Posted on 02/13/2013 1:09:18 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
Photobucket has decided that they know how I want my images displayed better than I do.
If I had a free account I would have no right to complain but I've been paying for storage for at least 7 or 8 years.
I don't mind paying for service but I expect some control over my galleries.
Photobucket is catering to the kids with cellphone cameras and more interested in selling ads for bling than in hosting serious accounts.
I'm trying a 15 day trial at Smugmug, if I like it I've got to start moving photos.
When you start approaching a thousand images it just doesn't work.
....at that, in October i uploaded about 900 high resolution images there and didn’t have any problems.
I don't reckon you know just how much political agitating I do, and I do a lot of it under my real name.
You may think using a screen name protects you but you aren't fooling anyone if they want to do some digging.
Facebook does review your stuff, just might take some time to get to you.
For Email, just download for free, install and start using Thunderbird from the Mozilla Foundation.
It’s every bit as good or better than anything from Microsoft.
You can also Mozilla’s Firefox for your Internet browswer instead of IExplorer as well; if you want.
Both are free, stable, robust and frequently updated.
Thunderbird supports whatever your Email provider supports, and many of the settings can be customized to suit you.
For Email, just download for free, install and start using Thunderbird from the Mozilla Foundation.
It’s every bit as good or better than anything from Microsoft.
You can also use Mozilla’s Firefox for your Internet browswer instead of IExplorer as well; if you want.
Both are free, stable, robust and frequently updated.
Thunderbird supports whatever your Email provider supports, and many of the settings can be customized to suit you.
I’ve been paying PB for 6 years because specialized graphics in every size imaginable is what I do. They downsized EVERY SINGLE IMAGE! I am enraged beyond words and I let them know. I am now in the process of moving nearly 8 thousand images to Image Shack.
Not to mention that pb has become unnavigable.
I haven’t checked recently but for a while they were stripping the EXIF out. I don’t want my images tampered with in any way and I have my own EXIF reader, no use for theirs.
Got win 7, Chrome and Firefox, still not as happy as I was with XP and IE ten years ago, it’s all been backwards progress.
I’ve been a smugmug subscriber for years and love it. I have a pro account that is billed to a CC and never had any problems.
I’ve never sold a photo over it but the protected galleries have helped me get a side photo or video job.
I’ve had a flickr account and never paid anything and never had my photos pulled like photobucket likes to do because some obama or queer troll is upset.
Keep me posted on how it goes.
Photobucket just can’t leave their site well enough alone. Plus they delete photos of yours that they don’t agree with.
How many images are you talking about?
Pogoplug, $25 one time cost for the hardware, plug it into your router, plug in any USB device and instant cloud storage.
I’ve seen way worse. Some pages I am connected to post dozens of things like those every day.
>>Have you used Windows 8? It feels like 1984 and Big Brother. How I want to use my computer comes after how Microsoft wants me to use my computer.
I have no choice but to use the latest version of Windows because I develop software and have to mimic my clients’ environment. If you must use 8, then take some time to learn the shortcut keys - Google on (Windows 8 cheat sheet) or something like that. Using them, it’s not so much different than 7 for me now.
>>There is always facebook
Then anyone that wants to view the photos would have to have a FB account, right?
I’d much rather use Paypal than give out my credit card info.
Damn straight. Giving a card number out over a phone or on the net is an insane plan.
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