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| Is anyone else having trouble with Photobucket? Since they have changed their format, it seems a lot less user friendly. I wanted to post a few photos on mauvegirl8's garden bench thread, but I gave up. To scroll down through my library, to find the photos I needed, took so long, I lost the will to live. To block out the adverts with offensive photos on the right hand side of the page, I have to increase the size of the page so much that I can only view three photos at a time. Then the large advert along the bottom of the page takes up half of the page and is very annoying. I have started to download photos to flikr as well, but it will take ages to put them all on there. Daisy |
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| I uploaded a specific photo the other day, so I could show it to some people, and no one can see it, because my album is now "private." What a mess. Jeri |
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| Oh yes!!!! The new photobucket doesn't work at all. I tried to email them but only got an automated response. It doesn't work well with Opera, won't work at all with Firefox and barely chugs along on Explorer. I think they were trying to make it friendly for pads and phones and for use on social networks but they total screwed the rest of us who use it for forums! |
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- Posted by jacqueline3 9CA (My Page) on Mon, Mar 18, 13 at 13:17
| I tried, and couldn't even get into my account - oh well, I guess if I want to post more than one pic I will just post more than one time - I have totally given up on Photobucket. Jackie |
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| Yeah. If they don't fix it (and I bet they won't) I'll just erase the account. They WANT you to use it to post to Facebook, for one thing. But why would you want to do that, when you can simply upload to FB??? The mind boggles. Jeri |
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| I haven't had any problems, but as a former software engineer, it's what I know how to deal with. There are a few things that are easier, and a few things that are not, so it's kind of a wash. I assume they wanted to make it more smart-phone and facebook functional, which is where the technology is headed (unfortunately). You can change the setting on an album from private to public. If you just have a "library" and no sub-albums there's a little key symbol next to the "Your Photos and Videos" text. You click on the key symbol and it brings up a dialog and you can change the settings from private to public or whatever. |
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| Thanks Hoovb. I'd have bet it was something like that -- but when I was under some pressure -- had a real NEED to send something out, I was pretty annoyed. Mine had always BEEN open to anyone I sent the link to. Why else would I want the thing, anyhow? Jeri |
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| No, it's enraging - having finally learned to use a camera and actually post pics using PB, it suddenly became a complete wash-out. Yep, hate crawling through all the pics - it is the death of spontaneity, just when I was looking forward to having a massive boast and trumpet-blowing session, with pics to prove it. |
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- Posted by Kippy-the-Hippy 10 Sunset 24 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 18, 13 at 21:53
| Flickr : ) I do pay for a photo website as will and that is what I usually post from, the biggest challenge there was figuring out what format was needed for this forum |
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| I've been using my Picturetrail account instead now. But I have hundreds of pics already on Photobucket and it's getting nearly impossible to use them. Bummer! |
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| anyone use Flickr? Any better. Am dreading having to go through all this again, just when I though I finally had it sorted. |
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- Posted by Kippy-the-Hippy 10 Sunset 24 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 19, 13 at 11:25
| testing this link from Flickr
Looks like it worked. I chose the share option for HTML |
This post was edited by Kippy-the-Hippy on Tue, Mar 19, 13 at 11:26
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| Photobucket has become a train wreck, especially in the UI department. It should also be noted that Photobucket doesn't score well when it comes to metadata preservation. (See link) If a hosting service doesn't offer reasonable preservation of metadata, then there is significant risk that your photos will become "orphans" on the web, IE: authorship of the work is lost. I realize that when it comes to garden snapshots, few people will be overly concerned about their metadata/authorship, but for those who do care, this is an issue you may want to study in depth. Services that do a good job of preserving your information are (somewhat surprisingly) Google, Dropbox, and one I knew nothing about till today, Joomeo. (Its unclear to me if Joomeo is a "free" hosting service or not; I'd have to investigate further.) You can still do this via G+/Picasa:
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Here is a link that might be useful: Metadata preservation tests
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| I tried Picassa earlier and did not care for how it works at all. It took over my photos and sorted them how it wanted. Is the G+ version different? |
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