Photo Bucket...

AnEv942 wrote:
Yup, p/b broke the internet. Suprised you only now were notified. There is no 'fix' to continue seeing the linked p/b pictures unless you pay the ransom fee. There are many options moving forward. Requires effort on your part to change links from p/b to new host site.

Initially I opened an account with Imgur.com, free simple IF you have a backup of photos stored on p/b. IMO The provided Imgur quick link works for simple one time uploads, but to access again, storing etc an account should be opened. I have multiple photo backups but I was able to download all albums from p/b to keep album structure. (It appears, at least on my p/b account, now you cant even download entire albums? insult to injury).

However I ended up also going to Smugmug.com. Primarily, though cost involved, it keeps original file names which simplifies re-linking older posts.

On older threads that are closed that you cant edit, there is no 'fix' to keep pictures alive.
Threads that are not closed and you can edit, you can relink pictures to new current host.

There was a fix that I posted and it worked for last few weeks, but looks like as of yesterday PB fired back with new software.
As always there is hackers war who will get ahead tomorrow.
I uploaded over 300 photos from my vacations on imgur.
The only complain is that they all go on single page, so when you are on slow net, it is taking a while.
Otherwise you can easy enlarge them. That is how PB was years ago, so can we expect imgur will start sending the bill down the road?

Testing google photos

Yup, p/b broke the internet. Suprised you only now were notified. There is no 'fix' to continue seeing the linked p/b pictures unless you pay the ransom fee. There are many options moving forward. Requires effort on your part to change links from p/b to new host site.

Initially I opened an account with Imgur.com, free simple IF you have a backup of photos stored on p/b. IMO The provided Imgur quick link works for simple one time uploads, but to access again, storing etc an account should be opened. I have multiple photo backups but I was able to download all albums from p/b to keep album structure. (It appears, at least on my p/b account, now you cant even download entire albums? insult to injury).

However I ended up also going to Smugmug.com. Primarily, though cost involved, it keeps original file names which simplifies re-linking older posts.

On older threads that are closed that you cant edit, there is no 'fix' to keep pictures alive.
Threads that are not closed and you can edit, you can relink pictures to new current host.

cewillis wrote:
I pay $6/m for my private web site hosting. That includes the site plus mail servers, and other services that I don't use. Other host companies charge less.
Images on my site belong to me, and will never be arbitrarily moved, changed, or deleted. Links to the images, pdfs, and other things, can be used on rv.net and most all other real web sites.
May be too much for some, but it's basically trouble free and worth it to me.

I am dumber than a boot on this subject, could you provide more information.

Wayne

My pictures are hosted on my internet service provider's domain. Some ISP's include hosting but the interface is old school FTP and not drag -n- drop.

When I tried this, I reached a fairly small limit really quickly. Like maybe 50 pics. Nobody could explain a detailed explanation (specs or stats) but 1492 said it is simply the nature of the "free" in association with he, or others, as AP style developers.

That's surprising. I think I have more than 50 pics uploaded, but may be just about there. I'll work on updating another one of my trip reports which I know will throw me over 50 pics. Since there is no way to check and see what photos you have uploaded, I can't be sure (I'll look into it more later when I get a chance).

PB stinks. They lost all my images and just said "Sorry, it happens sometimes".
I have found Imgur works a lot better, faster and doesn't spam you.

There were fixes I posted in Avon topic, but I noticed today they don't work anymore?
Strange thing happen, I linked a picture from PB couple days ago and could see it on forum with my fix.
Today there is message about updating my account and now even when I log into my account, that one picture is replaced with the message in my album.
They put too much spam on their site anyway, but I have albums with them for like 15 years and even I started new albums on imgur, don't want to transfer the old ones.

While I use Blogger for my own free "blog" complete with picture storage from my computer to blog. And big thanks to Cal for showing that I can link those pics to rvnet, no fuss no muss. But...to fix old TRs you'd have to follow kohldad's instructions.

That is cheap. I pay 100 bucks a month for my .com site webhosting and IT services plus. Business expense however.