johnj92131 Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Does the recent Photobucket policy change make an opportunity to have a Comanche Club specific picture host? I am wondering if the Comanche Club could take advantage of the $399 per year unlimited photo hosting to set up it's own account on Photobucket specifically for Comanche Club only pictures? What do you think? Can we make some lemonade out of this Photobucket mess? Pete, is this something the club might be interested in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dzimm Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Does the recent Photobucket policy change make an opportunity to have a Comanche Club specific picture host? I am wondering if the Comanche Club could take advantage of the $399 per year unlimited photo hosting to set up it's own account on Photobucket specifically for Comanche Club only pictures? What do you think? Can we make some lemonade out of this Photobucket mess? Pete, is this something the club might be interested in? I like this idea a lot but I'm sure that they would have a different price for a "company" compared to an individual. And In my opinion we shouldn't support a company who shafted everyone like Photobucket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87MJTIM Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 (I am not a "computer" expert by any stretch.) Other forums allow members to directly upload pictures and videos on the chat board. Is this feature available through the current web hosting company? For example, Jeepforum allow direct upload capabilities. However, with all the ads on the site, it takes DAYS for pages to load and refresh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Buying a club account, on Photobucket or anywhere else, doesn't solve the problem that all the photo links in old posts are dead. Move or copy the images to a new hosting service, and the links will still be dead unless and until someone goes into each and every post with images and manually edits the links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnj92131 Posted July 12, 2017 Author Share Posted July 12, 2017 Buying a club account, on Photobucket or anywhere else, doesn't solve the problem that all the photo links in old posts are dead. Move or copy the images to a new hosting service, and the links will still be dead unless and until someone goes into each and every post with images and manually edits the links. Eagle, You are correct about all the past photos. And I recall Facebook making changes once or twice that caused image hosting links to go bad. BUT, contracting for a photo host for the Comanche Club could eliminate the issue in the future. Simply trying to make a proactive suggestion that MAY prevent these issues in the future. And I am willing to kick in some money to help out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minuit Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 I do think we should set up our own photo hosting. Imgur has been worrying me recently, since they're trying to turn from a simple image host into some kind of social media site. I don't think it will be long before they make a move towards the "pay up or the pics are gone" model that Photobucket is doing. Eventually there won't be a free image hosting site. Photobucket has pissed me off, and even if I had the money I wouldn't spend a dime with Photobucket. It never really was all that great to begin with and we could do better for less money methinks. For what it's worth, I would be very willing to chip in towards the bill for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeep Driver Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Buying a club account, on Photobucket or anywhere else, doesn't solve the problem that all the photo links in old posts are dead. Move or copy the images to a new hosting service, and the links will still be dead unless and until someone goes into each and every post with images and manually edits the links. Eagle, You are correct about all the past photos. And I recall Facebook making changes once or twice that caused image hosting links to go bad. BUT, contracting for a photo host for the Comanche Club could eliminate the issue in the future. Simply trying to make a proactive suggestion that MAY prevent these issues in the future. And I am willing to kick in some money to help out. How do you propose 300-400 people having access to one account? Gatekeeper? you wan that job? And what if you decide my pic is not relevant or ???? It's up to you/us individually to manage your/our own pics. As I stated in the other thread, john92131.com is surely available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnj92131 Posted July 13, 2017 Author Share Posted July 13, 2017 Jeep Driver, understand your point about somebody has to do the work. It has been the issue for a long time. Pete has only so much time and lots of stuff to do in real life. No issue with that. I am asking if there is a way to solve the issue with some money? We sign in to post here, Why not the same sign in to post pictures? Is it a money problem? The moderators and our members do a good job with keeping our discussions on track. Pictures should not be any different if hosted by a third party or not. Software could/would prevent turning the Comanche Club only picture host into a public 3rd party host. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeep Driver Posted July 13, 2017 Share Posted July 13, 2017 What I'm really speaking to, without coming right out and saying it, is- Property rights. Yeah, PB owns my pics (some of them) and so does imgur (copies), but they are not an interested party and I control my account. I own my pics, I'm not interested in giving control of them to someone else as an end user or consumer of my pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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