Hello Oblivion Staters!
A note regarding photobucket images. If you have a PB account you may have had communications regarding it already.
They seem to have made some pretty hefty changes commercially, looking at this blog post
In short, they ditched the chief who thought it would be a good idea to slap users with a $400 fee to share their images, and replaced the pricing structure with a "fairer" one.
Don't be fooled. Yes they don't replace your image with the dreaded icon - but they do throttle your photo bandwidth to an unusable amount of 25MB (for our purpose). Once you exceed this (in about 1 or 2 reports) ALL of your hosted pictures go blurry for that 30 day period.
They are also increasing their prices.
A lot of you will have had your threads moved to the "threads for fixing area" - this is a reason why for a lot of the treads in there. It doesn't seem to affect everyone for some reason, possibly due to caching - but this is the most likely reason.
If you are one of those users - please get in touch with me if you have the originals on your PC. It can be solved quite easily.
A note regarding photobucket images. If you have a PB account you may have had communications regarding it already.
They seem to have made some pretty hefty changes commercially, looking at this blog post
How We Lost — and Regained — Customer Trust
Customer loyalty isn’t what it used to be. Especially in the online world, trust can be elusive — hard to earn and even harder to keep. The fact is, digital consumers are growing ever-more skeptical when they’re thinking about buying. And can you blame them, given the almost daily drumbeat of...
blog.photobucket.com
In short, they ditched the chief who thought it would be a good idea to slap users with a $400 fee to share their images, and replaced the pricing structure with a "fairer" one.
Don't be fooled. Yes they don't replace your image with the dreaded icon - but they do throttle your photo bandwidth to an unusable amount of 25MB (for our purpose). Once you exceed this (in about 1 or 2 reports) ALL of your hosted pictures go blurry for that 30 day period.
Photobucket is Investing in the Future of Image Hosting To Improve the User Experience
First and foremost we want to thank our 90+ million loyal Members. It's because of each of you that we recently launched our newly enhanced website which now offers incomparable services including automatic image formatting for 3rd party sites; an unlimited bandwidth option for hosting; image...
blog.photobucket.com
They are also increasing their prices.
A lot of you will have had your threads moved to the "threads for fixing area" - this is a reason why for a lot of the treads in there. It doesn't seem to affect everyone for some reason, possibly due to caching - but this is the most likely reason.
If you are one of those users - please get in touch with me if you have the originals on your PC. It can be solved quite easily.