Photobucket woes
This blog is (surprise, surprise) heavy on photography.
Sometimes I will upload photos directly to Blogger. Blogger is a Google platform, and photos that I upload to Blogger are hosted by Google.
But sometimes I upload my pictures to Photobucket, and use a link to display them on the blog.
And therein lies the problem.
Photobucket has made a huge, huge change to its services.
Photobucket always allowed customers to have a free account, which included photo storage and third party hosting. For a small monthly fee, you could increase your storage space. I opted for the nominal fee, $2.99 a month.
A new policy went into effect two weeks ago. No third party hosting unless you pay for the most expensive storage plan, at a cost of $400 a year.
My friends with free accounts were told of the change the night before it went into effect.
As a paying customer, I've been "grandfathered in", I get to keep my third party hosting until a December 2018. After that, I have to upgrade my account if I want to keep my ability to link my photos to other sites.
Not cool, Photobucket.
Looks like I've got to go through 9 years of blog posts to download and upload photos ...
Sometimes I will upload photos directly to Blogger. Blogger is a Google platform, and photos that I upload to Blogger are hosted by Google.
But sometimes I upload my pictures to Photobucket, and use a link to display them on the blog.
And therein lies the problem.
Photobucket has made a huge, huge change to its services.
Photobucket always allowed customers to have a free account, which included photo storage and third party hosting. For a small monthly fee, you could increase your storage space. I opted for the nominal fee, $2.99 a month.
A new policy went into effect two weeks ago. No third party hosting unless you pay for the most expensive storage plan, at a cost of $400 a year.
My friends with free accounts were told of the change the night before it went into effect.
As a paying customer, I've been "grandfathered in", I get to keep my third party hosting until a December 2018. After that, I have to upgrade my account if I want to keep my ability to link my photos to other sites.
Not cool, Photobucket.
Looks like I've got to go through 9 years of blog posts to download and upload photos ...
That really (excuse the expression) sucks. That is why I store all my photos on my computer and upload them directly from my computer. I won't even upload them to Amazon (as a Prime member, I get unlimited photo storage). They can change the terms of service at any time. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteI had uploadd my photos directly into Blogger. The woman who designed my blog, however, created a signature and graphics that were hosted on Photobucket. She's given me the original artwork, but I have to go back into EVERY post that included the signature (back to 2008) and delete the signature.
ReplyDeleteIt is motivation to port everything over to a new blog page, though
I heard about this. Another blogger spent a week or so updating her whole blog because of the fiasco. They did this badly, and I think they'll pay for it in the end.
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