Recently, Photobucket decided to charge for embedding images. By how much? Only $40 a month or the cheaper $400 a year.
In my opinion, I find the price laughable especially when there's free alternatives.
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 8:26 am
by FireyPaperMario
Oh my... I better keep a eye on what I post on Photobucket!
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 12:07 pm
by Snessy the duck
That's an absolutely ridiculous decision, especially when we have so many other image hosting sites who don't charge. This is probably gonna kill the site.
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 4:21 pm
by DJFMHD
This is stupid. Even if they were going charge $40 a month? at least bring it down the something more reasonable than $400 a year.
It is just another example of a company thinking there big enough to start charging.
If your going to charge make it free and charge for more exclusive features.
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 4:31 pm
by kr4k1n
What a fucking waste uploading images to Photobucket is now, this will definitely come back to bite them in the ass some day.
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 5:08 pm
by timocomsmbx2345
Is there any reason for photobucket to do this?
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 5:12 pm
by Amine Retro
timocomsmbx2345 wrote:Is there any reason for photobucket to do this?
Money thirst.
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 5:42 pm
by FireyPaperMario
Well, in that case, I'm switching back to Imgur GDI
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 7:04 pm
by kr4k1n
timocomsmbx2345 wrote:Is there any reason for photobucket to do this?
They're getting greedy, there's not really any other good reason
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 3:03 am
by Cedur
This is strange, when I login and try to upload something, everything seems normal, and my embedded images are intact. Does it only apply for newly registering users?
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:18 pm
by AlphaFenix
R.I.P Photobucket
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:32 pm
by glitch4
I hope imgur doesn't do the same :<
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:33 pm
by Cedur
as long as there are free hosting servers, it's only their own deserved demise
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 5:13 pm
by timocomsmbx2345
glitch4 wrote:I hope imgur doesn't do the same :<
Me too becuse the board attachment quota is still reached.
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 5:45 pm
by NightKawata
who the hell uses photobucket any more compared to something like imgur? it takes me half the time to upload something to imgur via sharex, doesn't take 3 years to open the site compared to even bloody postimage, and especially as a paid service
photobucket is about as relevant as fuckin' myspace i'm pretty sure this decision is made to get them some cash before they shut down the company due to redundance
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 10:13 pm
by Julia Pseudo
Yeah this seems like a last ditch attempt to generate profit. Photobucket is way less popular than it used to be, pretty much everyone uses Imgur, or maybe Dropbox/Google Drive once in a while for images nowadays.
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 10:54 pm
by Kixubug
Pseudo wrote:Yeah this seems like a last ditch attempt to generate profit. Photobucket is way less popular than it used to be, pretty much everyone uses Imgur, or maybe Dropbox/Google Drive once in a while for images nowadays.
Agreed I knew that Photobucket is extremely less popular than Imgur. And for that I now hate Photobucket nowadays because it is not popular than imgur!
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 5:11 am
by Snessy the duck
The101MarioGuy wrote:And for that I now hate Photobucket nowadays because it is not popular than imgur!
Just so you know, popularity =/= quality.
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 8:29 am
by Cedur
yeah that's not the precise reason to think bad of Photobucket these days
Re: Photobucket
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 8:31 am
by Mable
Hating on something because it's not popular.. that would mean you hate every game that isn't popular like super mario or sonic.