I saw X-Ray's avatar was some sort of gauge that read 100%. I then saw Noel's comment and thought maybe Ray had changed it.
Well, no he did not. I was looking through some old posts of mine today and all of my photos I had posted through Photobucket have the same photo as Ray.
Well, needless to say, I went and read the new terms of service policy and there is a real dozzy...
Photobucket is no longer allowing "3rd party" hosting of their images on the "free plan".
So, the first plan that allow the use of 3rd party hosting is listed below...
o Plus 500 Plan: 500 GB of Storage and unlimited bandwidth for $399.99 / Year. The Plus 500 Plan allows for unlimited image linking and unlimited 3rd party image hosting.
I'm sorry, but I am not going to pay $400.00 bucks a year to host my photos that I cannot link to forums.
What other options are out there, or am I going to have to go through and just attach the photos to the topics instead...?
Oh yeah, and one more thing you get with the $400.00 plan is...no ads and their ads are actual pop ups that block the screen...
Randy - RPM
Quote from: racerrad8 on June 29, 2017, 07:37:34 PM
What other options are out there
I use Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com (https://www.flickr.com)
Works well and is free. There are premium levels, but free is pretty good and works for all my photos here. Premium+ (highest level) is $50/yr.
Frank
I'm just sitting here now Randy in a quandry trying to work out what other photo storage site (free or minimal cost) is worthwhile. Photobucket are being totally ridiculous with those prices, Flickr appears to still allow forum linking of images etc as Frank has mentioned. Theres a lot of posts online about this issue, only happened 2 days ago. :ireful: Time to look at removing my albums from photosucket and upload to flickr :rofl2:
Edit, Just downloaded one album from photobucket, reloaded to flickr, and edited my signature here to show the new wheel swap album images. Works well, and Flickr is MUCH faster and way better layed out for viewing than photobucket could ever hope to be. Time to grab a beer, a few hours of sorting/reloading and relinking to do know, :drinks:
I just checked a bunch of my old posts and all my pics are still there. I'm just a free member at 18% capacity. Maybe this is something they will be gradually rolling out. I will be hopefully posting something within the next couple of days with some pics. I'll see if they will link.
Quote from: X-Ray on June 29, 2017, 11:18:54 PM
I'm just sitting here now Randy in a quandry trying to work out what other photo storage site (free or minimal cost) is worthwhile.
Ray, like Frank, I have used Flickr since day one, no problems. Funnily enough though I was giving thought to changing over to some other site like Photobucket, might put that thought on hold permanently now!
The reason for contemplating a change was the photo editor in Flickr has been down for about 6 mths, I use this constantly and miss not being able to tweak my photos. Guess I'll just have to suck it up until they fix it.
If you are not in the habit of using the associated editor then I guess you won't miss it. In all other respects, Flickr has been great, easy to use from my experience and highly recommended.
IMO
Noel
If someone could write an app that would move all your photobucket pics to another host you could make a tidy little profit right now ... (popcorn)
http://in.pcmag.com/webcom-web-hosting/115499/news/photobucket-breaks-image-links-across-the-internet (http://in.pcmag.com/webcom-web-hosting/115499/news/photobucket-breaks-image-links-across-the-internet)
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/30/photobucket-now-charges-399-for-third-party-hosted-images/ (https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/30/photobucket-now-charges-399-for-third-party-hosted-images/)
I guess I am most frustrated there was no advisement before the new policy was put into place.
Time to jump ship, just have to figure out how to transfer the files.
Randy - RPM
Testing.
(http://i1285.photobucket.com/albums/a586/the4ts/IMG_20161104_134152_zpsef5ez4ja.jpg)
Not sure what's going on, I'm with photobucket and still seems to be working for me.
I just posted to the Projects section on my just aquired 85 FJ600. Photobucket still links. :unknown:
Mmmm, appears to be working for some and not others, but going on what they are saying, it's only a matter of time before all links are cut. I've started downloading my albums from photobucket Randy, doesn't take long and then I am reuploading to Flickr. Have to redo all of the message links to the photos new location, which will take ages, but the layout and speed of Flickr makes me realise I should have changed long ago.
Quote from: X-Ray on June 30, 2017, 06:32:59 PM
Mmmm, appears to be working for some and not others......
Ray, your avatar message seems to suggest that you've just used 100% of your storage?
Try it again when you've removed some files.
Noel
No, I had only used around 79% of my storage allocation, so still think it is going to be a global cut of the free account access/linking etc. But doesn't matter, just have to get everything transferred to Flickr and relink
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152143774@N07/shares/6Mrn64 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152143774@N07/shares/6Mrn64)
testing my new flickr account.... how do i get the pics to show up here instead of just the link to the pic?
