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Post by bam_bam » Fri Jun 30, 2017 10:58 am

RANT ON.

So I've been a Photobucket subscriber (ยฃ80 per annum) now for 6 years. It's been getting progressively worse, namely its extremely bloated code causing navigation to become a pig. They've removed a lot of the great features such as tagging and it's impossible to get a meaningful sort order out of your photos. Don't even get me started on the app, whomever is responsible for the app deserves cancer injected directly into their eyeballs. Now, the final straw, they've changed the Ts&Cs on their paid accounts to not allow 3rd party hosting, this means that if you post[ed] your pictures on the forum using the [img] code, they'll block the image(s). To get around this they've added a 'super' account with 3rd party hosting and unlimited bandwidth, you can upgrade to this account for (wait for it...) $399.00USD... per fcuking year! Now, to say that I'm livid wouldn't do the colour purple justice, I'm literally a giant purple Hulk right now I'm so fucken angry. I get what they're doing, this type of super account is for people wanting to host images for money making purposes, ebay, ecty, blogs etc. But our uses are just for sharing photos on an enthusiast forum, this is non-profit sh1t like innit. But Cumbucket have shafted us forum users with this 3rd party hosting wrap up move.
For those of you that think "meh, no biggy, I'll just go to another photo hosting outfit", well you can, of course, but everything you've post on RS246 or other forums with Cumbucket via BBCode image tags will just fail to show, instead there's going to be an image of "Upgrade your account" or sumeshit, so it actually degrades the forum, a lot, it will look pretty shat if you're reading a thread that was previously populated with cool pictures, someones build thread or a step-by-step DYI picture guide, these will all look poo.
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Re: Photobucket

Post by daytonamart » Fri Jun 30, 2017 11:59 am

yep, already noticed the impact on other forums, makes for poor reading.
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Re: Photobucket

Post by bam_bam » Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:05 pm

No warning, just boom, fcuk up all of the forums. Cumbucket's response? Just pay up. I cannot see this going well for them. I'd pay the $99USD per year for 3rd party host... but $399!?!? At that price point all they're doing is motivating people to leave. Own goal reeetards.
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Re: Photobucket

Post by FaisalJ » Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:15 pm

That's pretty poor

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Re: Photobucket

Post by MrHilario » Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:20 pm

I like the cut of your jib Bam :thumbs:
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Re: Photobucket

Post by chunky79 » Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:26 pm

I've never paid to use photobucket, just loaded my pics on here as usual. That's kinda fecked it now hasn't it!
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Re: Photobucket

Post by bam_bam » Fri Jun 30, 2017 6:17 pm

It's almost impossible, Chunk. If you change picture hosts, that's all fine and easy but you'd still need to go back through ALL of your forum posts and update the image links from cumbucket to your new host. Who wants to do that?! This move has single-handedly ruined so many a forum. Also, there is nothing stopping your new photo host doing it again.
It's literally a ransom but the real victims are the forums that used to have vibrant threads with photos or how-tos or whatever, they will all be blighted by an ugly placeholder, with most of the threads becoming meaningless without pictures. You can't just take away rule 1.

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Re: Photobucket

Post by FaisalJ » Fri Jun 30, 2017 6:32 pm

They're taking a lot of abuse on their FB page; I wonder if they'll wise up


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Re: Photobucket

Post by MikeFish » Fri Jun 30, 2017 8:20 pm

FFS! I only ever used the free version but my build threads have gone to <beep> now! Well done cumbucket!

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Re: Photobucket

Post by Covkiller » Fri Jun 30, 2017 8:56 pm

Bam Bam, you must be pisssed off. I've never seen more than two sentances out of you.
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Re: Photobucket

Post by Silverfox42 » Fri Jun 30, 2017 9:47 pm

Bam, I will chuck a little dosh your way if it keeps your Friday thread images alive. They are always well researched and informative.
However, whats to stop Cumbucket upping their subscription in 12 months?

Open question: Is there a Sponsor out there who could offer all forum users a place to save images, and undertake to grab every image and save to a new host link?

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Re: Photobucket

Post by bam_bam » Sat Jul 01, 2017 11:35 am

Silverfox42 wrote: โ†‘
Fri Jun 30, 2017 9:47 pm
Bam, I will chuck a little dosh your way if it keeps your Friday thread images alive. They are always well researched and informative.
However, whats to stop Cumbucket upping their subscription in 12 months?

Open question: Is there a Sponsor out there who could offer all forum users a place to save images, and undertake to grab every image and save to a new host link?

Prepared to be shot down in flames, but how hard can it be?!

Dan
It's not that easy. Someone would need to build a tool that migrates a Cumbucket user account to the new hosting service, ensuring all of the folder structure and the image filenames remain the same. I can't imagine that Cumbucket would allow SDKs for such a tool to be written. Even if it were possible, the forum would need to then deploy a script to update the link for every image that a user had posted. There are a lot of what ifs.
I can think of more elegant solution but it still requires Cumbucket SDK or higher-level access. I can't imagine they'd allow it, helping users move to another service, errrm nope, that doesn't seem like their MO.

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Re: Photobucket

Post by skirs6 » Sun Jul 02, 2017 9:48 pm

Sorry may sound a bit thick but why do you need this photo bucket to put pics on this forum?? I just upload from my photo library. Am I missing something. Bam please don't embarrass me in public ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

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Re: Photobucket

Post by Ian_C » Sun Jul 02, 2017 9:57 pm

bam_bam wrote: โ†‘
Sat Jul 01, 2017 11:35 am
Silverfox42 wrote: โ†‘
Fri Jun 30, 2017 9:47 pm
Bam, I will chuck a little dosh your way if it keeps your Friday thread images alive. They are always well researched and informative.
However, whats to stop Cumbucket upping their subscription in 12 months?

Open question: Is there a Sponsor out there who could offer all forum users a place to save images, and undertake to grab every image and save to a new host link?

Prepared to be shot down in flames, but how hard can it be?!

Dan
It's not that easy. Someone would need to build a tool that migrates a Cumbucket user account to the new hosting service, ensuring all of the folder structure and the image filenames remain the same. I can't imagine that Cumbucket would allow SDKs for such a tool to be written. Even if it were possible, the forum would need to then deploy a script to update the link for every image that a user had posted. There are a lot of what ifs.
I can think of more elegant solution but it still requires Cumbucket SDK or higher-level access. I can't imagine they'd allow it, helping users move to another service, errrm nope, that doesn't seem like their MO.

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Re: Photobucket

Post by bam_bam » Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:15 am

skirs6 wrote: โ†‘
Sun Jul 02, 2017 9:48 pm
Sorry may sound a bit thick but why do you need this photo bucket to put pics on this forum?? I just upload from my photo library. Am I missing something. Bam please don't embarrass me in public ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
Nothing wrong with doing it that way, continue on my son. Some people have multiple forum accounts so you'd have to do that for each forum. It's more elegant to have a central picture repository. Also, the pictures are embedded thus appear boarderless innit.
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