistic, so I recommend using them for any costume file uploads.

    Good info there bluh, thanks.

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    aesicaaesica Posts: 2,537 Arc User
    edited July 2017
    Photobucket has been utter garbage for years. I'm surprised anyone uses it for anything.

    Aside from imgur, there's also PostImage, which is similar but more barebones. I use it sometimes.​​
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    ealford1985ealford1985 Posts: 3,582 Arc User
    People kept saying that but I never had any issue.
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    shadowzero66shadowzero66 Posts: 331 Arc User
    PostImage also preserves the file name (and I assume the metadata) when uploaded, so there's that.
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    chaosdrgnz43chaosdrgnz43 Posts: 1,674 Arc User
    Imgur is by far the best alternative, just hope they won't pull a Photobucket on us.
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    decorumfriendsdecorumfriends Posts: 2,802 Arc User
    Another vote for imgur. I recently switched to them when imgbox shut down, and have had no issues whatsoever. Oh, wait, one small one that it thinks my larger .gifs are video, but I can dig down and get the real .gif link with little trouble.
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    jaazaniah1jaazaniah1 Posts: 5,431 Arc User
    Many thanks for the suggestions. Going to give Imgur a try for now. At least my sig is back to normal :)
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    avianosavianos Posts: 6,028 Arc User
    edited July 2017
    Imgur is the BEST
    create an account and organize your pictures
    I had been using it 3 years now and left Photobucket to burn
    themightyzenith wrote: »
    What happened with Photobucket?
    They decided that to have third-party hosting for your images, you will have to subscribe for $400 a year.

    They sneakily implemented it without warning too.

    God I knew that Photobucket was full of greedy scumbags, but that goes too far. This certainly won't help them with their competitors, in fact they just dug their own grave

    also who still using Photobucket nowdays instead of Imgur?​​
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    catstarstocatstarsto Posts: 1,129 Arc User
    doesn't Facebook have gallery's for people to post albums and stuff??

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    bluhmanbluhman Posts: 2,410 Arc User
    edited July 2017
    chaosdrgnz43 said:

    Imgur is by far the best alternative, just hope they won't pull a Photobucket on us.

    Well photobucket was largely based on the principle of being a site to share actual photos on - like, normal people photos, not internet gifs and game screenshots. The reason it gained traction in the first place is that it was one of the better options for uploading any kind of image back in the mid 2000s, as it didn't compress your pictures into splotchy jpeg hell or your animations into crumbly 16-color gifs. Its resorting to its current tactics basically to offset the modern-day challenges that would be posed for a site trying to upload and store jpeg photos with like 10k resolution; by advertising a ton to offset hosting costs and including features that most average users wouldn't need, like photo-effect filters and editing. The core demographic the site is for is for people who literally want to print their pictures onto coffee mugs and t-shirts or as like actual pictures on their wall. The costs of supporting those features are offset now with disabling hosting of images offsite, or the amount of ads encountered when trying to browse through galleries.

    Imgur is so strongly rooted in internet culture that trying to integrate actively intrusive popups and features to print your latest uploads as portraits (i.e. your animated gifs of a lizard drinking water or a post of some people talking online about grammar) would probably be more detrimental and pointless than useful for the kind of users on that site. Those also wouldn't be things you'd want to print as eternal keepsakes because a lot of that stuff becomes irrelevant the very next day! Instead, most of the expenses are aimed towards keeping servers running and hosting their gallery (which doubles as a weird social media situation), while also displaying ads as banners and integrated entries in the gallery.

    Basically, hosting images for use online is one of the core purposes for why Imgur exists, and so that's why it probably won't become horribly bloated in the future, as that'd be an extremely poor move for their target demographic.
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    aesicaaesica Posts: 2,537 Arc User
    bluhman wrote: »
    Basically, hosting images for use online is one of the core purposes for why Imgur exists, and so that's why it probably won't become horribly bloated in the future, as that'd be an extremely poor move for their target demographic.
    To elaborate further, the imgur dude stated in an ama that he quite literally made the site in response to how annoying/crappy other image sharing sites were. I'd be legitimately surprised if he ever decided to steer the site down the same road as photobucket, imageshack, tinypic, and the other subpar services that inspired the creation of imgur in the first place.​​
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    jonsillsjonsills Posts: 6,317 Arc User
    Thanks for the heads-up - I'd been using Photobucket, but haven't had occasion to visit the site for a while. I think I'll check out Bluh's recomendation of imgbb. Never heard of that one before, but Bluh's word is fairly trustworthy, I think... :smile:
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