Old SBSs

[ScottP]

Photobucket, where I've been storing my pics since 2011, has recently made some changes (none for the better) and now blocks 3rd party sites, like FAOL, from hosting the pics, unless I'm willing to pay to upgrade my account. Since the price is over $300/yr, I will not be making that upgrade. Any pics/SBSs prior to July 2013 (in my older account), are no longer available for viewing. For the time being, my newer account is unaffected, but I figure it's just a matter of time 'till that one goes Tango Uniform, as well.
Going to do an interweb search and see what else is available; I've dumped a few pics into Flikr but haven't been thrilled with their site. My older computer kinda limits my options but we'll see what can be done.

Regards,
Scott

[melk]

Oh MAN!!! What are we going without this resource! Are there still available using the direct link you provided a while back?
Thanks for all you're done Scott.
Mike

[tedshuck]

Scott,
I view this as a huge loss, if we can not get to your older SBS posts and possibly newer ones as well. I am willing to kick in $20 to keep this active and for you to keep the photos on Photobucket until you find an alternative. If others are willing to chip in as well, maybe we can make this work. Anybody else?
Thanks,
Ted

[ScottP]

Thanks folks, but I didn't intend this as a crowd funding request, and I won't be taking donations; just wanted to give you a heads-up. Like I said, I'll poke around and see what alternatives are available.

Mike,
The direct link won't be any help; it'll just point to the SBS hyperlinks. Photobucket issues will still apply.

Regards,
Scott

[FishnDave]

Scott, Photobucket has done the same to me.
FYI... I've started using a different host... gifyu.com

[whatfly]

Knew this was going to be a problem for the forums. It is not just Scott's but EVERY POST that used Photobucket to host photos is going to lose their images, which is going to destroy an awful lot of useful information on the various fly fishing forums. Photobucket must be going under to make so drastic a move,but it was the number one choice for hosting for a very long time.

Do not have a strong recommendation Scott on an alternative, but I'd look at Google Photos myself because it is unlikely to go away any time soon. There is nothing to prevent Google of course of changing the terms of use as well, but that's going to be true with any vendor.

[herefishy]

I know of another forum where the participants have been happy with imgur.

[Uncle Jesse]

The admins at another BB checked out Flickr. Looked really good.

[lastchance]

They did it to me, too.

[Skip48]

I have used Photobucket since about 1006 and am not happy about their methods. First it was bomb us with adds trying to make people upgrade to stop the ads, but when that didn't work they cut all our links off. Thankfully the main fishing board I post on Crappie.com lets us upload out pictures to their server to keep it available, but most don't let you upload pictures directly to their servers. I wish they did as then the pictures wouldn't ever leave to leave a post without.

I have a website and just have to rebuild it (have been procrastinating about this) because I changed over to Apple computer. However then I will just use my own site, but when I end it at some point the pictures at most places will just disappear, but at Crappie.com they will be there as long as they are. Right now I just hope every day that Photobucket has to file bankruptcy!

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