Photobucket may delete your photos

[Pandemic]

When the site first went online, many users used photobucket to host photos of their cars and projects. Eventually, photobucket started to nuke accounts and over time we lost more and more content. I hate photobucket for this.

Now, I've received word from photobucket that they're going to start charging for account holders. I have my old car photos from 2008 hosted at photobucket so I'm going to sign up for a 7 day trial and save them. From there I'll have to see what we can do to host images locally.

I want anyone who has content on photobucket to click the 7 day free trial (https://my.photobucket.com/met-trial) and get their content before it's too late.

[deevergote]

This happened on a much less disastrous scale back in 2007 or so when Imagestation went offline permanently. Many of the earliest photos on this site were lost forever. Including one of my favorite pictures of my car, taken by my friend and hosted on his Imagestation account.

We are sadly going to lose a LOT of content from people that have been gone for years.

[Pandemic]

This happened on a much less disastrous scale back in 2007 or so when Imagestation went offline permanently. Many of the earliest photos on this site were lost forever. Including one of my favorite pictures of my car, taken by my friend and hosted on his Imagestation account.

We are sadly going to lose a LOT of content from people that have been gone for years.

We had no idea that the business models of those image hosting providers were at a loss. I really wish we had the foresight to collect them all before they went dark. We lost a lot.

[Grumpys93]

Any way to screen shot and host it somewhere else for free? How does instagram and all those places do it? I'm no tech guy

[Pandemic]

Any way to screen shot and host it somewhere else for free? How does instagram and all those places do it? I'm no tech guy

We can host it on the server but a lot of old photos are just gone. A decade or more ago a lot of the how-to threads were the go to across the globe.

[Grumpys93]

We can host it on the server but a lot of old photos are just gone. A decade or more ago a lot of the how-to threads were the go to across the globe.

Thats true. Pandemic, any way to update our security certificate so we don't keep getting flagged for security issues?