Find the Share arrow of the image you want to show, then pick the BBCode option. Use the PREVIEW to remove the excess code before posting.
Thank you very much brother!
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4120/35505916151_cdac1078eb_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/W6x6S8)
one more to make sure i've got it down....
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4029/34795171384_b1a7592e91_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/V1Jmd1)
Damn, that's still a fine looking machine Frank....How is Brutus running?
How many miles do you have on the 1350?
Quote from: Pat Conlon on July 01, 2017, 05:08:19 PM
Damn, that's still a fine looking machine Frank....How is Brutus running?
How many miles do you have on the 1350?
Bike is running fine.... it has gotten stronger and a little quicker revving over the 9500 miles i have on the engine. On days when i'm not riding good or dont feel 100% i am sorry i went with the light crank cause Brutus dont give a damn how you feel ... when you crack the throttle you had better be ready..... but most times i am really happy i did it because it provides some seriously IMMEDIATE KOOKALOO! and the sounds it makes reminds me of a small block chevy that rips revs like a formula one car.....it is very entertaining to say the least!.
To be honest i got a lot more attention from the police with the bike dressed in factory colors..... i can still go back to this look if i ever get nostalgic...
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4285/34795171424_8a8a89a62d_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/V1JmdG)
It appears Photobuckets "ransom" attempt didn't go unoticed. This article is by a business/finance writer from a leading news service (News.com.au)
Those here that got screwed by them might like to read it is unlikely to go well for them.
A POPULAR website used by sellers on auction sites like Amazon, Etsy, eBay and Gumtree is facing a growing backlash for effectively demanding a "ransom" from its members.
Photobucket, a US-based image and video-hosting website founded in 2003, quietly changed its policy late last month to prevent users from hosting their content on third-party websites unless they pay a $US400 ($526) annual fee.
Members who used the previously free service to store their content for use on auction sites, blogs and internet forums have discovered their images replaced with a message asking them to "update your account".
No warning was given, but the company posted a brief blog post on June 26 announcing an "update to our terms of service", with the change buried towards the end of the article.
The move means more than a decade worth of images hosted all over the internet have suddenly turned into broken links unless members sign up for one of Photobucket's "competitive subscription plans"........
Twitter user Spammals described it as "how to destroy a business overnight". "Even if you revert the change it's too late," they wrote. "The damage is now done and it grows worse every second."
Many likened it to recent ransomware attacks which lock victims out of their own computer systems until they pay up. "Anyone else surprised Photobucket isn't offering Bitcoin as the only method of payment?" asked Twitter user McMike.
User Superfuture wrote: "We now have 3.2 million forum posts from 2003 littered with your ransom images. This has to be illegal. Hello all class action lawyers."
Stefan Bosman tweeted: "Thank you for all the good years I've had with your product. Now deleted my account due to the $400 blackmail. Good way to go out of business."
Photobucket, which claims to have more than 100 million members and 15 billion hosted images, has not responded to the growing backlash save for a few tweets.
"Thank you for all of the recent feedback and questions," the company tweeted on Sunday. "We are trying our best to respond quickly and thank you for your patience :)." A day earlier, it tweeted: "Want to know more about 3rd party hosting? Check out our FAQs."
Australian Glen Stephens, owner of Stampboards.com, the world's largest stamp collecting bulletin board with more than five million posts going back over a decade, said he and members on five continents had spent "hundreds of hours" this week "rescuing what we can", rehosting images on stable platforms like Imgur.com before Photobucket goes "belly up".
"It is clearly a 'WannaCry' style gangster level ransom demand for millions [in] cash before they fold forever," he told news.com.au in an email.
"'Pay us $A525 right now upfront, or no-one will ever see your images again.' Photobucket are number 663 busiest website in the US based on Alexa rankings and Imgur who do the same free photo hosting are 11, so it is not as if Photobucket had a monopoly!"
UK-based vintage store Retro 2 Go, which sells goods on eBay, was one of those affected. "I have quite a bit of editing to do," the store's owner told the BBC. "A bit of notice would not have been unreasonable to expect. I have deleted my accounts and would not use [Photobucket] again."
On Reddit, one user wrote that while Photobucket was "absolutely entitled to change their business model whenever they feel like it", the way the company handled it would "go down as one of the great customer-service f***-ups in internet history".
"Folks, you're witnessing the death of an internet business," another user wrote. "This is the kind of screw up a company never really recovers from."
