Imageshack and Photobucket

[pe1804]

Guess most of you have experienced it already

Comments

[rose_malmaison]

Although I can't blame them for asking for some sort of fee, but most people aren't going to pay that amount of money! I heard some people are using Flickr. I think I'm going to try that. Funny thing is, yesterday I started going through my posts, deleting all the big black pictures that say the image doesn't exist anymore. What a mess!

[pe1804]

I think it's just to much what they are asking for. A fee is fine but I can't afford that much. Flickr is great for photographs but I havn't seen any manips or collages there so I don't know. Started to move some of my pictures to ImangeVenue. For the time being its free and pretty easy to handle.

[thenightsfall]

Yeah, it pretty much sucks what they've done. A nominal fee is one thing. $390 dollars a year is ridiculous and extortionate. I can't imagine they're getting many takers. The least they should've allowed was folks to get their pics back before locking the sites down if you don't pay.

I don't know if it will help you recover any of your pictures, but, just in case, someone posted a link to a plugin that makes Photobucket images visible again.

For Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/photobucket-embedded-fix/?src=search

For Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/photobucket-embed-fix/naolkcpnnlofnnghnmfegnfnflicjjgj?hl=en-US

Here's the link to that post:
http://recycle.livejournal.com/100261.html

[pe1804]

Oh Wow. Thank you so much for the links. I'm certainly going to try it.
It feels kind of weird that they ask for so much. Even if you have a paid account with them you can't see any pics at LJ. You have to have the $390 account in order to see the pictures. Really odd.

[thenightsfall]

You're welcome! I hope it helps.

Yes, I think the whole thing amounts to extortion, the way they handled it. Not a great way to do business, that's for sure!