slOT: Photobucket Morass

[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.

[HRBAKER]

FWIW and who knows how long this will last, Logging Out and back in did get me back to the older version. Thanks for the tip.

[slidekellyslide]

I can't even figure out what's going on there anymore. The photos in my albums are in no specific order any longer...I had them exactly the way I wanted them and now it just seems random. I have a bunch of stuff to scan to my collection, but I'm thinking of abandoning photobucket and going elsewhere.

[cubsfan-budman]

are there other good FREE options?

[thecatspajamas]

Anyone had any luck with Photobucket since the forced switchover to the "new" version of the site? I haven't been able to upload photos through the site, their "desktop" app doesn't work for me (when trying to upload, just has a "busy" circle spinning at the top and never shows me any options for where to upload to), and now the ftp "back door" that I was using to get photos uploaded for use on eBay isn't working.

If anyone knows any "tricks," I'd be glad to hear them. PB customer service is useless. I e-mailed them weeks ago about the problem. Heard nothing for 2 weeks so I e-mailed them again. Got a canned response that their engineers had found the problem and were working on a solution. Then a week or so later get another canned e-mail from them saying:

"Hello,
We haven't heard back from you in a few days so we're checking in with you! We're hoping this means our suggestions have worked, or you've answered your question yourself. If this is the case, well done! If your question is still unanswered, don't worry! You can reply back to this email and re-open the ticket, or if its been a while, it will open a new ticket."

I could go on with my griping, but the bottom line is I'm not expecting any real help from PB.

Failing that, anyone have any suggestions for other photo hosting solutions? I'm fine with paying for a service, so long as it's stable, isn't going anywhere, and has a simple interface with predictable urls for linking photos for use in eBay listings. I would dump PB altogether, but at this point I have thousands of eBay listings that use photos linked from PB, and I shudder at the thought of trying to update all those to a new source. So I'm looking at leaving the PB-linked listings as-is and just going with a new option from here forward, possibly revising and the old listings over time.

[sbfinley]

Originally Posted by cubsfan-budman

are there other good FREE options?

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