Photobucket just disabled 3rd party hosting

[MinaciousGrace]

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hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[MinaciousGrace]

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capitalism at its finest

[MinaciousGrace]

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and i mean that with all the indignant praise i can muster

[DossarLX ODI]

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There goes a lot of Stepmania history. Related article on how Photobucket broke billions of images on the internet, and the rate being charged is super shitty too ($399 a year?).

I don't find the timing to be a coincidence either, because June 26th is a week before Independence Day/July 4th. So all of a sudden it's like "hey, want to show your pictures from Independence Day? Pay this yearly fee now!"

[TheSaxRunner05]

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Photof*ckit

[rushyrulz]

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out of curiosity, i checked this particular thread on the internet archive and i saw that there happened to be some snapshots of the thread from last year. i seem to be able to retrieve some of the images from there:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160602063743/http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=115282

is the ddreamstudio official guide a thread on here? maybe it would be possible to check if there are any archived versions of the thread to possibly get some of the images from there?

Thankfully, I still have access to my photobucket account and should be able to retrieve everything. But it appears that photobucket is having some .. technical difficulties right now of their own

[MarioNintendo]

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@rushy
Yeah, I faced these issues this morning too. Refresh the website from time to time, it comes and goes. I think I was able to recover everything I had on there. Now, time to re-upload and re-link everything... :/

Edit: I re-uploaded the pictures for the DDReamStudio guide. I think the safest free place to use right now, as strange as it may sound, is Blogger. It's been owned by Google for a few years now, so I don't expect any sudden changes from this platform. I created a new blog for the sole purpose of hosting my pictures, I publish them as posts that no one will read anyway. Here's my blogpost for the DDReamStudio guide: http://uploadpicturesfelleg.blogspot...-pictures.html

The link of the pictures look something like this if you right-click on them from the blog post directly:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I5H10LIYtPs/WVp78i8NaFI/AAAAAAAADWE/0LnfyBuJKQEEafeBUU2klFB8hLyIDnekgCLcBGAs/s320/2beats.jpg

However, I believe this shrinks them down just a bit. I found that if you click explicitely on the picture, and then right-click on it to get a link, here's the new link you get:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I5H10LIYtPs/WVp78i8NaFI/AAAAAAAADWE/0LnfyBuJKQEEafeBUU2klFB8hLyIDnekgCLcBGAs/s1600/2beats.jpg

Basically, it replaces s320 by s1600 at the end of the link. Thus, if you want the full size picture, replace s320 by s1600 in your post. Let me know what you think of this method.

[Wayward Vagabond]

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I mean I wouldn't mind paying for hosting yearly but 399 is pretty crazy

[TheSaxRunner05]

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If they expect $399 for something other sites do for free, they can kiss my ass. I think they just wanted to hold people's pics hostage for money, almost as bad as ransomware.

[DossarLX ODI]

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So Photobucket has been around since 2003, which is enough time to have been used in many different forums and sites.

Even if the $399 a year price took in mind the history associated with many sites that linked to Photobucket pictures, that's for ONE individual account. That doesn't resolve the millions of other users that got totally fucked. I haven't seen a single comment that supports this decision.

[Wayward Vagabond]

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It's a terrible decision.

[Dynam0]

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Since like 2015 my photobucket took 3 years to load anyways so w/e

puush ftw

[Arch0wl]

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this is basically a pump-and-dump with registration

I think the company realized they're no longer profitable and wanted to dissolve but take advantage of their situation to make some money first

they're not going to do this forever. they obviously knew this reaction was coming. what I think is going to happen:

- they take advantage of the people willing to pay the fee for a while

- they wait for a lull in people paying the fees, then activate a "trial period" of two weeks or whatever where people who have their photos can grab them from the website

- people who are quick enough can get their photos in this period, people who aren't face the I Told U So penalty

- photobucket owners make out with more money than if they just outright sold their company or whatever

[rushyrulz]

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alright, recovered the vast majority of the picture dictionary.

[Wayward Vagabond]

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Gotta get my nudes off pb before they're deleting