Photobucket limits displaying of images on external sites to $40/month plan • Hacker News Board

Re: Photobucket limits displaying of images on external sites to $40/month plan

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Post by westcoastflea1 » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 8:57 PM UTC

gizmo wrote: post #24

tyingq wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They probably consider it ransom because the terms were changed after the relationship was established. Unlimited linking probably doesn't include embedding. So, if they were on a lower end plan, something that used to be offered was taken away. After they invested time in uploading and embedding lots of images.

Terms are _always_ subject to change. We're talking about 1 dollar per day for image hosting here. These panicky reactions seem totally overblown to me. I don't think this is really about the price as an absolute number. This is more of an emotional reaction about the price changing, which some people feel is fundamentally unfair.

no not emotional it is financial i dont have another 40.00 a month to pay photobucket for its crappy service a site that is down at least 2 or 3 times a month or incredibly slow so that i literally cant work for that day making new listings not to mention all the broken links to in my listings i either HAVE TO PAY 400.00 a month instead of 2.99 or lose 3 years of work

Re: Photobucket limits displaying of images on external sites to $40/month plan

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Post by westcoastflea1 » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 8:59 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #38

danpalmer wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bear in mind that this is not a fee for _forums_ to pay (where $400 a month for image embedding could be reasonable). This is a fee for the _users_ to pay, to be able to embed the images on their Photobucket accounts elsewhere on the web. I doubt many users would be interested in paying $35 for the "linking" version (which is literally just links, not embedding), let alone the $400 version.

I'm not seeing a $35 linking version...it's $100/year. The "no links / no embedding" plan is $60/year, which is just hilarious for 50GB of mostly useless storage. http://photobucket.com/pricing

it is 400.00 a year for image linking. no linking or embedding with any less expensive plan

Re: Photobucket limits displaying of images on external sites to $40/month plan

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Post by westcoastflea1 » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 9:02 PM UTC

jk563 wrote: post #9

More accurately, Photobucket has a $399.99 tier, and this is the only tier which allows using them as a third party host for images embedded on other sites. Images belonging to an account that is not on this tier well get replaced with an image indicating the feature needs unlocking.

and that means for people who use these images on ebay all that work is lost i can get all my photos it is the work involved in putting the right photos in the right listing i might as well start over from scratch it would take more time to do that then to make new listings

Re: Photobucket limits displaying of images on external sites to $40/month plan

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Post by kevindqc » Wed, Jul 05, 2017, 3:09 PM UTC

mason240 wrote: post #47

AndrewStephens wrote: post #39

Photobucket are within their rights to do this but it is really sad that so much of the message board culture is inaccessible because popular free image hosts tend to go away after a few years. I would lay money that 90% of posts over 10 years old have broken images. The moral of the story is for forums to host images themselves, but nobody wants to do that because: a) uploading files is annoying to implement and exp…

e) you have to self-police against CP and terrorist groups using your servers to host their illegal content.

Can you get charged if that happens? Sure you were hosting it, but you didn't know? Do you really have to look at all the pictures? What about privacy?