Another wrote that "you can't even begin to imagine what this will mean to internet forums and blogs". "Older internet users remember what a dumpster fire the internet was when Angelfire, Geocities, and Tripod stopped offering free hosting," they wrote.
"Broken links everywhere and it was the exact same cause, they started out to give everyone free hosting, but they reached critical mass as more people signed up for the free than the paid."
In a blog post, marketing firm Aqueous Digital described it as a "case study on how not to do it". "Not only did they dump this on their users with zero notice but they are compounding the issue with their communications, or lack of them," the company wrote.
"From a commercial point of view, there must have been a growing imperative to step away from a model primarily reliant on advertising. With a growth in customer numbers and an increase in bandwidth usage, their cost base must have been spiralling. It's a byproduct of their success.
"The solution however surely was not what they have come up with? Firstly, why make the change with no notice? Why simply change overnight and then dump on your customers? Secondly, how on earth did they arrive at their pricing point? When so many people use their service specifically for third-party hosting and nothing else, why provide this service only at the highest price point you have?"
Photobucket was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007, but in 2009 was sold by Fox parent company News Corp, publisher of news.com.au, to Seattle-based mobile start-up Ontela.
frank.chung@news.com.au
Garrrrgghhhh!!! I've been Photobucketed! :ireful: It's like The Blob! Time to migrate to Flikr or whatever. I've got all night.... Maybe time for a new avatar too.
Oh yeah - once we transfer pics to another host, does anyone know how or if we can re-link our photos to old posts?
:Facepalm:
I have been using imgur hassle free (mostly) for a few years, I have 2200 images on there apparentely.
ingur was orioginally designed to host images for reddit, then they added forums and effectively became a direct competitor to reddit, so reddit recently added their own image server called 'redd' (which i haven't used).
one thing with imgur, it is designed to be a hosting sevice for forums, if nobody looks at the picture for ages then imgur will delete it to free up space, they say it may be after days, however in reality i have images from years ago that are still there with zero views as I never posted them.
I tend to use an ipad for everything but work, it has an ipad app ... plus you can use albums and group images and have the same image in multiple albums..
heres me pups .. https://imgur.com/gallery/zCJVk
I've transferred some pics to Flickr and have been able to add the travel map in the signature section. But I can't seem to copy a GIF for my profile pic. I use the BBCode but it just dissappears when I try to save my profile. Does Flickr allow this? Or is it only pics. Their help "page" seems a bit convoluted.
Quote from: PaulG on July 12, 2017, 05:10:17 PM
I've transferred some pics to Flickr and have been able to add the travel map in the signature section.
You need to have more western states colored. Yep. (http://www.fjowners.com/index.php?topic=16222.0)
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/16/photobucket-fee-hike/ (http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/16/photobucket-fee-hike/)
I have spoken to my software person today. He was unaware of the change PB had implemented.
He is going to see if there is some sort of fix available for use to get the photos back up and online.
If not, it will be up to each user to update their photos to a different hosting company and re-post them. If someone want to change to a new company, you will need to get with a member of the moderation so they can unlock your post(s) for editing the photos.
Also, for all of the Imgur users, I found this today as well. It talks about using them as a 3rd party host and how it is not allowed...
https://imgur.com/tos (https://imgur.com/tos)
Stuff not to do
If someone else might own the copyright to it, don't upload it. Don't upload gore, "hate speech" (i.e. demeaning race, gender, age, religious or sexual orientation, etc.), or material that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, or that encourages violence or crime. Don't upload illegal content such as child porn or nonconsensual ("revenge") porn. Don't hotlink to adult content or to file-sharing, gambling, torrent, warez, or Imgur rip-off sites. Don't impersonate someone else. Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it.
Hopefully good news to follow...
Randy - RPM
FYI, here is a tip I copied from the Miata Net Forum:
For anyone unaware, you can right-click on a dud picture and copy the link, paste it into a new browser tab and that'll take you to the picture on PB. If the borked version still appears, <Ctrl>+<F5> forces it to refresh and you'll see the pic.
Quote from: Bones on June 30, 2017, 04:15:09 PM
Testing.
(http://i1285.photobucket.com/albums/a586/the4ts/IMG_20161104_134152_zpsef5ez4ja.jpg)
Not sure what's going on, I'm with photobucket and still seems to be working for me.
Not anymore...
Randy - RPM
Quote from: Pat Conlon on August 16, 2017, 12:14:47 PM
FYI, here is a tip I copied from the Miata Net Forum:
For anyone unaware, you can right-click on a dud picture and copy the link, paste it into a new browser tab and that'll take you to the picture on PB. If the borked version still appears, <Ctrl>+<F5> forces it to refresh and you'll see the pic.
