My old Photobucket links are working again... at the moment.

[davent]

For a time now have had my photobucket hosted photos appearing in my old posts on a couple other sites and just did a check of an old thread here, saturated with my pictures and for the most part on the pages i checked, most of the photos appeared. This time around those photos that did not appear were represented by a small blue square with a red "x" across it, no longer a ransom message.

I've done nothing with my photobucket account since they changed their model back in July last year.

dave

 

[FarmerTan]

Weird

 

[miguel]

looks like they want their customer base back. Photobucket restores photos "taken hostage," hopes to lure back customers with cheaper plans after last year's $399 debacle

 

[FarmerTan]

looks like they want their customer base back. Photobucket restores photos "taken hostage," hopes to lure back customers with cheaper plans after last year's $399 debacle

Hmm..... oh, love your avatar by the way.

 

[Mick]

Just when I have just about removed all 100 images that "used to be there".

No thanks photo-butt, you can keep all the empty space.

 

[simon1]

I just checked and mine are now showing up again also. I guess people told them to go screw themselves after their ransom demand.

I'm not going back to them after that crap. I'm doing just fine with imgur.

 

[davent]

And the devil is in the details.

From the article @miguel linked; going forward...

• Free: Photo sharing and ad-supported storage only. No third-party hosting.
• Basic: 2 gigabytes of photo storage and ad free hosting for $2.49 a month
• Intermediate: 20 GBs of photo storage for $3.99 a month
• Expert: 2 terabytes of photo storage for $8.99 a month
• Add third-party hosting to the intermediate or expert plans for $2.49 more per month

The limited time offer plan for $1.99 a month includes 10 GBs of storage and third-party hosting. When the offer ends — and no date has been set as the company is monitoring customer response — users who choose to stay with the company must pick one of the other plans. Annual plans will be discounted.

dave

 

[FarmerTan]

" monitoring customer response " lol. Finally listening to the customers...

 

[simon1]

I've been just storing photos on my computer since Photobucket went south. AllenHost is also simple...just copy/paste. Like this.