Photobucket drops pricing that angered millions
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Photobucket’s experiment with being a $399.99 premium service is over, and so too is the tenure of the CEO who led it.
The Denver-based photo storing service on Thursday revealed it has slashed its prices and restored millions of photos around the internet hoping to mollify millions of customers it angered last year.
“It’s the first step of many to restore the trust of customers,” said Ted Leonard, Photobucket’s new CEO.
Article By Greg Avery, Reporter, Denver Business Journal, dated May 18, 2018
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2018/05/17/photobucket-drops-pricing-that-angered-millions.html
I normally don't use Photobucket but in late 2016 I uploaded this picture:
Others who use/used Photobucket can check their old posts to see if their pictures have returned.
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Some forums have blacklisted photobucket due to their shenanigans.
It's been so long that I almost forgot how to post 'em.
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Too late, they suck and there are better options.
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I had to sign into my account to access the links. Been a long time since I had actually logged in.
Drag and drop did not work for me, but a copy/paste of the HTML link did the trick.
Glad we have access again - I had a number of photos in albums that I forgot I had.
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Too little too late.
Nice one!
Never.......ever....... going back.
One and done is my mantra.
Photobucket’s CEO at the time was John Corpus, latin meaning 'body' as in dead.
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Photo who?
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I just wish I could close my account and delete all of my photos that on the site.
I did.
And no I am not going back.
You know, since then I've learned to take better photos and how/where to host more effectively (and most forums like this one allow direct uploading now). So, really, have no need for them anymore as my newer photos/nicer photos are not even on their site.
Nice that they are restoring the old links, and the new pricing for allowing third party hosting is reasonable, but now that I know how to not use them there is no reason to go back. It will be interesting to see how many people actually go back. That was a pretty killer blow to jack the price that high and with so little warning (and applying retroactively).
Good luck to the new CEO, but they may have made too many people more resilient and not needing their services...
It is nice that they made the links working again but I think its to little too late
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While I'm happy that many many photos are now restored in this and other forums instead of that stupid "We noticed that you have been using Photobucket for 3rd party hosting" ie - linking from forums, I am not going back either. Between imgur and the direct upload feature here, I'm satisfied. PB caused me a ton of heartache (I am a forum mod on a gaming site with a few million active users, and it hurt there with a few thousand screenshots I had posted over the years).
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Never liked them. Too late for them now.
hooray!
My pictures were being held hostage.
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I got out of Photobucket five years ago and will never go back.
What they exposed was what we all knew, Nothing we put in the cloud is safe from anything especially blackmail. Anything that you rely on to sustain yourself, your family or your business must have a Non cloud backup plan.
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I just worked on it. It is very time consumming. I wish I could find the "delete all" button.
This is really good news for this forum though. All the old pictures will now work again!
PR damage is done, I would venture to say close to unrepairable.
I remember a lot of people (another site but probably here too) uploaded their photos for backup, and at some point the resolutions were all reduced and their high res shots gone. Yes 'stupid' to not back up elsewhere but when PB made like it WAS the back up and then didn't warn all the borderline Luddites that were using the site how things were changing, well that was just plain bad. Then the dropping of the hosting retroactively, UGH. It may be a completely new crew running the show, but the previous folks probably ruined it. Too many other options out there now and their shenanigans made it so a large chunk of people learned how to work around them. Like Imgur.
Thanks for letting me know .Got mine back
Last year's move to a $399/yr service was unforgivable. I put up with their horrible performance when it was free/cheap. But there was no way I'd pay that atrocious fee.
I found alternatives. I'll never go back. I'd be surprised if the company survives after the universal outrage and rebellion.
Lance.
Flash drives are so cheap these days. I would never leave my only copy on a photo sharing website.
Totally agree. Need a cloud and a hard copy! Preferably two hard copies so one can be offsite too. I just felt bad for those people who were too naive enough to understand that and were misled.
what are the semi-safe alternatives, Lance?
Jim
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they gave everybody enough time to explore other options, and lost their trust. Much like a burnt tree, they are "well done fir".
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Yes, almost every time they put up an "enhancement” that was supposed to improve their uploading procedures, it had bugs in it and either won’t work or was hard to work. They would have something running well, and then they would have another half baked “upgrade” that was not properly tested.
That was during the time when their service was free. Now they expect you to pay for that, after they kicked you out of the barn for more than a year.
They need to come back with a re-booted name. Right now, they “slop bucket” as far I’m concerned.
Not returning. Don't know the former CEO's background but it was not in business.....Maybe he/she can get a job in Washington - lots of revolving door openings, I hear.
I was about to post that, but figured it would be too political. A man or women of his or her talants might do well there. It seems to take longer for a bad idea to bite you in the butt if you are working for the government.
There are also more independent eyes to point out idiocy....
It is always to fascinating to watch companies commit suicide. Anyone with 10% of a brain could have told them that plan was idiotic. This move is way, way, way, way, way too late. It takes uncommon talent to alienate your entire customer base in a single decision. The only companies that survive this sort of mess (New Coke, perhaps) are those that recognize their folly and take immediate, corrective action.
When it comes to electronic data, store a digital copy in "the cloud" if you must, but ALWAYS maintain at least two copies (in separate physical locations) that you control directly.
No chance I'll go back. Not even if their site was better, and it isn't.
In the private sector you find out pretty quickly if you have a bad idea, because it goes straight to the bottom line of your income statement. In government it has to go through bureaucratic channels, which can take years.
Of course, when a private sector company becomes as big as a government entity, like the old General Motors, it can take years for the dinosaur to realize that someone has driven a sword in its side. When message gets to the brain, it might be too late.
I remember one of my undergraduate economics professors described General Motors in the early 1970s, as “a private socialist economy with a GNP that was slighter larger than that of Poland.”
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I'm done with them.
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I just logged in (or tried to). It still wants you to pay $29.99 per month to host 2 GB of images.......... Change?
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I wouldn't use photobucket again if they paid me $400 a month.
They ruined several of my threads around the net and they were already so advertisement heavy I wanted something else.
It's getting so that everything is behind a paywall and the software is so poor it might be time to just quit surfing and save the $100 a month to connect.
It took five minutes to type this out.
I removed all my pics and tried to delete my account, wasn’t possible, so I logged out and never went back.
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I'm not going back.
Not entirely unlike the "upgrades" made here...no longer can i see years worth of valuable PM's...
Pretty much reduced my CU time to almost nothing.
Which, it turns out, is quite a fine thing afterall
PB's bonehead move has had a devastating effect on all kinds of great forums that were treasure troves of archived photos...i was not aware that pics were starting to reappear but i guess thats only as good as however long it is until pb goes away finally and for good...
To be honest, I’m quite glad they put our photos back on the net. Not so much for this forum, but the BMW automotive forum I’m on lost so many DIY picture threads, it was quite devastating.
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Yes what a train wreck that was. I have nothing good to say about those clowns. What a waste.
Article said down to 10 employees. They are limping for sure.