That does take you to PB to see the photo, but I just clicked on Bones photo. Before it loaded three pop up adds covered the screen and it took quite some time to load.
Hopefully there is some wort of work around on the horizon...
Randy - RPM
I've been fiddling around with photobucket trying to download the pictures from there to Flickr, Not having any luck for some reason, must've broken something somewhere. :unknown:
Quote from: Bones on August 16, 2017, 02:19:41 PM
I've been fiddling around with photobucket trying to download the pictures from there to Flickr, Not having any luck for some reason, must've broken something somewhere. :unknown:
The process I used was :
1. Download from photobucket to your hard drive using their instructions. It stores them in a zip file.
2. Unzip the file.
3. Upload the pics to Flickr.
The downloading can take quite a while depending on how many pics you select and your internet speed. My library was a few hundred pics so I did it in three batches. I've only uploaded about 30 to Flickr for my most recent posts.
Hope that helps
^^^^^ Exactly what I have done. Its too hard to go back through every post over the years to relink photos, such a shame because the info contained is still relevant. Might get around to slowly trying to do it though.
Quote from: PaulG on August 16, 2017, 06:22:21 PM
Quote from: Bones on August 16, 2017, 02:19:41 PM
I've been fiddling around with photobucket trying to download the pictures from there to Flickr, Not having any luck for some reason, must've broken something somewhere. :unknown:
The process I used was :
1. Download from photobucket to your hard drive using their instructions. It stores them in a zip file.
2. Unzip the file.
3. Upload the pics to Flickr.
The downloading can take quite a while depending on how many pics you select and your internet speed. My library was a few hundred pics so I did it in three batches. I've only uploaded about 30 to Flickr for my most recent posts.
Hope that helps
Yep tried that. Have about 800 photos all up so I made up some albums and put about 25 pics in each. Click on an album, start the process and next thing a message pops down and says something is wrong, or words to that effect. I think I now know what the problem is, there's some videos mixed in with the pics, so might have to seperate them and try again.
I found a work around, although it might be just temporary to allow your PB photos to work again.
After the .JPG add the following "~original"
So, it will look like this:
"http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc517/racerrad8/fjo17s_zpsztsuzbyq.jpg (http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc517/racerrad8/fjo17s_zpsztsuzbyq.jpg)~original"
and will result in the showing of the photo...
(http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc517/racerrad8/fjo17s_zpsztsuzbyq.jpg~original) (http://s1215.photobucket.com/user/racerrad8/media/fjo17s_zpsztsuzbyq.jpg.html)
Randy - RPM
Nice research there Randy! Hopefully PB don't cotton on to it .
(http://i1285.photobucket.com/albums/a586/the4ts/wills%20pics/IMG_1819_zps5jipyjtn.jpg~original)
Testing.
Well that's a surprise. The way Randy said still wouldn't work for me so I started fiddling. All i did above was pick a random picture from photobucket, right click on the image and clicked on copy image location and posted the link the normal way and it came up with the image. A bit larger than normal, but it works.
Another try.
(http://i1285.photobucket.com/albums/a586/the4ts/wills%20pics/IMG_1814_zpsy2nmlysp.jpg)
Quote from: Bones on September 02, 2017, 01:01:10 AM
Another try.
(http://i1285.photobucket.com/albums/a586/the4ts/wills%20pics/IMG_1814_zpsy2nmlysp.jpg~original)
Fixed it for you.
Look at the very end of the link. I added the "~original" code and it shows up.
Randy - RPM
Yep tried that Randy and still came up with that new photobucket image. I'm sure I'm doing it right but somethings going wrong somewhere.
Mmmm.. Looks like my earlier successful attempts are now gone. Don't think I'll even bother mucking around with photobucket anymore.
I moved on from PB as well...
https://imgur.com/ (https://imgur.com/) is my new server
(https://i.imgur.com/o1hsQcg.jpg)
Sad to have to re-work old threads....
I was unable to download any of my pics from PB... Did some research and found that MANY people are also struggling to get their images back from PB. Oddly, the download button seemed to fail right around the time they switched over to a "pay to play" system....
If you look for it it there is a $1.99 plugin for Google Chrome that fixes it and allows your pics to be downloaded from PB. Has to be from Chrome... Still not perfect for me as some shots had to be retrieved individually to get them and some were formatted into low flat shapes....
Anyway - I was able to get back 500+ images doing this for $1.99.....
Now I need a Mod to open up my Project Write Up thread!
