Go to hell Photobucket

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I had always preferrred Photobucket in the beginning because clicking on a photo in a post didnt first send you to an inbetween page like some other image hosting sites.

No limit on resolution if you stayed under 1 mb.Worked great.

Then I noticed my screens were looking bad and thought I was using Photoshop wrong or something.

Turns out photobucket started recompressing all your images to save bandwidth even tho you stayed under the maximum rez and size criteria.

No warning,dosnt matter if its a free account or pro...just ruined all your images.

 

Sounds like the netflix effect to me.

Screw you Photobucket.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

None of those services are worth a damn I.R., sorry to say. :(

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Photobucket use to be good, the other day I had uploaded a screenshot of my blind and guess what happened? They had shrunk the image from 1680x1050 to 800x500 what the hell and also recompressed it so it look like poo. So then I upped it to imageshack and all was fine.....

Photobucket will not get any more uploads from me!

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Oh man, photobucket is the worst, use imageshack. Photobucket was always making hi-res shots smaller and it's just crap (I think myspace bought it some time ago). Imageshack gives you the direct link right after uploading it anyway.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

guess they're all bad. I recently switched over to photobucket when I encountered uploading problems with imageshack. I haven't had any problems yet but then again my uploads are fairly small to begin with.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Oh man, photobucket is the worst, use imageshack. Photobucket was always making hi-res shots smaller and it's just crap (I think myspace bought it some time ago). Imageshack gives you the direct link right after uploading it anyway.
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yep...going back many many years using photobucket...they've always shrunk your pic....

I still use it for smaller things...little forum pics and smilies.....but I use imageshack for screenies.....

the only advantage to photobucket is.... if you wish to remove your picture from the forum for any reason..... you can delete from your photobucket account.... the imageshack will remain...

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Flickr Pro is $30 a year and is pretty much unlimited and the best out there.  If you can spare the cash, I would recommend it if you are using images that are bigger than avatars and such.

 

 

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Imageshack had detours for you after clicking an image so I didnt use them.Photobucket didnt shrink my images because I used the 1 mb option.But it did start recompressing them to about 50% of what they were at upload.

I would say,well thats what I get for using a free service but they have been doing it to their pro customers too.Some people had thousands of images ruined.

 

Photobuckets response once they finally began fessing up was that pay customers could now use a hi rez option from now on for the STORAGE of the image but for bandwidth reasons,download image links would be compressed.

Which means they dont even know their own business...its not about storage,its about showing others the image,in the quality that you uploaded.

Morons.

geez,I would never trust my images to an online backup...I just needed linkage.

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Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 

the only advantage to photobucket is.... if you wish to remove your picture from the forum for any reason..... you can delete from your photobucket account.... the imageshack will remain...
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I just deleted an image which I had posted in the forums. Imageshack replaced the image with

403 Forbidden

This file removed for violation of Imageshack Terms of Service

or by user request.

I suppose the viewer has to guess which.:rolleyes:

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

oh good...that didn't happen for me when I tried it...good to know...

now people will just think you posted a nawdy image.... ;)

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I suppose the viewer has to guess which.
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Probably why I'll never use such a service.....

I use the word 'service' reservedly....;p

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Don't know if this will help

try SkyDrive  it's an MSN thing all you need is an MSN acount  EXp .msn  or .hotmail  or .live

and you get 25GB of storgae space per E-mail address you make

and you can make it public, private and both  or pick who can download and uploaed to it and add or remove folder

but the files can only be 50MB each.

 

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

all you need is an MSN acount
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nope, don't think so.

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Here ya go! Check this image out!---->  Oh...if you really want to see it you need to email me and I'll send it to you! And this is a free service! XD

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yeah, I used to use photobucket for throwaway news images but it was just too slow. Timing out is not acceptable, even for a free service.

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

all you need is an MSN acount

nope, don't think so.
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Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Here ya go! Check this image out!----> Oh...if you really want to see it you need to email me and I'll send it to you! And this is a free service!
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Ah, so you're under-cutting me again.  :O

Well don't expect me to drop my prices. :-"

Besides, I've got the edge as far as images go. 

Like Miss December 1981, in her Mary Xmas outfit... unedited :w00t:

Yeah, her tinsel's showing. ;P

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

try SkyDrive it's an MSN thing all you need is an MSN acount EXp .msn or .hotmail or .live

and you get 25GB of storgae space per E-mail address you make

and you can make it public, private and both or pick who can download and uploaed to it and add or remove folder

but the files can only be 50MB each.
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I have an msn account ,who dosnt.

 

But is sky drive linkable?What do you mean by files can only be 50mb?Is it free?

 

I need something to replace photobucket so I will go check it out.

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

??
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oh me just being irrelevant again.

I have an msn account ,who dosnt.
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I don't believe that I do, but...

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

But is sky drive linkable?What do you mean by files can only be 50mb?Is it free?
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I am not sure if it is linkable, but you can give someone or ones an URL to accesses it 

the 50 MB is how big a file can be, so if it is 50.1MB the you would have to split it into 2 files.

 

MSN also has  Windows live photo  which might let you link an image don't think it does but it might...

 

I have an msn account ,who dosnt.
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just the none smart people ha ha Just kidding gmc2

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yeah, I used to use photobucket for throwaway news images but it was just too slow. Timing out is not acceptable, even for a free service.
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had 2 accounts for many years.....never had a slow issue with them....and never timed out....  :|

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just use Dropbox.  You can dump whatever you want into your Public folder and it won't be altered.

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just use Dropbox. You can dump whatever you want into your Public folder and it won't be altered.
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Dropbox is great. Unfortunately the 2GB limit on the free account gets used up way too quickly, I have found  :'(

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

so it seems, these type of companies get you inticed, give us maginal service and hope that we will upgrade to their pay service.

I think that the ability to remove graphics is a major plus and since my graphics are usually only for forum posts I gotta stay with photobucket, until something better comes along.

I have an msn account ,who dosnt.

just the none smart people ha ha Just kidding gmc2
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MS probably has me registered over the years many times, so I guessed I probably do, just not proud of it.

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Skydrive is linkable, or Dropbox might be a good solution.