Legion 4 wrote: So ... we are again at the mercy of the Tech Geeks ... 
Not entirely true. Not directed at you personally- but people that feel like this are only at the mercy of their own education (or rather lack of) in the digital world and trust. Always make a hard copy for yourself. Drives fail and online storage can disappear over night. It sucks, but after 40 odd years of computers, this is one of the most basic bits of knowledge, and yet many people still seemed stumped by it. I've witnessed people completely loose it over facebook or google deleting "their property". Once its one someone's servers, it's there choice if they want it there or not. Digital property law is going to blow up soon- for various reason, and people are going to go mad when they find out just how little they own digitally. Anyway not a dig at you- it sucks you lost your photos. Just stumps me when people are happy to use computers for everything, but dont take a few minutes out to learn some basic computer 'safety'! 
Apocolocyntosis wrote: yeah it's hit me too, my hobby log on here is effectively dead now
Yeah I suspected people like you would be hit the worse- huge hobby logs that go back years. I suspect that logs from people like mageboltrat will be in ruins. Users that have years old logs that are not longer active, and yet still quite often referenced, will disappear. Shame. Some of these older armies are works of art that shouldn't be forgotten!
stroezie wrote:
I don't respond well to that kind of crap.
As for my older post on various forums, If I run accros them for some reason I'll probably do the same as I'm always bummed out when one of my searches comes across older post that are missing their pictures.
I'm completely agree with you, even though I can see that they want to continue to pay the bills! Even a sorry note a couple of months to adjust would have gone over better than what they have done.
I commend you on fixing yours. I too hate looking at old logs which have been left picture less, its horrid, its like finding a book with all the good pages torn out!
Sadly I just dont have the heart to go through and change mine. I love my fantasy log, as shows how slow and dreadful I was at painting up to how slow and dreadful I am now! haha But I just dont have it in me to go through and update it again, especially as 6mm fantasy is not exactly a huge scene. My sci-fi log might be worth updating but again, the effort seems to be more than the reward!
Markconz wrote: Ditch photobucket, stick it on a blogger site. Free and easy to use, and much more useful generally. https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1623800?hl=en
Not knocking it completely- I have run two blogger sites in the past and its a fantastic platform. HOWEVER....! There is an issue with ownership when using blogger. Google pretty much own everything you put on there (ok, I'm simplifying it a bit..but...) They can remove things with out the need of your permission, but the main reason is that they can REUSE anything you post on there as there own, with not need to credit you. Many serious bloggers have moved away from them for this reason. Not everyone blogs to get a book deal, but many people have become published after blogging for a long time, not possible with blogger- you are at the mercy of google and might not see a penny/cent/dime from your creative work.
I'm not a google hater- I think they are bloody brilliant and done wonders for the digital age we are in, but I would not use it to store anything in the least bit creative!
Dave wrote: I never understood why people used photobucket, it's the worst hosting service in my opinion. I used picasa up until this year when google finially killed it and any semblance of public albums. Now I'm on flickr.
I simple did what everyone else was doing at the time I joined. I joined as it was the most common photohosting site back in early days of warseer, and back then it was simple and did the job (well)
I dislike flickr- its over crowed and too flashy, I had to use it a lot for college and did not like it. I'm sure I would get used to it given time, but I like nice simple photo hosting- which PB was many years ago!
moredakka wrote: Always us the attachment feature never ever bothered with hosting sites never saw the point. Dont quote me on this, but I believe that when I started with tactcomms, the attachment feature was either non-existent or rubbish. I dont recall which- not surprising, I dont recall what day it is most days. Plus it was far easier for me to store on PB, write a post in notepad, add the links then copy paste to three or four forums!
ForgottenLore wrote: moredakka wrote: Always us the attachment feature never ever bothered with hosting sites never saw the point. Most forums Ive ever been on don't have an attachment function/don't allow them/have such a minuscule memory limit for them that you could only get 2-3 pictures uploaded with your account. I'm a little confused what the OP is actually saying though. I just used photobucket a couple days ago to post a picture on boardgame geek.
What is confusing? PB used to allow you to use its features for free, and one night randomly this month they decided they will now charge through the nose for you to use. There is nothing stopping you use the site as a free user, you can still post the links where ever you want. But if you dont pay for an upgraded account, you photos will begin to show up as an 'advert' for PB/account upgrade rather than your photo.
It doesn't seem to have rolled out to every account yet- many of my photos still remain. But many forums are becoming seas of adverts for PB.
You can still 'own' and use a free account. Its just doesn't do much any more.
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So let's hope the new changes don't cause too much $%#@! to happen ... 
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