Photofuckit up for customers.

[Venge]

As some of you may have heard, Photobucket is now dabbling in extortion and is now charging $400 (not a typo) a year for people to share images on third-party sites (like Brikwars). This bad news for not only people who are posting, but also a lot of old stuff (like Warhead's) that is no longer viewable on this site. Thoughts on how we fight back?

- Venge

[Tzan]

In before Tzan suggests Dropbox

Dropbox
Change the extension to: " ?raw=1 "

[Hiremas Alkerith]

Photofuckit is a bitch. That's why I use Fuckr.
Sadly, I have no idea how you'd fight back, except for a petition. I think change.org would help you? I 'unno.

[Duerer]

I highly doubt that online petitions really do jack shit. Photobucket already cut my bandwidth whenever too many folks looked at my pics, thus I ditched it and went for imgur and Flickr instead.
As for older pics of mine, I can't be arsed to go back and reupload every picture and replace every link in my posts again.

[cleanupcrew]

http://brikwars.com/wiki/index.php?titl ... up_Project

And you guys all thought I was crazy overpreparing.

If pics for famous battles get broken, a mod can go back to Wayback Machine and reupload/restore them manually if they were backed up. I also made offline backups of a bunch of other famous battles and also of all my own stuff. Hit me up if you feel like you need anything I might have. I also have offline backups of the old brikwiki (the wikispaces one), the Fall of Fico posts from King of the Hill, and some other random stuff.

[Hiremas Alkerith]

Many before me have said this, but I'll say it again.
Thank God for Colette.

[Venge]

Photofuckit is a bitch. That's why I use Fuckr.
Sadly, I have no idea how you'd fight back, except for a petition. I think change.org would help you? I 'unno.

Angry emails threatening to do terrible things to the anus of whoever made this decision.

[Captain-Camper]

We could do with some more but thank god for Colette

[Maraxous]

All my stuff was on Photobucket I guess I need to try and move it. Guess it is for the best for whatever reason my job has blocked Photobucket, but not flicker.

[bann154]

Well to be honest if yall had of used imgur in the first place you wouldent have this issue. Just sayin.

[sahasrahla]

photobucket has been a terrible, terrible site for years, so this is no surprise

[RedRover]

Well.. goodbye all my content

[motorhead fan]

Well to be honest if yall had of used imgur in the first place you wouldent have this issue. Just sayin.

Exactly, that's what I use and I still have access to every single photo I have ever put on the forum!

[stubby]

If pics for famous battles get broken, a mod can go back to Wayback Machine and reupload/restore them manually if they were backed up.

I've started doing this for Zombie Zulu Dawn. Damn, but Warhead took a lot of photos. It's funny now to read all his complaining about how shit Photobucket was back in 2009.

Anybody who wants to backup photobucket stuff, there's a convenient button that lets you download whole folders at once, even if they're not yours. I started by grabbing all the ZZD photos and re-hosting them onto the brikwars server, and now I'm going through and editing all the old posts to point to the new re-hosted location.

[sahasrahla]

stubby where do you find the time for shit like this


also you are the best