Today Photobucket placed a change of terms photo in place of the Hosted Forum Logo. The Header Logo is being worked on by Patriot to restore it at the top of the forum page if possible. Until a solution is made please be patient as he tries to restore the logo.
Upon investigating the hosted photo was likely using too much bandwidth for the terms of service for 3rs party use. While several of us use PhotoBucket as our photo hosting it seems the that the way the logo was being used was an issue.
But we mostly use standard accounts to host our links for pictures, even on our paid accounts for extra storage space.
These are the PLUS Account Plans they list.
QuoteAvailable Plus Account Plans : Photobucket offers the following Plus Account Plans:
o Plus 50 Plan: 52 GB of Storage for $59.99 / Year. The Plus 50 Plan does not allow any image linking or 3rd party image hosting.
o Plus 100 Plan: 102 GB of Storage for $99.99 / Year. The Plus 100 Plan allows for unlimited image linking but does not allow 3rd party image hosting.
o Plus 500 Plan: 500 GB of Storage and unlimited bandwidth for $399.99 / Year. The Plus 500 Plan allows for unlimited image linking and unlimited 3rd party image hosting.
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/30/photobucket-now-charges-399-for-third-party-hosted-images/ (https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/30/photobucket-now-charges-399-for-third-party-hosted-images/)
I don't see any of us paying $400 for that amount of services...especially on a forum that is run ad free!
I moved the logo to imageshack for now. Photobucket is screwing people over across the internet right now.
Thanks Patriot for all of your work to make it a great experience here... ;D
Everyone's Photobucket account has been screwed over. There are people complaining on a lot of other gun websites I belong to.
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It's happening everywhere. On the Smith-Wesson Forum,I experimented and got a 'work around' to function for posting pics without having to use a 3rd party site. I'll have to try it here as it depends on the(this) site. Some sites don't have the 'proper' toolbars for it to work.