:Facepalm:
Tim, I am not sure how but I know Randy wants to give you access to your build for photo corrections. As well as many others that have made these kinds of contributions. So stand by for updates.
Thanks Monkey! I PM'ed Pat and he is chatting with Randy about getting me access.... Meanwhile I am testing Flickr....
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4403/36174093013_cf4127b96b_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/X7zFyR) (https://flic.kr/p/X7zFyR)
I did try to modify Tim's R1 project posts to insert ~original in the photo code. The photofuckit pictures did not come through:
See Reply #5 on his project topic: http://www.fjowners.com/index.php?topic=3148.msg26011#msg26011 (http://www.fjowners.com/index.php?topic=3148.msg26011#msg26011)
Below is what happened after I did the ~original insert on Tim's photo codes. Note that the photosuckit logo did not even come through on the modified post
BUT, if you click 'Reply with Quote' to this post, you will see the picture codes that I modified.
This ~original seems to work fine for individual pictures, but multiple pictures it does not....weird huh?
_______________________________________________________________________
Andy- thanks for that info! I was surprised that those specs were not more easily found on the web!
Pat- I had to go back and look at Marc's write up again- I missed the swingarm dimensions thanks for pointing it out. I doubt very much that the R1 swinger will work on the FJ as the pivot is over 10". I am going to try though. I have been looking with great interest at Frank's modded gauge. I decided that I really need to keep my stock instruments because my 93 has only 13k original miles and is in very good condition. I want the suspension upgrades but a close to stock look at the bars etc. I will probably start looking for some first gen FZ1 wheels to use so that I can keep my speedo- that means these sweet 07 R1 wheels will be up for grabs.
I found this extender (here on the FJowner's board I think) that might work to allow the nearly 3" shorter 2007 R1 forks to mount. Shown just below the top triple- the extender slips over the fork top and then steps back down to 50mm adding 1-2 inches to the fork length.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/backburner/CycleOneOffForkExtenders.jpg~original)
Here are the parts I scored:
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/backburner/IMG_5625.jpg~original)
And here's the FJ I want to land them on:
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/backburner/IMG_5630.jpg~original)
I am hoping to keep the stock exhaust system as I have one of the SS Delkevic collector boxes. Does the FZ1 Thunderace swingarm allow the stock exhaust or does it require an aftermarket system?
Quote from: Bones on September 02, 2017, 01:01:10 AM
Another try.
(http://i1285.photobucket.com/albums/a586/the4ts/wills%20pics/IMG_1814_zpsy2nmlysp.jpg)
(http://i1285.photobucket.com/albums/a586/the4ts/wills%20pics/IMG_1814_zpsy2nmlysp.jpg~original)
I just cut & paste your link above, then added the work around at the end of the hyperlink.
Hit the "reply with quote" button to see the work around link.
Randy - RPM
It does work even in the files section, makes sense with some pictures now.
http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc517/racerrad8/FloatAdjust006.jpg~original (http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc517/racerrad8/FloatAdjust006.jpg~original)
But I found you have to chop off "~original" before saving due to that type of file is not allowed
Takes a bit, but pictures are better than words sometimes
Thanks Pat and Randy -
I can now modify my old thread and am updating the pictures that I have moved over to FLICKR. Not an easy process at all. Flickr is not as easy as PB was.....
Should have my Project Thread fixed up this weekend though...
Tim
I think my problem before was putting these little comma's " before and after ~original. I'll try it again.
(http://i1285.photobucket.com/albums/a586/the4ts/wills%20pics/DSC_0246_zps464bc461.jpg~original)
It works. :good2:
Quote from: axiom-r on September 02, 2017, 06:34:16 PM
Should have my Project Thread fixed up this weekend though...
Tim
Thanks!
:Facepalm: what a crying shame.......photofucket has ruined this site.....what a friggin nightmare...... :diablo: :mad: :ireful:....if anyone can fix it Ranbo can..... this may take a group effort to fix....... :mail1:
CanDman
I have just found this on another forum I am a member of regrading a PB fix for operating systems.
If you're using Google Chrome, go to the three dots on the right side of the screen and click them. A drop down should appear. Hover your mouse over "More Tools," and when the next drop down appears, click on extensions. Go to the link towards the bottom that says "Get more extensions." In the search box, type "Photobucket Fix," and hit enter. Click the install button and once it's done, you should be able to see photobucket pictures again.
For FireFox users, click on the three bars on the right side of the screen, then click on add ons. Click search for "photobucket hotlink" and click install. Same result.
Hopefully this works for everyone else. I am using Google Chrome and it worked for me.
Randy - RPM
It worked on my Chrome, thanks.