slOT: Photobucket Morass

[slidekellyslide]

Photobucket is having some issues as well...last week I could not log in and it said my account was banned for violating TOS...I was freaking a little bit because I've used that site for years and have my entire collection scanned and cataloged on there. I emailed them and they said I was not banned and my account is "stuck"...they figured it out and I'm back now, but I really hate their new layout.

[Leon]

I pay a relative lot of money, $13 a month, for my own website, but I have never had any issue with hosting pics or needing to do something on it. I know free, or almost free is great, but for my $13 I am happy.

[HRBAKER]

Yikes, the new "improved" version of Photobucket is back today with no button to push to return the previous version like before. However the url does have the word "beta" in it so I am hopeful that I am just missing something. Anyone have any ideas?

Thank you.

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

Yikes, the new "improved" version of Photobucket is back today with no button to push to return the previous version like before. However the url does have the word "beta" in it so I am hopeful that I am just missing something. Anyone have any ideas?

Thank you.

Unfortunately, you're not. There has been a bit of discussion of this over on the non-sport side. Photobucket has been forcing users into their new "beta" version of the site for a while now with the intention of abandoning the old version. The unfortunate part is that the new site is nowhere near as functional as the old site, and many of the functions are still unavailable or broken. They have had an option to go ahead and switch over to the new "beta" version for a while now with, as you said, a button to push to go back, but in the last couple of months have disabled the "go back" option to keep everyone on the new version. Supposedly the drop-dead date that they will "force" all remaining users onto the new site is March 18.

I had a scare yesterday when I went to the site and found the new version, but logging out and back in again got me back to the old version again. The scare was because, for the hour or so that I was messing around with the new site, the links to change my preferences and all links to upload more images to the site were broken or non-functioning. Whether that was because I was "really" still on the old version or not, I don't know, but after hearing all the troubles Dan C. has had loading images for the non-sport board's galleries, I won't be making the switch until absolutely forced to.

How anyone can think it's a good idea to forcibly move their entire client base to a new version that has a sliver of the functionality of their previous version, and BEFORE THE NEW VERSION IS FINISHED is beyond me. If I didn't already have thousands upon thousands of images stored and linked from there, I would be looking for another alternative. As it is, I'm paid up for another year for the pro version (renewed just before all this crap started).

I would be interested to hear from anyone who is on the new version of PB and has been able to upload as to how they went about doing it. For the hour that I was there, the only way I could do anything was by ftp, which is really like the back door to my files and folders that avoids the new interface altogether.

[jb217676]

I am unable to even see a photobucket beta page. It stays up for a second then the screen goes blank. I know a lot of the members here use photobucket but I am unable to see anything when I click on a photobucket link. Does this happen to anyone else?

My advice: use IMAGEEVENT to host your pictures. Only costs $24.95 a year and works perfectly!

[3-2-count]

Photo Bucket fails miserably in the customer service department as well. Have yet to receive a reply to three emails sent over a week ago. Ive already gone elsewhere for my needs.

[HRBAKER]

I am really hard pressed to scream too loudly about something that I have used for free for several years and it has worked fine. I have been able to upload images today to the "new" version.

What I miss is the "Display All" and the "Organize" view which lets you drag the files/images where you want them.

I am going back and logging out and then back in and see if that is a temp fix for me.

Thank you.

[deadballfreaK]

I actually only joined 2 days ago in order to post pics here. I didn't know there was an older version. I'm using the beta and gotta say I'm not thrilled with it.