Photobucket Sucks-How to replace the dead links

[John]

I am sure some of you have been getting emails from Photobucket  for months like I have that has been holding your photos for ransom. I am not about to pay for photo storage so I have been ignoring the emails as many of you probably have also.

So now the Photobucket-hosted images are all replaced by those dead link warnings all over the web. They look like this:


If you want to replace them with the original image you will still need to store them somewhere other than Photobucket (or pay them to get your photos back but Merikans don't negotiate with terrorists!!!). The original link to Photobucket that is embedded in your posts have the image name in it so you can search within your photos to refind said photo for replacement.

Note the original image name in blue from your original upload to Photobucket, it is still within the embedded link in your post:

[IMG ]http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/user123/P1020086_zpsa07db2d8.jpg[/IMG ]

Just edit to the new location:

[IMG ]http://anyoneotherthanphotobucket.com/freealbums/happyuser69/P1020086.jpg[/IMG ]

[DaveyTree]

Can we use anything other than photobucket?

[John]

Google Drive but it has limits too. I had a bunch of photos stored there and they eventually started charging but it was only $5 a year. I don't know what it is now.

I think you can hotlink Facebook photos too, just right-click on the photo and then click "Copy Image Location", should paste OK.

[mungeclimber]

Flickr is still free, so far. Can pick the size you want to embed from the options.

[DaveyTree]

I am not techy but on the taco I can pull them off my phone or computer without having to enter a link from Photobucket or anywhere else. I am sure there is a tech reason for this.

[mungeclimber]

Supertopo stores them on C-mac's servers. Third party storage like Flickr, etc. gives you the user maximum control over the images, usually. Not so much a tech reason in each case, but there are concerns behind hosting images.

Most bulletin boards can do this kind of storage, but if you have a big forum with a lot of users and if everyone is hosting pictures, it eats up your hosting storage as a website/forum provider. Plus there are risks with hosting other people's photos, so not too many forums do that without controlling who they let on. Spam bots can wreck a site in minutes if there aren't controls.

[daniel banquo merrick]

Get a domain name and a cheap web host which can be had for 3-4 $/month. Store all you photos there. My photos posted here are stored on my website hosted by inmotionhosting which was a good deal when I signed up. I have 1 terabyte disk space and am using 10 gigabytes. Both my domains, danielmerrick & dammerr,  are hosted there. Dammerr is a sub-domain which is free besides the domain name registration.

There are a lot of free applications such as wordpress, forums, wikis, Youtube clone, photo galleries, etc.