The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

spoons · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 9:35 am Post subject: Photobucket latest

What do we think of the 'Proudly hosted by Photobucket' splash now appearing on our photos? http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2425 for an example.

\Paul

Mike Morley · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 1:47 pm Post subject:

Hmm, maybe it's a price worth paying. That said, it is annoying to have the splash obliterating names on some of the memorials.

David McNay · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:33 am Post subject:

It's not ideal, but as Mike says it's maybe a price worth paying.

There have been other watermarks on photos on here, which we couldn't do anything about.

I say we grin and bear it unless someone can come up with an inexpensive, convenient alternative. All the options I've explored haven't been much of an improvement. Flickr is ok, but the task of moving all my photos is not an easy one which is why I'm doing it on and off whenever I have time.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 8:46 am Post subject:

But for how long will they be hosting them (proudly or otherwise!) ?

Is still don't understand why our photos re-appeared.
Was there a deal struck?

and what happens if my account remains inactive - they used to be pretty prompt at posting cats instead.
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David McNay · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2018 9:33 am Post subject:

Our photos reappeared because I believe there was a change in management at Photobucket who realised that they had made a mistake in removing all photos online.

They had a change of heart after all the bad publicity they received, and this seems to be their alternative.

anne park · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 8:57 am Post subject: Photo update

I don't like the logo on some of the photos as it's in the way of info.
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David McNay · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 9:31 pm Post subject:

In most instances if you click on the photo it will take you to the page it is hosted on Photobucket where you will see the image without the watermark.

If that doesn't work, right-click on the image and select "open image in new tab".

DelBoy · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2018 1:49 am Post subject:

An improvement on no photo being visible at least....

lost in tilloy · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 111

Anyone else having trouble seeing the photos again this morning? Seem to have disappeared.
LIT

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551

Yes,

I am. They were fine early this morning, then suddenly vanished just before 8am. From 6.30 to 7.55 I was looking at Kilmorack Cemetery, then when I went to look at the next cemetery there were not there, so went back to Kilmorack, and half a dozen other cemeteries, and all the images were just tiny postage stamps, if there at all. My browser is saying there is a problem with the photobucket server, when I tried to investigate

** PHOTOS WERE BACK UP BY 1 PM SAME DAY SO DOES SEEM TO HAVE BEEN A SERVER ISSUE**

Stuart

spoons · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2018 5:10 pm Post subject:

I looked at the latest offer and decided to pay up at last.

£37.74 per year for 1TB (100s of thousands of pics) and guaranteed price fixed for life.

Seemed reasonable, I paid and my photos now have no logo on them and my photobox library is now only 1% full.

Offer only lasts to 30th November

\Paul

David McNay · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2018 9:39 pm Post subject:

Since Flickr have now introduced a limit of 1000 images total, I might go for the Photobucket offer as well.

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 4:22 pm Post subject:

As of today all photos are out of focus!!!!!!!
??????
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Mike Morley · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 8:13 am Post subject:

Well, not all of them. It appears that Paul's (Spoons) ones are still in focus. Am I correct in thinking that he paid the fee?

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551

I thought it was my laptop being funny, because they are all in focus on my Kindle fire tablet, and oddly the photobucket logo isn't there on the tablet, but is on the laptop!!

Very odd