Anyone having issues with Photobucket?

[Sonic]

Im not keen on the new layout either, but i cant see some skimming the thread on their forum where it says existing images will be moved or the links changed? That would be a disaster.

[speeding-g60]

i am sure the links will stay the same.

my point is the fact that i pay for their hosting, and the service i pay for has been changed, and not to my liking. so i wont be paying for this hosting anymore.

what that means for my case, is that they do not allow 12GB worth of data on a non-paid for account, and that is what i have today. and when i quit paying, i will have too much data in my Pro account for a free account (that i have 7 other ones of those might i add) so what will happen then? who chooses what pictures stay and what pictures go?

maybe i am just stubborn, and set in my ways. forcing change on people doenst sit well with everyone, there will be some not with the new program.

and you only have a few more days to change back to the old layout before it is mandatory all the way. i have filled out the survey and switched back numerous times. always to be returned to the new layout.

[Error404]

I am another one who hates this new style. :corey:
For me the most annoying thing is that its not arranged on pages. I have about 50 pages of photos not arranged into albums. If i put them into albums their URLs chage and I'd have to fix 1000s of links.
On the new style one I have to scroll through 1000s of photos to find the ones i want With a piss porr internet connection as i have on my cul de sac right at the end of the line from the exchange, I get about 500kbps if i am lucky, so I can't even find my ****ing pictures. If i could find the **** who decided to **** with photobucket I'd chop their tarty ****ing legs off.

I think I will vote with my feet and find another options from now on. If it ain't broke don't fix it - ****ers :corey:

[Sonic]

The most annoying thing for me is not being able to easily select which folder to upload to from the iphone app

You can set a default folder, but that's it.

[Acidburn]

from looking on photobucket earlier it now seems they've decided to roll out the rubbish version today instead of the 18th when it was planned.
It seems the reason they've changed the design is they've had a fall out with another company and can't use some of the software.

What other options for hosting pictures etc is there as the new version is truly awful, especially when you want to get direct links as you have to either open each individual picture in a new window or open it, copy the link and go back to the folder and repeat when needed.

[speeding-g60]

i have already stopped my auto-pay feature and will no longer support them. not my problem that they cant get along with whomever they have been getting along with for years.

[Le S2 Audi]

Why can't you switch it back to the Pixlr editor?
The reason we cannot offer the option for you to return to the previous editor is that we are no longer offering it on our site. Our contract with Pixlr has ended, and we are no longer partnered with them to provide those editing tools for use on Photobucket.

We will continue to work with the new editing company to provide more features, and hopefully improve the ones that are currently available.

Thank you

Tossers have switched me over to the new site after updating my Google viewer & I cant get back to the old site...

[irishs2]

from looking on photobucket earlier it now seems they've decided to roll out the rubbish version today instead of the 18th when it was planned.
It seems the reason they've changed the design is they've had a fall out with another company and can't use some of the software.

What other options for hosting pictures etc is there as the new version is truly awful, especially when you want to get direct links as you have to either open each individual picture in a new window or open it, copy the link and go back to the folder and repeat when needed.

Indeed, the new site layout is poor, but to do what you day, you can turn on Easy Linking Mode in album settings which makes it work like before allowing you to get direct links one after the other.

[dest]

Ive just logged in to check mine, yep, the new ****
Due to that I have now just cancelled my automatic payment for a proaccount which Ive been happy to pay for for the last 7 years

Pissed off does not even come close!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does anyone know how to bulk download the whole account including sub albums?

[rynaqui]

You can only download album by album I think, the bulk album downloader isn't working (coming soon )

http://photobucket.zendesk.com/entri...ssing-features

[dest]

You can't even download an individual album at the moment!

Ive just thought of a solution.
If you want a no frills host for you images, just get a cheap hosting package and domain name and do it DIY!
I was paying about £30 a year for a pro account on PB, you could get a host and domain for that easily

[Henkjan]

I notice that when using google chrome, i cannot see any of the pictures on forums (this one, but also others) that are hosted on photobucket. using opera as browser, no problem...

[Le S2 Audi]

The world of digital photography had a shot in the arm yesterday when Facebook picked up Instagram for $1 billion, and it’s perhaps a sign of how all players in that space now need to up their game. Today brings news of a development from Photobucket, the online photo site that scored a huge deal last year when Twitter announced that it would power its image service. Photobucket today announced a deal with Pixlr, the cloud-based photo editing service from Autodesk, in which Pixlr’s tools will be integrated into Photobucket’s site.

The deal will see Pixlr replace Photobucket’s current editing service, FotoFlexer, which had been working with the site since 2008.

The announcement comes one week after Flickr announced that it was picking Aviary for its photo-editing services.

Photobucket, which now has 100 million users on its platform (not counting numbers from Twitter, which it does not share), says that the new service will come in two tiers of service, a more in-depth Pixlr Editor, which looks a lot like Photoshop, and a version called Pixlr Express with more basic functions for quick edits.

The service will also give Photobucket the option of monetizing its service a bit more: advertisers, it says, will be able to create branded effects through the service for Photobucket ad packages.

The deal is a big one for Pixlr, which only has about 25 million users at the moment, and underscores how a bunch of new entrants with strong services are jumping into the vacuum created with the departure of Picnik, which shut up shop after it got acquired by Google.

While the Instagram/Facebook deal certainly points to how closely photography is becoming aligned with mobile, there is still a big market for digital camera use and editing online, according to Tom Munro, the CEO of Photobucket, who says of that deal: “I love the attention that the photo and video space is getting lately. If you go back three years it was kind of flat. But now it seems like there’s something happening every day.”

At the moment around 25-30 percent of photos on Photobucket come from mobile devices, Munro says — although the proportion is growing. In the last year, he says that the amount of mobile video on the site has grown by 15-16 times. It’s a market that Photobucket is trying to grab in its own way: it has Photobucket for iPhone, iPad and Snapbucket for iPhone, as well as Android apps. One of the features Munro says it’s looking to pursue is ways of letting users create their own filters that they could then apply via apps.

(Photobucket’s mobile numbers, by the way, do not include Twitter traffic, which would probably skew it even further to mobile. Photobucket does not give out numbers related to its deal with Twitter.)

Munro says that currently Photobucket images are used across 2.5 million websites, with 4 billion images served across those sites daily.

But while Photobucket continues to expand that network and the service it offers to users on its own platform, Munro notes that the company is pursuing more white-label deals along the lines of what it has established with Twitter. “We are talking to others for Twitter-like deals,” he says. “We are having conversations. We do have an expertise in hosting photos and videos and we are seeing interest.” He notes that that interest has not extended to conversations with Pinterest.

It's all about Money... What a surprise..

[speeding-g60]

yup. and while it is nothing to them, they lost mine.

[dest]

And mine. But, if you read their facebook page there are a lot of others stopping their renewal too