Photobucket phail

13 September 2019, 11:34 AM

AdagioM

Photobucket phail

I can see that some of our friends here have custom avatars hosted by Photobucket, like I did.
WTG, Daniel...you’re blurry and watermarked!

I received an email saying that my account was over their 25mb limit for free access. I really don’t use photobucket any more except for a few stray avatars, so I went in and dumped a bunch of pictures. But my WTF avatar was still blurry, because Photobucket uses a rolling 30 day average. I don’t want to be blurry for a month!

So now I’m hosting my avatar on my blog site. I feel so crisp!

13 September 2019, 11:40 AM

Mikhailoh

Quite a while back I downloaded everything I had on PB. First they told me I could only have 250 images. So I went in and cut my bucket down below that. Then they said I could only have 25 MB and I had 265MB. So I deleted every damn picture I had. They are still sending emails that I am over the limit. Greedy bastards.

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"A mob is a place where people go to get away from their conscience" Atticus Finch

13 September 2019, 09:56 PM

AdagioM

I have the same kind of thing going with Flickr. But I have a lot of photos on my blog that are hosted on Flickr, and I don’t have the time to go back and download and change them, so I’m paying for Flickr. I won’t pay for both Flickr and Photobucket, so Photobucket loses here.

14 September 2019, 10:29 AM

wtg

quote:
Originally posted by AdagioM:
I can see that some of our friends here have custom avatars hosted by Photobucket, like I did.
WTG, Daniel...you’re blurry and watermarked!

thanks for the heads up, AM. I didn't realize it was still on Photobucket; I stopped using it years ago when they stopped being free. I'm surprised that the avatar was still showing up.

I'll get around to fixing it one of these days...

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14 September 2019, 12:16 PM

wtg

Mik, how did you download the images? I could find a way to do one at a time, but not a batch download. They've either disabled it or are hiding it somewhere....

14 September 2019, 12:28 PM

Steve Miller

I can't get in to my PB account at all. Passwords now require 6 characters and mine had only 5.

Oh well.

14 September 2019, 12:46 PM

wtg

Steve, I stumbled upon this whilst looking for how to download bunches of pics. Maybe it will help you get back in?

https://secure.photobucket.com/forgot

14 September 2019, 01:56 PM

wtg

I'm doing this the hard way, cleaning up all the pics I don't want anymore, then downloading the ones I want to keep, one at a time...pant, pant....

14 September 2019, 02:22 PM

Steve Miller

Ha! That worked! Thanks WTG!

Now it says my account is restricted because I have too many pictures. I can't share or download anything.

To take the account off of restriction they want $4.99 per month. If I signed up for a month I could download all of my pictures and then delete enough pictures to keep the account active. The only reason I hesitate as it can be difficult to cancel monthly services like this once they get started.

Has anyone tried to cancel Photobucket?

14 September 2019, 02:37 PM

Mikhailoh

quote:
Originally posted by wtg:
I'm doing this the hard way, cleaning up all the pics I don't want anymore, then downloading the ones I want to keep, one at a time...pant, pant....

Yep. That is how I did it. Another reason not to pay them - their platform is awful. I also have a problem with the fact that they attracted everyone by being free then locked up the pictures.

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"A mob is a place where people go to get away from their conscience" Atticus Finch

14 September 2019, 02:39 PM

Mikhailoh

quote:
Originally posted by Steve Miller:
Ha! That worked! Thanks WTG!

Now it says my account is restricted because I have too many pictures. I can't share or download anything.

To take the account off of restriction they want $4.99 per month. If I signed up for a month I could download all of my pictures and then delete enough pictures to keep the account active. The only reason I hesitate as it can be difficult to cancel monthly services like this once they get started.

Has anyone tried to cancel Photobucket?

Yeah. I paid the one month, downloaded everything then quit. I think you should still be able to delete pics. You just have to get by their messages that try not to let you by without paying. I did that by clicking on library up at the top left.

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"A mob is a place where people go to get away from their conscience" Atticus Finch

14 September 2019, 03:17 PM

wtg

You can download, Steve. You have to go to each photo and then there's an option to download.

I'm deleting the stuff I don't want first; no problem doing that.

They made it as painful as possible to get your photos back. They keep popping up a message asking you to sign up or to remind you in five minutes. I keep clicking on the "remind in five minutes" option.

What a bunch of shysters.

14 September 2019, 05:09 PM

Steve Miller

Heh. Even if you sign up for a month you can only download one picture at a time and it's very, very slow.

Off to cancel the subscription.

14 September 2019, 05:32 PM

AdagioM

Ugh.

I have most of those pictures elsewhere on my computer; I only put them on Photobucket so I could share them. Those shared picture posts would be so old, no one would be looking for them any more.

So I just took my avatar, and left my Pw ABForum medals (which will be blurry for a month).

I understand that they need money, but it’s not a user-friendly platform, so I won’t pay for it. So many other hosting options that actually work.

14 September 2019, 05:55 PM

Mikhailoh

I wanted to leave an appropriate message for Photobucket as my last remaining image. Unfortunately I could not find one and was too lazy to create it.

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"A mob is a place where people go to get away from their conscience" Atticus Finch